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by vijayr02 5y ago
I don’t buy this explanation. There are enough publicly funded healthcare systems in the world for it to make economic sense for one of them to run a large scale trial. I don’t see an agency problem arising for such an existential threat as
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The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets(theguardian.com)
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Another life-saving Covid treatment found(bbc.co.uk)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
I'm guessing if even legitimate websites have similar content it's difficult to distinguish between fake and real content for an automated system?
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by vijayr02 5y ago
Reagan gave green light to sabotage of Soviet oil pipeline (2004) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402062 To paraphrase Clausewitz, economic war is war by other means. > "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas sup
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Reagan gave green light to sabotage of Soviet oil pipeline (2004)(gasandoil.com)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
> In order to make lot's of money nowadays, you shouldn't ask yourself "What is actually going to make a profit and/or provide utility in the future?" but rather "What are all the stupid people going to pile
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The 10-year-old boy who beat a chess grandmaster – but didn't want to boast(bbc.co.uk)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun but also, for balance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
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‘From a standing fart’: readers on their favourite Grauniad mistakes(theguardian.com)
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Wild boar surround woman in Rome and steal food shopping(theguardian.com)
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Elon Musk says Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin due to fossil fuel use(theguardian.com)
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The Last Spin by Evan Hunter (1926-2005)(classicshorts.com)
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We were there: the Guardian’s most memorable journalism over 200 years(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
Non paywall link: https://archive.is/ng2Tp
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US backs plan to suspend Covid vaccine patents during pandemic(on.ft.com)
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US-China doomsday threat ramped up by hi-tech advances, says Kissinger(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/E5OHc
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Mary Beard: ‘The ancient world is a metaphor for us’(ft.com)
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He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?(nytimes.com)
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by vijayr02 5y ago
I got googling this after reading this breaking story on the Beeb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-56856193 (Postmasters await 'stealing money' appeal verdict) and was wondering what the people
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Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider(computerweekly.com)
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Thodex Bitcoin ($BTC) Cryptocurrency Investors Fear Losses as CEO Goes Missing(bloomberg.com)
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Dog-bite Britain: the problem with the pandemic puppy explosion(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Sorry, pedant at work... Presumably the 18 random area calls would have been ignored in any case. So the real reduction is 7/9, which is is a 77% reduction. Not bad, but not 90%+.
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by vijayr02 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident > The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy mo
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Ok - since then it has been brought to my attention that this story is an April's fool joke. Too late to delete, so I'm going to leave this here for all posterity...
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Fun observation: it's always interesting to see people named very relevantly to their jobs: > “Technology has moved on considerably since the excavation of the first canal in the 1850s,” said the study’s author, Iver Shovel . I gue
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'Suez 2'? Ever Given grounding prompts plan for canal along Egypt-Israel border(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Non paywall link: https://archive.is/OcDRV

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