vincebowdren

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by vincebowdren 5y ago
It's to prevent people with wet hands from electrocuting themselves. In the UK it's required by law (building regulations BS 7671), that electrical switches have to be either outside the bathroom or specially water-protected.
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
credit where credit's due, it was the tories in 2011. Cameron's own initiative, rumour has it.
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
That article seems to just assume that Moderna are acting in bad faith there, without a lot of evidence. Certainly if they wanted to be obstructive they still could be, but the article-writer doesn't prove it either way. I'd be in
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
There's a big enough market for stolen cars, that the tax level probably wouldn't make a difference.
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
There's a big market in cars stolen abroad. Because they're not legitimate at all, they have to be smuggled in.
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
the article there doesn't seem to mention black sheep?
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
Previously discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14044940
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
I'm intrigued here. It clearly isn't the work of script-kiddie-type hackers, because of the research required and the subtlety of the phishing emails. But equally, it does require some thorough-going technical competence – particu
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
Agreed; the plot is all about who knows what about who else, and the subtlety of the ways that Smiley makes breakthroughs means that the film feels rushed and confusing by comparison. Also, while neither actor really looks the way that Smil
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by vincebowdren 6y ago
The health assessment Apgar Score, named for its inventor Dr Virginia Apgar, but frequently assumed to be an acronym/initialisation and spelled as APGAR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score
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by vincebowdren 7y ago
A few plants are parasitic on other organisms, and have given up photosynthesis. An example is the Bird's-Nest Orchid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neottia_nidus-avis ) which is parasitic on a woodland fungus. But
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
One inference here I disagree with: One unexpected downside emerged in a study of the switch in Tallinn. The average trip length dropped by 10%, suggesting people were using public transport to replace trips they might otherwise have taken
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
Go on, I'll bite. Which date format in the article is weird?
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
ObjectRocket is still owned by Rackspace - but they don't seem to be very integrated. ObjectRocket are still doing their own thing, fairly independently of the main Rackspace service.
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
Could be. As ever, it'd be good to hear about any studies with negative results to get a better perspective, but they infamously tend to get binned or ignored.
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
Apparently they have controlled for this obvious possibility: In each of the three resulting models, our independent variable was the prevalence of T. gondii in a given country (the proportion of people who tested positive for T. gondii ex
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
Remember folks, this isn't just any brain parasite spread by cats; it's specifically Toxoplasma gondii which is well known to have a life-cycle dependent on deliberately changing the behaviour of its hosts, reducing risk inhibitio
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
I'm interested, what about it looks like a spurious correlation?
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
It's true about the trees being felled thousands of yours ago; it's believed to be the same in my local countryside, the Peak. That claim about half of ancient woodland lost since the 1930s : that's true, but it's referr
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by vincebowdren 8y ago
Yet according to these graphs coin production goes up during times of peace and down during times of war. Really? Well, the republican era wasn't a very peaceful time; Rome was pretty much continuously at war in one way or another fo
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by vincebowdren 9y ago
When I was in the scouts (80s Britain), our local Catholic group organised a bonfire for November 5th, same as everybody else. We all knew about the origins of the tradition and the gunpowder plot, but I never caught any anti-catholic preju