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by vixen99 6y ago
Reading https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa.... and https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/114256v1.full.pdf (for instance - & many more) doesn't s
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by vixen99 6y ago
'Don't realize'? Which of the huge number of colonizers in the history of humanity ever set about colonization with the intent of minimizing control and minimizing economic gain?
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by vixen99 6y ago
Am I correct in thinking that the Democratics have hitherto been against facial recognition software? If so, will they be changing their minds?
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by vixen99 6y ago
Lawyers defending HK protesters have already lost their licences subject to appeal. One was told "taking on the case could imperil his licence. 12 protesters were represented in court by lawyers appointed by mainland authorities".
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by vixen99 6y ago
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/another-journal-flip... Tim Gowers offers some background to the overwhelming case for open access publication. Sci-hub is an example of an almost inevitable reaction t
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by vixen99 6y ago
Be interesting to see how the author sees China with its mercantile socialism fitting into this framework given that it claims to have more billionaires than any other country? According to MSN news: 878 billionaires in China versus 700 in
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Wldfires in US and tropical Africa during 2020(atmosphere.copernicus.eu)
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by vixen99 6y ago
Yes he was. 'Man of his times' is a good phrase. I wonder how the behaviour of moralizers of today who castigate those in the past, often with little or no appreciation of the mores of their period, will be viewed in a couple of h
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by vixen99 6y ago
Sounds like a huge assumption about 'mothers'.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Counter argument here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-trouble-with-erasmus... Author (a British MP) argues that basically, it's the well-off who benefit. 'In 2014-15, the rate at which those with par
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by vixen99 6y ago
It's just you. "Scientists have confirmed links between PFOA exposure and a variety of serious diseases, including kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. And more
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EU funds cold fusion project(powerengineeringint.com)
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Britain has closed one trade door but opened a new one with the EU. Specifically they have reached a “zero tariff-zero quota deal”. Not ratified by the British Parliament but no one supposes this won't be done in the next few days befo
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by vixen99 6y ago
Worth mentioning for anyone who happens not to know about it that there's a massive repository of out-of-copyright (either by time or decision of the composer) music scores and recordings for all instruments by a huge number of compos
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by vixen99 6y ago
https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30605-4/pdf 'The strong association of IgG antiPEG antibodies with severe allergic reactions is consistent with the growing interest in IgG-mediated anaphylaxi
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by vixen99 6y ago
One tiny point: Freedland seems to imply that there's something deeply unpleasant in the observation that 'Jeff Bezos, whose pockets were filled by the pandemic and the dependency on home delivery it induced'. Does he object
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by vixen99 6y ago
Not my experience with books at least which is about all I buy on Amazon. I've come across plenty of negative reviews. A book's probably worth buying if it appears to meet the buyer's expectations culled from something like h
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by vixen99 6y ago
As you well know, using 'Backwater End Times and The Suburbian Dystopia Monthly' as examples is disingenuous. Mildly amusing but deliberately misses the point. For the newspaper it's the law of diminishing returns as regards
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by vixen99 6y ago
There are situations in which that might be dangerous. On the other hand cars could be fixed (via the chip) with external and internal warning signals to show the world and driver that a speed limit has been exceeded. This might constitute
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by vixen99 6y ago
Related although previously cited on HN https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
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Acute mortality of NW Pacific salmon due to tire rubber residues(science.sciencemag.org)
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by vixen99 6y ago
Generalized category labelling is not helpful though it may be enjoyable. We can ignore stalwarts of either extreme camp while taking note of, for instance, the measured tone of the Danish study on mask wearing.
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by vixen99 6y ago
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/370/6520/1022.ful... 'Public needs to prep for vaccine side effects, “Take Tylenol and suck it up,” says one researcher. Fever, aches show vaccine works&#x
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by vixen99 6y ago
What does 'plenty of people' mean; any evidence? Who should be asked or does anyone's opinion qualify to be taken into account?
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by vixen99 6y ago
Be interesting to get some functional magnetic resonance imaging done on this guy. Fortunately very few people in his circumstances (identical to countless others) act like this.
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China launches Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976(space.com)
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Like GB Shaw, HG Wells (both brilliant men) was completely taken in by the monster called Stalin (Uncle Joe) who ran Russia from Lenin's death in 1924 to 1953 when he died. “In him I realised that Communism could after all, in spite of
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by vixen99 6y ago
You can't work at getting a balance unless someone does a detailed cost/benefit analysis. I've seen no such thing. In Britain supposedly highly educated people in government and the civil service have been acting it seems, on
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by vixen99 6y ago
Larry Siedentop's 'Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism' takes a different slant on this topic. To quote from a review: he argues that 'liberal thought is the offspring of Christianity and that it
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by vixen99 6y ago
Please correct to 'now waiting on European Commission' else we'll have to imagine what the verb 'wating' might imply for the EU.

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