richardhod

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by richardhod 4y ago
Verbatim response to that tweet, from a highly qualified friend with relevant scientific expertise: "idk that critique is pretty dismissive of the actual experimental evidence that they generated in the study… consuming an erythritol s
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by richardhod 4y ago
What are the limitations to heroku that people are going to Fly for? Maybe there's a standard article that would be useful to read about it?
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by richardhod 4y ago
I was confused by your first reply at first. I think that's because you are answering a different question from a number of other people. You're asking about the conditions under which and AI might fool people into thinking it was
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by richardhod 4y ago
I did get the order wrong. Must have been the Preston bypass that was first, which I double checked
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by richardhod 4y ago
The first sections of motorway... Definitions definitions
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by richardhod 4y ago
My father was present, as a boy, at the opening of the Lancaster bypass, which was the first section of motorway constructed in in Britain, followed by the Preston bypass. He was always very careful to remind people how the M6 was the firs
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by richardhod 4y ago
Another issue here is there is a problem with laws which are broad enough that it requires selective enforcements for them to be available. Because then you can get a problematic force which then uses them selectively for political purposes
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by richardhod 4y ago
Being 'normal' != is constitutional
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by richardhod 4y ago
Indeed. Farmed ones aren't given the same diet. I suspect it's not as healthy for them either, but it does well enough for industrial purposes. Think of cattle feed v grass, etc
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by richardhod 4y ago
I like the ending: 'If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: th
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by richardhod 4y ago
While I don't disagree with the general tenor of the article and the apparent real issues with these oils, Regarding the section quoted below: this doesn't appear to have any statistical coherence, since naive calculations like th
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by richardhod 4y ago
It's not the same at all. At first glance it might feel the same, but the structural questions are different. The fact that the Facebook does have privacy problems does not show that Atlantic salmon does actually have parasites problem
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by richardhod 4y ago
Farmed salmon doesn't have the red colour we associate with salmon, and they add that colour later so that it looks right to us. https://www.foodandwine.com/news/your-salmon-might-be-lying-...
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by richardhod 4y ago
Where you went wrong is getting it backwards. The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons. And that cardiac events in both cases are a minor part of th
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by richardhod 4y ago
Given the level of corruption within the current UK government, I would not necessarily agree with your use of the word literally here. But at least in law and in principle yes.
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by richardhod 4y ago
Yes I'm having the same issue
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by richardhod 4y ago
Whereas I would call Northern Ireland an exclave colony, although in the current political status fittest part of the UK, much as Puerto Rico is part of the US, or the non-Russia Soviet States were part of the Soviet Union.
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by richardhod 4y ago
You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the the military strength of England.
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by richardhod 4y ago
This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Sec
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by richardhod 4y ago
This is interesting. Do you have any good links for the Russian connection!
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by richardhod 4y ago
Also a good guess because if I remember correctly the floppy floppy disks which were flatter with a larger surface area and actually floppy were about 512k or so. I only ever saw one machine with one of those in though and of course it was
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by richardhod 4y ago
This is an extremely naive and ascientific hot take. Dinosaurs are large creatures of a completely different order, not mammals. The sea ecosystem which had evolved over millions of years to deal with those temperatures is a completely diff
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by richardhod 4y ago
Do please note that Stross is quite well known not to a fan of the idea of the Singularity, and that his book should not be taken as a manual for the future, and rather as a cautionary tale and fantastically creative techno future
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by richardhod 4y ago
It's not a mess structurally. If you read the notes on it, you will will find Stross wrote a series of nine loosely connected short stories, which follow each other temporally and thematically. If you you try to remember it's not
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by richardhod 4y ago
I think it's more that this is an American base and people in the United States seem to use antediluvian top loaders a lot, possibly because of a historical surfeit of space, and possibly never prevalence of shared machine rooms in apa
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by richardhod 4y ago
Not plausible for a human but maybe plausible for a dog?
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by richardhod 4y ago
I think you mean: we can't have simplicity, because it doesn't sell!
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by richardhod 4y ago
heating uses the vast majority of domestic (and dare I say often industrial) energy consumption. so it matters, even if it's not for electric generation. A lot of rooftop solar systems go direct to water heating, being more efficient t
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by richardhod 4y ago
.. and this is one of the biggest sources of antibiotic resistance: people not finishing the course of antibiotics becasue they 'feel better now', rather than eliminating the pathogen so it can't gain resistance. Generally, t
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by richardhod 4y ago
I do take my rather glib comment back, with apologies to the readers here, I know better than that. Indeed, the Hygiene Hypothesis is misused a lot, and which I was actively looking up post-comment. It's the reason a lot of people are

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