russholmes

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by russholmes 5y ago
Craig Murray is basically a decent guy. He fell out with the British government when he was ambassador to Uzbekistam and broke protocol by protesting about the treatement of Uzbeks by their government - being boiled to death etc. He was sub
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by russholmes 6y ago
I have seen this stated before. What is your source please? This is false: SARS-CoV-2 is significantly more lethal than seasonal influenza for all ages past puberty. In fact, at 50 it is almost 15 times more lethal. https://githu
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by russholmes 6y ago
Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough for butter. I was mainly using it for cooking and ended up using olive oil for most things. I used to have a bread machine, and bread seemed to bake just fine without salt. Store bought bread without
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by russholmes 6y ago
A significant minority are quite sensitive to salt. I fixed my high blood pressure by reducing salt intake. I got it down to hunter-gather levels - less than 1 g per day and combined with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables for potassium. It
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by russholmes 6y ago
Bow hunting is illegal in the UK. Permitted firearms and ammunition are also regulated on animal cruelty grounds. http://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/uploads/guides/90.pdf
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by russholmes 6y ago
Yes, the UK police caution is "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence." Adverse
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by russholmes 6y ago
The British Marines tried this in Operation Moneybags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WscQIp3Kac
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by russholmes 6y ago
It is an unpleasant slur both in UK and US English. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp
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by russholmes 6y ago
What Facebook's system does by design is to propagate and amplify simplistic, emotionally potent narratives. These tend to be fictional i.e. misinformation because reality is nuanced and boring. Further, this has been used by bad actor
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by russholmes 6y ago
There is a more balanced review article on herd immunity here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4
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by russholmes 6y ago
The BMJ is not a credible source, it is the Daily Mail of medical journals. The author of that article, Peter Doshi, has form: "I think the first thing we to review is who is Peter Doshi? And why is he so insistent on getting this data
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by russholmes 6y ago
In one axis, and I don't think they were capable of doing it at the time suggested.
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by russholmes 6y ago
The Rayleigh limit in spatial resolution of an image forming device is given by: l = 1.22 * λ * L / D Where λ is wavelength, L is distance and D is optical element diameter. For satellite at an altitude of 150 km with 2.4 m diameter mi
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by russholmes 6y ago
Same here. I went to a fairly good state school and never received any English grammar but got some French grammar. The French language teaching was terrible - hours and hours of memorising irregular verbs. I passed all the exams but still
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by russholmes 6y ago
Small classes are excluded, so as you say, biased towards private schools. My niece was hit by this but luckily still did well enough to get a place. She was attending a large school in a deprived area. Her coursework was A*, given predicte
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by russholmes 6y ago
I have hard water so washing machine and dishwasher get limescale. I just run them on a hot cycle with a bottle of white vinegar every month or so. Leaves them sparkling clean. Same with the kettle. No need for nasty descaling products.
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by russholmes 6y ago
There is no such thing as free will, is there? Decisions are a consequence of physical brain state.
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by russholmes 6y ago
The government communication in the UK has been lamentable. Confusing, inconsistent and patronising. On the other hand, we had idiots who stripped the supermarket shelves of toilet rolls and canned tomatoes for months despite being implored
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by russholmes 6y ago
According to this research in the Lancet, masks help but not as much as physical distancing. 2 m distance reduces risk by 10x face mask reduces risk by 6x eye protection by 5x There is some uncertainty in these figures https://ww
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by russholmes 6y ago
I think the reason that various authorities advised against masks is political - there simply weren't enough and to direct the supply to clinical workers.
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by russholmes 6y ago
Quite. Much of the cult status of Feynman was created by the man himself. He had several books written espousing his genius. As for his charm - salesmen are charming, psychopaths are charming. Charm is a 5 letter word for manipulative, as m
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by russholmes 6y ago
Ageed. When the quoted dietician is repeating the old canard regarding protein and amino acids, it calls into question the rest of her statements.
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by russholmes 6y ago
This is specific to tobacco: firstly that the tobacco leaves pick up trace amounts of polonium-210, and secondly that inhaling tobacco smoke concentrates the Po-210 into localised deposits within the lung. Because Po-210 is a short range al
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by russholmes 6y ago
A nose lets you breathe while you eat.
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by russholmes 6y ago
Immunity to coronaviruses does tend to fall within a year or so, but this is believed due to immune memory rather than viral mutation (coronaviruses have a modest mutation rate). This is a different mechanism than influenza. Subsequent rein
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by russholmes 7y ago
UV-C is completely absorbed by atmospheric oxygen and ozone - none reaches the ground.
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by russholmes 7y ago
The BMJ is the Daily Mail of medical journals, its target audience is whisky-nosed old buffers. Real doctors read the Lancet. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nedgv
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by russholmes 7y ago
They seem to be confusing mortality rate (MR) with case fatality rate (CFR). Mortality rate is deaths per thousand per year applied to the whole population. Despite its name, CFR is the proportion of actual cases who die, and is a probabili