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Posts by Dave Fernig

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Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

This is such bollocks.

All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.

This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Being anti-Netanyahu is not anti-Semitic. It’s anti-corruption, anti-genocide. It’s pro-peace.

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I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

This is my unsurprised face: 😑
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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It was in many european countries, e.g., UK, in the 1950s.
theoretically so in the Us, but loopholes/breaks resulted in it being much lower.

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Exactly. When you've slashed the rate by 40+ points, putting 10 of them back isn't a revolution, it's tinkering with something you've already decided to keep.

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Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer.
I'd genuinely be better. #VoteBinface

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I'm sorry, but with all the other poorly-informed debates I have to juggle here, I cannot add "Sweden is socialist" to it. It's not. You'll have to trust me on this.

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Interesting to note the Ford europe makes decent cars, including EVs...

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US corporations are only interested in the share price, a model of capitalism that prevents innovation.
US cars have been uncompetitive for decades. The consequence of past protectionism has been for overseas manufacturers setting up factories in the US.
This will happen with Chinese EVs.

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Idiots, nothing to do with masochism.
Just pure stupidity.

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Starmer shouldn’t have needed to be told. He should have asked. He should have demanded the paperwork.

Basic competence.

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A bigot’s charter to target & cause a lot of trouble for any University they choose

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Was once cards, now golf or wrestling...

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To my Lord Treasurer’s, thinking to have spoken about getting money for paying the Yards; but we found him with some ladies at cards: and so, it being a bad time to speak, we parted.

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If the Iranians board a cruise ship their civilization will end in a plague of Norovirus.

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Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup.

He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal.

He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage.

He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

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Proving 2 things:
1) there have been recent advancements in humanoid robots.
2) For many tasks, specialized nonhumanoid robots are still far superior. (A car can do this a lot faster, for example.)

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Trompe l'oeil decoration in Villa Barbaro, Maser, provided by Paolo Veronese. One of the seven wonders of the renaissance world. Add it to your bucket list!

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I would argue that 'plasticity' = adaptation is part of the definition of living things - there are different means to the same end. In mammals, RNA splicing, translational control, unstructured regions of proteins, PTMs, localisation switches, etc. The upshot is the same, there is work to be done!

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Not doubting that. But seeing some eye-opening examples of how DNA status actively misleading. I think the rapid plasticity of bacteria makes them an extreme example

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Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines

"As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."

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1/ Of course you are still here, but in shape?
US has fallen behind on most stats that relate to sustainability of a nation and society.
Health, education, homeless, environment quality, infrastructure etc.
A mix of quaint and modern to a late 70s visitor, now backward.

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It is a key first step. It is a long road from genome to the organism interacting with its environment and vice versa, but one can get some decent hints as to where to look.

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It is perhaps surprising how often logistics are screwed up and remain a major cause of lost battles and wars.
The Art of War is in fact revolutionary and either unknown or forgotten as subsequent history teaches.
Logistics are hard, very hard.

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if you're being served this in the MIDDLE EAST surrounded by some of the best food humanity has ever conceived of, you're not just on the losing side, you've lost in ways the English language cannot describe

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a blue flag with yellow stars on it is waving in the wind ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars on it is waving in the wind

Gibraltar is to align with Schengen area before the summer to facilitate holiday travel to mainland Spain.
Northern Ireland enjoys different rules than mainland UK.
Brexit was, is and always will be a disaster and one that Labour STILL allows to continue.

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