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They do have 3 already and they're building 3 more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-voltage_transmiss... The new one going to France will probably have the most impact i…

The reason the test and actually knowing who is likely to develop the disease is useful is that we don't know enough about the early pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's. A lot of…

The selective pressure of a .338 Winchester Magnum, is not to be underestimated. Funny thing is something similar occurs in lab mice. Where a technician is selecting a mouse for cu…

In the London suburbs you see the grocery delivery vans out and about all day every day. It very much depends on the neighbourhood though, mostly the slightly posh mums or elderly …

Or if the job is an outsourceable one that can be provided as a service then they will outsource it to a company overseas and still pay peanuts. The only reason they'll raise wages…

The stupidity of the whole thing is that by creating these MiTM servers, they're creating a single point of security failure. Anyone who then compromises one of those servers, can …

It doesn't help what we've designed a rather silly academic system where principal investigators are forced to spend a good deal of their time thinking where they'll be applying fo…

It creates a nasty precedent doesn't it? If Apple can provide the UK government with foreign data, what's to stop Russia or China making them provide data on UK minister's phones, …

The actual problem is upstream of that at the abiogenesis stage. For evolutionary selection to occur the machinery for selection must exist. Specifically information storage (DNA/R…

The whole MITM just makes me deeply uncomfortable, it's introducing a single point of trust with the keys to the kingdom. If I want to log what someone is doing, I do it server sid…

Less profitable than a comparable gas turbine because it couldn't perform the same grid role of peaker plants. Make no mistake it was gas which killed coal here not wind. A coal pl…

Swiss banks reject Americans because of US legislation, namely FATCA ( https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/foreign-a... ) Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. It's in…

Nah, because the thing is the Russian and US militaries will have their own maps of China anyway. There's a reason the UK's mapping agency retains the historic name of the Ordinanc…

People confuse a economic recession with what is happening because of how words sometimes change their meaning away from their technical to a more colloquial interpretation. The ec…

Protectionism buys campaign contributions for your next election. All those companies whose market is protected by a tariff suddenly magically decide to contribute to the politicia…

If you've ever had to organise a scientific study you'll understand why. Privacy and ethics are important but they make recruitment of a large and representative sample for any med…

Microsoft is pretty pro-Linux these days. I'd say it's some lawyer being overly paranoid.

The irony was that it was a footgun move for them given their demographics. Most young people of voting age are likely to have a driving license, if only so that they can drink. Un…

Depends who your user is. From a desktop side you're probably not going to notice because desktop CPU requirements have been stagnant for years, desktop is all about GPU. On the se…

Before the 1990's but not anymore. The contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom ( https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/ ) and a lot of papers showing benefits to avoidin…

Depends what the indication is, for some kinds of trauma the evidence is that transfusions are what will keep the patient alive, e.g. you're dumping pints on the table and it's lik…

Indeed, the quirk of the Westminster system is that parliament can indeed legislate whatever it likes. Parliament can pass a law that the colour orange is now legally the new black…

The funny thing is the increased capacity wasn't necessarily the biggest driver for this upgrade. Part of the selling point to Boris Johnson who was mayor at the time was that he c…

That is definitely true, we have diaries from folks who lived in the 1600s in London where you have the different reactions to their children dying at different age. They loved and…

> What you ultimately want is to make sure you're communicating with the correct other party. And the way to achieve this is TLS with certificates, validated via the WebPKI. The th…