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Right. And how do we know his paper wouldn’t still have been accepted without his self-censoring? I’m not saying I don’t believe him, or that we shouldn’t take such concerns seriou…

I don’t quite understand how you’re able to acknowledge the rarity of such a sensationalised case as Isla Bryson’s, yet still use it to justify your support for policy that would h…

On the other hand, other parents may well wish to have access to cherished stories from their childhood to read to their own children _without_ first having to re-read them all in …

I don’t think this necessarily is evidence of his not being smart, as it could just as well be ascribed to malice. Perhaps this will finally prompt Paul to stop giving him the bene…

Bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose you'd happen to know where to find that post or what it was called?

> Their FAQ on the topics simply says they'll block "medical misinformation" which they define as anything the WHO disagrees with This seems entirely sensible to me. > As the WHO h…

> I have yet to see genuine criticism of [Jordan Peterson] which stands up to scrutiny. I don't believe Peterson is alt-right, but I do think there's a fair case for dismissing him…

I've often wondered to what extent my own password mnemonic "system" is either sufficiently secure or woefully misguided. Each of my passwords is made up of the same eight-characte…

Want to make your own? See this recent post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877790

Raphael is great at what it does, which is to provide a graphics framework -- a layer of abstraction in order to easily manipulate SVG to create custom shapes and graphics. Where D…

To be pedantic, Protovis did also use SVG; it just had a layer of abstraction that somewhat obscured this, whereas D3's lower-level syntax makes it feel like you're manipulating SV…

Great as that is, it's not really a garden path sentence, as there's no element of being misled. It looks absurd from the outset.

Interesting, thanks. But, without meaning to excuse it, I do wonder how much of that was a) tongue in cheek (given that it was an informal talk rather than an essay or article) b) …

Really? Can I ask what you're basing that on? I'm not disbelieving you, just skeptically curious :)

To be fair, the difference is that it's now displaying images by default, and this will simply have caught a lot more people's attention

It's much much harder to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously, than it is to simply focus on one then the other. They are fundamentally at odds with each other: to lose fat, you…

"I’m not feeling that good about the design at the moment as it’s shit," made me laugh. Also it's always heartening to see even great designers like Mike have to scrabble and grab …

Or indeed consumers who are perfectly happy with the sound of 210 kb/s VBR mp3s on an iPod through £80 Grado headphones. I'm not trying to take any side myself here, but it does so…

What's interesting is that antidepressants such as Prozac have a few established, proven and well-documented side-effects, one of which is orgasm inhibition: http://en.wikipedia.or…

Ah right. I must be an outlier then.

Forgive me if I'm missing something, I'm not trying to catch you out but I'm curious why you believe that one late night will affect the rest of your week. Surely a correspondingly…

I wonder if the other fifth is just British expats who still think a trillion is a million cubed.

They seem to spend a whole lot of time describing how Apple "launched a revolution", and very little on the key point in the headline which is that they've supposedly been "overtak…

Film critic Mark Kermode's thoughts on movie piracy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/04/piracy_240409...