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Your maths doesn't seem right. You can estimate mutation rates very easily, and you don't end up at crazy numbers. The sequence space explored by evolution is tiny compared to the …

Could be Reagan as well.

The EU, like almost every democracy ever, is a "representative democracy": > Representative democracy is a system where citizens vote for officials (representatives) to make laws a…

It was possible to obtain them in Edinburgh 25 years ago, but it was rare. It was more of a meme than a popular choice, based around the Scottish love of deep frying absolutely eve…

I recommend scrolling to the next article about the giant AI-generated Christmas image/Lovecraft Eldritch horror on a shopping centre in Kingston (London). It is glorious.

> This cast doubt on the long-established view that life was made possible when organisms started producing oxygen via photosynthesis, which requires sunlight, about 2.7 billion ye…

Botswana is well in the top half of least-corrupt countries. I suspect you know nothing about Ukraine or Botswana.

Shutting down and starting up again can draw more power than sleeping/other low power mode. e.g. airplane mode on a phone is probably better than turning the device off for the nig…

There is a biannual structural prediction contest called CASP [1], in which a set of newly determined structures is used to benchmark the prediction methods. Some of these structur…

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Not quite sure what you mean by "mind manifestation"? MDMA has significant impacts on your emotional and mental state, and also causes strong audiovisual hallucinations, disorienta…

Ketamine is a psychedelic, just not a "classical" one that operates the same receptors as LSD/mushrooms. Or rather, whether or not it is a psychedelic is a semantic argument, and i…

I don't know if it's still the same, but from Stansted airport you had a choice of taking either the train to Liverpool St or Liverpool Lime St. Fun times for tired travellers.

I find rain alarm good enough for this.

From over a year ago: https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/10/apple-hires-former-facebook-a...

You might have missed this statement in the article: > German authorities were of course also customers of the company Though I don't think that's what the title was implying, I th…

They seem pretty good. This summer was a bit of a mystery, but otherwise things have tracked pretty well. Obviously you can't determine anything without taking into account the est…

Patches with built-in bugs made it to stable: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIAta3cRl8mk%2FRkH@unreal/ .

I don't know if it was clinically RSI, but I had severe cramps in my forearms, shooting pains and tingling sensations from shoulders to hands for about 6 years. Switching from usin…

Both of those options would take longer and be more effort, but I've only find someone else's cards 3 times in 40 years...

Both my accounts I just freeze it in the app, but yes, quite.

Um, this is how banking works in the UK. Nobody cancels their bank account if they lose their card, they just cancel their card. And given someone else's card I could send them 1p …

I suspect it's the work of Grant Shapps: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-... , a known SEO spammer.

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As far as I'm aware, cars are modified for the UK market and they're not allowed to do this - I think normally a start/stop button is added and an alarm goes off if you get out of …