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Verbatim response to that tweet, from a highly qualified friend with relevant scientific expertise: "idk that critique is pretty dismissive of the actual experimental evidence that…

What are the limitations to heroku that people are going to Fly for? Maybe there's a standard article that would be useful to read about it?

I was confused by your first reply at first. I think that's because you are answering a different question from a number of other people. You're asking about the conditions under w…

I did get the order wrong. Must have been the Preston bypass that was first, which I double checked

The first sections of motorway... Definitions definitions

My father was present, as a boy, at the opening of the Lancaster bypass, which was the first section of motorway constructed in in Britain, followed by the Preston bypass. He was a…

Another issue here is there is a problem with laws which are broad enough that it requires selective enforcements for them to be available. Because then you can get a problematic f…

Being 'normal' != is constitutional

Indeed. Farmed ones aren't given the same diet. I suspect it's not as healthy for them either, but it does well enough for industrial purposes. Think of cattle feed v grass, etc

I like the ending: 'If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain ho…

While I don't disagree with the general tenor of the article and the apparent real issues with these oils, Regarding the section quoted below: this doesn't appear to have any stati…

It's not the same at all. At first glance it might feel the same, but the structural questions are different. The fact that the Facebook does have privacy problems does not show th…

Farmed salmon doesn't have the red colour we associate with salmon, and they add that colour later so that it looks right to us. https://www.foodandwine.com/news/your-salmon-might-…

Where you went wrong is getting it backwards. The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons. …

Given the level of corruption within the current UK government, I would not necessarily agree with your use of the word literally here. But at least in law and in principle yes.

Yes I'm having the same issue

Whereas I would call Northern Ireland an exclave colony, although in the current political status fittest part of the UK, much as Puerto Rico is part of the US, or the non-Russia S…

You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the…

This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a bl…

This is interesting. Do you have any good links for the Russian connection!

Also a good guess because if I remember correctly the floppy floppy disks which were flatter with a larger surface area and actually floppy were about 512k or so. I only ever saw o…

This is an extremely naive and ascientific hot take. Dinosaurs are large creatures of a completely different order, not mammals. The sea ecosystem which had evolved over millions o…

Do please note that Stross is quite well known not to a fan of the idea of the Singularity, and that his book should not be taken as a manual for the future, and rather as a cautio…

It's not a mess structurally. If you read the notes on it, you will will find Stross wrote a series of nine loosely connected short stories, which follow each other temporally and …