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I think you're being too kind. The article is entirely one-sided. The title says lies, so it's fair game to call the content propaganda. The facts on low-dose radiation exposure ar…

This problem isn't specific to timezones. In general, you did X on the basis that A was B, and now you know that that A is actually C. The strategies to handle that are quite inter…

People with this level of dementia won't be able to live independently, and there will be someone else to check that.

I succeeded at this. My academic physics career petered out, then I stumbled into an industry role with almost as much physics as I was doing in my quantum mechanics postdoc. The j…

Original report here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/no-return:-australias...

It's called capitalism. Take one billion times Haiti's GDP per capita, pour it all into a few blocks in Shenzhen, and reinvest the profits.

Also if you’re using windows on an IoT device… Microsoft is using IoT in a loose sense. The "thing" could be an industrial PC at the train station that plays a recorded message say…

I wonder how much this will cost? A drug you take 2 times a year could be much cheaper than one you take 365 times a year, and that's a big deal. The existing daily pill is really …

Thanks!

I've finally gotten around to reading SICM, but I can't get MIT Scheme to install on the current OSX 14.2. Autoconf requires an old version of the OSX SDK. Has someone else already…

> in my experience aerospace is way better in most ways. As an Amethyst user, I'm approaching this comparison from the other direction: is there one compelling reason to switch? Th…

I'm trying to figure out the name. Is it simply a play on Hypothesis , or am I missing something clever about this being the opposite of property-based testing?

Has anyone read Late Victorian Holocausts , a full exposition of this argument? It's important if true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts

I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals. In March 2020, it was natural for people to leap…

In one sense, this is worse than pointless. The hydrogen was made from brown coal, so this shipment has caused more greenhouse gas emissions than any other way Japan could have imp…

This retired immigration official makes a good point: if Djokovic was suspected of doing anything dodgy, there were lots of opportunities to question him before he boarded a plane.…

The details of this are obscure, due to medical privacy, and I don't know more than anyone else. On the other hand, this isn't the first time that someone has arrived in Australia …

The biology is even more interesting than I thought. These things have brains, which shut down, then reboot when they rehydrate. Wow!

> not entirely resisting the troll potential here Entirely possible. The sad thing is, when I've seen physicists take the "no such thing as bad publicity" approach, it's worked. Un…

So this is me. A decade ago, I would have been a plausible choice of referee for a paper like this. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6BzRwwAAAAJ You'll have to take my wo…

> the law really should catch up Of course it should! My point is that LKY ended up supporting that, so it's a bit unfair to blame him for it not happening. In the context of the a…

> LKY is often called a "benevolent dictator" ... The country’s record on LGBT rights is particularly dismaying Actually, Lee Kwan Yew spoke in favor of gay law reform in Singapore…

This isn't a massive surprise: Australia has 90-95% uptake rates for every other vaccine, and it was never obvious why COVID would be different. (Apart from the Prime Minister gett…