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Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group

computerweekly.com
3 points·by bogle·vor 3 Jahren·2 comments

Cellphone Radiation Is Harmful, but Few Want to Believe It

neurosciencenews.com
28 points·by bogle·vor 3 Jahren·48 comments

Green energy tycoon to launch UK’s first electric airline

theguardian.com
3 points·by bogle·vor 3 Jahren·2 comments

Ukraine’s Trembita Bomb

theguardian.com
26 points·by bogle·vor 3 Jahren·24 comments

Tony Blair and William Hague call for digital ID cards for all (UK)

bbc.co.uk
2 points·by bogle·vor 3 Jahren·2 comments

comments

bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Reuters [1]. Don't be an idiot.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/has-putin-threatened-us...
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Your understanding of statistics is deplorable. Also, your reading ability. I specifically said it's racism, rather than the (verifiable) lack of intelligence.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Racists don't need shaming into silence. They need to understand what's wrong with their beliefs.

Going back to the original quote, you need to see that it's not calling all voters a particular thing. There's a simple Venn diagram, one circle of racists inside a larger circle of a particular block of voters.

Educating people out of racism, and removing racism from your society, will change votes as racism is only one aspect of a person's beliefs.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I was moving the point away from a measure of smartness to one of racism. I do hope you haven't just damned all the other engineers on HN!
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Your hyperbole aside, you imply that his last term was good, rather than poor. I'm asking about HN's collective opinion, which you've contributed to, thank you, but not, perhaps, in the way you thought you were.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
No, they get a vote, obviously. You've focussed on the vote part of the quote when the important information was in the racism. It's racism that must be constantly pointed out, that people must be educated about, and racism should be rooted out when found. I'm not saying you support racism in any way, of course, I really don't think that. I just think you misunderstood what needs doing to prevent these unforced errors (Brexit was an unforced error of the UK government).
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
MAD. It actually works. Putin has had his bluff called on this.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Not everyone who voted for Brexit was a racist, but every racist voted for Brexit. - Bill Bragg

Pretty sure this would work with "Trump" instead of "Brexit".
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Hold that thought. HN Commentators, feel free to correct me if I've mis-read the room, but I think there are very few here who do not realise that Trump's presidency will go poorly for the USA and the rest of the world's democracies.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
The inequality in a nation must have a huge effect on the nature of the people in that nation. That a treatise on inequality has won a Nobel prizes for economics would tend to support your thesis [1]. That another Nobel prize winner has also written on inequality should clinch it [2].

Fix inequality.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2015/dea... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I think we can all see that correcting to oligarchy/authoritarianism/fascism never works out well for any nation. I don't see your suggestion of a correction working out here either.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Perhaps you could use the word "idiot" and refer to them as "idiots". The term has been used in a medico-legal context in the past to define a person's mental age.

That there is a divide between the two parties and the average intellectual ability of their supporters is a well-known fact. I'd contest that this is less of an issue than their racism.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
- readme at the root of each of application with keeping it up to date part of each relevant change. Something perhaps to consider in peer reviews.

- onboarding checklist with the new person now responsible for the checklist so when the next person needs it they can take them through it.

- mentoring with real contact between the new person and the mentor so they engage in shadowing and pairing.

- wikis are generally pretty poor, partly as they are external to the daily work, partly because nobody is made responsible. Could you delete it?

Of these I consider the README to be the most important. Imagine you are an open source application and you want to encourage others to improve your code. How would you do that? Add clear instructions on how to get it working on every platform? Include diagrams, made with simple, free tooling like Mermaid and drawio? Describe architectural decisions?
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
"conquering" is not "colonialism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
> The British colonized Ireland and Scotland

It's the British Isles. Scotland joined England in the United Kingdom.

This is just one where you're clearly incorrect.

Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the mid-20th century.

That kills off almost all of your examples.

That people in the comments aren't even taking the time to check the definition of terms is sad. The statements pro colonialism reek of racism and white supremacy.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
First Sudanese Civil War was 1955 – 1972. Second Sudanese Civil War was 1983 – 2005.

Up to a million deaths in the first civil war and between one and two million deaths in the second civil war.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Not relevant as the partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947 which created the constitutions. The Act was agreed upon by the legislature representatives of the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League, and the Sikh community with Lord Mountbatten.

The point stands that decolonisation was a mess and the colonisers played a large part in it.
bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
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·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
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bogle
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
On gaining independence in 1956 Sudan endured two civil wars with up to a million deaths in the first civil war and between one and two million deaths in the second civil war.

Colonial governments like the British often (almost always) left a mess behind them.