The following excerpts score quite high on my BS meter:
- "Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks,"
- ""I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code"
These two alone much more to discredit the "preliminary" claims than any of the remaining arguments in favor of the "discovery".
> Uuuh, while your algorithm isn't racist, if a person is using an algorithm to be racist, then it could be concluded that what is happening is... racism.
This is an extremely weak "argument".
Practically, anything can be used as a murder weapon by a murderer.
Then "what is happening is ..." murder.
The current UK rules state a maximum of 400 feet (120 m), AFAIK.
Also, speaking of EU, most urban areas of France are off limits, and the not-so-urban ones allow at most 30m/50m (depending on distance from urban areas).
Another, off-topic question from me: in terms of football (my understanding is that countries such as Norway are quite passionate about the sport), I remember there used to be some online discussions quite a few years ago, about the possibility of having Longyearbyen FC compete in the Norwegian football pyramid (at level 3 or 4).
Was that actually ever feasible? I'd heard that the team (or the "team"?) only played friendly matches, locally, against different corporations etc.
Out of curiosity: in a few online sources, I've read the same interview, and I'm particularly interested in the following excerpt:
> "You can't be born in Longyearbyen," says Hella. "When a woman has three weeks left of her pregnancy, she must go back to the mainland to have her baby." I ask Hella what happens if a baby is born prematurely. "Paperwork," is her deadpan answer.
What does "Paperwork" exactly comprise of, in such cases?
> Part of Norway, the whole Svalbard archipelago is one of the only places in the world you don't need a visa to live -- if you show up, you can stay, so long as you don't commit a crime or go broke in the process, in which case the governor sends you back to Oslo.
My understanding is that Norway owns all the land there, and that the accommodation situation is quite tricky - there are few rental properties, operated by private landlords, while most of the properties exist solely for the purpose of accommodating local workers (researchers, miners, etc.).
Is that indeed the case? Could you, please, shed some light on this?
I trained a Markov chain on Games of Thrones' transcripts and crypto whitepapers.
I publish the best newly-generated sentences via a Twitter bot on https://twitter.com/crypto_thrones.
- "Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks,"
- ""I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code"
These two alone much more to discredit the "preliminary" claims than any of the remaining arguments in favor of the "discovery".