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I appreciate the points that you make, but would also point out that the article does not make reference to car accidents, but to accidental death. This would include overdoses (drug/alcohol), po…

Hmmnnn. This has categories to display letters by mood for hopeful, confused, sad and angry. A brief squint at a few of these "letters" suggests that a category for "racist" should…

A long, patient, rational and undramatic exploration of many studies, cogently presented - or, at least, that's how it struck me. I was particularly interested to see it address what I increasing…

There has been much debate/controversy over a paper published recently suggesting that perhaps half of the UK population has already been infected with Covid-19. The popular press here went mad o…

Much as this may seem like sitting on the fence, I would suggest that even with the considerable data we have collated so far, we do not know enough to predict outcome or outlook. For instance, a BMJ …

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Depending on your metrics for expense/cost, I'd tentatively suggest Boeing's MCAS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au... …

De-paywalled here: https://archive.is/gS9hB See related HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769901 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/…

As the epidemiologist quoted in the article points out, the sample size is too small to generalise - and he adds further, weighty caveats. But rates of asymptomatic infection, and transmission, are su…

This press release was posted an hour or so ago, but then flagged and deleted. I had commented in the original post to ask whether anyone could put the US administration's argument against 3M…

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> "There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators. …

Actual headline reads: UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case Lengthy El Reg hea…

20-Things feedback (unsolicited ;-) - no probs registering from the UK - the site refers to a "20-Things Mascot", but I see none - when logged in, my user name isn't displayed to remind…

An item on page 3 of the current edition (No. 1519) of Private Eye in the UK and headlined "Money talks" touches on this. The article ends with this paragraph: "WHO's kow-towing m…

Just tried it again and it works for me (in the UK). Cleared browsing data and everything, and tried in another browser. Edit to add: it is also here http://archive.md/DL5nc …

From the earlier incarnation of this on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758744 - a link to a de-paywalled version: https://archive.is/ANdKO …

> Reporters watch the arxiv for things to report on. Those reporters are not scientists. All they know is that a scientist said something, so it's fair game to put in a headline. As a producti…

Google announcement on closure here: https://support.google.com/neighbourly/answer/9756228?hl=en&... It includes this exhortation: "If you want to keep sharing your…

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Well, it's healthy to chuckle at least once or twice on this, of all, dates. Nicely done, too.

Eminently sensible call by Honda. Knobs, dials and switches work well and do not demand that a driver takes their eyes off the road. I suppose that voice controls would be a reasonably safe tech optio…

The rules cited come from the essay Politics and the English Language. [i] The style guide of the Economist newspaper is predicated on that essay. [ii] [i] https://www.orwell.ru/librar…

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