ForgotAboutDre
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- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 2 weeks ago:
They are responding to crimes being committed. This helps, and minimises the scope of the law. But, it doesn’t solve root cause.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 2 weeks ago:
You already need to have a reason to carry around a large blade. Anything over pocket/eating size. Someone with a kebab knife would have to be selling, gifting, repairing or travelling from or to a kebab place.
With these swords, collecting them is a good reason that would make it difficult to prosecute someone carrying it as a weapon. Banning them means the person carrying them is without doubt a criminal, because they are now illegal.
Most people committing knife crimes don’t have a profession (that they would tell police about) that requires large blades.
- Comment on Roblox CEO tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 4 weeks ago:
This is a a business operating to target children to deliver them content they know is inappropriate for them.
This behaviour is predatory. It shouldn’t be tolerated against children. The content is promoted for children, so it’s reasonable for a parent to assume the content is appropriate for them.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 3 months ago:
Their isn’t one way to make a flat head screwdriver. Some a chisel and some are slots. The slotted ones are better but more expensive.
Both still slip from the screw and are a pain to manually screw (slotted less so).
Pozi is the best + type screw. It’s pretty much standard for UK construction. The only time a different type is used is sometimes Phillips for plaster board or external hex and internal torx for long or large screws.
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 5 months ago:
Head and shoulders has anti-fungal properties. That may have been the source of your smelling problem.
- Comment on Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years 6 months ago:
Yes, it’s a choice that’s been made not to. The same people peddling this narrative are the ones that push the ideology that lead to the reduction in the government capability to provide services like health care and housing.
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 6 months ago:
Mac isn’t UNIX based, it is UNIX and comes with many of the UNIX tools a user would expect. Completely different situation.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 7 months ago:
They charge as much as they can and have for a long time. They would still do it if they made lots of money from albums and streams.
What’s changed is the secondary market is controlled by the primary ticket sellers and they have better awareness of how much they can charge. People expectation of ticket prices has slowly changed and the prices always push at that.
Dynamic pricing exists now because it’s easier to implement. Not because the artists don’t have enough money.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 7 months ago:
It’s hard to get a good read on these things. You’ll only see the perspective of the person that thinks they were cheated by the IRS. The IRS won’t make Reddit posts about people carrying out tax evasion.
Likewise you say the IRS dont think it’s a business. They probably carry out much stricter measures than that. Probably much stricter than the people complaining on Reddit. The people complaining also only “think” it’s a business.
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 7 months ago:
There isn’t much sugar in brains, so their teeth may last longer than the average alive human.
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 7 months ago:
Enough people pay or concede their privacy. The people that avoid it were already using ad blockers and not making them any money.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 7 months ago:
Its subsidies that keep it cheep. Producing beef doesn’t provide free milk. Typically different varieties of cattle are used for dairy and beef. But dairy cows may end up in low grade beef - except when they are put to pasture after their useful life and given a year to rest (this beef is more expensive).
- Comment on Crystals 7 months ago:
Placebos is measurement error, not effectiveness. People that believe something works are more likely to report improvements when taking that medication irrespective of its effectiveness. Placebo effect is just misreporting, noise or unaccounted phenomena. It’s literally how we define something doesn’t work.
- Comment on Crystals 7 months ago:
Placebos don’t work. It’s a common misconception. Placebo effect is the error in measuring not any actual effect. It’s literally the barrier we use to define effective and non effective.
Anyone claiming they have something that provides a placebo effect to help is fraudulent or ignorant.
In the UK it is illegal to proscribe placebos. Because they don’t work.
- Comment on POV 9 months ago:
People advocating for teaching of personal finance and taxes in schools were always the ones not paying attention.
I know this because I’ve seen them say that, I’ve also seen them not pay attention when the topic was addressed when they were in high school. Many of these topics are mandatory in Scottish High schools and have been for most millennials and younger.
Anyone that can comprehend the most basic algebra and statistics a secondary education would give you can understand taxes and finance from free accessible websites/library books. Best practices for personal finance and tax laws may change, so your likely to have to learn some of it again. It’s vital schools provide the more abstract but timeless skills of maths, reasoning, reading and comprehension.
- Comment on Miracle cures 10 months ago:
I didnt bother reading the second since the first was blatantly misleading.
The second looks like they’re trying to p hack hack their way to a result.
They also have more relapses in the curicumin group in the second 6 month period than the control group. They also have enough people leaving the control group to cause a shift in their p value to make their results insignificant.
The second papers findings are weak and they aren’t very robust.
- Comment on Miracle cures 10 months ago:
The evidence is much better for SSRI, and it isn’t great, but the referred paper even points out that the curriculum wasn’t as effective as an SSRI.
The meme remains true, no proper or valid studies exist. The existence of a paper doesn’t prove that, the paper is self addresses it wasn’t a proper study. They just did it in a dishonest way.
- Comment on Miracle cures 10 months ago:
This study is absolutely terrible.
The study found no differences in the first four weeks. More than 10% dropped out during the study. The study was too small a sample to draw any serious conclusions from. The conclusions they did draw from were a subsample of people they declared treatment resistant. They even say in the paper their isn’t enough data to suggest their was any benefit, just not forcefully enough. Just enough to make low information readers think the study was successful.
This study was done in response to two other studies. One which showed no benefit another that suggested a benefit, but the study lacked a control group. So no meaningful conclusion could be drawn.
Finally the researchers were funded by ‘health supplement’ groups.
- Comment on Miracle cures 10 months ago:
The placebo effect doesn’t help. It’s just noise in the data collection process. It’s particularly problematic with human trials that rely on subjective evidence. Humans have a bias that actions have effects, even when they don’t (gamblers blowing on dice, wishing on a star etc).
Any intervention will have people think that the outcome has changed because of the intervention. This doesn’t mean the placebo effect helped, it just altered the recorded outcome. If it was a device was used to make the measurement, rather than human opinion, we just call it noise/error.
It’s a common misconception that the placebo effect does something. It does nothing other than artificially increase subjective measurements. Placebo effect is stronger in very subjective medical conditions such as pain, shiny packaging and brand names are reported to provide greater pain relief. Such medicines are so tightly regulated the formulation and supply leaves very little opportunity for medicines to actually have an effect. You don’t see the same effect when it comes to reducing the size of cancer tumours or altering directly measurable quantities.
Doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe placebos in the UK. Because it’s dangerous and a source of corruption. Such as King Charles selling homeopathic services to the NHS. Doctors do recommend such services, they do this primarily to dismiss patients and their issues.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 11 months ago:
Google will know. They gather all WiFi and Bluetooth data in the name of location services.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 11 months ago:
Android defaults to lying about your Mac address, which can be frustrating if you want to manage your home network.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 11 months ago:
Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.
The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.
This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.
Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.
The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it’s was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don’t care, they’ll sell anything to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 11 months ago:
They made an Irvine Welsh detective drama series called Crime. This was excellent. It does seem like most of their dramas are overdone police/detective shows. Crime had great writing and dark humour. But I don’t think it would have been picked up by ITV if it wasn’t a police drama.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 11 months ago:
There’s no validation process, even for BBC iPlayer. They ask for a postcode because the regional content within the UK is locked to different countries and regions (ITVX content is on STV player in Scotland).
There isn’t a way for them to check your TV licence on ITVX. Even then a TV licence is only required if you watch the livestream broadcasts on the app. If you watch catch-up, streamed but not live broadcasts, a TV licence isn’t required except for BBC iPlayer. An IP address outside the UK isn’t likely to work either.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 11 months ago:
The articles published to the journal. That’s where the peer review happens. The university will then host a copy of the published paper with open access. The university doesn’t peer review this, it just provides the hosting. Often the motivation for doing this is compliance with open access. Many areas have well regarded journals that authors want to publish in that are closed, but the research is funded on the condition of open access.
These papers hosted by the university may have different formatting, but will have the same content. They are often harder to find as the references will be to the same paper published in the journal. Some paper search engines will include links to the university’s free access page, but you often have to search separately on a general purpose search engine to find that copy.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 11 months ago:
I did this once. They wouldn’t give me a copy, I didn’t push it because they were retired and did try to give me advice about contacting librarians to add the journal to their subscription.
I do imagine your people publishing more recent work would be more open to sharing their work.
For anyone else seeing this the university of the author often also publishes their papers free access. Even when the journal the paper is published in is paywalled. So it’s worth checking that. This is especially the case if the work was funded by bodies that require open access.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 11 months ago:
The metric system uses a similar principle. 1 liter is a kg of water. It’s just named better.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 1 year ago:
Before all phones were phablets, a tablet was a good middle ground between phone and laptop. Especially for casual browsing and media not having a keyboard in the way and the better battery life was a real benefit to sofa computing.
Now we are seeing phones encroach on 7 inches, what would have been a small tablet a decade ago their use case has dwindled. Now they are a laptop alternatives or child minders.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 1 year ago:
The iPhone was a big departure from smartphones. They used a better touch screen technology, one that was more responsive without a stylus. They also made innovations in how a touch screen would be interacted with. They then packaged it up into a sellable product. They were the ones that figured out the UX of device. The concept existed before, but it wasn’t a product that could sell because the UX of touch screens was so bad.
All the other smartphone manufacturers followed apples change. Android was completely reconfigured when it launched.
As far as consumer Innovations its one of the biggest. It ended feature phones and all other types of smartphones. They connected it to the iPod jumping the product category from business user/professional only to everyone. It wasn’t that it was fashionable, it was that it was useable that lead to their success.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 1 year ago:
Hydro power uses running water not hot water.
Squeezing can be converter to electricity with pizeo electric. Heat difference can be converted into electric directly with peltier devices. Both of these are very inefficient ways to make electricy.