Interesting Links for 22-02-2012
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andrewducker- Scotland, independence and the EU - what are the possibilities?
- 10 radical solutions to binge drinking. I like #10 the best.
- Anticipating the medical care needed by vulnerable people brings benefits to patients and saves money
- Ways the singularity could fail to happen
- How the Nebula Award nominees are chosen
- This is what is wrong with the TV industry.
- Has digital copying killed the music business?
- Why You Should Review Books You’ve Bought On Amazon
- The Future Is Gender Distributed
- The creators of Doctor Who were a scandal at the BBC
- On The Market Structure of Football as an Entertainment
- Tesla Motors’ Battery Has A Devastating Design Problem
- Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End
- How Mailinator compresses email by 90% - neat coding tricks FTW
- Autodesk 123D - making 3D printing easy - either locally, or through a commercial printer
- RIAA Insists That, Really, The Music Industry Is Collapsing; Reality Shows It's Just The RIAA That's Collapsing
- Doctor who criticised NHS reforms is threatened with disciplinary action
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 12:53 pm (UTC)Really? That seems to be a terrible idea in America, where people first get to experience alcohol (legally) at university, and go nuts. I'd have thought "lower it, and encourage children to drink with their parents from an early age" would be a much better idea (as in most of Europe). Demystify it, make it routine. That pretty much rules out "Not in front of the children" too.
Here's a novel idea: "stop charging the fuck out of people who want to drink softies" Really, sometimes it can cost more to have a non-alcoholic drink, and there isn't even the excuse of tax!
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Date: 2012-02-22 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 01:00 pm (UTC)I once had a conversation with the manager of a cafe my mates and I used to hang out in when we were underage. We'd head down and sit and drink coffee. We asked the manager if he minded. He didn't mind. He made more money selling us coffed than he did selling beer.
As for the age limit - I think it depends on what policy objective we have. Do we want to stop people getting very drunk in public and being violent? Do we want to stop people getting acute alcohol damage from binge drinking at home? Do we want to stop people getting liver damage or just fat from drinking steadily slightly too much than is good for them.
Tricky.
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 05:34 pm (UTC)My sister, I think is a pretty average UK drinker (i.e. often too much at once but not doing that all that often).
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Date: 2012-02-22 05:20 pm (UTC)That said, my parents did give me some alcohol when I was younger, I could just never drink much of it because I didn't like the taste back then.
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Date: 2012-02-22 12:55 pm (UTC)I think for electric cars to be widely adopted they need to be better or at least as good as petrol cars on all attributes and not ever significantly worse on any attribute.
Having a car that just stops working if you leave it alone sounds like a significantly worse attribute than a petrol car.
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 03:46 pm (UTC)I keep meaning to put up more reviews on Amazon because it was pointed out to me the other day that if you give someone's self published book a glowing review but don't have any other reviews on the site, lots of people will assume you are a family member or close friend bigging them up and not being honest. As it happens the author I've given glowing reviews to is a friend of mine but that doesn't change the fact that the review was honest and I think lots of people would enjoy her writing.
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:36 pm (UTC)(My friends tend to be scrupulously honest - I have two four-star reviews from friends, actually, saying they liked the books but pointing out areas they felt could be improved).
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Date: 2012-02-22 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 03:59 pm (UTC)I once gave a one star review (an honest one) to an author on Amazon.
The author responded giving a critic of my review. He was not a fan of my review.
A year later there was a follow up comment from someone who had had the same response to the book as I had.
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:43 pm (UTC)But there is a difference between that and libelling an author, or reviewing a totally different book you made up out of your head. And unfortunately the people who will do that tend to be far more likely to post reviews than people who read a book and think "that was a pretty decent book, not the best ever but worth reading".
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:50 pm (UTC)I'd like to see something that helped me discover is a reviewer had a good reputation for their reviews and / or to find a reviewer who had similar tastes to me.
I wonder what the distribution of reviews is on Amazon.
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Date: 2012-02-22 05:24 pm (UTC)Point is, ANY battery which is allowed to become fully-discharged is fucked. Maybe most people don't know that, (though they *should*....)
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Date: 2012-02-22 10:56 pm (UTC)