Interesting Links for 12-04-2017

[andrewducker]

Google’s Dueling Neural Networks Spar to Get Smarter, No Humans Required

(tags: ai google )

European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans

(tags: europe usa travel OhForFucksSake )

38% of Labour supporters think Corbyn would be a better Prime Minister than May

Which, I think, comes down to perceived competence. May might be an awful human being who is unnecessarily tearing the country apart, but she still comes across as more capable of organising a piss-up in a brewery than Corbyn does.
(tags: labour Conservatives politics uk epicfail )

What lurks inside the walls of ancient buildings, and how was it supposed to keep out evil?

(tags: history witchcraft superstition uk )

Boeing Dreamliner Gets $3M Cheaper Thanks to Rapid Plasma Deposition

(tags: 3dprinting airplanes )

The Osiris Child - a trailer for proper trashy b-movie science fiction

(tags: scifi trailer video movies )

The 5 Types Of Vaginas, As Revealed By A Bikini Waxer

(tags: vagina )

Amazon's new sick policy: collective punishment

(tags: amazon sick illness OhForFucksSake )

What Happened to "Who"?

(tags: grammar english usa viaLizzieCassMaran )

Investigation finds prison inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

(tags: prison computers )

The changing definitions of the word "Robot"

(tags: robots history language english scifi )

The factual impenetrability of zombie rules (Like insisting on "Who")

(tags: language english history viaLizzieCassMaran )

Intestinal bacteria may protect against diabetes

(tags: microbiome diabetes )

British man charged after US gamer is shot by Swat police following hoax terrorism call

(tags: OhForFucksSake gaming police guns )

Why Buying T-Shirts Is the Absolute Best Way to Support Bands You Like

(tags: t-shirts music business viaBartCalendar )

That Four-Star Rating You Left Could Cost Your Uber Driver Her Job

(tags: ratings reviews OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[sravakavarn]

As I am only porting through Europe, and so for the March 3, we noted it. It is a bit worrisome in that US is likely to retaliate against the entire EU if revocation is passed. Now since we increasing travel through Europe from Africa to North America, things are going to get interesting if EU commission goes through with the Parliamentary request.

What's with Corbyn anyway? Finally moving away from Blairite nonsense and you seemingly have someone who is utterly meh in actually DOING anything beyond it.

[theandrewhickey]

Quite simply, Corbyn didn't want or expect the job, and said as much during the initial stages of his leadership campaign. It was just his turn to be the token lefty standing for the role at that election, as Diane Abbot had in 2010 and John McDonnell did in 2005. He only got the job at all because the voting rules changed, but if he quits the other MPs won't allow another token lefty to be nominated. So even though he's utterly inept at the stuff a leader of the opposition needs to do, he has to stay in the job unless/until the makeup of Labour's parliamentary party goes hard left.
It would have been better for everyone, including him, if he'd been the one who stood in 2010 and Abbot had stood in 2015, rather than vice versa -- of all Labour's parliamentary left, she's by far the best media performer, and she wouldn't have cocked up the Brexit stuff nearly so badly.

[andrewducker]

Corbyn comes across as someone with a nice ethos, but no grasp on how to actually get things done.

I largely blame the politicial system over here.

[davidcook]

"The 5 Types Of Vaginas, As Revealed By A Bikini Waxer"

(pedantry) Vulvas, surely ? (/pedantry)

[andrewducker]

Prescriptivist!