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andrewducker) wrote2017-07-13 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-07-13 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- age,
- algorithm,
- apocalypse,
- autism,
- bitcoin,
- canada,
- china,
- comic,
- competition,
- decentralisation,
- design,
- dilbert,
- disease,
- diversity,
- dna,
- economics,
- education,
- facebook,
- fail,
- fire,
- france,
- games,
- genetics,
- guns,
- history,
- horses,
- internet,
- kazakhstan,
- law,
- life,
- links,
- money,
- mother,
- movies,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plastic,
- politics,
- pthalates,
- restaurant,
- saudiarabia,
- scotland,
- society,
- software,
- sports,
- storage,
- tax,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- thefuture,
- time,
- uk,
- unix,
- usa,
- video,
- war
Interesting Links for 13-07-2017
- How video encoding works (a very simple introduction)
- (tags: video Technology )
- The touching effect of putting an autistic hero into a computer game
- (tags: games diversity autism )
- Overwatch: Bigger than the Premier League? (No. But people are trying...)
- (tags: games sports money competition )
- Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable?
- (tags: design storage internet economics decentralisation )
- Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools
- (tags: Education )
- Pthalates linked to chronic disease in men
- (tags: pthalates plastic disease )
- Government refuses to release report into Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamist extremism in UK
- (tags: saudiarabia terrorism politics uk )
- Inside the World of Chinese Bitcoin ‘Mining’ (Some great photos)
- (tags: bitcoin china )
- At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges
- (tags: fire age life )
- The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do
- As a Brit I have to admit that I had no idea that there _was_ a war with America in 1812
(tags: war uk usa france canada history ) - The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
- (tags: facebook algorithm mother OhForFucksSake fail )
- Radiohead releases a surprise ZX Spectrum program for OK Computer anniversary
- (tags: music software )
- Visa To Pay Restaurants To Stop Taking Cash
- (tags: restaurant money Technology )
- A Kingdom for a Horse: Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan
- “There are no Kazakhs,” he says. “Stalin made us up.”
(tags: kazakhstan horses ) - Scientists replay movie encoded in DNA
- (tags: dna genetics movies )
- "I think I am becoming accustomed to the sight of guns."
- (tags: guns society UK France Scotland )
- Unix Time 1,500M – Friday July 14 02:40GMT
- (tags: time unix thefuture )
- New corporate criminal offences of failure to prevent tax evasion effective from 30 September
- (tags: law tax uk )
- Post-apocalyptic Dilbert
- (tags: dilbert apocalypse comic )
Unsafe in Paris
The prevalence of guns adds to the sky-high murder rate, about 40 homicides per million population a year compared to places like Japan where the murder rate is something like 7 per million a year.
Re: Unsafe in Paris
Re: Unsafe in Paris
Men with guns patrolling the streets do not make us safer, and they don't even make us feel safer. And yet it still happens, because of some vague-defined "emergency".
Re: Unsafe in Paris