Interesting Links for 16-08-2017
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andrewducker- Advice to the Only Actor Who's Realized They're in a Shitty Film
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- Why Nazi symbols should not be covered by Freedom of Speech
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- Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
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- Who runs a social media campaign without checking how it can be abused?????
- Seriously. How incompetent do you have to be nowadays???
(tags: twitter fail OhForFucksSake viaSwampers ) - Words Used to Describe Genitals in Fanfic
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- Amazon’s Instant Pickup turns it into Argos
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- Same-sex couples do not influence their adoptive children's gender identity
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- Video presentation on C# 7
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- Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (fascinating, and related to autism)
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- Red panda and bull amongst animals that escaped Edinburgh Zoo - one of which made it to Cramond!
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- America At The End of All Hypotheticals
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- The companies who want to dissolve your dead body
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- Deep in the belly of a giant fiberglass triceratops, eight rare bats have made a home
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- SNP-Labour coalition in Edinburgh reveals plans for the next five years
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- More intelligent people are quicker to learn (and unlearn) social stereotypes
- This would be me. I had to go through stereotypes and out the other side to get any kind of understanding of people.
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Date: 2017-08-16 11:31 am (UTC)By any chance, is the appearance of this old(ish) blog post on your links page in any way related to the appearance of a claimed proof of P≠NP on the Hacker News top-ten list yesterday?
(Thanks for reposting it, also – point 10, with the analogy about ocean-crossing, is one of those things I should have long since written down in my handy file of things I keep wanting to quote at people, and now I have another chance not to forget to do so. :-)
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Date: 2017-08-16 11:58 am (UTC)I think someone posted it in the comments over there, and I discovered that despite reading it some time ago I'd never actually linked to it!