andrewducker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
andrewducker) wrote2017-11-23 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-11-23 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- adhd,
- aging,
- automation,
- babies,
- bbc,
- brain,
- conservatives,
- conspiracy,
- cooking,
- death,
- dementia,
- development,
- doom,
- driving,
- economics,
- europe,
- fail,
- fat,
- gaming,
- genetics,
- globalwarming,
- health,
- history,
- jobs,
- links,
- mentalhealth,
- movies,
- neuroscience,
- northernireland,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- osamabinladen,
- parents,
- psychology,
- space,
- sugar,
- suicide,
- tax,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- transport,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 23-11-2017
- Chasing our interstellar visitor - unfortunately human technology isn’t up to the task
- (tags: technology space )
- Man urged to kill self by 'suicide advocate', court hears
- (tags: suicide death wtf uk )
- The sodding BBC is now talking about the Irish border as if it was a conspiracy theory. WTF is wrong with them?
- (tags: bbc NorthernIreland Europe uk conspiracy OhForFucksSake )
- MRI shows brain differences among ADHD patients
- (tags: brain adhd neuroscience )
- Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
- (tags: sugar health history )
- Simple visual processing exercise is the first intervention to actually limit dementia
- (tags: dementia aging psychology mentalhealth )
- Don't quit your job for a dream project unless you have enough savings for it to all go wrong
- (tags: gaming development fail )
- The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father
- I didn't become a doctor, or go into data analysis. But my father loved technology, and the exposure I got to their worlds certainly influenced me and gave me options.
(tags: parents jobs ) - In case you're wondering what DVDs Osama Bin Laden used to watch
- (tags: OsamaBinLaden movies )
- We’re at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos by Health, Height, and More
- Aaah, Brave New World, That Will Have Such Creatures In It.
(tags: genetics babies thefuture ) - UK wants entirely self-driving cars on the roads by 2021
- (tags: transport automation driving uk thefuture )
- UK to enable 'world first' transferable tax histories for late life oil and gas (I can see now way in which this could go wrong)
- (tags: tax oil uk )
- UK faces longest fall in living standards since records began
- (tags: doom economics uk OhForFucksSake Conservatives viaSwampers )
- Deep fat fryers help counteract global warming! (And explain why Scotland is so cloudy)
- (tags: cooking fat globalwarming )
no subject
Some people forget there's this thing called upward social mobility via education and that we don't all start out middle class!
no subject
That was certainly potentially misleading. I was thinking maybe it meant they wanted human drivers off the road by then.
no subject
And there'll always be people who need to drive.
no subject
UK wants entirely self-driving cars on the roads by 2021
I don't know enough about the practicalities. My second hand impression is that the most successful examples (well, google) have a reasonable amount of training in a specific region before being considered safe to let go.
no subject
no subject
There are three pre-conditions to moving to discussing future trading arrangements.
1) Continuing Obligations to the EU Budget
2) Citizens' Rights (and the role of the European Court of Justice)
3) the Border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Not being able to settle all three of those means no future talks and the risk of either a prolongued transition period or a disorderly Brexit.
The first is easy enough to settle. Britain offers an interpretation of the principles and structures governing our ongoing obligations. This is translated in to a large number. We agree to pay this. This will be unpalatable but straight-forward. If we offer £20bn it is too low. If we offer £100bn that is probably too much and everyone can see that the EU is taking the piss.
Citizen's Rights are a little harder. The obviously palatable solution to the EU (that anyone who enters the UK from the rest of the EU or other way round continues to enjoy all the benefits of the Free Movement of People as adjudicated by the ECJ will drive hard-line Brexiteers nuts but there is a clear thing we can agree to.
The Irish Border question is ineffable. Because the acceptable solution of Northern Ireland being both inside the Single Market and outside the Single Market is impossible there is no obvious offer the UK can make that will satisfy the Irish government who have a veto over the negotiations moving to future trade relations. Nothing exists that can be agreed to.
Therefore, the Irish government can play silly buggers for as long as they like and it's not obvious that they are taking the piss. How sincerely does the Irish government care about the principle that anyone in Northern Ireland is also Irish and should be allowed to come and go freely. That's a matter that only the Irish government can determine.
So, I hope that, alongside genuine concerns about the Irish Border, that the EU and the rest of the EU Member States have put Ireland up to be as difficult as possible about this in the hope that this will delay the start of talks on a future relationship until well after the point where they could succeed. This leads to the certainty of a disorderly Brexit which has two effects. Either the UK's economy and our experience of our economy will be trashed. Lorry Park at Dover. No flight, either to or from the EU or domestically because most of the planes are shifted out of the UK. No food imports or exports. A salutory lesson to everyone that leaving the EU is a bad idea. Or more hopefully, that Britain, having to confront the worst possible outcome, will be delighted to accept the EU's offer to remain in the EU. This will destroy the Conservative Party; a salutory lesson to any political party thinking of taking a pro-Leave approach that trying to leave the EU is a bad idea. Marine le Pen take note.
Basically, I'm hoping that the Irish Government is conspiring with the rest of the EU to make Britain leaving the EU too difficult for even our pig-headed obstinacy to force through.
no subject
People take investment for a reason. Otherwise you basically have to be independently wealthy to get something meaningful off the ground. It’s different for consultants, who are essentially doing work for hire - but selling your own product is HARD. Far better to build it in your spare time and keep working, if you want to bootstrap.
no subject
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658437
no subject
no subject
Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/cancer-common-marriage-wake-up-call-macmillan
(I swear I saw this on your interesting links thing earlier in the year, but I can't find it.)
[1] - seriously: I stopped buying the brand of salt that both my mother and grandmother bought because it now lists sugar as one of the ingredients. Yes, it is a small amount, but there should be NIL in salt. Zip. Zero. Nada.
no subject
Hadn't read the link, so thanks for that. I would love people to get the treatment which actually helped them personally. Sadly, with the way the current government is treating the health service...