Interesting Links for 20-12-2017
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- Sugar is 'powerfully negative' for your health
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- Motoring myths: what ‘black boxes’ reveal about our driving habits
- (tags: driving safety surveillance insurance )
- In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt
- (tags: Intelligence salt )
- Oxenfree, unarguably the best game of 2016, is free on GOG right now!
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- Catholics highlight hidden abuse at the Boston Globe
- (tags: media abuse newspapers usa )
- MPs Have Absolutely Torn Into The Social Media Giants Over Hate Speech
- (tags: abuse freespeech internet Google Facebook twitter )
- How Machines Learn (a brief, simple, video introduction)
- (tags: video ai )
- Philosophy Needs a New Definition
- (tags: philosophy )
- Clients From Hell provides several reasons why you double never go freelance
- (tags: clients business OhForFucksSake )
- Pesticides even more harmful to bees than previously thought
- (tags: pesticide bees )
- Uber is officially a cab firm, says European Court Of Justice
- (tags: europe taxi )
- Amazing, detailed, article on how Google is generating maps that show what people find interesting
- (tags: google maps apple )
- Why the UK has the weakest hand in the Brexit negotiations
- (tags: UK europe )
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Date: 2017-12-20 01:20 pm (UTC)Where have they been while the recent online hatefest (not to mention print media hatefest) against trans folks has been going on, I find myself wondering?
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Date: 2017-12-20 01:30 pm (UTC)Also about country roads with 60mph limits. This is a huge difference between UK and US practice. In the US, narrow country roads of this kind (and this includes some of what are laughably designated with A numbers) would have speed limits of 25 or 30, and even speeders, which are habitual here, wouldn't take them faster than 45 at most. Whereas in the UK drivers habitually barrel down them at 55 or 60. That seems insane to me, but I had to learn to do it, because otherwise people would pile up behind me honking, and I couldn't pull over to let them overtake because there was nowhere to do it owing to the stone walls hugging the roadside everywhere (something completely unknown in the US).
Another trans-Atlantic cultural difference appears in the social media article, where Yvette Cooper chairs the home affairs committee. In the US Congress, a member of the opposition would never chair a committee. It just isn't done. That's the whole point of having a majority over here: you get to chair all the committees. It certainly isn't that you get to pass all your legislation.
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Date: 2017-12-20 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-20 04:23 pm (UTC)In the US, as I said, even daredevil speeders wouldn't take a road like this at more than 45, and very few country highways here are that narrow. The fact that you consider this "wide" is possibly an explanation for why UK drivers barrel down them at 55 or 60.
On the narrow lanes, as I'd call them, usually not designated with highway numbers at all, which is what you're calling "narrow country roads," they do indeed not go that fast. But on straightaways with no car coming, they still pick up far more speed than one would in the US.
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Date: 2017-12-20 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-20 04:45 pm (UTC)I said nothing of the sort. I'm talking about the roads discussed in the article. To quote from it: "winding roads ... a country road [where] you shouldn't be doing anywhere near 60 mph ... where it is inappropriate to drive near the limit ... rural roads with narrow lanes, blind corners and slow-moving vehicles."
There are plenty of roads in the UK that do not meet that description, and not just motorways. On those, it is perfectly safe to drive that fast (albeit then they tend to drive even faster). But those roads are not on the table in this discussion.
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Date: 2017-12-21 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-22 10:39 pm (UTC)I'm calling these roads "narrow" because I'm an American, and roads are generally wider here. That
Motoring myths: what ‘black boxes’ reveal about our driving habits
Date: 2017-12-20 05:27 pm (UTC)Re: Motoring myths: what ‘black boxes’ reveal about our driving habits
Date: 2017-12-20 05:30 pm (UTC)Social Media Giants
Date: 2017-12-20 06:32 pm (UTC)Milner replied: "I would have to ask our expert teams to look at the content."
US hearings had similar conversations. I always want the authority to then say, "Oh, so you can't explain your policies; you aren't able to tell us what is and isn't allowed on your platform? Then please give us the names of the people who do make those judgment calls, because that's what we're here to discuss. I guess you're just the money managers. We need to talk to the people who make content decisions."
The sugar thing again.
Date: 2017-12-20 06:41 pm (UTC)https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150727130816.htm
The previous studies I saw (& can't find right now) indicated that some of the causes of metabolic resistance also damage the brain's ability to use insulin, so obesity is not always concurrent.
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