Interesting Links for 09-01-2018
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andrewducker- On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
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- Chris Grayling's 27 Seconds as Conservative Party Chairman
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- Donald Trump's tweets aren't random - he's live-tweeting his favourite tv
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- The couple who got engaged and married on the same day
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- The plummeting Conservative membership makes the party ripe for entryism
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- How to argue, in eight easy steps
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- Lemurs mob BBC News reporter
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- The Omnicopter, A Super Agile Omni-Directional Drone That Can Play Catch With a Ball
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- Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes
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- Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
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- Plans unveiled for new Northern Forest from Liverpool to Hull
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- Beginner's guide to longevity research
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- The reshuffle that wasn't: May blows it again
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- 7 articles that are basically free therapy
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- Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
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- Iran Bans English in Primary Schools
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- Jeremy Corbyn insists UK cannot remain in single market after Brexit
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- China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining
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- Tory MSPs back call for Scottish Parliament to reject UK Brexit Bill
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- A 430-Year-Old World Map, Taking Up 60 Square Feet
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- New insights into lifetime personality change
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- Women more likely to suffer winter depression and mood changes
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Re: Chinese BitCoin
Date: 2018-01-09 12:56 pm (UTC)I don't think the electricity usage is large enough that it would be causing serious imbalance in the Chinese energy market. Large enough that you wouldn't want it stolen, not so large that you'd want it to stop (so long as you were getting some economic benefit from the activity.)
Re: Chinese BitCoin
Date: 2018-01-09 01:00 pm (UTC)This kind of thing:
http://www.chinafile.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/inside-world-of-chinese-bitcoin-mining
Re: Chinese BitCoin
Date: 2018-01-09 02:21 pm (UTC)