Interesting Links for 08-05-2018

[andrewducker]

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’

(tags: bbc uk surveillance )

Trans Lib Dem candidate called ‘disgusting’ in barrage of Twitter abuse

(tags: twitter abuse lgbt transgender libdem )

Who doesn't want an iron skull with a magnetic demonic beard?

(tags: magnets video awesome )

Behold: The future of my child!

(tags: thefuture babies funny comic )

This is my favourite ever Rube Goldberg machine

(tags: video awesome )

Does growing up poor harm brain development? (A multi million dollar experiment investigates)

(tags: GuaranteedIncome poverty intelligence children )

Trump Isn’t Playing 3D Chess — He’s Playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

(tags: games politics )

The battle of the gas-sucking mega giants is set to begin

(tags: gas australia )

Wet wipes could face wipe-out in plastic clean-up

(tags: plastic cleanliness waste )

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

(tags: programming mathematics children )

Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In (I hadn't realised the USA didn't already have these)

(tags: usa food )

Britain's first private police force to go nationwide after success in London's wealthiest neighbourhoods

Of course they aren't actually police - they're a private security firm based on the streets.
(tags: police uk )

The Cyborg Drummer - help an amputee drummer with an experimental robot arm

(tags: cyborg drums music kickstarter viaAlexTFish )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I happen to know Sarah and she's nothing like disgusting!

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto, but no one was calling her disgusting, they were calling out the person who called her a man, and calling them disgusting.

--Rachael/woodpijn

(still not letting me post with LiveJournal OpenID, but thanks for allowing anon posts)

[cmcmck]

Granted, but having been through the same mill myself, I know there are those who think that way and the TERF comments by those who know way more about who we are than we do rather shout it out, do they not?

Also, hello yourself! :o) I'm no longer on LJ because reasons I'm sure you're aware of!

[sravakavarn]

The arguments against calorie count posting in the US by people who also argue the market is a means of transferring information have always confused me to no end.

[andrewducker]

"Markets are totally efficient! But you can't facilitate information transparency to the point where people can make rational decisions!"

[skington]

As usual, BBC news infuriates me by merely reporting rather than investigating.

The government says it wants to get rid of single-use products like wet wipes, and wants to encourage wet wipes that don't contain plastic and can be flushed. The article says wet wipes contain biodegradable plastic, but an industry spokesperson says that wet wipes save water (probably true), and are biodegradable.

Well, are they or aren't they? If the industry's response is “these things are already biodegradable, no need to ban them”, surely you should either investigate that in greater depth, or call them out for being liars? Not just print their statement and move on?

[haggis]

There's a massive difference between biodegradable and flushable. I don't honestly think it's possible to make wet wipes flushable.

Toilet paper is flushable because it dissolves when wet and as a result, it doesn't block sewers or inlet screens at a sewage treatment works. Wet wipes cannot dissolve when wet or they would turn to mush on the packet. If they are biodegradable, they should eventually degrade into mush but by that time, they have reached the sewage works, been removed by the screens and sent to landfill.

[skington]

See, that's far more informative than half of that BBC article - thank you! But there's still the issue with why they let the spokesperson say “they're biodegradable” when the rest of the story said ”they're not”.

Super Tic Tac Toe articles

[danieldwilliam]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe

Discovery in the wild



https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/ultimate-tic-tac-toe-original-post/

but is it solved

https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/12477/is-ultimate-tic-tac-toe-solved

yes unless you change the rules

https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/604-Ultimate_Tic_Tac_Toe_is_always_won_by_X