Interesting Links for 12-09-2019

[andrewducker]

If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?

(tags:knowledge ai Technology reading )

The Iconic Electric Eel Is Actually Three Species (None of which are eels)

(tags:electricity fish )

Do psychedelics relax your belief system?

(tags:belief psychedelics lsd )

Those with autism make good social psychologists

(tags:autism psychology )

Our political system is to blame for what's happening in Parliament

(tags:politics uk )

New Edinburgh children's hospital delayed until autumn next year

(tags:hospital conference Edinburgh fail )

Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers

(tags:UK Europe finance OhForFucksSake )

In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.

(tags:games money children uk )

Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time

(tags:hallucinations perception psychology psychedelics )

Poll: 51% of Northern Ireland voters back united Ireland

(tags:NorthernIreland polls ireland )

José Vs. Joe: Who Gets A Job?

(tags:names jobs video racism )

Boris Johnson denies lying to the Queen over suspension of parliament (I _totally_ believe him)

(tags:BorisJohnson lies queen )

Comments

Johnson and the Queen

[danieldwilliam]

a) He didn't do it. He didn't do. She's only got herself to blame. If you'd have been there, if you'd have heard it, I betcha you would've done the same.

b) Difficult to deny this, it's a finding of fact by the Inner House of the Court of the Session. We may actually be looking at malfeasance in public office.

c) Not sure how lying to the Queen plays in an election. "His brother doesn't trust him and he lied to the Queen" is a pretty good attack line.

[danieldwilliam]

This on the hedge funds' position is interesting

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/09/12/1568281802000/No-deal-Brexit-is-not-a-hedge-fund-conspiracy/

[movingfinger]

If I were the Republic of Ireland, I wouldn't want to deal with the DUP on a day-to-day. Why invite your friend to move in if they're insisting on having their douchebag right-wing over 24-7?

[calimac]

From the header "If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?" I was expecting an article on how OCR still doesn't work very well. Instead, we find that computers can read, they just can't understand what they read.

"Our political system is to blame" is half-right and half a lot of electoral reform cant. Electoral reform is a good idea, but it's not the panacea it's made out to be.

Is this the first time a majority of Northern Ireland voters have backed a united Ireland? If so, it's a huge shift, as the stated UK position has usually been that it will not cut N.I. off so long as a majority of the people want to stay in the UK. I wouldn't do anything as the result of some poll, but if there were a referendum and it came out that way ...

Boris's claims, that the prorogation is totally normal and that it's inexplicable why Labour, which said it wanted an election, wouldn't vote for one, are either totally disingenuous or else a sign that he really is as utterly stupid as he sometimes pretends to be. I suspect the former: it's electioneering nonsense intended to fool the less politically savvy or more genuinely clueless part of his supporters.