Interesting Links for 18-03-2021

[andrewducker]

Spain's high Covid mortality rate was caused by storing age as 2 digits. So people over 100 looked like children...

(tags:age computers death pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Scotland's train operator ScotRail to be nationalised

(tags:Scotland railways )

Want to play FIFA Ultimate Team without being at a disadvantage? You'll need to play for 69 days without sleeping or pay tens of thousands of pounds

(tags:football games money OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

NHS warns of significant reduction in vaccines at the end of March (all over 50s should still be fine)

(tags:UK vaccine pandemic )

How the brain stores an analogue representation of a spatial memory

(tags:brains location neuroscience )

Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants

(tags:visa bitcoin )

It is impossible to parody the Men's Rights groups. They are beyond it.

(tags:men OhForFucksSake rights )

Major new study shows ancient international trading routes between Exeter and Europe

(tags:history UK Europe viaDanielDWilliam )

Accountants: Government to break up dominance of Big Four firms

(tags:accounting UK )

Reddit-based investors adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days (over three times as many as there are)

(tags:gorillas GoodNews reddit )

Why men get away with assault on women

(tags:assault law UK )

Comments

[aldabra]

Twitter won't show me the Spanish covid thing; does it have a link to anything public in it? (Thanks.)

[andrewducker]

Huh. I take it this link doesn't work in a different browser?
https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler/status/1372165325505052673?s=19

[aldabra]

Oh, working now. Thanks!

[redbird]

I just tried Firefox, Edge, and Chrome, and got the same "limited who can see their tweets" message.

[andrewducker]

They seem to have locked down now.

[symbioid]

Same:

"This account owner limits who can view their Tweets."

[redbird]

Googling found me this article: https://www.rt.com/news/518396-high-covid-mortality-children/

Also, your summary doesn't include "childhood" before "Covid mortality rate," which confused me at first.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[andrewducker]

And sorry!

VISA and Bitcoin

[dewline]

Am I the only one who worries about this backfiring on everyone using either credit cards, cryptocurrency, or both?

Re: VISA and Bitcoin

[andrewducker]

It's certainly going to be interesting!

ScotRail

[dewline]

I hope it doesn't lead to a reduction of service for the passengers who rely on it. I've seen how VIA Rail and Amtrak have been abused across the decades.

Of course, private sector service doesn't seem to do much better.

Re: ScotRail

[danieldwilliam]

Likely to lead to an increase in services if anything. The Scottish Government explicitly link improvements in rail travel with their low-carbon planning and with their attempts to manage the logistics of the growth of population in Scotland's cities. Edinburgh in particular is growing rapidly and the transport corridors in to the city are full to bursting. Improved rail services would lead to a more people being able to live and work in Edinburgh's economic basin.

So we're getting things like Reston Station and East Linton Station on the mainline in to Edinburgh to improve commuting from the Borders coast - which is a lovely part of the world but currently a bit empty.

https://scotlandsrailway.com/projects/reston-station

Re: ScotRail

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I think the Scottish government understands that trains are important, and that many many people commute on them every day. I'm sure it will be fine.

Men's Right Movement

[danieldwilliam]

The thing that grinds my gears about the Men's Right Movement is that there are actually plenty of things that men as a group should be agitating about politically. Health and safety at work, mental health issues, the disparity in expected life expectancy, gendered assumptions about childcare, custody, and also about career choices and working patterns. A whole bunch of other stuff too.

But those MRA eegits suck all of the oxygen out of any attempt to have a sensible discussion about any of that.

Re: Men's Right Movement

[dewline]

Absolutely true. The reich-wingers have stolen the rhetorical language that ought to be put to far better usages such as you've just detailed!

Re: Men's Right Movement

[andrewducker]

Totally agree.

[danieldwilliam]

Are WSB now trying to corner the market in gorillas now?

[andrewducker]

I'm shorting gorillas right now!

[danieldwilliam]

Cut them off at the knees.