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.)

[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.

VISA and Bitcoin

[dewline]

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

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.

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.

[danieldwilliam]

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