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I guess she had some integrety and loyalty to her proffesion. She like everyone else had been told that this was a registry for research and screening, and absolutely not the first step in some police state wet fantasy.

She hated that they had made her into a liar.

The registry is an enourmously valuble asset for the medical community but parents have to consent to the blood sample, so the police getting access was problematic to say the least.

She got very huffy and flat out denied that the blood bank dna was used to identify the murderer. He wans't covicted using that DNA, true, but the identification was no secret.

The police had made 2 arrests of persons they later had to release at that point, so I guess they didn't like to take any chanses with the third.

It should be said that the general opinion outside of medical reserarch was supportive of the police.

In Sweden the "blood bank" sample taken on all newborn children was used to identify the murderer of foreign minister Anna Lind in 2003.

This was very controversial at the time. When my first child had her blood sample taken a few years later they assured me that it was used for screening purposes and for annonymous medical research only. I reminded the nurse of the Anna Lind case and she got extremly upset with me.

"Read" GoF is not a thing I would do, just as I don't sit down and read a recipe book. Because GoF is kinda a recipe book for oop.

I would skim it though, just to have a sense of what's in there.

It could if we would let it.

It's cheap because noone wants to live there.

I'v seen donkeys happily munching down plastic bags and cardboard. I sure you could feed dried donkey meat to a donkey (not saying it's a good idea)

It's the $varname syntax right? I get angry about it too.

From "self assebled box" to "managers own idea", thats quite a jump.

There are lots of reasons why people push their own solutions. To stake a claim of expertise in an area, the need to impress peers and reports, genuine ignorance of other solutions...

> People that do print at home, are mostly photographers that want physical prints of their photos.

And parents printing color-in pages of Elsa and Anna

Not even mentioned in the article, but a book I really like: Zodiak

Not sf exactly, it's an "eco-thriller" but it has its fair share of science. And it's a pretty good thriller.

No I find it credible. The "ecological model" is really a statistical model, see "The German tank problem". It seems to have pretty solid foundations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

Maybe more bikes - fewer horses? Horses used to be fed lots of grain.

I wonder what the energy budget look like for an operation like that. The argument against urban farming is that it is energy intesive and not really space efficient if you include the space needed for the extra energy production.

It would be interesting to see a comparison with conventional farming where the energy to produce fertilizer was included.

It's not quite the same though. These images where uploaded to Google, they are required by law to not host child porn, so of course they are going to classify the images.

The Apple thing was them proposing to run the classification on your phone. On personal, not uploaded anyware, images. People felt that was crossing a line.

This is a wild guess, but foliage penetrating radar is getting pretty cheap and deployed for even smaller digs.

Larger scans (whole towns, or large fields) are exposing lots of unknown stuff, like forgotten wall structures and abandoned villages.

Replacement coil... Tell him he's dreaming.

The traditional response when someone hotlinks your images is to goatse them.

They do? I see Folk/Pagan/Viking as one genre when I browse by genre. Alsetorm (sorry, don't know of any other pirate themed bands) has some folk elements so I think it fits.

This classic Yegge piece is almost 16 years old now and seems to describe more or less the same thing

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agil...

Since there are 2 computers I'm guessing that they are letting one computer update and reset the other one, then repeat for the reverse. The system as a whole would stay up, the individual computers would not.

Sure, because it's fast and easy. But I bet you any pilot can work it out with pen and paper if they have to. They get tested on that stuff, at least where I live.

Same with a boat. All you have is what you bring. Will the Ipad survive weeks of salty spray? Maybe, but a backup (pen and paper) is recommended

> Do goats eat and poop 24/7 if left unchecked

Yes. Many grazing animals are like this. It's like they have no "feeling full" in their tiny brains. Grass and leafs are not very calorie dense so they kind of have to.

Cows or horses can easily eat themselves sick if they are let into high grown grass fields. Where I live the horse owners will sometimes cut the grass in the fields before they let the horses go to it in the spring.

Yep, my neighbours keeps goats next to my propery, they escape once in a while. They go directly to the soft greens in my garden. When the fences hold they eat the area clean by type as you say. First the grass, then the leves of the small trees, then the bark (killing the small trees). Only when there is nothing else left will they eat the nettles.

Or if you prefer text: https://eriknatanael.com/digital-musical-instruments/neod

Trotting out a race correlation and not mentioning another correlation (poverty) is also racist.

I belive you are confusing GLS (Guy Steele, the 'I' in the story) with Eric S. Raymond, the, eh... curator of The Jargon File.

The quote in your comment is from Raymond who is indeed quite racist.

For a nice way to start discovering plants around you I recommend the excellent iNaturalist app/site: See a plant, snap a photo and the app will suggest what it thinks it is. Other users can help with identification if the app fails.

Besides beeing a kind of nerdy pokemon go (how many organisms can you collect?) it's also crowd-sourced science.

My latest catch is this guy: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina

The overlap between the last known modern horse and the first people in America is about 2000 years. If they domesticated horses in that time, how come the horses didn't thrive along with the human population?

I think the horse population where already on the brink of vanishing due to climate change after the last ice age, and the new Americans simply ate the last of them.

He didn't defend Epstein did he? I recall him (clumsily) trying to defend Minsky though. Basically saying "Maybe Marvin Minsky didn't know those girls were underage"