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turnercon Reversing UK mobile rail tickets

I believe the minimum fare is the price before any discounts applied, a railcard on 1.90 would be a normal price of ~£2.84

turnercon Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

> Google is convinced I'm trying to break into my own accounts

Yep, the more you attempt the harder it will get, please wait for the 72 hour account hold and if that fails it's best to wait a full week without any sign in attempt or recovery attempts.

turnercon Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email

Wait around a week without any sign in attempts or attempts to recover, should allow you to progress.

turnercon Pay attention to deviations from mainstream incentives

Unfortunately the BBC has gone dramatically down hill, mostly blogspam now.

turnercon There's no way to report spam on Google Drive

On a file within the Shared section, click the three dots to the right, block should be the last option.

turnercon There's no way to report spam on Google Drive

It's the best response we have at the moment, please send in-product feedback and report such files.

turnercon Producing graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic and other materials

[2020]

Ben from NightHawkInLight has a good "DIY" video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Et8FEbCuCs

turnercon BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute

I don't believe so, their decline of quality and trustworthiness has been going on longer than cuts to the license fee.

I also don't feel that the license fee represents value for money anymore.

turnercon First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)

Open-access link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aax5440 Registration is required.

turnercon First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)

I believe they mean enlarging of the fontanelle as is typical in those with hydrocephalus.

turnercon How severe are Omicron Infections?

Per [1] As of 18th December, a majority of cases testing with the SGTF (indicator for Omicron) reached over 50% on the 14th December. It's clearer to see in Figure 2.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

turnercon How severe are Omicron Infections?

Please note the data above includes people admitted with an incidental COVID infection and went to hospital for another reason.

turnercon CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

It appears the study website has been edited to state they are no longer sending emails.

Previously it said they were sending these emails up until Spring 2022[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211216002029/https://privacyst...

turnercon CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University

The author states this after knowing the true identity of who sent the bogus email. At that point they know it's not legitimate.

turnercon How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'

Some of the agencies here don't fit the problem of 'M' meaning 'Metro', for example the last logo (Row 7) is described as Liverpool's metro system. It is not a metro system but a full train operating company and the 'M' is for Merseyrail

turnercon Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL

From the study:

> Participants wrote their notes and answers on paper, which they showed in front of the webcam.

Yes it seems they did

turnercon A New Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Hypothesis

> literally have evidence that this doesn’t happen in humans

Do you have some source for this?

turnercon AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution

Unfortunately it is not your imagination, their reporting is becoming mere blogspam.

The main UK channels here seems to be somewhat decent but should be taken with a pinch of typical BBC bias, perhaps the news website is where they let their work-experience folk loose.

turnercon Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation

> None of my friends could tell me the specific reasons why I was banned. It’s mostly because they do not understand their own rules

It's because policies are in place to prevent them from doing so, you won't get special treatment or they will be out of a job.

Without seeing the Ad data it's hard to say but Financial products have a lot of policy in place and it's not enough to be ready to provide certification, in some instances you must do this beforehand.

turnercon Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome

This isn't really in chromium, but the chromium-hosted open source application layer of Chrome so it's meant to be opinionated:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/chrome...

turnercon Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication

They are showing it because within the study they used data from the device to monitor adherence to each intensity level of their trial groups.

turnercon How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]

Their H12021 results suggest otherwise https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/OCDO/half-y...

turnercon Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

Note there is a corrected version of this paper:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...

Which includes 3 diabetes patients for comparison of hospitalised and non-hospitalised in Table figure 3.

turnercon Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

I highly recommend Dr. John Campbell video's on the Ivermectin topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-90kvoQac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWQtT7dHGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ju5v4TAaQ

turnercon Proposals to replace GDPR with UK data protection framework

Set aside that this was a handpicked taskforce the notion of any independence is not visible, nor is there indication that the things proposed in this report are needed or wanted by the "experts" that contributed.

To top it all of the cover page looks like it was hastily made in powerpoint.

I urge anyone to read as an example of how NOT to prepare a task force report:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

turnercon Chrome is faster in M91

M = Milestone, M91 is major version 91 More info at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

turnercon Show HN: The Spreadsheet for creative minds – LiveSheet

I'm sorry but at this point it's just a sign-up page, which goes against what a Show HN is.

I can't demo your product, but it might be best to come back when we can.

turnercon BBC employee says ‘incredible’ amounts of complaints have racial bias

I'm not disputing they are news driven but saying that such people didn't watch the programme cannot be proved.

Powell's speech was interspersed with commentary, If you didn't listen to it then your complaint should be invalidated

turnercon BBC employee says ‘incredible’ amounts of complaints have racial bias

The claims are baseless, just look at this claim:

"This case also showed that complaints are increasingly made by people who didn’t watch the programmes"

How can they substantiate this? As per usual on the guardian it's all waffling political nonsense.

turnercon DIY plastic recyclers: open-source machines for shredding plastic [audio]

Indeed, I commend this project for raising awareness but there can only be so much awareness about a problem without a solution currently.