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In 1983 there was a huge panic in UK caused by a increased rate of among children living near on particular nuclear site (Sescale). Media were fast to jump to conclusion, ignoring science which couldn't explain the cause back then, but pointed out similar clusters elsewhere far from any nuclear installations and insisted nuclear is unrelated.

Today we know it was particular infection that caused it and was indeed unrelated.

scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.o

Transfer GBP to ~28k RUB using TransferWise: 361 GBP (fees included)

The same using BTC: 359 GBP (fees not included)

re: Safe infrastructureless communications 

@bhtooefr Why not? It's mostly about bandwidth and latency. On radio links latency is small, bandwidth might be more of a challenge but Kademlia DHT has variants designed for such conditions researchgate.net/publication/3

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to give prices in Russian rubles granted his current place of living?
@torproject @snowden

Safe infrastructureless communications 

@bhtooefr This has been solved quite efficiently in Distributed Hash Table protocols en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribu where you can quite efficiently search a large number of nodes for content without a single directory index.

Wow... thanks to SourceHut I was able to make my `pam-tacplus` project to compile clean on FreeBSD in like 15 mins git.sr.ht/~kravietz/pam-tacplu As easy as pie!

"My Semester With the Snowflakes”

When a 52 year old military vet became a freshman at Yale this fall, he found out that the students didn’t fit Faux News stereotype.

It’s a touching essay and worth your time:

gen.medium.com/my-semester-wit

Really cool idea: convention for self-describing data structures such as serializations, hashes, addresses etc

github.com/multiformats/multif

This three part highly acclaimed documentary series, produced in 1986, examines the pro's and con's of power as they have never been examined before...or since. amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B

This is amazing, we evolved the alphabet from pictograms to highly stylized characters to letters and now we're going full circle by incorporating emojis such as 🐂 that thousands of years earlier became "a" and 🐟 that became "d"

@velociraptor @zloygik @rf это конечно да, при всем богатстве русского мата слово "курва" имеет один плюс: звук "р" который можно красиво продлить для повышения экспрессии :)

@Iambharani Not pure water certainly, the pink colour comes from an indicator sensitive to alkaline I suppose?

Да, в оригинале у Сапковского он как раз говорит "kurwa!". Но я думал опрос про то что должен говорить в переводе на русский.

@velociraptor @zloygik @rf

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