kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
Chaotic progress seems the default mode of operation of complex societies - but at the end of the day it's progress more often than not 😀
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If it's spewing clouds of smoke and particulate matter into the air all along the way, in towns and in the stations, then it hardly counts as "working fairly well"! Especially in Paddington, which is all roofed, the smoke is especially vicious.
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Самое страшное, что в это охотно верится. Таков уж вектор последних лет.
RT @dw_russian@twitter.com
У властей РФ есть план вернуть российский интернет в 90-е, утверждает журналист Billingcat Христо Грозев: скорость в зарубежном сегменте интернета в РФ могут снизить через 2 года до 24 Кбит в секунду https://p.dw.com/p/40C7z?maca=rus-tco-dw
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dw_russian/status/1436661916722765829
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веселая неделька началась. Ростелеком по клиентам рассылает запрет на использование публичных DNS. Ставлю зубочистку против литра односолодового - на этой неделе будет всплеск мошенства с фишингом. Коллеги из банков - удачи вам и всего доброго. Держитесь там...
#infosecurity #этаСтрана #DNS #RKN #Rostelecom
But even Germany - which is undoubtedly the country most depending on Russian gas in Europe - electrified their railways decades ago. UK was certainly an outlier in Europe in this aspect (as it is in many others).
I have read many analyses on that particular subject as I was travelling on GWR almost daily back then and seeing these huge diesel locomotives on one of the UK's busiest lines in late 2010's was quite shocking TBH.
UK central bank is usually very friendly to any kind of investment. I would say even excessively - for example they didn't mind the real estate bubble unrolling in 2000's (I might be not fair here if Bank of England did actually protest but that was the outcome).
The capital loss could be indeed a problem if you replaced the railway system every decade or so, but in this case we're talking about like 40 years lag - most of Europe electrified back in 80's.
England 🇬🇧 now opens NHS #covid vaccinations for 16+ 👍
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/
It's not gerrymandered, it's outright misrepresentation of the data (second paragraph)
This article is so awesome! 😂
> The wide use of electric locomotives has been delayed because of capital loss on old equipment
One of the England's busiest lines (GWR) was electrified only in... 2019! 🤦♂️
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@CensorshipBureau A disease with 0% mortality but effectively sterilising an individual (genital warts-based cervical cancer, several other VDs) would have that effect.
Diseases which don't impact the parent but induce severe birth defects or spontaneous abortion would be others. Scarlet fever (leaves fetus deaf and/or blind) a case in point.
The observed case fatality rate of COVID-19 remains about 1.6%, and is probably the best comparison with historical diseases, as here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates
That's still relatively high, especially in modern times.
Note that infectious disease is not a static entity, that there is ongoing mutation (as with Delta and Lambda variants of SARS-COV-2), that characteristics can change, and that impacts other than death should be accounted for, including convalescence and recovery, long-term effects, overwhelming of health and support services, and economic impacts. (Covid's largest impacts remain secondary to the illness itself, through economic disruption even in the absence of specific government-mandated shutdowns. People don't like exposing themselves to serious or fatal illness, funny that.)
There's also the fact that the true death toll (and true case count) are far higher than official statistics. The Economist estimates 15.4m deaths to date (95% probability range: 9.5--18.5m), against 4.6 officially-reported deaths. That's 3.35 above the official statistics.
They also estimate total cases working backwards from deaths.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
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> Scarlet fever
Also zika virus (microcephaly), toxoplasmosis (neurological problems)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
Didn't get much traction though
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Introducing USA hour format.
hh:ss:mm
Он в ремонте, да? 😂
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#заброшенное
Крейсер Мурманск,Норвежское море
🇵🇱 Siedziałem w przepisach związanych z informatyzacją od ~2005 roku i niechlujstwo legislacyjne w Polsce było zawsze normą. Ministerstwa notorycznie wrzucały jakieś niechlujne projekty do udawanych konsultacji, a potem je pięć razy musiały nowelizować.
Wygląda jednak na to, że PiS zrobił z tej patologii normę w stanowieniu prawa 🤷 Temat może brzmieć nudno ale niemal każdy spieprzony przepis, zwłaszcza podatkowy, skutkuje czyjąś tragedią - bankructwem, karami itd.
Fascinating document, thank you for retyping it - reading the original hurts eyes!
That's the point — Covid-19 mortality is highly age-dependent
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/
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@kravietz Resistance to technological innovation goes back a ways.
See "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations (1937)"
https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/page/39
Berhnard J. Stern's student research assistant would talk of this work later. He went on to use concepts in his own writing. You may have heard of Isaac Asimov.
I've retyped the document in Markdown, available for reading here:
https://rentry.co/szi3g
#BernhardJStern #ResistancesToTechnologicalInnovation #Technology #Luddism #IsaacAsimov
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