One thing that radicalized me on this was following golden rice, as a friend of mine was working on it in the 00s. People in the Philippines destroyed a trial crop because of propaganda from rich countries with no vitamin A deficiencies, especially from Greenpeace and existing grain producers.
A huge problem is that enough people in politics don't realise that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had to fight for every inch of success they got and the myth of them having it handed it to them was cope by the right and hard-left. The right had similar tantrums back then too, but were beaten back
I want him on the £50
Rafe, no.
You're all mocking them but I bet a hundred years from now every military school in the world will study and learn from the American strategy v Iran. That's legacy.
there's this weird tendency to see Palestine as a load-bearing part of global systems of power or capital, rather than a marginalized population brutally oppressed by a fairly small state. A mirror image of the "Israel is the defender of the West' stuff.
Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.
1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
v uncomfortable book for people who like to hide up their own arse (me).
I think they wrote a pretty famous book about how the early 20th century was a golden age for American farmers
I hate multiple testing corrections. Just be Bayesian and take a haircut on your estimate.
Honestly, the hoops people jump through for a P value
you *will* read third person and you will like it.
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
Perpetual reminder: one does not model a likelihood function, one derives a likelihood function from an observational model and a particular observation.
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
We're back to Grammar School discourse, nature is healing.
I played a cello tonight.
I like how the fact that Turkey is in NATO is basically just irrelevant to the op-ed class
I think it’s bad that “war with Turkey” is something people are getting more comfortable throwing around
Yeah, NATO is dead.
Amazing what Sharia law can do 🫡
If Iran had managed to make a nuke, this wouldn’t have happened. If Europe didn’t have nukes, he’d have taken Greenland already. The implications of this are deeply depressing.
All 'should's are secretly 'wants.'
I think that was a normal month when I was a student!
lol I'd do it for free.
A Bayesian Peek into Feller, by Diaconis and Holmes and Are There Still Things To Do in Bayesian Statistics? by the same authors might be what you're looking for.
I did it twice last time I was there - but only because I was in places which only had a WHSmith where I could buy what I wanted.
Whoever said Mary Oliver was mid simply couldn't read.
I have a strong anti-crack on the subway policy.
Gotta say: openly doing crack on the ubahn is a new one for me.
My ticket has gone up €8 a month for this!
