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mikhailfranco commented on Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets scmp.com/news/asia/southe... · Posted by u/belter

qingcharles · 9 days ago

Which RAF bases are around there? I used to live at the end of the Filton airstrip and I came home one day to a Harrier hovering directly over my house. It moved off towards Filton, but I didn't see where it went. I didn't think about what RAF bases are in the West Country.

mikhailfranco · 8 days ago

Westland-Augusta-Leonardo helicopter company in Yeovil.

RNAS (Royal Naval Air Station) Yeovilton in nearby Ilchester, which has also a fascinating museum of British naval aviation and an old Concorde.

[Fun fact - Yeovilton and Westlands are connected by an old Roman road: A37 Ilchester Road, Vagg Lane, Vagg Hill, Larkhill Road... ]

mikhailfranco commented on Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die. Doctors Are Struggling to Meet Demand theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

mikhailfranco · 11 days ago

In an episode of the The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski narrates the seasonal migration (transhumance) of the Bakhtiari tribe of SW Iran. When they get to the raging river, an old man can't make it, so is left on the bank to die.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ztord river crossing at 14-17 mins

This is the same epic migration recorded in the classic Grass

1925 ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILM " GRASS " MIGRATION OF BAKHTIARI TRIBE OF PERSIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fVftguHwFc

And the tribe moves on .....

mikhailfranco commented on What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? economist.com/culture/202... · Posted by u/petethomas

quantumcotton · 12 days ago

Lex Friedman gets 4x. Terrance Tao at .5x It depends.

mikhailfranco · 11 days ago

But Lex interviewed Terry!

Maybe a voice-recognizing silence-skipping adaptive rate.

mikhailfranco commented on Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] research.vu.nl/ws/portalf... · Posted by u/djoldman

pcrh · 21 days ago

>they map the first two principal components of a bunch of humans and get a map of Europe

Interesting!

Can you provide a link to this paper?

mikhailfranco · 20 days ago

https://www.axiomofjoy.com/2019/02/19/genome_part_i.html

mikhailfranco commented on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug derekthompson.org/p/the-s... · Posted by u/zdw

fenesiistvan · 23 days ago

Are you drinking alcohol ocasionally? I observed that there are two kind of pepole: - one who spend their spare time drinking - others who exercise

Both are fine for the soul :)

mikhailfranco · 22 days ago

Some people exercise to get fit.

I exercise to work up a thirst.

mikhailfranco commented on I drank every cocktail aaronson.org/blog/i-drank... · Posted by u/colinprince

bravesoul2 · a month ago

Damn I thought it was going to be https://scottaaronson.blog/ and wondered what cocktail was an analogy for, or if he just had a fine night out.

mikhailfranco · a month ago

There is a podcast from Sean Carroll about cocktails, if you like your mixology from a physics & philosophy guy:

Mindscape 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails

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

mikhailfranco commented on New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation etany.org/statements/impe... · Posted by u/Ericson2314

cperciva · a month ago

Meanwhile in more civilized places we have trains with zero staff on board, just remote monitoring (and trains which emergency stop if they lose contact with the control centre).

mikhailfranco · a month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste...

The length ranking seems to be something like:

Riyadh - 176 km

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Metro

Dubai - 90km, first operation 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro

London DLR - 38 km

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway

Shanghai is probably in the running as it upgrades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#Infrastructure

mikhailfranco commented on Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem happyfellow.bearblog.dev/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp