Dan H.

Dan H.

  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Greg, You might like to run through the testing here: https://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php It is about as rigorous as the written testing done to diagnose autism, and is free (unlike the testing and interview with a psychiatrist for actual diagnosis, which cost...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    There is one other thing about Musk that bears remembering, which is that he finds it very difficult to imagine anyone doing anything by any method other than the optimal engineering one. Thus he assumed, I think, that the basic...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Greg, I think the usual argument is that whenever a human is writing down the word of God (whichever one) they get this sort of mystical guidance and don't make any mistakes. I would also note that a lot of...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    To further muddy the waters here, autism in some of its many, many forms very often occurs alongside gender problems. Basically there is a sweet spot for human brain development and the further your genes diverge from that spot, the...
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    Nuclear at the moment suffers from the fact that most big power stations are based around the earlier nuclear weapons manufacturing designs, whereas what is actually required is an intrinsically safe source of heat. What you do with the heat...
  • Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
    For any disease there are only a set number of mutations that are possible without the disease becoming something else, and I suspect that we've probably seen most of what may be possible with covid-19. It isn't likely to start...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    Sir, You raise a very pertinent and interesting point here, which could do with being taken further. The strongly left wing view here is that the extremely rich are somehow sinful and have gained their wealth in ways somehow illicit;...
  • Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
    Sir, I personally would not gamble on the old oil/coal dynasties dying at all. What is much more likely is that they turn into nuclear power dynasties, based upon thorium, uranium and quite possible ex-Cold War plutonium power generation. I...
  • Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
    Speaking for myself, I am hooked on the Laundryverse series and tend to pre-order as soon as the opportunity arises. Yet I have never met OGH, and suspect that our viewpoints, politics and neurotypes are sufficiently different to elicit a...
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    If you want decent protection, then a powered air filtration hood is the way to go. That has a powered fan pulling air through a filter, and blowing it down over your face, which is behind a transparent shield....
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    Ivermectin is weird stuff; a huge molecule and a fungal secondary metabolite. It kills insects and most parasites by virtue of being a nerve poison; it is too big to get past the blood-brain barrier of vertebrates hence is harmless...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Straight Black Hair: You might want to actually read the article you're quoting there. The premise was the reasonable one that a bigger initial viral input caused greater eventual disease; there then followed a certain amount of guff regarding measuring...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Should I ever win big on a lottery, I might well simply put most of my ill-gotten gains into a trust fund which has the aim of furthering biological research, as well as keeping its self in existence. The thing...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    In the UK, an old Jewish friend of mine advised that whenever a Labour government is elected, always invest heavily and rapidly in property. UK Labour are a flavour of Socialist that, like many such creeds, work on the principle...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Influenza has a nice, big pool of different RNA varieties that it can recombine from. It is actually rather weird as viruses go; a gut disease of birds that can jump to mammals. China once again is the source of...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    The 2008 sub-prime mortgages can probably best be understood if you look at how drugs such as cocaine modify human behaviour. The biggest bit of "Let's all you idiots believe..." in the whole debacle was the way that mortgages were...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    The cruise line business relies on several preconditions. You first of all need a lot of middle-aged to older people with lots of disposable income and not much to spend it on. Then you need a world that doesn't mind...
  • Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
    When I first spotted that chloroquine was a candidate drug for use against this virus and bought some, it retailed in the UK as an over-the-counter medicine for £15 for a box of 40 pills. I spotted this after using...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    On the other hand, why not simply drop inheritance tax altogether? The amount of offence a tax on already-taxed assets causes is huge, and if you force people into weird and wonderful legal measures to dodge inheritance tax, all you...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Bill, the New Skin product uses ethyl acetate as the solvent; that is mostly what you can smell. For all that it is termed a wound sealant, be careful not to get it onto an open wound, because it really...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Oh, but there's a few more things that will lead to more and more people getting the virus. A few years ago, a raft of corporate bullshit came out extolling the virtues of huge, open-plan offices. All of the virtues...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    To my mind, one of the less discussed parts of this election is the way that in the Labour Party, everything was hijacked by the far left. Thus Corbyn and McDonnell presented a manifesto which was pretty much pure old...
  • Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
    Dearie me, you mean that you actually think that the people whom the top-levels of income tax are paying that tax? It is actually quite nice to be reminded that non-cynics do still exist. However, I rather think that if...
  • Commented on Downtime coming up
    I do believe some of my customers would have very much liked to have called me something like that, when I refused to go ahead with a system re-install because the brand new, shiny, just out of its packet hard...
  • Commented on Story time!
    Dear me, this gave me a flashback to walking past a gathering of newly-minted MBAs at work, on my way out of the Manchester Business School canteen (decent enough grub, but you'd be wise to keep a bottle of Tabasco...
  • Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
    Thinking of the Laundry series, to sell such a series you need advertising. The best form of advertising for the Laundry would, I think, be something very like the 1970s "Lonely Water" public information films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_Water This was the scariest...
  • Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
    Unicorns were never really all that nice; the supposed source of unicorn legends was an especially gracile Ice Age rhino species. Now, given the general descriptions of black rhinos in Africa (A Peter Hathaway Capstick terms them "Old Dimwit" and...
  • Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
    Most wealthy people do not accumulate large amounts of actual currency, or currency sitting in a bank account. What they do is invest their money in various investment vehicles, which end up being stocks, shares and the like. If you...
  • Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
    Charlie, Just a wee correction regarding coal mines. When you're mining coal using what used to be termed the Welsh Method (because the Welsh coal miners were, a couple of hundred years ago, at the forefront of mining technology) and...
  • Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
    I think that when we are looking at modern protests such as the state of politics in the UK and the French Yellow Vest movement, we may be being blinded to the broader picture by a couple of special cases....
Subscribe to feed Recent Actions from Dan H.

Following

Not following anyone

Specials

Merchandise

About This Page

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Propaganda