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Re:The beginning of the end for copper wire on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:56PM (#15784696)
I do agree that aircraft carriers have stronger claims to being British :)
Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:17PM (#15623319)
Is this the "famous" "siberian coefficient"?

https://books.google.com/books?id=A4DGiaOn3BwC&pg=PA167&dq=%...

Re:The Consolidation Of Talent, Capital and Returns in Biotech on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:05PM (#15522538)
Would you not agree that it might be a bit of a British thing (the author is Oxford educated)? A reflexive urge to pluralize bands, companies and other startup-proximate collective nouns.

'"Data are" doesn't roll of their tongues smoothly. But for British readers the plural is more natural.' [0]

[0] https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/point-...

BTW I looked you up. Do you know anything about Richard Muller's ideas for realising table-top detectors of gravitational waves?

Re:A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:18PM (#15478037)
No, it's based on this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04704