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u/JeelyPiece

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[OC] Modern Icelandic DNA points to different origins for the male and female founders

I saw this post on Brazil. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1vlyj3f/oc_brazils_violent_past_is_preserved_in_its/
Remembered hearing a similar story about Iceland. I dug up the papers https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11179019/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1274484/ Mitochondrial DNA that is almost all passed by the mother does not seem to let you drill down as much so it is more vague 'British isles'.

R package ggplot2 code for this is at https://gist.github.com/cavedave/9fc8f08c897d6abd4ab31aa0bd40d3ae

u/JeelyPiece — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/Scotland

What governmental and national institutions does Scotland currently lack that will be required of an independent Scotland?

It appears to be all over the newsfeeds today that MI6 has been named the best intelligence agency in Europe, and Ireland's is towards the bottom. That and the military are quite obvious organisations, along with the BBC, that have no equivalent in Scotland at the moment, which others are you aware of and how would you think Scotland will get such organisations started?

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u/JeelyPiece — 14 days ago
▲ 8 r/Scotland

What aspects of the older political and administrative structures of the Parliament of Scotland would you like to see brought into the discourse of modern political life in Scotland?

It has always fascinated me how many parallels the pre-union administration has with the modern Scottish parliament, yet there is a tendency for our politicians and media to ignore it, preferring to compare Scottish politics to English history and politics.

English political traditions and procedure survived in Westminster - all those lords and the state opening of parliament, black rod, and all the pomp and circumstance, terminology, procedure, etc

But in Scotland we don't seem to draw from our hundreds of years of historical political tradition much, if at all, even though it is still the living bedrock of Scotland

For example, Burgh and Shire commissioners have their modern equivalents in the Constituency and Regional MSPs, and the Lord High Chancellor with the Presiding Officer

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

u/JeelyPiece — 29 days ago
▲ 1.6k r/todayilearned

TIL that before the coming of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes the older name for what is now England, excluding Cornwall and Northumbria was "Loegria", and that the name lives on in the modern Welsh name for England - Lloegr

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u/JeelyPiece — 1 month ago
▲ 473 r/Scotland

The True size of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland compared to Scotland

u/JeelyPiece — 2 months ago
▲ 127 r/Scotland

Politics latest: Burnham to propose 'No 10 North' in flagship speech -... "North"? ...Does this mean he's moving the UK government to Aberdeen or Wick or Lerwick or something?

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u/JeelyPiece — 2 months ago
▲ 46 r/Scotland

Uri Geller (@theurigeller) 🚨 I HAVE A FEELING SOMETHING HUGE WILL HAPPEN AT THE WORLD CUP… & I THINK IT MAY INVOLVE SCOTLAND! 👽⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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u/JeelyPiece — 2 months ago
▲ 63 r/Scotland

Saying "North of the Border" to refer to Scotland only really makes sense if you are physically, or mentally, south of the Border. Here is "Herald Scotland" based in Glasgow talking about the Royal Bank of Scotland closing branches in Scotland. What other things of this ilk do you find irksome?

u/JeelyPiece — 3 months ago
▲ 27 r/publicdomain

If a movie enters the public domain and I have a bluray/DVD copy from before it was public domain, am I free to rip it from the bluray/DVD and use that commercially? Or do I have to obtain my copy in some other way?

I have a few discs of material that's now in the public domain, and I'm wondering if I can use these discs as the source? Some are recently remastered, or silent films with soundtracks that may or may not be out of copyright.

Could I, for example, take a remastered silent movie, replace it with my own score, and sell it commercially?

I have spent a good amount of time searching these types of questions and can't find a proper legal guidance on it, so any official legal documents backing up an answer would be great!

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u/JeelyPiece — 3 months ago
▲ 4 r/guitarlessons

Do you always strum an unfretted all open strings strum between fretted chords when changing chords?

Eg

| / / / / | / / / / | /
| G G G open | D D D open | C

Edit: I guess I mean on the "and" of the 4th beat being open, not the 4th beat itself, unless at a very fast tempo.

Muting sounds stilted and not strumming on that beat where your changes always seems to have the all open strings ring out anyway.

Am I just too slow changing chords and it ought to be possible to change chords without that all open strings sound coming in? Or are we just stuck with it?

Are there techniques to get around it?

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u/JeelyPiece — 3 months ago
▲ 565 r/Scotland

The Chamber seating arrangements at The Parliament have been agreed

u/JeelyPiece — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/SteamDeck

I've been catching a bit of the buzz around S&Box launch today and I'd like to check it out, my deck is my main gaming PC just now. It's marked "unsupported" at the moment, but I've got a dock and keyboard, mouse, screen all running off that for real time strategy games. It looks like it might be usable in that mode?

Has anyone given it a road test whilst it's been in alpha?

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u/JeelyPiece — 4 months ago