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by Nursie 2mo ago
Don't forget the Chesterfield!
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Violent crime in the UK is in long-term decline and despite what you may have heard, London is now safer than any US state. Violent crime in most western countries seems to me to be the opposite of downplayed - it’s up-played to whip up fea
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by Nursie 2mo ago
All comes down to neurotransmitters in the end.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Not relevant to the point I was making at all - the state running digital payments is no more an incentive to stop cash payments than Visa/MC. User data is available from either and in the case of Visa/MC it also likely leaks over
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by Nursie 2mo ago
No more so than with visa or mastercard, who already hand over data whenever, and hand it over to a foreign government on demand too. This fear of government services is toxic americanism.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
> the possibility of payments that the government doesn’t want you to be able to make The idea that visa and mastercard provide these ...
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by Nursie 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CovidSim The wikipedia writeup is a lot kinder to it than anyone was at the time, it was generally considered poorly put together and full of errors that made reproducibility questionable
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by Nursie 2mo ago
> flaws in the London epidemiological model about how to respond to covid. That one was fun. I got into an argument with a scientist who was (IIRC) working with or for the specific professor that made that mess, and he blamed the entire
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by Nursie 2mo ago
That can leak information to the third party that you may not want them to know.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
That’s practically our city motto here in Perth, Western Australia. But it’s true, it’s easier to move around in 38C here than 31 and wet in Singapore. Of course you don’t want to be caught in the sun, and those 44C summer days really are
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by Nursie 2mo ago
She's using it for payments, that's probably more than a lot of people! I set them up on mine but rarely bother, the phone is my payment device. I wear my Apple Watch because it's a fancy health-monitor and I am anticipating
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by Nursie 2mo ago
The problem with the capitalist mechanism here is - the producer has already repaired the factory that will restore supply shortly, so the signal is effectively useless - your customers are going to remember that you gouged the shortage sit
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by Nursie 2mo ago
I mean, quite a lot of people want that or think they want it in many Western societies. They want the police to be able to find criminals, they want their kids kept off social media, they want terrorists' comms to be intercepted, they
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Brazil was also right about the levels of competence within the bureaucracy.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
You don't need any of them. And that's your personal taste and isn't universal. If you've only experienced those two then it's like you're sticking to black and white when there's a whole spectrum of oth
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by Nursie 2mo ago
(If anyone uses it, you'll probably want to give it absolute paths, or you're going to end up making NEWDIR inside OLDDIR And yes, this will do a whole nested collection, not just the content of a single directory)
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by Nursie 2mo ago
> The average converges on a small positive return for the city that wins. Or a negative return if too many cities are incompetently governed, but your problem in that case is the incompetent governance rather than the premise that offer
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by Nursie 2mo ago
That's pretty cool. I built a barn door on rollers (some suspending it, some rolling on a concrete floor) last year and this would have certainly aided in visualising where I was going with it.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
I haven't used this for years and I don't know if it helped me or not, but the below is a bash script which will duplicate a directory of mp3s and 'notch' everything using the linux command line tool 'sox'. You
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Very similar to my experience. I just woke up with it one day in my early 30s. It drove me a bit mad at first, I wanted someone to 'cure' it and make it go away. Then I tried all sorts of things, I narrowed down the frequency (IIR
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Your scenario there, bidding too low, is a frequent occurrence from what I see. One often exacerbated by exaggerated promises of revenues or employment from the business which then fail to materialise. Or they come with undisclosed external
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Wow I'm out of the loop! I remember Quake, WinQuake, then QuakeWorld for online play, then GLQuake and GLQuakeWorld. Squake on linux showed up in there at some point (non-X11 linux version). Sometime later IIRC there was dquake... whic
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by Nursie 2mo ago
You're already describing a race to the bottom there IMHO. Cities or even countries underbid each other to get the golden goose, and then realise they've already bargained away any share of the eggs, and it turns out the goose sti
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by Nursie 2mo ago
I think it's very easy to make a value judgement here. In this case, at the time they were proposing the project, Adani promised around $22 billion in taxes and royalties, and the industry body talked about enough money to fund schools
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by Nursie 2mo ago
This has to be one of the most ludicrous, cartoonishly libertarian things I've ever read. No thanks! I'd rather have a functioning society!
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by Nursie 2mo ago
Yep, that's definitely one of the worse negatives here, they use this stuff to outcompete small businesses. The tax games directly fuel the enshittification of the British high street into a Starbucks/Costa wasteland.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
> If there's no future prospects, it will cease operations. That's the point, there are plenty of future prospects, but the company is playing accounting games to hide the profits. > I like how discussion of taxes turned eve
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by Nursie 2mo ago
They could, but that's not what they're doing, they're moving the profit to a lower tax situation to avoid paying. Pure and simple.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
In a convenient amount that somehow just always exceeds the profits it makes, in perpetuity? Pull the other one mate, it's got bells on.
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by Nursie 2mo ago
There's a coal mine here in Australia (NT I think) run by a company called Adani. When it was being proposed they did the usual "but think of all the taxes!" song and dance to get it approved. It's never posted a profit

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