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by Tycho 5y ago
I can think of no better illustration of the inequality in our society than this: the poor and middle class drink £5 bottles of wine purchased from Aldi, while the rich drink £50,000 bottles of wine. It’s truly shocking.
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by Tycho 5y ago
They need to choose: graduation + great career prospects, or guaranteed career but loss of alternative prospects. It’s not a case of the students being smart or dumb, it’s a case of the agencies realising that making the offer post-graduati
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by Tycho 5y ago
Like I said, for the placement of your agents/assets in important places. Having insiders working in places like Google would seem to me to be of great strategic importance.
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by Tycho 5y ago
More beholden to your programme. With a degree from Oxford, world is your oyster. Earlier also means younger and easier to mould.
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by Tycho 5y ago
If I was the British intelligence services, this is exactly what I’d do. Recruit bright, middle class students from Oxford, fast track their career through the NGO sector (where results don’t matter), build up their public profile with pres
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by Tycho 5y ago
This guy appears to be a self-styled liberal activist operating in the business world. According to this fawning Business Insider piece (did his PR agent write it?), he has tried his hand at fixing climate change, inequality, health care, A
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by Tycho 5y ago
Imagine having to work with this person, and having them “network” with other staff in the workplace to scheme how to “address” such issues.
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Coming soon: America’s own social credit system(thehill.com)
38 points by Tycho 5y ago|63 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
Just wait till the AI visual paternity tests get here.
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Basically everyone has benefited and chosen to use energy generated from fossil fuels, except maybe remote hunter gatherer tribes. It’s ridiculous to single out enterprises involved in the extraction of generation part of the supply chain w
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by Tycho 5y ago
Makes sense. The climate movement has always blatantly been about non-productive people appropriating money from others who have been engaged in productive enterprise.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Is there some succinct explanation for why Murray's reporting facilitated 'jigsaw identification' while other reports did not? I don't want a link to a 50 page court ruling, I want someone to explain it in a couple of se
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by Tycho 5y ago
I got a lot of enjoyment from it, but was during winter, under lockdown, with opportunities for real-world socializing greatly curtailed. At it's best it's like walking down the hallway of a grand university, able to drop in and o
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by Tycho 5y ago
I never said anything about probable.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Confounding factors?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Why the sarcasm?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Maybe telepathy/ESP is real, it’s just that we lose it soon after birth, or in early childhood, like eidetic memory. Or perhaps some people retain it longer - or some animals, hence all the mythical beasts.
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The government is lying when it says it cannot afford NHS and police pay awards(taxresearch.org.uk)
2 points by Tycho 5y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
It would be great if someone wrote a book about open world video games. Or just video game worlds in general. Perhaps 100 games, three pages of pics and two pages of commentary for each one. Feels like someone should document all these virt
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by Tycho 5y ago
The argument was that the only reason Assange wouldn’t turn himself in (even though he did initially, and was released) must be that he is guilty, not that there was a superpower trying to throw him in jail for the rest of life for unrelate
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by Tycho 5y ago
Basically anyone who didn’t see what was obvious from the start, that this was a vindictive, bad-faith persecution pushed by the US gov because a journalist was actually making them experience some accountability.
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by Tycho 5y ago
> But if Assange is innocent, he should just turn himself over to the Swedish government. > But if Assange wants freedom, all he needs to do is leave the embassy. > But if Assange wants to get out of jail, he just needs to go throu
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by Tycho 5y ago
This is the central theme of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I suspect introversion and extroversion are just two different sets of competences and are not mutually exclusive or unlearnable. Attempting to do something you are not good at is tiring.
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by Tycho 5y ago
More like a 1/7th of the space previously reserved for the timeline, and considerably worse on older phones with smaller screens (eg iPhone 7). The fact that it disappeared when scrolling down but reappeared instantly when scrolling u
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by Tycho 5y ago
It was incredibly annoying how it took up significant real estate at the top of the screen and there was no way to disable the feature. Good riddance.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Yeah but it's pretty convenient for the state security apparatus to have most important web services and corporate infrastructures hosted on the clouds of just two or three vendors with which they have close ties but little public scru
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by Tycho 5y ago
If you are content with the genre of normal drama, without special effects or stunts or expensive sets or glamorous stars, then there's a wealth of good stuff out there, often made for TV rather than cinema. For instance, all the Insp
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by Tycho 5y ago
Why is EE so bad? On the surface it looks like a degree with a strong grounding in mathematics, exposure to programming, the discipline of engineering, and a diverse range of applications across industry. It kind of seems like the ideal deg
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by Tycho 5y ago
Are there pet psychologists who can cure this sort of thing? (serious question)

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