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by afavour 2mo ago
The operating profit chart too, oof: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-performance/
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by afavour 2mo ago
> I don't understand the distinction you are making. It's pretty simple. In a correctly regulated market the sellers are in competition with each other so there is a limit to how much they can increase prices, since they'l
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by afavour 2mo ago
What exactly do you mean by "this issue"? In the topic presented there is really no relevance to Israel being a Jewish state. This is a nation state acting nefariously to protect its interests, something I am quite sure many natio
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by afavour 2mo ago
As a sibling comment points out, the world of… 1974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333468
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by afavour 2mo ago
In a more sane world the Republican Party would be in favor of universal health coverage. How many potential entrepreneurs stay working at BigCorp because they need the health benefits? How many small businesses are crushed by the cost of p
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by afavour 2mo ago
You could always try being less condescending when replying to users and you might find there was no need for anyone to reply in the first place.
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by afavour 2mo ago
> It absolutely already is a historical game changer on par with the Industrial Revolution when it comes to the amount of jobs destroyed and economies screwed up Which economies are already screwed up? IMO it can’t ever be on par with th
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by afavour 2mo ago
> The goal is not to have a single source of truth schema. That is a means to some other goal, and it's not even a good means. It’s about data transmission. Being able to encode and decode in a type safe manner between different lan
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by afavour 2mo ago
I don’t think it would be a positive if every time someone said “wealthy” they had to add “relative to their country’s average earnings and level of savings”. It’s implied. If someone is struggling to afford a home, “you know there are much
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by afavour 2mo ago
People might be ice skating on the Thames again.
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by afavour 2mo ago
I have a friend who got a tick bite on holiday in America many years ago. Turns out they got Lyme disease but no doctors in the UK were experienced with it so they dealt with years of misdiagnosis. I really hope any education effort can get
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by afavour 2mo ago
> he wrote a 300 page thesis on AI in 2024 that all ended up becoming true in 2026 ...no? The essay is literally titled "The Decade Ahead", its predictions have not come true in 2026. > The AGI race has begun. We are buildin
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by afavour 2mo ago
> Of course, the same applies to whatever remains of Twitter now. I think that’s the key of it for me. Usually this criticism of Bluesky users is part of a justification to stay on Twitter. When the exact same problem exists on there, ju
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by afavour 2mo ago
> shame about the users I use Bluesky regularly and have a fine experience. Yes, there’s an irritating minority of users. But so goes any social network, Twitter especially. At least the owners of Bluesky aren’t espousing Great Replaceme
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by afavour 2mo ago
Right but that doesn’t mean anything about authorisation. If you’re using a key you ripped from an official app you could easily be blocked tomorrow. Makes the effort considerably less worthwhile.
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by afavour 2mo ago
Anyone can pick a single example of an extreme user. I could pick a virulent antisemite, racist X user and say it represents X as a whole, would you agree with that? I suspect not.
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by afavour 2mo ago
I haven’t. Bluesky gives me enough of the old Twitter content to satisfy me so I don’t really see a reason to, especially when my dislike for Elon Musk’s politics is strong enough to dissuade me from giving money to him when I can avoid it.
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by afavour 2mo ago
I feel like some folks who don’t use Bluesky, evidently yourself included, have this very distinct notion of what a Bluesky user is. All I can tell you is it doesn’t match at all with the experience I have on the service. You are projecting
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by afavour 2mo ago
> It's entire life is due to lib slactivism I'd disagree with that, I'd say its entire life is due to the shittifying of Twitter. People, like myself, sought to recreate the experience of what Twitter used to be like and
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by afavour 2mo ago
One big difference is regulation and algorithms. All viewers/readers see the same content in traditional media, and they’re all subject to scrutiny by government regulators (however effective or not they may be). Social media networks
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by afavour 2mo ago
Of course it isn’t. If you can’t afford to eat you can’t achieve any potential you might have. Financial stability is a gamechanger for everyone.
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by afavour 2mo ago
Eh, I'm not convinced by the analogy. Phones don't run on fuel (and you can recharge a phone with any electricity supply), iPhones will run on more or less any phone network (which is as close as I can think for the road equivalen
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by afavour 2mo ago
> Fella has read the article Then not closely enough? The study adjusts for age, which is the core of OP’s criticism.
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by afavour 2mo ago
For me personally there’s something deeply unsatisfying about hobby projects that are entirely AI generated. Work code is something different. I don’t have passion for a lot of that, it’s just the way I earn money. This is never going to be
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by afavour 2mo ago
I don’t really get the point you’re making. That it’s illogical? Sure. Voters often are. They still get to vote, though. Sometimes you have to sell an idea through emotion. “I assure you the data center is not using a material amount of wat
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by afavour 2mo ago
I think you’re completely sidestepping the point of the OPs post about “emotional truth”. It’s indisputably true that a data center tapped a water supply without the supplier knowing about it and it caused water pressure in surrounding home
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by afavour 2mo ago
I think it's less the hard numbers than "promised not to use then used". It destroys trust in any future developments because you know you can't take them at their word.
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by afavour 2mo ago
The HN discussions you linked to: 1. 10 points, 15 comments 2. 9 points, 17 comments 3. 44 points, 84 comments That’s not exactly that many doomsters. The first two were barely discussions and the third was a retrospective asking “why did
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by afavour 2mo ago
Except that it hasn’t. X specifically changed the way they operate to financially reward people who post popular content. That led to an immediate downturn in the quality of the network as everyone sought to post the most controversial post
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by afavour 2mo ago
To my mind the simplest answer is that if it isn’t possible to do it safely then you shouldn’t be able to do it. Is this firehose of social media actually a societal benefit? I’m less and less convinced that it is.

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