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by beejiu 7mo ago
(a) It's not prostitution, and (b) while prostitution is illegal in the US it's perfectly legal in the UK and many other countries.
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by beejiu 7mo ago
A year ago, they announced that half of their engineers will be in India by 2026: https://www.ft.com/content/a304cf5a-5d91-4d4d-a41f-16651b59e...
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by beejiu 7mo ago
There is actually a hypothesis around this, but I don't think it's really been investigated: https://www.nature.com/articles/nutd20122
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by beejiu 7mo ago
70% of the energy in a petrol car is lost as heat. Only around 30% or less of the energy actually propels the car. I imagine that's why there's a big difference.
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by beejiu 7mo ago
For mobile app development, running all my local docker containers for backend services, plus 2-3 iOS/iPad simulators and 1-2 Android emulators quickly pushes the memory limits.
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by beejiu 8mo ago
In the UK there's a lot of TV advertising for "weight loss medication" that never refers to any drug by name. But if you look at the small print, it refers to "Orlistat", which is technically available without a pre
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by beejiu 8mo ago
> 1. Something is systemically wrong in the US when we are cutting off people’s access to meds, like GLP-1s, which have profound health benefits. The US is the only country, aside from New Zealand, that allows direct-to-consumer marketin
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by beejiu 8mo ago
> So what’s happened here? Well, whoever collected these emails first converted from CRLF (i.e., “Windows” line ending coding) to “NL” (i.e., “Unix” line ending coding). This is pretty normal if you want to deal with email. But you then
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by beejiu 8mo ago
It's not perfect, but this is the point of tender.
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by beejiu 8mo ago
Just because you read an article, doesn't mean you have to agree with it. (Yes, I read the entire article before I commented.)
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by beejiu 8mo ago
Clearly the site is intended for a few mega-employers to push out as "training". How many employees do you think need to take the training to recoup £4.1 million in GDP? Not many.
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by beejiu 8mo ago
If it does upskill 10 million people just a tiny amount, £4.1 million is incredibly cheap.
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Scientists achieve pancreatic tumour regression in breakthrough study(euronews.com)
3 points by beejiu 8mo ago|0 comments
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Iran has now been under a national internet blackout for two full weeks(twitter.com)
1 points by beejiu 9mo ago|1 comments
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by beejiu 9mo ago
It later transpired the real reason the Police wanted to ban the group: "West Midlands Police did have "high confidence intelligence" that members of the local community in Birmingham were planning to arm themselves to attack
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by beejiu 9mo ago
The gas and other base load infrastructure are largely built, it just needs maintenance which is a lower cost than building something new. The CfD is a competitive process, so the price (should) fully incorporate the cost to build the infra
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by beejiu 9mo ago
It's a contract for difference, so that 9p is paying for both the infrastructure and the cost of the electricity it produces I believe.
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Starmer rallies international support to take on Musk(telegraph.co.uk)
27 points by beejiu 9mo ago|3 comments
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by beejiu 9mo ago
No, I mean consumable, as in spending dollars to buy a product. Palatability is an input to consumption. It drives consumption and profit.
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by beejiu 9mo ago
The concern I have with vegetable oil is if you heat it past the smoke point, you end up creating toxic compounds. The saturated fats are most stable. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3t902pqt3C7nG
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by beejiu 9mo ago
The fundamental problem with UPF isn't the nutritional qualities of the food. It's the _process_ itself. UPF is basically derived from A/B testing food continuously to making it (a) highly consumable and (b) low cost. Repeat
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by beejiu 9mo ago
It's kind of mentioned in the article, but I'm more comfortable cooking with lard than either tallow or oil based on the current evidence. Avoiding UPF is probably the most important factor though.
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by beejiu 9mo ago
It followed the hippie trail, that was the motivation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_trail
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by beejiu 9mo ago
Beans and pulses are mostly long chain carbohydrates, which are not a problem.
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by beejiu 9mo ago
Protein may be associated with satiety, but so is fibre, of which beef has none.
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by beejiu 10mo ago
They could reason about the Pythagorean theorem in 2000 BC. It's not a surprise they could figure out when the sun set in 2800 BC.
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US suspends technology deal with the UK(ft.com)
13 points by beejiu 10mo ago|2 comments
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by beejiu 10mo ago
For what it's worth, there are AdSense interstitial ads on the site, so you probably got duped by one of those ads.
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by beejiu 10mo ago
> Also also remember, D2 is a vitamin, D3 is a hormone. As a naive person, what's the consequence of this?
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Novo's Ozempic Pill Fails to Slow Alzheimer's in Large Trials(bloomberg.com)
2 points by beejiu 11mo ago|0 comments

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