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by bigfudge 3y ago
Although I don’t want random delay incendiary devices either, I do have some sympathy with OP. The net effect of all regulations like this means large classes of business are not feasible unless you have substantial capital. And availabilit
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Perhaps your humility qualifies you for it! It strikes me that the problems aren’t caused by lack of technical chops per se - it’s almost always because people don’t consider the possible downsides of mistakes and act accordingly.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
One large driver of out of work benefits are NHS waiting lists: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Do we currently have enough renewables installed in (eg) the the UK for batteries to increase capacity factor? Is there ever enough renewable production that energy is lost?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Being transparent would be a start though. The tories in 2019 were still making Red Bus promises about how Brexit would save us all billions we could spend on the NHS.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is true, but we still tax/spend less than many European competitors. The reason tax is historically high (for the UK) is that we've had no growth and our population is getting older.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Tax in the UK is still low relative to European neighbours https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=9541 It's high in historical perspective because the austerity years of the 2010s and Brexit choked growth. But we could still
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by bigfudge 3y ago
> unfathomably large amount of time worrying about someone who has no real effect on their life. I think this is wrong. The way in which we conduct online debate does have material impact on our public life and policy. One example: if th
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I’m not clear what you’re accusing me of propagating. Perhaps you think it’s a lie that x is on the slide? That may be true, although the ad numbers and recent revaluations by stock holders seem to suggest it’s not. In any case, you are de
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by bigfudge 3y ago
yes, but let’s steel man this: I guess someone might not have been paying attention to twitter spats before and not understood the details and how gross the story was. The X shitshow is so public and obvious as to be unavoidable. And for t
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is true, but I have watched with amusement as a Swiss station master paced, tutted and finally started swearing under his breath as a train from Milan got later and later. It amazed me at the time he cared so much - it seemed personal.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think everyone complaining about DB should be forced to live in the UK for a short while first. My 15 yo daughter has just come back from her first trip to Koln to stay with friends. She was wide eyed with how well everything worked, and
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Your tone is snarls, but presumably you agree that better visibility on Musks failings as a human are net beneficial? Maybe we’re late to the party, but OP said ‘better visibility’ not ‘first inklings’
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is so ludicrously naive. Yes there are problems with legacy media - largely related to their plutocratic ownership. No, centralising control of our public discourse and spaces for debate in even fewer hands won’t help fix that problem.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I agree, but maybe the solution is to attach developers to teams directly. Avoid the centralisation, except for infra that benefits from it.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The problem with buying by the crappy DRM version is that it provides no incentive to the publisher to change. I have thought about this long and hard, but ultimately the only way Spotify came about was because nobody bought the terrible DR
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This seems somewhat pedantic to distinguish surveillance capitalism from surveillance marketing or for profit surveillance. Modern capitalism is tending towards large, powerful corporations and there are important network effects/econo
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Reducing obesity is part of our public health goals in Europe though, so the fact we have lower obesity in universal health system countries is likely not entirely an accident.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I disagree. I think it’s descriptive in that it tells who is the proximal source of most surveillance. You can be against all pervasive surveillance but still want to distinguish the main source in a particular context. Surveillance in the
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I know you’re trying to be kind, but I honestly think this response is part of the discourse the author outlines. Individualising distress and pathologising the rejection of surveillance capitalism as paranoia troubles me. Funnily, left Lon
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It's going to take a long time to change our built envrinoment and habits, but it's not inevitably human nature to want cars whipping through the places our kids play. In fact, given a choice rich people rarely allow this in their
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Bikes with no mufflers are already breaking the law. We should actually enforce those laws
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This might be true for a fixed power output. But as you acknowledge, idiots (enthusiasts) means larger engines =more noise. That said, We don’t have to specify the means to reduce noise … just set the limit and let people comply how they wa
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Separating your car from unprotected humans is the solution. Your right to drive a 2 tonne machine through residential streets where other people live and their kids play is a historical and cultural anomaly. Let’s not pretend the solution
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by bigfudge 3y ago
car tires are wide. Much wider than they need to be to do same speeds on normal roads. This is fashion driven and encourages drivers to go faster than they should. It also wastes fuel and makes more noise. We could tax car tires by width an
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by bigfudge 3y ago
If you want to make it racist buy your own array of a100s and start training. Microsoft and others don’t want to facilitate that. I think it’s a reasonable concern. From a public policy perspective having millions of people who can instantl
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This seems like quite a big deal. The article doesn't state the likely cost, but that may be less important than the substantial loss of face for Tesla given all the claims that have been made for autopilot.
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Tesla recalls nearly all 2M of its vehicles on US roads(cnn.com)
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by bigfudge 3y ago
You don’t have zero knowledge though. Most electronics sold is safe, and designs tested. So your prior for them burning down the house should be much lower than for something you diyed
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Ianal but the law often seems to work on the basis of terms like reasonable or expected. Buying junk electronics from Amazon is so common and risks so little publicised that it doesn’t seem reasonable to exclude them. Building a diy power s

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