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by cbeach 2y ago
Posts that break guidelines should be flagged, and the bar should be pretty high. I don't think there is a guideline that bans posts from "pushing an agenda" (which would be very subjective)
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by cbeach 2y ago
Flagging content should be a privilege that comes at a certain level of trust, and the privilege should be revoked by moderators for people that use flags to further an agenda. Trust in forum users can be measured by various metrics - The D
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by cbeach 2y ago
All illegal speech should be hidden from public discussion. However, it would be disconcerting if stating biological facts led to censorship on a forum that focusses on science and technology. The definition of "hate" has been str
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by cbeach 2y ago
Welcome Tom! One thing I'd really like to see is less tactical flagging of content. Hopefully with your additional help, people who suppress content they disagree with will be kept in check. Open discourse is something that used to be
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by cbeach 2y ago
The Guardian flourishes because it has a huge trust fund to spend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
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by cbeach 2y ago
I can show you a dozen conveniently freeze-framed images of prominent Democrats raising their arm in supposed "Nazi salutes". Calling Musk a Nazi is just Godwin's Law ad absurdium.
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by cbeach 2y ago
The big seller in Europe is the Model Y. In fact the Model Y was Europe's best-selling car in 2023. https://www.motor1.com/news/705284/tesla-model-y-best-sellin... Sales were naturally going to be down dramat
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by cbeach 2y ago
Isn’t this kind of messaging just horribly patronising for women? I’m interested to hear from women that got into STEM on merit - how do you feel about the institutional boosterism of your gender?
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by cbeach 2y ago
> I have original brakes with original brakepads in my 5 years old ICE van. I have original brakes (pads, rotors) in my 2016 motorhome. You'll probably want to get both of those checked immediately. Unless, of course, you've do
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by cbeach 2y ago
It's nice that you manage to live a simple life that doesn't require a car, but I assure you it's 100% necessary for me: * busy family of four with two young kids, both in different childcare settings * the UK climate
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by cbeach 2y ago
Every time I see a fossil fuel car sitting outside my son’s nursery, engine idling, spewing out huge amounts of poisonous fumes (23 shipping containers worth every five minutes), I’m thankful that we’re transitioning to EVs. Yes, there are
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by cbeach 2y ago
In Scala there's no such thing as NaN because Scala has a strong type system (one of the most powerful type systems available in any language). That said, since it's a JVM language, Scala does unfortunately still support nulls. Sc
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by cbeach 2y ago
Hollande tried to do this in France (75% effective rate on earnings above a million Euros). Even his staunchly socialist regime had to admit its failure and abruptly reverse course in 2014, two years later. The tax raised just €260m in 2013
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by cbeach 2y ago
If the function breaks down outside of a certain range, I would have the function return an "out-of-range" failure. Force the caller to handle this case and use the type name as documentation. Example Scala 3 code: enum Temper
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by cbeach 2y ago
You could comment “this routine converts Celsius to Fahrenheit” Or your could just name the method “celsiusToFahrenheit” In this example, I’d rather the comment didn’t exist and the method was named appropriately. That said, there is defini
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by cbeach 2y ago
Are you implying that shrinking the federal workforce is responsible for the current stock market correction? Do you have evidence Musk and Trump are firing the people that keep streets clean and safe, and plan highways?
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by cbeach 2y ago
Migrating employees out of the state (which leeches economic output from the private sector) will have positive long-term economic outcomes.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Brexit. Making trading slightly harder with 27 non-English speaking countries in a stagnating political experiment (roughly 30-50th percentile of worldwide GDP growth rates) Making trading easier with 168 other countries, many of them Engli
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by cbeach 2y ago
Lucky then, that immigrants don't age. Otherwise you'd be turning your country into one hell of a demographic Ponzi Scheme...
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by cbeach 2y ago
> In February, the Bank of England reported an ongoing productivity slump so mysterious that its own economists “cannot account fully” for it. The UK has seen unprecedented mass immigration from outside the developed world over the last
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by cbeach 2y ago
Why would I care what my boss eats?
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The only thing that should matter is that the poorest segment of society becomes richer over time. And it has (in inflation-adjusted terms, lower income Americans have become richer over many decades).
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by cbeach 2y ago
> Is the purpose of life living a happier, fuller life or being richer? I'd rather take the former than the latter. Why are you creating a false dichotomy?
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by cbeach 2y ago
When it comes to tabulating currency amounts, it makes sense to right-align the numbers. That way, their magnitudes align. Maybe a monospace font for those numbers too.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Aside from the obvious flaws in the Data Act (forcing companies to share data), Articles 14 to 17 really ought to concern us: The proposal also sets rules for public-sector bodies to request data from private entities in specific emergency
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What if I claim need your data in a particular form in order to “interoperate” with you? Will the EU legally compel you to give me the data in the form I want? Or perhaps you’ll explain that raw data is raw data. In which case, is the EU le
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by cbeach 2y ago
The EU has certainly been successful in preventing any of its citizens from becoming ultra rich.
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This is classic regulation by technocrats as opposed to technologists. Flawed reasoning among technocrats is that software can simply be made interoperable. What they fail to understand is that interoperability is a two-sided process, requi
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Those of us in Europe who disagree with what the EU are doing? We quietly move to other more dynamic economies. We are not the kind of people who stand on ideological soapboxes and discuss the state of regulation. Those who remain in EU nat
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> European Commissioner for Startups Ekaterina Zaharieva emphasised the importance of implementing this strategy quickly. She also pledged to propose a European Innovation Act to push member states to meet the 3% target for research and

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