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by cbeach 2y ago
> One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see. Ever wondered if it’s desirable BECAUSE it’s not a dense urban jungle?
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by cbeach 2y ago
The NHS has had real-terms funding increases for many years https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-c... If its cost continues to outpace inflation and GDP growth, it will consume an ever-larger shar
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by cbeach 2y ago
Bazel enforces a hermetic sandbox for Starlark to operate within. All input files have to be declared, and the build process can only see files that are declared. Starlark cannot access arbitrary files at runtime, and it deliberately has no
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by cbeach 2y ago
Replacing one human rights convention with another human rights convention is not "extremist" any more than it was extreme for the UK to enter the ECHR in the first place (which necessarily meant changing our existing human rights
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by cbeach 2y ago
We've been here before. In 2023 there were terrible wildfires in Greece. The media immediately jumped on it and claimed climate change was responsible. Anyone who questioned the narrative was a "climate change denier" or &quo
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by cbeach 2y ago
Quoting opinion pieces in rags like the Washington Post (owned by Musk's bitter personal rival Jeff Bezos) is not the way for us to come to a consensus on what is true (or not) about Musk.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Musk is a libertarian not an authoritarian. His job is to reduce the size and power of government. Authoritarians don’t do that. Libertarians do that. Two opposite ends of the spectrum. “Misinformation” is a very subjective word, so I’m afr
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by cbeach 2y ago
Lib Dems did vote against the Investigatory Powers Bill (2016), and Nick Clegg blocked the original Snoopers Charter (Draft Communications Data Bill). So they have good form on this. However, since 2016 the party almost exclusively shifted
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by cbeach 2y ago
Let's start supporting parties that have principles. And stop making excuses for parties that don't (i.e. Labour, Lib Dems and Conservatives). At the moment, the UK public (and media) considers it a sport to disparage and smear pa
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by cbeach 2y ago
I've tried to explain the issues with the UK government's stance on digital privacy to my friends. The responses I get: * I have nothing to hide, I don't care * Oh come on, our government doesn't care what I'm up to
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by cbeach 2y ago
Please see this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973646
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by cbeach 2y ago
1. Nice cherry-picking. The US and Canada (and, in fact, a majority of world nations) are not signatories of the ECHR. Those countries seem to get on just fine without it. In particular they are able to deport dangerous foreign criminals wi
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by cbeach 2y ago
"Far right" suggests extremism. Could you name an extremist policy that Reform have proposed?
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by cbeach 2y ago
Reform UK don't believe Covid was a hoax. Reform UK believe that the purported efficacy of the mRNA vaccines at preventing transmission was massively exaggerated (we now know it was). https://www.thelancet.com/journals&
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by cbeach 2y ago
Same here.
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by cbeach 2y ago
I’m so ashamed to be a U.K. citizen and to have both legacy parties (Tories and Labour) staunchly supporting these horrendous breaches of privacy. We have had a number of bad laws over the last ten years that have entrenched state surveilla
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by cbeach 2y ago
Very useful document, thanks Pierre! Our company is still on 2.13 and probably will be for a long time. The reality is that we need rock-solid library support across all transitive dependencies, and mature battle-tested tooling. I like that
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by cbeach 2y ago
Could you give me an example of someone whose sexual preferences mean they are unable to "exist" unless they have a government grant?
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by cbeach 2y ago
Why should people get grants because of who they choose to sleep with?
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by cbeach 2y ago
From the article: > Encourage Diversity in Tech Let’s not sugarcoat it: Silicon Valley’s diversity problem is a national embarrassment. By failing to include women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups, the tech industry le
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by cbeach 2y ago
From the article: > China’s AI strategy, for example, leverages state-led initiatives and private-sector innovation to great effect. The Communist Party's influence and coersion is not something I'd celebrate. Where did DeepSee
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by cbeach 2y ago
Discourse is single-handedly rescuing the web forum concept from oblivion. Without Jeff, Facebook and WhatsApp would be ruling the roost, with scant competition from decades-old PHP forum software. Discourse is pretty easy to self-host, and
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by cbeach 2y ago
That’s like complaining about investments in automated looms at the start of the Industrial Revolution and claiming that the money would be better spent if handed out to the slum dwelling population. We have the benefit of hindsight now and
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by cbeach 2y ago
When the Capitol riot happened, Trump was tweeting to demand the protesters act peacefully and within the law. If Trump was truly an insurrectionist, then that’s a very strange way to incite insurrection.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Look at Clinton and Pelosi’s tweets when Trump won the first term. They also challenged the result and claimed it was a manipulated election. May 16th 2017 Nancy Pelosi tweeted to her massive following “ Our election was hijacked. There is
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by cbeach 2y ago
Did you forget that Meta chose to shut down the account of a democratically-elected sitting Republican president? Or is that (and other scandals eg the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story) a distant and obscure memory?
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by cbeach 2y ago
My kids are just getting to the age where they can use a gaming device like this. Obviously I'll get the Switch 2 rather than the Switch.
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by cbeach 2y ago
You'd rather bad actors like Soros used their $billions to manipulate elections in the shadows? At least Musk is upfront. Like many celebrities he's chosen to endorse a political candidate and make donations. Like many celebrities
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by cbeach 2y ago
It's a telling statement about the militant nature of Gazans that not even religiously-aligned neighbouring countries will accept them as immigrants.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Hamas makes no secret of using hospitals, schools and other civilian amenities as bases for weapons and terrorists. It's part of their "bare chests" ideology that uses the Gazan population as human shields.

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