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by cbeach 2y ago
The great thing about a charter is that it’s there in black and white, a first-class source of information on the actual intent, as opposed to later subjective analysis of things like “context” If a group tells you who they are in official
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by cbeach 2y ago
Could you please translate Article 7 for me so I can understand your take on it?
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by cbeach 2y ago
It’s a fair point if you disagree, like I do, that Hamas’s Palestine is a nation. But the Hamas Charter makes alarming reading: https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm Some excerpts: 'The Day of
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by cbeach 2y ago
Agreed on date/time being a frustrating area of software development. But wouldn't a company like OpenAI use a tick-based system in this architecture? i.e. there's an event emitter that ticks every second (or maybe minute), a
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by cbeach 2y ago
Ah, I've just stumbled on some hints after clicking around.. click on your avatar image (top right) and then click "Tasks" Then there are some UI hints. "Remind me of your mom's birthday on [X] date" Wow, reall
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by cbeach 2y ago
I'm sure it's brilliant, but I have no idea what it's capable of. What will it do? Send me a push notification? Have an answer waiting for me when I come back to it in a while? I switched over to the "GPT4o with schedule
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by cbeach 2y ago
Given the website shows all the data for pacts by school, I ran it past ChatGPT o1 to look for any correlations. https://chatgpt.com/share/6786bc74-9e18-800d-b474-d57ef2c107... “Large, well-attended primary schools in
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by cbeach 2y ago
At my kids' school (UK, ages 5-11), many parents have signed an online pact to agree not to give smartphones to their children: https://smartphonefreechildhood.co.uk/ The website lists the number of pacts, broken down
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by cbeach 2y ago
I don't think that's true. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "pale, male and stale" as a racist, sexist, ageist slur in the UK - against its own native population.
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by cbeach 2y ago
> you need to explain why there is a huge racial imbalance in elite jobs. Well, that's easily explained by demographic history. Here in the UK, we only had mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa within the last couple of g
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by cbeach 2y ago
I have witnessed: * co-workers being extremely wary of offending them in any way * superiors telling me to hire them * corporate literature that focuses on promoting their interests * corporate networks that grant them additional networking
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by cbeach 2y ago
> At Meta, we have a principle of serving everyone. This can be achieved through cognitively diverse teams, with differences in knowledge, skills, political views, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. At last, a corporation acknow
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by cbeach 2y ago
If cognitive brain-computer interfaces come in the next decade, these kids will be fine. If not, they’re f*ked.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Okay, dang, my bad - I should never have replied to the comment in the first place.
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by cbeach 2y ago
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by cbeach 2y ago
> The white supremacy stuff is just trash though. That's not "tribes", it's unacceptable. Are you really branding Elon Musk a "white supremacist?" Based on what? Some ill-advised retweet of a crank on Twitte
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by cbeach 2y ago
The blue tribe are especially riled about Elon Musk belonging to the red tribe… because Musk once belonged to the blue tribe. To tribal types, there’s nothing worse than an apostate.
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by cbeach 2y ago
The software "has agency"? That is, I can entrust it to carry out the task I've described, to completion, without telling it how to perform the task?
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by cbeach 2y ago
As far as I know OSM doesn't have the granular elevation data required to render buildings as shown in the screenshots. I'd be interested to understand how the buildings were constructed?
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by cbeach 2y ago
I linked a grandiose political project to bring Europe under a single government with a grandiose political project to bring Europe under a single government.
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by cbeach 2y ago
There were certainly problems. But the GDPR and ePrivacy directives don't protect us from nefarious cross-site tracking cookies. Prior to the GDPR, websites just tracked us. Now they track us AND present an irritating warning that user
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by cbeach 2y ago
> democratically appointed Now there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one! Where democracy is involved, we use the word "elected" -- not "appointed"
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by cbeach 2y ago
> After the WWII which made clear that lasting peace can be achieved by deep cooperation. If the Axis powers had won the war all the countries of Europe would have had even deeper "cooperation" Cooperation is fine when everyone
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by cbeach 2y ago
Given you have a law background I can understand your appetite for new and complex regulation, and your desire to defend it. Legal professionals live in a different world to entrepreneurs - with diametrically opposed priorities.
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by cbeach 2y ago
From my European perspective, US Big Tech isn’t being vocal enough in its resistance to EU regulatory overreach. EU regulation makes starting a tech company very difficult, expensive and risky. I shuttered two of my personal projects when t
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by cbeach 2y ago
> EU doesn’t set national tax rates. Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the EU VAT Directive, which sets minimum tax rates? And maybe you didn't know that the EU sets minimum Excise duties? And be under no illusion, the EU is inter
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by cbeach 2y ago
I preferred the culture and diversity that came from each country having its own national identity. Why would we celebrate the EU's efforts to homogenise our national cultures? I preferred the EU when it was a trading union as opposed
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by cbeach 2y ago
> The European Commission is nominated by the European Council and and confirmed by the European Parliament. > The European Council consists of government officials from the member states where they have been chosen by national democr
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by cbeach 2y ago
Magna-tiles are great. A very tactile building toy, accessible and safe for younger kids (ie no small parts / choking hazards). https://www.magnatiles.com/product/magna-tiles-classic-100-p...
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by cbeach 2y ago
Typo: Neo4j: O(k) traversal

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