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by cbeach 4y ago
Matomo for analytics - it has every Google Analytics feature I need. I don’t want to blight my users with a stupid cookie warning (thanks EU GDPR :-/ ) so I self-host it with cookies disabled. https://matomo.org Prometheus
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by cbeach 4y ago
I like physical buttons for many things. But just to play devil’s advocate here: the benefit of the glovebox being software-controlled is that it enables features like PIN-protecting the glovebox contents, or Tesla’s “valet mode” where cert
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by cbeach 4y ago
Indeed, and Musk wants to ensure that such illegal speech is banned on Twitter. He has made a clear distinction that the limits of free speech should be governed by law as opposed to by opaque private interests.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Quality counter-argument. Kudos.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Consider the mind of someone who might believe conspiracy theories like Holocaust denial. Do you think such a person would be more or less likely to believe in the Holocaust if they found out that all Holocaust deniers had been systematical
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by cbeach 4y ago
Tesla Model S owner here. The software on iOS and car is several years ahead of the competition. It embarrasses luxury German automakers. It’s made with the user in mind, it is elegant, and it is innovative in many surprising ways. For bala
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by cbeach 4y ago
The differentiator with Tesla’s bot is not in the way it walks, but the way it learns and “thinks” - Tesla engineers are building Artificial General Intelligence into their bot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificia
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by cbeach 4y ago
No one is forcing us to follow these figures on Twitter or vote for their party. Let the party members say what they like within the law. Debunk if it need be, and let adults decide for themselves what the truth is. If authoritarians try to
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by cbeach 4y ago
I have observed the EU machinations in detail while my country decided whether to stay or leave the bloc. And I watched the Copyright Directive vote in the EP - basically the Commission just repeatedly rammed the bad legislation through Par
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by cbeach 4y ago
In the U.K. the prime minister is an elected MP. We have multiple means to depose a bad PM. How do we depose a bad EU commissioner?
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by cbeach 4y ago
Remember how the “fact checkers” of Facebook and co systematically disallowed discussion of this? https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-lea... Sadly we’ll now see even more “fact checking” thank
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by cbeach 4y ago
European here. The EU is not Europe (although the EU often conflates the two). No citizen ever voted for any of the commissioners that come up with these regulations.
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by cbeach 4y ago
As a developer with a few years of commercial Scala experience I’ve been approached by Twitter in the past. Working there appealed on many levels. They have a lot of Scala talent and a huge influence on world affairs. I turned down the inte
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by cbeach 4y ago
I find it really distracting that the mainstream media writes about Musk in such derisive style. Do journalists find him threatening in some way? Do the leftwing-dominated media resent him for supporting Republicans? Do they think we’re not
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by cbeach 4y ago
What they’re doing by removing different types of sensor is -simplifying- the Tesla system design and bringing it closer to human senses (ie eyesight alone). Apparently Hacker News thinks humans are safer than Autopilot. So why wouldn’t we
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by cbeach 4y ago
What is the government’s minimum standard for a car autopilot to be sold as an “autopilot”? Air autopilots rely on a pilot being present, observant, and able to take over if necessary. Air autopilots are not infallible. How could the govern
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’ve reported content which blatantly goes against Twitter’s policies and the moderators chose not to remove it. Twitter moderators allowed Taliban leaders to tweet all sorts of dangerous horrible stuff. But they permanently banned the demo
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by cbeach 4y ago
The future of Twitter should not be akin to a Chinese State platform where millions of moderators pore through every message looking for wrongthink. We should hanker for a network that treats us like adults, able to think critically about w
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Flux (digital-receipts-to-bank) app is shutting down
4 points by cbeach 4y ago|2 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
There is some criticism and skeptics of Vivoo out there: https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/vivoo/
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by cbeach 4y ago
Blood tests are well studied technology but Theranos was a scam. It’s never “ignorant” to think critically.
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by cbeach 4y ago
The mainstream media are still talking about the Pound sliding. Ignoring the fact it’s grown strongly over the last week. It’s clear to me why public trust in the U.K. media is down to just 34%. https://pressgazette.co.uk/tr
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by cbeach 4y ago
> we also have to be careful of writing off numerous opinions from multiple diverse sources in multiple countries, from politicians I fully expect politicians in other countries to HATE the fact that we have a competitive low-tax regime
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by cbeach 4y ago
I'm not sure I get any more value from the public service than anyone else. Do I get faster service from the police? More officers assigned to protect me? Any perks from the NHS for the wealthy? Or the same service as everyone else? On
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by cbeach 4y ago
I think you must misunderstand my situation if you think I earn money from "profiting from the work of others"? Have you ever been a senior manager before? If you had, I hope you'd understand that the role involves creating j
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by cbeach 4y ago
The BoE made another huge mistake by using QE during a period of temporary global inflation, and during a temporary blip in the value of the pound. QE is the worst possible strategy. And the IMF has consistently got it wrong about the UK ec
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by cbeach 4y ago
Yes I do pay plenty into my pension. It's not my "privilege" to earn at that level. I was born into an average economic background. I worked really hard at school and university, and then over a period of seventeen years, I w
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by cbeach 4y ago
So you think 1% of people shouldering 28% of the cost of public services is fair?
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by cbeach 4y ago
Oh yes, you're not wrong. Many people on the left see tax as an appropriate punishment for wealth. In their worldview, wealthy people are demonised and dehumanised. The left are convinced that wealthy people are parasitic on society. T
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by cbeach 4y ago
The pound is low against the dollar, as is the Euro low against the dollar. The pound dropped in value a few days ago, but the price has recovered since then. The media chooses to focus on the drop rather than the recovery, because the drop

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