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by cbeach 7mo ago
Have you ever stopped to wonder why ~26% of the electorate might be angry though? Personally I don't like seeing 100,000+ undocumented young men of fighting age rock up in dinghys on the Kent coastline and get free hotels, food, phones
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by cbeach 7mo ago
In 2016 the UK demonstrated that there is a way for the public to vote down the corpus of bad EU legislation. Of course our national govts have been pretty woeful ever since, but in 2029 we will have the opportunity to vote for genuine, dra
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Not true. In the UK, the only party that would repeal the heinous “Online Safety Act” are Reform UK, which is headed by notorious Euroskeptic MP Nigel Farage.
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by cbeach 7mo ago
They won’t need to enforce this rigorously. They’ll just need to show some scary examples of people being arrested or having computers seized for using illegal forms of encryption. The mainstream media will go along with the EU, demonising
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by cbeach 7mo ago
My 2016 Model S LCD panel developed the well-known fault of delamination and leaking some kind of sticky fluid. Turns out the early Model S vehicles used consumer grade LCD panels that weren’t designed for the prolonged high heat you get in
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by cbeach 7mo ago
> No, you can do things that benefit you electorally, but are also just the right thing to do. Changing the voting system from FPTP would obviously benefit parties other than the major ones, but that doesn't mean it'd be wrong
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by cbeach 7mo ago
This is a fair argument but it’s rapidly becoming a non-argument. LLMs have come a long way since ChatGPT 4. The idea that they’ll always value quick answers, and always be prone to hallucination seems short-sighted, given how much the tech
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by cbeach 7mo ago
If you use plan mode, parallel agents and voice dictation, LLM-powered development becomes much faster and more powerful.
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Claude has helped me learn that the thing I enjoyed was actually delivering good software, as opposed to crafting syntax.
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by cbeach 7mo ago
> There is no reasonable definition of "the Left" that includes the British Labour party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK) > Labour, is one of the two main political parties in the United
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by cbeach 7mo ago
> 16 year olds can leave home, marry, join the army, and so on. Why should they not vote? That's a separate argument. My point is Labour's change to the rules is very politically convenient for themselves. In the most recent po
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Removal of hereditary privilege is a good thing in principle. However, given the Labour party just gave children the vote, cancelled local elections in conservative-leaning areas, and now they're removing the (traditionally conservativ
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Even if all the solar panels in the world were recycled, you’ve barely scratched the surface of the points I made.
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by cbeach 7mo ago
> They're poor. China is a nuclear-armed superpower with the largest Navy in the World. > The developed world's past and current actions have done and continue to do harm. Work on that. If you want to push India and China to
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by cbeach 7mo ago
By all means, calculate an arbitrary uplift on the price based on your own definitions of externalities. But don't expect me to take you seriously when you directly compare a raw price of renewable energy with an uplifted price of foss
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by cbeach 7mo ago
For Ireland, it's not so much the sourcing of fossil fuels, but the imposition of political taxes on fossil fuels onto consumers. About 50% of the retail price of petrol in Ireland is tax (excise + carbon + VAT). Overall fuel taxation
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Their comment is talking about a wider context than this single coal power station. In the UK, Net Zero politics means we are killing our own North Sea fossil fuel extraction, only to purchase North Sea fossil fuel from Norway, at an increa
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by cbeach 7mo ago
If you understand the trends over the last decade, and the projections of the next decade, you'll understand why the actions of China and India will have significantly more impact than the actions of the West. That's why for those
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Carbon taxes are huge, and they are 100% politically imposed. And they're often disingenously included in fossil fuel pricing to claim that green energy is fundamentally cheaper. I believe in climate change, and I believe in doing some
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by cbeach 7mo ago
I've always found it odd that the Paris Accord allows China to keep building coal powered stations when it is already the leading global contributor to climate change: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-
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by cbeach 7mo ago
You're right. When I posted some facts about Chinese and Indian emissions, my post was actually flagged by someone who didn't want those facts to be known. When it comes to the climate, the Left are not interested in honest pursui
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by cbeach 7mo ago
I wasn't talking about historic emissions. I was talking about the current state of affairs, and in particular, the projections over the next few years, as this is what's relevant. I'm not interested in political judgements o
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by cbeach 7mo ago
Seeking the cheapest goods is not a practice that's isolated to Westerners. But destroying our own industrial capacity by government policy is certainly something unique to our countries.
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by cbeach 8mo ago
> The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed to do. American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. So true. There's a lot of passive-aggressive anti-US rhet
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by cbeach 8mo ago
and "That blue badge might not be worth what you’re trading for it. A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever." I like the article, but I think it was nearly wholly LLM-generated. It's a shame that this contrived wri
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by cbeach 8mo ago
> I’ve always avoided client-side React because of its direct harm to end users (over-engineered bloated sites that take way longer to load than they need to). A couple of megabytes of JavaScript is not the "big bloated" applic
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by cbeach 8mo ago
If they'd put a screenshot, that would then have been immediately clear to casual visitors. My initial assumption was "this is gonna look like a typical OSS product, and not as polished as iOS or Android". A single screenshot
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by cbeach 8mo ago
The article is a wall of text with not a single screenshot. And I couldn't easily find a link to a page that summarised GrapheneOS with some images so I could see how polished it looked. This is one of the reasons why OSS fails to gain
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by cbeach 8mo ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34614328/ Large, real-world, nationwide context: ~5.1 million people in Israel were fully vaccinated with Pfizer (BNT162b2) in the study period. Active surveillance triggered by safety s
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by cbeach 8mo ago
> It sometimes feels like a psy-op to read through all these gushingly positive comments, when you know how the average person feels about it. Yes, exactly! A common theme among these weird ideological group-thinks is political undertone

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