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by cbeach 8mo ago
I used to work next door to the Barbican and occasionally visit the site on my lunch breaks. The old decaying concrete, monolithic construction, dark alleys, stagnant algae-filled lakes, dirty windows around a tropical plant space, pretenti
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by cbeach 8mo ago
Futuristic in a Bladerunner way, not a Star Trek way. The kind of future where it always rains, it’s always nighttime, and people hide themselves away in fear.
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by cbeach 8mo ago
The majority opinion (“it’s ugly, monolithic, oppressive, decaying” etc) is such an obvious take that people don’t bother expressing it, especially on forums like HN where people are trying to be insightful as opposed to negative. So all we
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by cbeach 8mo ago
Please let’s not call ourselves “swengs” Is it really that hard to write “developer” or “engineer”?
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by cbeach 8mo ago
Definitely YIYBY.
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by cbeach 8mo ago
I'm glad I read HN. My take-away is - SpaceX is still an extremely good stock to hold. However, the stupid money will buy the stock at IPO on the promise of space datacentres. When SpaceX inevitably u-turns on this plan and the stock p
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by cbeach 8mo ago
As always with Marxism, you’re convinced that your flavour of Marxism is new, and will work despite all flavours of Marxism failing in the past.
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by cbeach 8mo ago
> when notified, doing nothing about it When notified, he immediately: * "implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing" - https:&#x2
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by cbeach 8mo ago
> SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa… > [Kenyan Economist] Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop. > SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West wan
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by cbeach 8mo ago
The stagnation in Europe (compared to the US) is due to EU over-regulation and industrial suicide caused by net zero policy. > [chemicals sector] investments fell from 1.9 megatonnes of capacity in 2024 to 0.3 megatonnes last year, as th
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by cbeach 8mo ago
57. Suggestion: show a distribution of scores at the end, so you can see how you did compared to others
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by cbeach 8mo ago
Absolutely. Let's examine the Elektrek editor's feed, to understand how "impartial" he is about Tesla: https://x.com/FredLambert
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by cbeach 8mo ago
When Musk starts invading neighbouring countries and rounding up ethnic minorities for extermination you can call him a Nazi with some legitimacy. On the other hand, what you're trying to extrapolate here seems somewhat contrived.
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by cbeach 8mo ago
We tend to defend companies that push the frontiers of self-driving cars, because the technology has the potential to save lives and make life easier and cheaper for everyone. As engineers, we understand that the technology will go from uns
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by cbeach 8mo ago
Ahem, Gaza Health Ministry? https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/hamas-run-health-ministr...
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by cbeach 8mo ago
There have been a number of fake AI-generated videos of police confronting ICE officers lately: https://gothamist.com/news/ai-videos-of-fake-nypdice-clashes... I suspect these are some of those that have been banned fr
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by cbeach 9mo ago
The Commons are even more hungry for pervasive online surveillance than the Lords - at least, while Labour and the Tories are in power. Reform UK (the party currently leading in the polls by a large margin) is the only party that loudly op
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by cbeach 9mo ago
You’re free to live in some dense urban environment where amenities are a five min walk away, and everyone relies on underground trains, busses and taxis. If you think “freedom” means not having a car, then there are options for you. I move
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by cbeach 9mo ago
No one is forcing you to drive if you have these peculiar feelings about it.
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Public transport will never recreate the freedom of car ownership. It’s a collectivist dream not rooted in reality.
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by cbeach 9mo ago
I have a heavy and high performance EV (Tesla Model S) and I have replaced my tires twice in the last six years. So it’s about the same as an ICE vehicle in that regard. One thing that differs is brake wear. My car is ten years old and stil
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by cbeach 9mo ago
For someone who's a criminal and a failure, he seems to be doing a lot of good for the American people. Inflation down, stock markets at record highs, real GDP growth up, energy prices stable and US energy production at record high lev
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Yes, anti-motorist policy is thinly veiled. Local councils are willing to admit they are directly harming the interests of people peacefully going about their legitimate business, in order to try to manipulate their behaviour. It's all
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by cbeach 9mo ago
lingrush4 and me (chrisbeach, the OP of that comment) are unconnected. Likewise mjparrott. And I didn't realise my original comment was flagged (!). Thanks to whoever vouched for it. Quite sinister how people misuse the flagging tool o
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by cbeach 9mo ago
If you'd seen the before/after video clips you'd understand that this is a pretty big deal. The BBC spliced two separate video clips nearly 1hr apart to make out that Trump was an insurrectionist. Original quote: "We’re
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Ryanair won't offer Starlink on their flights, claiming the aerodynamic drag from antennas will cause a 2% "fuel drag" bill adding $200M-250M to the annual kerosene bill. This doesn't sound right at all. AI estimates the
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by cbeach 9mo ago
> the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power. This is dangerous, geo-politically, should China ever go to war with the West in any capacity. In WW2, America's car factories gave it a decisive advantage,
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Probably a stupid question, but should I unplug my EV? (UK)
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by cbeach 9mo ago
When you're trying to sell wind power to the public as a "cheaper" source of energy than fossil fuels, you've got to be honest with them if you want to win both hearts and minds. Gas is cheaper, like-for-like. We impose
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by cbeach 9mo ago
but it's not, though, is it? The government is turning a £55 gas price into £147 by adding an arbitrary carbon tax, and therefore making it look artificially more expensive than wind. If we wanted to make an honest analysis here, we wo

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