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by cjs_ac 10d ago
The rules-based order was first proposed in late Victorian Britain, as part of a wider debate as to how the British Empire should evolve, but yes, the World Wars made the idea a lot more attractive to much more of the world.
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by cjs_ac 10d ago
The European empires were commercial ventures, extracting raw materials for the workshops and factories at home. These empires were already weakening in the nineteenth century, because social changes at home meant that practices like slaver
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by cjs_ac 10d ago
> When comparing two interfaces and one allows a larger amount of user error that interface is inferior. Seeing a safety issue and ignoring all other considerations is an excellent example of the ‘overarching theory and imposed order’ I
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by cjs_ac 10d ago
All of that is user error. The roads themselves might be in disrepair, but are otherwise well-designed.
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by cjs_ac 10d ago
The UK’s spiral roundabouts are the same as Dutch turbo roundabouts.
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by cjs_ac 10d ago
I live in the UK, which has roundabouts, mini roundabouts, double and triple roundabouts, traffic-light controlled roundabouts, and magic roundabouts. They work perfectly fine. The difference is that traffic flows very differently in the UK
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by cjs_ac 12d ago
My grandparents did this, but didn’t realise that it would be useful to write down what each password was for. They also didn’t realise that the spelling of a password was important. I don’t even…
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by cjs_ac 12d ago
Unless you're building apps for people who are also in tech, your users won't have any idea what UI styles different LLMs push.
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by cjs_ac 12d ago
Also, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203
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by cjs_ac 16d ago
My grandfather got his driving licence in 1940s Australia without doing a test, because the police sergeant who was supposed to conduct the test couldn't be bothered and was more interested in a ten-shilling note.
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by cjs_ac 18d ago
> Finally, we show that both free news access and media education improve media literacy skills (+0.08 to 0.26 sd), with larger effects among students taught by teachers with prior experience in media education. They taught the teenagers
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by cjs_ac 18d ago
I used to read the Grauniad , but I've become distrustful of it over the past few years because of how aggressively it panders to my sensibilities and biases. Also, it doesn't pursue any story more than any other broadsheet would
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by cjs_ac 18d ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians
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by cjs_ac 23d ago
Outside of monasteries, the intersection of men who were literate and men who were directly involved in food production was tiny. Farming men weren’t cooking their midday meal out in the fields; they took some bread and maybe some protein o
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by cjs_ac 26d ago
One observation I made when I was a teacher was that the more we did to help students (as a cohort) with their mental health, the worse it became. My theory is that teenagers are experimenting with different identities, so when you give the
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by cjs_ac 26d ago
I think it started on LinkedIn, where posts got more reach depending on how many users clicked the 'See More' expander link, so users who wanted to be 'Thought Leaders' were incentivised to present their banal ideas usin
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by cjs_ac 27d ago
Invested capital is not guaranteed to make returns within a tax year. Taxes on capital gains are morally right, but wait until the gain has been realised before levying the tax.
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by cjs_ac 27d ago
It’s not a once-off tax bill; it’s every year.
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by cjs_ac 27d ago
Let's revisit the very first sentence of the article. > Recently, my story as a Norwegian entrepreneur facing an unrealized gains wealth tax bill many times higher than my net income went viral, amassing over 100 million views on X.
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by cjs_ac 27d ago
> A sacked ALDI employee condemned by the Fair Work Commission for using "plain wrong" artificial intelligence (AI) advice in his failed bid to reverse his dismissal says he now plans to use "two or three" different A
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by cjs_ac 29d ago
The author’s product extracts data from bank statement PDFs and puts it in XLSX format. Both of the banks I use provide CSV data export from their apps. I’m not surprised the business is struggling - the author hasn’t found a deep enough pr
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
The vaguepost by Bessent in today’s Financial Times looked pretty weak: https://www.ft.com/content/cb865200-1a06-40be-86a3-10ee2bb05...
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
The government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
It’s obvious that this page was written by an autistic person because the top third is a fairly witty and insightful joke and the bottom third is an explanation of the joke.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
They’re a set of clip art provided with Microsoft PowerPoint called ‘Screen Beans’.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
Technology cannot solve social problems. Societies can solve social problems using technology, just as they can without using technology, but ultimately it is the society that solves the problem.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
The article isn't an attack on advertising to bring awareness of your product to an unaware market; it's an attack on being made to pay for a customer who has specifically asked for your product to be shown your product.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
To all the other currencies that are currently used as reserve currencies, other than the US dollar. There has never been a single reserve currency in the world.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
I started self-hosting my email last year, but I use MailPace (other email sending services are available) to avoid being memory-holed.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
It will bring the ability to tell investors that Netflix is using Large Language Models.

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