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Now that General Motors has shut down Holden and sold off Opel and Vauxhall to Stellantis, Ford is the only US car manufacturer that sells vehicles in significant numbers outside the Americas, and it does this by having completely different
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> Your product is downstream from your ideal customer profile (ICP). Do not start with an idea . Start with a problem , and then construct a solution . The solution is the product. The problem implies someone who has that problem: thi
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Americans need to understand that everything their Founding Fathers wrote is just footnotes on the ideas that came out of the political tumult of seventeenth-century Britain. Free speech was first proposed by John Milton during Cromwell&#x2
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The Online Safety Act is vague because its purpose is not to create a regulatory system, but instead to empower Ofcom to create a regulatory system that can effectively regulate a wide range of business models and online services, including
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Speaking as the person who pops up to defend the Online Safety Act (which regulates social media), I think the Investigatory Powers Act (which allows for this spat with Apple) is a terrible piece of legislation. The Online Safety Act is abo
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The Act does in fact scale the obligations according to the size of the community/service.
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This is just that 'reality has a surprising amount of detail' phenomenon all over again. Big tech simply isn't willing to engage with the detail, and increasingly expects the world to conform to its expectations. That said, t
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That just proves my point. All that obsessing about preventing tyrants, and you still end up with one. Maybe if, as a culture, you spent less time poring over quotes from eighteenth-century political thinkers to divine the best possible the
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I swear 'defence against tyranny' is the justification for every ridiculous thing the US does.
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The interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o One hour long, and Thompson tells a lot of entertaining stories. Kernighan does a good job of just letting Thompson speak.
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I found it amusing that the 'See also' section lists Github Copilot.
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The application I'm building (I haven't launched yet) has one database per customer that tracks the things the customer does in the application, plus a single database that tracks the metadata about all of the customers. The metad
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It depends on what sort of life you want. I'm not a 'wheeler-dealer', so I'm keeping small. You need to go big to become a billionaire, but then it takes over your life. You also need to think about what your product act
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> Note that, while a VAT is imposed at every stage of the process, the net effect is to apply the rate one time to the final sales price. The tax is collected in increments (on the “value added” at each stage), but unlike with a pyramidi
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Grosvenor , from gros venor , 'fat hunter'.
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A real-life example of this is Princess Michael of Kent.
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I grew up in Australia and taught in Australia and the UK; and yes, the word problems are ubiquitous in those countries too. But those word problems are always deeply inauthentic, and extracting the relevant information from them becomes ju
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Jean Piaget was one of the foundational researchers in cognitive development, particularly in 'constructivist' circles. Constructivism is the theory that learning is an active psychological process, and is contrasted with behaviou
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One of the books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (of however many books there are) ends very abruptly because the publisher was so annoyed with him missing deadlines they told him to just finish the page he was on and
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It's worth remembering you had far fewer pixels to play with; I remember 800x600 and 1024x768 being the standard monitor resolutions of the day.
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Extracting aluminium from bauxite is notoriously energy-intensive. During the nineteenth century, European aristocrats used aluminium tableware because it was more expensive than silverware. (They later switched back to silver when the nove
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This is going to be another one of those threads where Americans are angry and confused at a non-American government not governing according to American values, isn't it?
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There were money lenders ( argentarii ) but they were just individuals setting up stall in the local forum . If you exhausted your credit with one argentarius you just went and found another who didn't talk to the first.
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Peter Sellers also had this problem; in his case, it was a problem with his personality (or lack of one) rather than something acting did to him.
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Shakespearean actor, mountaineer and explorer BRIAN BLESSED has a brilliant story about the time, as a young boy, he met Picasso and narrowly avoided saving his family from poverty: https://youtu.be/ZH4cWoetw4s?si=CjLg5P5MDr
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A tool needs to complement its user. A tool that has the same weaknesses as its user isn't useful.
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I think software engineering is inherently a management job. When you write code, you write company policy, but that policy isn't followed by human employees, it's followed by electronic employees - computers. These electronic emp
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Nah, she's grifting now too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c938l80ekejo
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> 60.9MB transferred Opening this page 6 and a half times would exceed the monthly download limit on the first broadband internet plan my family had about twenty years ago in Australia.
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In the UK, the financial year ends on 5 April. This is Lady Day (25 March) plus the 11 days lost in the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.

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