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> The biggest problem with React is the JS bloat that's sent to the browser. There's a web app I use (ClickUp) where I have to watch UI elements load one-by-one, like I'm back on dial-up or something. I'm convinced th
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I grew up in Australia; our Danish neighbours introduced this to us. SBS (the Special Broadcasting Service, a government-owned TV station that serves Australia's many migrant communities) shows it every New Year's Eve, although al
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As the article notes, the old windows only date back to the nineteenth century.
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I think the dominance of English comes from the United Kingdom's significant cultural power in the nineteenth century (cf. French's status as the language of diplomacy deriving from France's cultural power in the eighteenth c
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* Greater London excludes the City of London * Footpaths and cycleways and shown as roads but railways are not
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Closely related: the Mortuary Railway Station[0] in Sydney, Australia, with services to Rookwood Cemetery[1]. They barely bothered to change the names. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_Street_railway_station [1
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In Early Modern English, you is inherently plural; the singular form is thou . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
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From the article: > Birney and McCaffrey were arrested in 2018 over the alleged theft of material used in the documentary from Northern Ireland's police ombudsman and claimed they were subject to covert surveillance before and aft
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> Do you think harmful behavior from anywhere online other than large platforms is spilling out into the real world in a way that the Online Safety Act will prevent? I have no idea. If you're thinking of how to protect the fediverse
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Blog and news website comment sections are explicitly exempted from the Act. > A universal duty to moderate will accelerate the disappearance of hobbyist websites and further entrench corporate social media. I think that's a bad thi
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> The freedom/security quote, why should that be uniquely American? It's a quote from one of the American founding fathers. I don't remember which, and I don't remember the exact quote. > Human rights are human rig
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The Online Safety Act is about content moderation. If Ofcom taps you on the shoulder, they're asking for your moderation policies, and proof you're enforcing them. Platforms can no longer wash their hands of responsibility by sayi
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> It is very difficult to see what your argument is here. My arguments are: * free speech is not a cornerstone of our national identity (despite John Milton's attempts to make it one); * social media causes genuine harm (but does no
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As a software engineer in the UK (and former schoolteacher) I'm supportive of the Online Safety Act. People prefer to interact with people who are similar to them, so they end up with a belief that most people are like them, but as a t
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> It seems like we now play racquetball with the courts, with each opposing administration appointing judges who are sympathetic to its viewpoints. Judges having political alignments is one of those things that non-Americans point to whe
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I've heard that in the '60s and '70s, gaggles of young women dressed for a night on the town would hop into black cabs, ask to be taken to 'a good party' with no elaboration, and get exactly that.
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Every system can be placed on a spectrum. One end of this spectrum is perfect efficiency . The other end is perfect resilience .
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An antecedent was the Flying University[0] in Poland while it was part of the Russian Empire, and was revived under the Soviet Union. Marie Curie was a graduate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University
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The Economist is a British magazine, originally marketed at devotees of classical liberalism, which was also called economism at the time. Its readership is largely British, and therefore seeks comparisons between the British economy, E
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What is the purpose of this?
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When I did my teacher training fifteen or so years ago, we were told that information that was written down by hand was retained for longer than information that was typed. This article seems to correlate with what I was taught. However, th
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When I visited a couple of years ago, it was quietly clicking away, computing prime numbers.
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> As populations move and shrink, people are leaving long-occupied places behind. Often they leave everything in place, ready for a return that never comes. In Tyurkmen, Christmas baubles still hang from the curtain rails in empty houses
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The market as an institution is 850 years old; the building that currently houses that institution is 42 years old. The market is not a place; it is the activity in which people engage in that place.
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> The decision to close the markets and offer traders compensation was made by the Corporation's Court of Common Council. > The Corporation will now have to file a Private Bill in Parliament as it seeks to absolve itself of the l
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> Concretely, is there something like Adblock that can be done for cookies? I use a combination of two browser extensions: Cookie AutoDelete [0] and I don't care about cookies [1]. The second hides any GDPR 'compliance'
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I used to be a consultant in this industry. Merlin Entertainment dominates the visitor attraction industry in the UK and is very good at making these things profitable. It won't be a premium experience by any means, but it won't b
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The problem with all these 'print debugging is good' and 'print debugging articles are bad' is that none of them provide any context. Print debugging is just one tool in a box full of tools. Pick the right one for the ri
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I was a young child in the 90s, and I barely used the Internet then, but I remember how people talked about it. It was Cyberspace and the Information Superhighway . It looked like blue and purple grids suspended in black space. It wasn&#
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> Tunnels and bridges have been proposed and in 1880 work started on experimental tunnels in Folkstone that were dug by hand and an early tunnel boring machine. The extent of this work from 1880 and 1881 is shown on OpenStreetMap[0]. [0]

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