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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Interest rates are definitely returning to normal, and home prices will simply have to decrease correspondingly. Here's a graph of the Bank Rate of the Bank of England (the UK's central bank) going back to 1694: https:/&#x2F
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
American culture is remarkably solipsistic. We see and know so much of them, and they see and know so little of us (for any given 'us'). (Four years after moving from Australia to the UK, my twenty-volume print copy of the OED rem
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
It's a 1988 article; the linked version is a scan of a 1998 reprinting.
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Having worked on Neom, I can tell you that Neom is fractally insane. The approval process for headline projects at Neom is: have idea; produce cyberpunk-themed renders; show to Crown Prince; receive approval. (MBS loves cyberpunk.) There wa
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
This lecture by Dr Finkel on how he discovered the original Babylonian version of the Noah's Ark story is equal parts fascinating and hilarious: https://youtu.be/s_fkpZSnz2I
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
UK plug sockets are rated at 13 A, giving a maximum power rating of 2,990 W. Kettles are consequently amongst the highest-drawing household appliances in the UK. Back when there were only three television channels, the National Grid planner
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
TL;DR: Some venture capitalists are charlatans. Specifically, while the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a small number of individuals allows those individuals to embark on great projects, many of the great projects that venture
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
A lot of the analysis on this issue relates to the supply side of the market - manufacturers maximising margins and increasing safety standards - but the demand side plays a role too. For the past fifteen years, we've lived with neglig
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The limits of the right to roam vary significantly between countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam?wprov=sfla1
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
This will cause Australia's first recession in over thirty years. Chinese steel is made from Australian iron ore, which is Australia's biggest export. At the start of the Global Financial Crisis, the Chinese government stimulated
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The CPU can only address 64k of RAM, so... no.
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I suspect the increasing proportion of online stores offering these deals is due to the increasing proportion of payment platforms (Stripe et al.) integrating with the buy-now-pay-later operators, and stores seeing no reason not to allow cu
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That's more to do with the fact that buyers expect car prices to correlate more closely with size than the manufacturing cost actually does, so manufacturers are prioritising bigger cars to maximise profits. Since interest rates are ri
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
1. We call them 'car parks'. 2. Our standards for car parking spaces and garage sizes haven't changed since the 1930s and our standards for road-building haven't changed since bicycles were the New Thing. We have people
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Here's one for £15: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7627747
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
cf. Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of social, cultural and economic capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
> But sure, only compatible cultures should talk to one another? No, this would be taking my argument too far. Online communities develop their own cultures and norms, mostly borrowed from the real-world cultural contexts of their consti
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I'm in the UK, but we are united by a common culture: HN is designed to select its users for a particular set of interests, attitudes and behaviours. But mainstream social media platforms are designed to be for everybody, and that&#x27
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The articles on British politics (e.g., Charlotte Owen or Keir Mather) have a very different tone to those on US politics.
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There's a subtle but crucial difference. Service providers are free to offer end-to-end encrypted chat, but have to take responsibility for anything that's transmitted through that service. This means that services like Signal and
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just someone who read the bill a couple of months ago because I was checking to see whether the idea I have in the back of my head for a social media platform was still viable. Heather Burns[0] is an actua
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I've read the bill, and know what it stipulates. Of course, if you don't want to take my word for it, you can download the 302 pages of legislation and check it yourself: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Perhaps I am being naive, and I will confess that I'm not entirely sure that the future will be as I predicted (but I'm not going to edit my initial comment, out of respect for those disagreeing with me). But I will think this quo
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
It's a bit of both. The law states that Ofcom has to ask you for your risk assessments, and they can't ask you for those if they don't know you exist.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I am chiding people, not for complaining, but for misunderstanding the surrounding context. Legislation is only as powerful as those enforcing it. > And it seems Apple and others don't believe it either. Yes, Apple, Google, Microsof
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
What the government actually wants is for service providers (as in, social media companies, not ISPs) to monitor everything happening on their service to make sure that no one is coming to any serious harm. How providers do that is up to th
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
If you operate an online service, you don't have any actual obligations under the Online Safety Bill until Ofcom taps you on the shoulder. Considering that Ofcom is also responsible for regulating ISPs, all broadcast media, the EM spec
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While I'm not a supporter of the Online Safety Bill, I do find that the opprobrium that it has inspired is consistently hyperbolic. The Online Safety Bill bans nothing . What it does do is create a regulatory framework for the Office
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There are many websites that scrape Stack Overflow's content and serve it up again with their own ads.
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It's a riff on the old joke, 'the beatings will continue until morale improves.' It suggests that the problems are caused by poor management practices and has no deeper meaning.

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