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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
I agree with the characterisation of this activity as 'cyber-warfare', but that has the consequence that telling businesses to 'hack back' is inviting them to raise private armies, with which I strenuously disagree. That
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
Americans don't claim to use imperial weights and measures; they use customary weights and measures, which were also used in the UK prior to the creation of imperial units with the Weights and Measures Act 1824.
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The danger in assuming that all your customers who request support are the sort of person who couldn't empty water from a boot with instructions written on the heel is that all of your competent customers will seek out your more respec
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
DRY follows WET (Write Everything Twice).
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TIL that the head of Palantir's UK arm is the grandson of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
My family's first broadband internet connection, circa 2005, came with a monthly data quota of 400 MB. The fundamental problem of journalism is that the economics no longer works out. Historically, the price of a copy of a newspaper ba
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
The common thread in all of your examples is people with mathematical training bringing mathematical formalisms to disciplines that lacked them. If you're just offering the wisdom gleaned from your life experiences, they're unlike
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
From the footer: > This website is produced by BBC Global News Ltd, a commercial company that is part of BBC Studios, owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. The money we make f
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by cjs_ac 8mo ago
Ignoring all the tedious 'no, you're a bad person for having different priorities and beliefs to me' comments that this will inevitably inspire, I have to ask: why does the operating system need to be involved in this? The in
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by cjs_ac 8mo ago
After I got Indefinite Leave to Remain (permanent settled status) in the UK, I had to buy a new phone that had NFC, because the new eVisa system required me to scan the chip in my passport to link it to the system. In general, the UK retain
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by cjs_ac 8mo ago
The difference is that at the strip club, you show your ID to the bouncer, who makes sure its valid and that the photo matches your face, and then forgets all about it. Online, that data is stored forever. The principle of online ID checks
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by cjs_ac 8mo ago
I've tried, but have been unable to do so. I think it's a limitation of my meatness.
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The weakest point in any computer system is the bag of meat operating the thing.
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Politics is about deciding who gets to exercise power and what they get to do with it. Politics detached from power is just pointless squabbling.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Traditionally, the news industry has been divided into tabloids , which were more sensationalist and aimed at a less sophisticated readership, and broadsheets , which were more analytical and aimed at a more sophisticated readership. From
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
> The Schiehallion experiment wasn’t the state of the art for long. A more precise result was achieved in 1798 by Henry Cavendish, who was on the committee for the Schiehallion experiment. Cavendish’s experiment measured the gravity of l
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That's going to take a lot of Minis!
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> One peculiar thing from the UK: Internet providers don’t truly offer gigabit internet. They have a range of deals like 30 Mbps – 75 Mbps – 150 Mbps – 300 Mbps – 500 Mbps – 900 Mbps, each one costing a few more pounds per month than the
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
> The British arm of Elon Musk's electric car giant has faced multiple criminal court proceedings over the past two years linked to alleged road traffic offences. > Tesla offers its vehicles on long-term leases, and in such a sce
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Different countries have made on-and-off efforts over the decades, but I'm explaining why they're all doing it right now.
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Every Western government is receiving the same briefings from its intelligence and counterintelligence agencies: these powers are needed in case the third world war starts.
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> U.S. customary (the more accurate name for what’s sometimes the called the British Imperial system) For those wondering why there is this distinction, the British Imperial units were created by the Weights and Measures Act 1824; US cus
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
> The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union. So that business can operate across Member States much more
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
More than half of all physical slot machines in the world are in Australia.
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The disaster is the consequences of people treating the data generated by these prediction markets as revealing some sort of insight into future events, rather than just a silly game played by silly people.
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> These markets are also manipulable. In 2012, one bettor on the now-defunct prediction market Intrade placed a series of huge wagers on Mitt Romney in the two weeks preceding the election, generating a betting line indicative of a tight
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
> Is it possible to create a social network (or "discussion community", if you prefer) that doesn't have any incentive except human-to-human interaction? I don't mean a place where AI is banned, I mean a place where A
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Before the US Navy did that, the Royal Navy did. The work needs to be done, but it doesn't have to be the US doing it.
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Changes to property taxes on business premises.
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio... 2. Modern societies are really complex, and a great deal of information-processing work is required to keep them functioning. Authoritarian governments

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