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by colinb 1y ago
Your assumption is that the only thing that stops someone from bombing the US or Israel is moral scruple? I'm not interested in arguing who-went-first or root causes, because that can go on all day, and we all already believe that we k
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by colinb 1y ago
I cannot tell if you’re being randomly vague or dog whistling here. Who do you think is occupying? Ahem., “occupying”?
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by colinb 1y ago
On one hand, I’m not against such a ban, if enacted by a democratically elected government in such a way that they, or their successors can change things back. I’d vote for it. On the other hand I hope these “fathers”, as though fertility e
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by colinb 1y ago
I left around the time of Brexit so I have no useful opinion on the recent financial/admin state of the UK, though it seems from afar that austerity has done the place no favours. But... - this kind of authoritarian nonsense is just wh
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by colinb 1y ago
Air Canada’s unofficial motto “we’re not happy’ till you’re not happy”.
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by colinb 1y ago
Any link that isn’t the Daily Heil?
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by colinb 1y ago
Onion futures are illegal. TIL.
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by colinb 1y ago
US$58. A bit more expensive than I’d like. Still, a cute device.
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by colinb 2y ago
I think that ship sailed so long ago it’s done a few circumnavigations already.
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Breakthrough drugs herald 'new era' in battle against dementia, experts predict(theguardian.com)
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by colinb 2y ago
> peacefully Well, apart from the fighting and that young woman who was bayoneted while carrying her infant sister. I’m not here to carry water for the asshat truckers, and I don’t understand the Canadian constitution or legal system, bu
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by colinb 2y ago
yeah, this is a hot take that would be rejected by the great majority of Europeans. The only country to join the EU and then leave now regrets doing so. Incidentally, their economy is on fire - not the good kind, they still have lying liars
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by colinb 2y ago
Absolutely not. In my standard intro material I explicitly say otherwise, tell them that actual work involves checking external references, and that I want the interview to be as near to a collaborative experience as it can be in the odd c
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by colinb 2y ago
I’m reasonably certain that I interviewed someone using this or something like it in the last few days. Lots of eye scanning while looking above the window they’d been typing into. Pauses. Big pastes. One of my excellent colleagues noticed
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by colinb 2y ago
Not opening the pdf to find out! Also, reminder of Snow Crash.
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by colinb 2y ago
I would be amazed if the basic accusation is false. Similarly I would be amazed if the US isn’t already doing this. I am fairly certain I knew someone who was actively involved in doing this in the Uk ten years ago. Why do you think otherwi
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by colinb 2y ago
Asymmetrical relationships are baked into employment. Indeed, that’s the very basis of the idea. Labour laws, unions etc came into existence to change that balance of power. Without them, no paid holiday, no proper weekend, no pension. All
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by colinb 2y ago
There’s a moderately good episode of Roman Mars’ podcast on the subject. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-frankfurt-kitchen...
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by colinb 2y ago
There’s a fairly good AppleTV Jellyfin app. It’s free.
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by colinb 2y ago
Here’s another thought experiment. We have ample evidence that the death penalty hasn’t made America safe from murder. But we don’t know if it has deterrence value for lesser crimes. I propose death by hanging for repeat littering and speed
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by colinb 2y ago
a bit of a tangent but regarding the translation, can you compare it to the work of a human translator>? I often find translated works unsatisfying. While the fault may well be with me, I thought the Three Body Problem was a pretty poor
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by colinb 2y ago
What if the pockets of IRA members had exploded (yes, I know. Say 40 years ago when they were doing their share of bombing)? Does anyone seriously dispute that Hezbollah is a proxy army for Iran? I think your comparison stops holding wage a
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by colinb 2y ago
There's a rather lovely Tom Stoppard play [0] that centers on the fact that James Joyce, Tristan Zara and Lenin all lived in Zurich in 1917. It's been a long time since I saw it, but I approximately recall a line were one of the c
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by colinb 2y ago
“Ah, well the word modernist is code for non-believer” from https://youtu.be/m2dNCw0hPLs?si=0xBHOTYnG-WaOGae . The one and only Yes, Prime Minister.
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by colinb 2y ago
Can I turn the question around and ask (rhetorically) what happened to make all those innovations happen in the first place? I think the answer is the WW2, and then the Cold War. Those have us miniaturisation, ICs, sensors, crypto (the old
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by colinb 2y ago
What are these pitfalls? My ignorance of the field is vast, but [opens mouth in preparation for feet] if nesting encryption weakens it doesn’t that imply that to decipher someone’s private message we should just encrypt it a few more times?
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by colinb 2y ago
I don’t understand why this is, or perhaps seems to be, the first question that’s asked. The more useful question, to me, is should the tide be turned? I’m not advocating human extinction, nor even a return to some (fictional) 17th century
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by colinb 2y ago
Does your calculator have a reciprocal button? That’d get you to the desired result with only one extra keystroke.
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by colinb 2y ago
I think your numbers for France are off. When I tried to hire there last year the burden of employer taxes and levies was ~70%. That wasn’t the part that killed the deal though. My employer’s real worry was around how hard they believe it t
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by colinb 2y ago
How much of the pain in getting an Irish mortgage comes from regulations? I tried re-mortgaging with Avant a few years ago and it was no less onerous than the process with BoI. Same messing about with multiple surveys, 30 page forms etc. A

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