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by dbspin 1y ago
The fraud issues you mention are real and pressing... They're also completely disconnected from blanket cuts to NIH funding. There seems to be some kind of grasping for a positive in heavy cuts to essential research here. Put another w
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by dbspin 2y ago
>If we truly care about biodiversity, The 'we' here is the issue. Who is we? The human race do not share complex holistic goals, organisational frameworks, or even aesthetic preferences. It's a miracle cooperation exists a
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by dbspin 2y ago
You're literally the 'peacock' being described. You've expressed your preferences and needs, with no mention of the needs or preferences of your staff.
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by dbspin 2y ago
As someone who has lived in both, I can't agree. The small time landlords have differed between incredibly kind and deeply unreasonable, but they've all charged under market and responded to issues with their properties in a timel
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by dbspin 2y ago
Comparing individual investors to managed funds isn't useful. The amounts involved, methodologies employed for return and potential for collusion aren't comparable. I can't speak to your market, but here in Ireland private eq
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by dbspin 2y ago
Find this curious. Surely factoring in the cost of tax and insurance greatly increases the cost of the used car? I'm based in Europe so perhaps things are radically different in the US.
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by dbspin 2y ago
They're not constrained by income as an ordinary purchaser would be. So they're not at all like an ordinary buyer. Further, if private equity buys to rent at scale they can fundamentally alter the availability and pricing of housi
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by dbspin 2y ago
This would be true were private equity not buying up housing stock. That being the case income is now to some extent detached from housing prices. [1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/15/in-s
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by dbspin 2y ago
'Gamers' are now everyone. 1.7 billion men and 1.39 billion women - essentially anyone with a mobile device. One of the biggest gaming hits of the last decade was Pokemon Go, which literally requires a walk. 'Gamers don'
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by dbspin 2y ago
The Wii was one of the most successful consoles of all time. Half the games had people standing up and swinging at something. That doesn't track at all.
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by dbspin 2y ago
'MrBeast' please don't compare this nonsense to creativity. He's a business man, and an extremely dishonest one [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslLBsHkVzE ]. A genius at 'optimising' 'con
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by dbspin 2y ago
But that's simply not the case. We likely very close to the technology needed to get tiny objects to a decent fraction of lightspeed using laser arrays. Assuming genuine AGI is possible and miniaturisation continues, there's no ph
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by dbspin 2y ago
That's bonkers. No such restriction here in Ireland. Frequently get work done away from the home office on 4G hotspotted to the laptop.
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by dbspin 2y ago
My heart genuinely goes out to him. Not merely for losing the bitcoin. The idea of trying to negotiate a search (or purchase) of the dump with the risk avoidant jobsworth council bureaucrats of a mid sized British town is spine chilling.
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by dbspin 2y ago
Here's another way to think of it... Very real substantive criticisms of the whole DEI project and identity politics have been rubbished for years. It was in fact impossible within the liberal left either in the academy or journalism t
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by dbspin 2y ago
Right you are. Also, if you're Rob Synnott I'm pretty sure I remember you from back in the early blogging / podcast days. Hope you're well.
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by dbspin 2y ago
To expand my point. DEI is explicitly designed not to make hiring fair, but to make unfair hiring policy. Making accommodations for people who need special help (I work with the blind community so that was where my mind immediately went), b
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by dbspin 2y ago
Blind reviews (and even interviews) are great ways of making hiring more fair. They are explicitly the inverse of DEI approaches. DEI is predicated on outcome diversity, rather than treating applicants equally irrespective of background. Th
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by dbspin 2y ago
Not to politicise this discussion, but the country is called 'The Republic of Ireland'. The phrase 'the Irish Republic' references the 1916 Easter proclamation, and has specific political and even colonial implications i
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by dbspin 2y ago
In my country (and I suspect most Western Countries) my doctor would lose his medical licence for selling my contact information.
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by dbspin 2y ago
Video games are a good counter example. The others you've listed are fandom specific which is distinct from having a relationship with a brand per say. I hadn't heard about camping for the 30 series, thats nuts.
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by dbspin 2y ago
Correction - everyone with HSV-1 outbreaks could in my opinion benefit from prophylactic antivirals. It's worth noting that HSV-1 seroprevalence is extremely heterogeneous. Many nations have rates over 90%, which some Northern European
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by dbspin 2y ago
Want to second the antiviral. I have a much lower prescription (200mg once a day of the older generic Acyclovir), but I've been using it prophylactically for over twenty years. Each new GP responds with horror, but it reduces my outbre
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by dbspin 2y ago
That was B2B - it was a golf course brag for executives. Customers camping outside Apple stores was something different. That's personal identity defined by not merely consumption, but parasocial relationship to a brand.
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by dbspin 2y ago
Damn that must be frustrating. Tangentially similar experience - I flew from Ireland to the US in 2007, and at the end of my trip spent 11 days walking around Manhattan with little to do. Do to the lack of online banking at the time I could
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by dbspin 2y ago
The early years of the web were absolutely this chaotic maelstrom of new things happening every week. But news of it was hard to come by. In the UK / Ireland we had some great tech coverage in the form of shows like 'The Net'
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by dbspin 2y ago
No you're right. I'm sure Trump released him as a deeply principled and selfless act.
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by dbspin 2y ago
History is complicated. The reason the Chinese stopped building (and in fact scuttled) their fleets is collective trauma after the mass genocide carried out by the Mongols. Including the decapitation of the Chinese imperial elite and the er
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by dbspin 2y ago
Here's one about the 'Semco Way' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Wor... Semco, like Valve is a 'horizontal organisation' with a BDFL. The difference being that Semco is a
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by dbspin 2y ago
Hard disagree - Zuckerberg absolutely is responsible for inadequately policing calls for genocide on his platform. Just as every social network is responsible for policing child abuse materials. Should they be punished for such content bein

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