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by foldr 8mo ago
Biden's surely a poster child for the value of experience and connections in the Presidency. Whatever you think of him (and I would certainly agree that he should never have considered a second term), he was quite successful in further
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by foldr 8mo ago
SWE salaries in the UK are fairly unsurprising as they tend to be more or less in the range of other professional salaries. If they’re high from a worldwide point of view that’s just because most of us are in London and London is a high cos
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by foldr 8mo ago
I had a similar one from that guy asking me to make open source PRs to some repo of theirs for, err, $25-50/hour. I replied explaining that senior software engineers in the UK aren’t quite as desperately poor as that, and got a canne
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by foldr 8mo ago
The only like for like comparison you can do is comparing an M1 MacBook to one of its Intel Mac contemporaries (which were present day Intel systems at the time).
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by foldr 8mo ago
Compare an M1 MacBook to one of its Intel predecessors. It’s not just software.
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by foldr 8mo ago
The King doesn't have veto powers over arrests of members of the royal family, and he was not notified before the arrest. In general, members of the Royal Family do pay taxes, so I'm not sure what you're referring to there. (
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by foldr 8mo ago
Not an expert, but can’t you get synchronization like this just by using release/acquire memory order with C11 atomic stores and loads?
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by foldr 8mo ago
I think this is a very implausible take for two reasons. First, the King doesn't have that kind of power over the justice system in the UK. He cannot choose when, whether or why Andrew is arrested. Second, Andrew's arrest is a neg
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by foldr 8mo ago
Right, but they're not protected by being members of the British Royal Family. So it doesn't seem necessary to appeal to that factor as part of the explanation for why Andrew has not been prosecuted in the US.
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by foldr 8mo ago
The answer is obvious. The King would have no choice but to say what he has in fact said (i.e. that the ordinary process of the law must be followed).
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by foldr 8mo ago
The Police don’t need the King’s permission to arrest members of the royal family.
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by foldr 8mo ago
I think this is a misreading of the situation. He’s being arrested because of recently uncovered evidence that he committed a crime. We can all form our own opinions on whether or not Andrew committed rape and/or sexual abuse (without
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by foldr 8mo ago
The obvious explanation is that none of the men who abused girls via their relationship with Epstein are being prosecuted in the USA. So why should it be surprising that Andrew is not?
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by foldr 8mo ago
> If you've spent much time in the terminal, you've probably set a custom base16 theme. Hmm, I suspect that almost everyone who works in the terminal has never done this. I don’t really care what the colors look like, beyond ch
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by foldr 8mo ago
Again, you're suggesting an equivalence between someone who has strong views and someone who's simply disconnected from reality. Thunberg is right to be concerned about the environment. You could argue that she's too concer
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by foldr 8mo ago
Right, but if you are using Thiel as a point of reference, you’re going to find a midpoint between sanity and insanity, which isn’t the truth. Say what you will about Thunberg, but she is not insane in the way that Thiel is.
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by foldr 8mo ago
I don’t have a strong opinion on Thunberg herself, but no, truths aren’t always in the middle. Thiel is clearly a complete fruitcake, so it does not make sense to triangulate based on any position that he holds.
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by foldr 8mo ago
> These laws can only be used by the EU commission against specific companies. In the UK at least, the GDPR was incorporated into UK law (where it remains, essentially unmodified, even after Brexit). So it is certainly not necessary to g
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by foldr 9mo ago
Reminds me of the possibly-apocryphal-but-not-entirely-off-the-money story about Bertrand Russell’s response to an American questioner who asked him why he had given up philosophy: "because I discovered that I preferred fucking".
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by foldr 9mo ago
It's conceivable, but I doubt it, for the reasons I mentioned. If Chomsky created this thing then presumably his wife can dig out some kind of record of it (as she apparently handled the communication with Epstein's office). So fa
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by foldr 9mo ago
I was a generative linguist in my previous career and no linguist that I know has ever heard of this Chomsky challenge thing. It’s hard to prove that something doesn’t exist, but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t.
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by foldr 9mo ago
I don't think Chomsky's relationship with Epstein is in any way defensible, but I've seen similar comments to yours all over the interwebs and I'm confused by them. Chomsky never decried capitalists or told us to be susp
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by foldr 9mo ago
Primarily because there is no evidence that the challenge exists, and it's hard to imagine what it could even be. Chomsky's own research interests didn't really lend themselves to setting some kind of math olympiad style &#x2
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by foldr 9mo ago
Chomsky won't be the first or the last person to be tempted by offers of free money from dodgy gentlemen. There are consequences to accepting such offers, as we now see.
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by foldr 9mo ago
Yeah, of course. But the question is what Chomsky thought about all this. His wife seems to want us to think that Chomsky genuinely believed he was being paid $20k to develop a 'linguistic challenge'. I think what's nearer th
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by foldr 9mo ago
>In order to clarify the check: Epstein asked Noam to develop a linguistic challenge that Epstein wished to establish as a regular prize. Noam worked on it, and Epstein sent a check for US$20,000 as payment. Epstein’s office contacted me
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by foldr 9mo ago
The command line incantation is just a convenience. You can unblock the app that you just tried to run by going to Privacy and Security in system settings and clicking around a bit.
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by foldr 9mo ago
The UK is a country where the Prime Minister may very probably have to resign because he is unpopular. See also Liz Truss and Boris Johnson. Prime Ministers in the UK don’t usually last that long if the public turns against them. Compare to
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by foldr 9mo ago
That seems an entirely false sense of inevitability. Once perfectly possible outcome is that representative democracy keeps chugging along as usual in most of the West and we don’t have mob rule or rule by a corrupt group of oligarchs. The
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by foldr 9mo ago
Housework isn’t as onerous now as it was 100 years ago, though.

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