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by foldr 11mo ago
It’s not in general illegal to carry knives in London (or again, in the rest of the country, which has the same laws). Small knives are permitted generally and larger knives may be carried for specific reasons (e.g. religious). To say that
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by foldr 11mo ago
Not really? You can buy knives in London, and any laws regulating knife purchases are UK-wide, nothing to do with London specifically.
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by foldr 11mo ago
Trump, at least, seems to like Putin because he's an authoritarian. Trump wants the same kind of absolute power that he perceives Putin to have. Many of the SV fascists (and yes, this seems like a fair appellation to me at this point)
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by foldr 11mo ago
A flat white is just a small latte (i.e. with a higher espresso to milk ratio). It's not based on filter coffee. Half and half does not exist in the UK (or Europe more generally, AFAIK). Filter coffee exists but is less common, especia
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by foldr 11mo ago
The kid will be fine. Couples separate or get divorced all the time for all kinds of reasons. “I have two loving parents who are now separated” doesn’t appear on the shortlist of bad things that can happen to kids.
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by foldr 11mo ago
I think the point is not that having an affair is “ok” but that it’s within the range of things that not unusually awful people can do. So it’s “ok” as in “Ok, so you had an affair”, not “It’s ok that you had an affair”.
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by foldr 11mo ago
This is understating it. Any minimally competent crew should be able to handle a single engine failure on takeoff (in a normal scenario, not this one). It’s absolutely within the performance envelope of the aircraft and is something that cr
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by foldr 11mo ago
>Painstaking scientific testing by a team of international experts has been able to debunk a rumour on whether Hitler had Jewish ancestry (he didn't) Isn't this Elizabeth Warren and the Cherokee all over again? Jewishness isn&#
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by foldr 11mo ago
The BBC doesn’t have a “strategy” of doing that, but any news service will have a detectable lean towards some viewpoints and away from others. When it comes to Israel/Palestine or trans rights, there is little general agreement as to
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by foldr 11mo ago
Cursor’s killer feature is that you can use it to edit diffs or restore a known good version? That is basic version control functionality. I understand what you’re referring to (I use Zed, which also has an interface for partially applying
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by foldr 11mo ago
No, this works fine with a single Zed instance.
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by foldr 1y ago
I addressed the other claims in the report in my original comment. Anyone who writes a report complaining about a ‘trans agenda’ clearly has more of an axe to grind than anyone at the BBC. Your last comment is bordering on a rant (e.g. the
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by foldr 1y ago
> The riot had already started before he gave his speech Sort of. It started before the speech finished, but about 50 minutes after it started. Here's the relevant timeline from the Wikipedia article. >At noon, Trump began an ove
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by foldr 1y ago
I'm not excusing the BBC for broadcasting a documentary with a misleading edit of Trump's speech. They've rightly admitted their error in that respect. This is a politically motivated attack on the BBC by people who, as refer
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by foldr 1y ago
Who are you comparing the BBC to? I can’t think of a news service of comparable scope that clearly has a better track record when it comes to accuracy. The edit of Trump’s speech in that one documentary was indeed misleading, but it’s being
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by foldr 1y ago
You said: > because people were only given a couple of establishment approved choices Unless you think Jeremy Corbyn was establishment approved (!), this is clearly not true. I’m not really sure what to make of your latest comment. Is yo
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by foldr 1y ago
Here is the BBC news website: https://bbc.co.uk/news It is not 90% American politics.
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by foldr 1y ago
Even in this hypothetical scenario, you’re radically rearchitecting your entire product to save “months of work” and the cost of some beefier dev machines. How can that be rational?
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by foldr 1y ago
Neither was Jeremy Corbyn, but he would have been Prime Minister if enough people had voted for him. Say what you will about him (I am not a fan), but he is not “establishment approved”.
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by foldr 1y ago
That’s unique in a good way, no? Would it be better if the BBC were incapable of self critique?
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m sure the BBC gets lots of stuff wrong in its news coverage, just like any other news organization you could name. But if we’re talking about systemic bias in reporting on the Israel/Palestine conflict, it’s worth noting that “both
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by foldr 1y ago
So does this: https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-stan... It’s quite a fun game to match every accusation of BBC bias with its exact opposite. That’s not to say that BBC reporting is perfect and that no
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by foldr 1y ago
The accusations against the BBC in this case are extremely weak, though. The main thing is the somewhat misleading edit of Trump’s speech in one documentary (which was such a big deal that no-one noticed till a year later), and then some ge
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by foldr 1y ago
That particular example is irrelevant to poverty of the stimulus arguments because no-one has ever suggested that kids acquiring English lack evidence for the irregular past tense of ‘go’. See above for some examples of the kinds of grammat
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by foldr 1y ago
Yes, humans can echolocate to a limited extent, just as some animals have very limited analogs of human language. That was the point of the comparison. It is no more sensible to view human language as just a more complex variant of vervet m
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by foldr 1y ago
Yes, lots of people have argued that Chomsky is wrong about various things for various reasons and at various times. The point of my post was not to get into all of those historical arguments, but to point out that recent developments in LL
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by foldr 1y ago
> One of the major beliefs of this view is that LLMs are essentially impossible because there's not enough information in language to learn it unless you have a special purpose language-learning module built into the brain by evolut
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by foldr 1y ago
How are you getting $166k take home for a $200 salary? If I use one of those online tax calculator things for New York, I get a take home of $135,000 from $200k. Ok, so let’s try a lower tax state that still has a lot of economic opportunit
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by foldr 1y ago
Every startup says that it’s not like other startups. If the founder of the company’s response to being asked how they’re going to obtain one trillion dollars in revenue is (fluff aside) essentially equivalent to “trust me bro”, then I am v
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by foldr 1y ago
Almost all of those startups fail. Doomerism is the objectively correct outlook on any given startup in the absence of strong countervailing evidence. This isn’t “glass half full vs glass half empty”, it’s “wild optimism vs sober considerat

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