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by gadders 9mo ago
If you had a Rawlsian veil pulled over your eyes and someone said to you "You won't know how rich you will be in that society, but would you rather live in a top ten GDP per Capita country or a bottom ten?" I think we all kno
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by gadders 9mo ago
I'm sure it has problems, but if I look at the top of this list (and exclude the tax havens) the answer to "Would I like to live there?" is Yes. Likewise for the bottom of the list it's an emphatic No. Is it a completely
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by gadders 9mo ago
GDP per person should be the measure. The UK managed to make GDP go up while making GDP per person go down.
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by gadders 9mo ago
"Do not mistake global economic resilience for a triumph by the likes of Mr Trump. " Trans: The facts do not match the Economist's predictions, and therefore the facts are wrong.
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by gadders 9mo ago
Thank you. I thought it was a VC but couldn't remember who.
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by gadders 9mo ago
>>If you want housing to be cheaper and renters to be better treated, increase supply. Everything else is window-dressing. You can also look at reducing demand due to mass migration.
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by gadders 9mo ago
One point is that the things that have increased in cost are more heavily regulated/government controlled than the items that haven't. I did hear an interesting quote from someone techy that said "If you punch a whole in a pl
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by gadders 9mo ago
Long term, maybe. Definitely not buying a fridge with a screen.
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by gadders 9mo ago
Finally! I can't wait to uninstall Plex.
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by gadders 9mo ago
I don't think anyone believes this versus age-related cognitive decline. There were too many other instances.
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by gadders 9mo ago
And if the gift card expires, the funds get returned to the original purchaser or it goes into escheat.
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by gadders 9mo ago
They've done so badly you would think the Mozilla Corp had bought them.
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by gadders 9mo ago
JFC just write a proper Samsung client. [I'm aware there is one I can muck around with and install via Samsung developer portal]
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by gadders 9mo ago
Makes sense. There is no real functional difference though between offshoring a job, or importing cheap (H1B or other) labour to do it in the home country.
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by gadders 10mo ago
I didn't mind "body positivity" too much, it was more "healthy at any size" that I found objectionable. If you as an adult want to eat to excess (or drink, or smoke), feel free (within reason - don't encroach o
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by gadders 10mo ago
That happens very infrequently on my commuter service in the UK. I'd say not more than once every couple of months, normally due to someone committing suicide in front of a train.
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by gadders 10mo ago
I think it depends on where you are going. My local commuter link into London is OK and reliable, if expensive. Long range trains from, say, London to Manchester are often overcrowded and ridiculously priced.
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by gadders 10mo ago
Not as meaningful as some of these but one that stuck with me. I had a door to door selling summer job in America at 21 after leaving university (I'm a brit) . The job was primarily on the Eastern Shore in Delaware. Everywhere I went a
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by gadders 10mo ago
OK. The first part sounds a bit like an innovation. I was kind of expecting someone to say it had EG really sophisticated ETL tools that can normalise loads of different data or can query across disparate data sources or something.
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by gadders 10mo ago
But I mean in terms of technical capability? How is it different than chucking everything in Postgres or a Big Data lake or something?
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by gadders 10mo ago
Can someone actually explain what the magic sauce is in what Palantir does? I understand it pulls data together?
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by gadders 10mo ago
I can't think of a single example. It normally means making a company worse whilst relying on existing name recognition to drive sales with the aim of re-selling it before people realise how bad the company has begun.
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by gadders 11mo ago
It's been going on for longer than that. Ask Graham Linehan.
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by gadders 11mo ago
But also - say over your 55th year your levels were 800, but when you felt your best and most confident at 35, your levels were 1000. What is the correct level for you?
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by gadders 11mo ago
What if the person complaining had spent all their life at a base level of 1000? Diagnosing off population base levels is a very blunt tool. I don't disagree that there are some bad actors out there - the bar to getting it under 40 or
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by gadders 11mo ago
Back in the early 2000s there weren't that many sites that could direct that sort of traffic to a website.
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>The trick the clinics are using now is “diagnosing by symptoms”. You can't really diagnose by levels, though, unless you knew what that person's previous levels were. Setting an average across a population is not really re
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by gadders 11mo ago
I think they made it far, far easier to implement them as a payment provider vs PayPal etc. That was the first innovation.
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>But I think that the modern historian can't just leave their own moral values, you know, at the library door. But everyone knows what those values are, because largely (with a few nuances) we all share them. We don't need
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by gadders 11mo ago
I think it depends why you're interested in the Romans. As a layman, I like the military history, the politics, etc. I'm less interested in the sociology - especially when retro-fitting a 2025 world view on it. And you can despise

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