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by gmac 3y ago
And yet a £60K household income (two adults, no kids) still makes you better off than 88% of the population. [1] I think a lot of people on comfortable incomes have absolutely no idea how privileged they are. I also know people who complain
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by gmac 3y ago
I use SMS/iMessage for most one-to-one messaging, but never for group chats. For groups, I use only WhatsApp and a little Signal. I'm in the UK.
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by gmac 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about React. I like it better than jQuery, and better than most other JS frameworks I’ve used. But I prefer Mithril ( https://mithril.js.org/ ), which offers the same immediate-mode advantages ( https:&#
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by gmac 3y ago
Maybe part of it is that there are few enough models of cars that it’s possible to collect reliability data (and people do), and it’s a big enough purchase (and breaking down is annoying enough) that people pay attention to it?
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by gmac 3y ago
There’s decent evidence (backing up clear intuition) that wellbeing scales with the log of income. There’s also decent evidence for losses being about twice as painful as gains are pleasurable. Moving money from richer to poorer people shou
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, I think you could make the case that entities of any sort — corporations or individuals alike — should be allowed to exceed the threshold only if they’re under some kind of democratic control. And obviously that’s not a get-out that in
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by gmac 3y ago
ORMs suck, but raw SQL embedded in your code sucks too. This might be good time to plug my Postgres/TypeScript non-ORM: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/ . I should say I also like what I've seen of https:&#x2F
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Why cutting 70%+ marginal tax rates should be a UK Government priority(taxpolicy.org.uk)
4 points by gmac 3y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
In case that gives the wrong impression, UK marginal tax rates are a ridiculous mess, and come down below 60% again when you earn £125K+. https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/09/24/70percent/
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by gmac 3y ago
Automatic braking on my car kicked in to prevent something similar (it stopped me reversing into a tree, in the first week I had it, when I thought I was in first but was actually in reverse). In the following five years it has given me a f
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by gmac 3y ago
Would be interesting to see a reference for that. I’ve never heard of anyone being pursued for ripping or format-shifting.
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by gmac 3y ago
Definitely true. But the software does also seem to have sucked extremely and surprisingly hard for something that was mission-critical and handling millions of pounds of transactions a day. From what I've read (which is admittedly s
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by gmac 3y ago
The good thing about a Dualit is that, because (with repairs) they last approximately forever, you can always buy one second-hand. I paid about 3x what I would normally pay for a toaster for one on eBay. I expect it to last much more than 3
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by gmac 3y ago
Agreed. Although, as I understand it, this also happens to be a staple of the US legal system: https://stfrancislaw.com/blog/whats-a-plea-bargain-and-how-d...
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by gmac 3y ago
YMMV. For me in the UK — where all supermarkets except the discounters will deliver cheaply — it's ENORMOUSLY more convenient: it saves me hours a week that I'd otherwise spend at a supermarket.
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by gmac 3y ago
I thought the A350 was Airbus’s answer to the 787. Curious why that’s not a ‘perfect competitor’?
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by gmac 3y ago
If you sell a device as waterproof and then it gets damaged by water, that’s obviously a fault: it wasn’t waterproof like it was meant to be.
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by gmac 3y ago
Quite possibly. But I suspect the full benefits are pretty hard to assess from our armchairs. I imagine there's a fair amount of useful technology that got developed along the way, and a bunch of global cultural value (and US soft powe
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by gmac 3y ago
QALYs are generally how this done, and don't need to be limited to medicine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/... They won't help you with non-existence though.
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by gmac 3y ago
I'd say this kind of highlights the limits of economic rationality as a decision-making rule. Yes, that's rational. But being careless with other people's lives is something many people (including me, an economist) are morall
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New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster(theregister.com)
1 points by gmac 3y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
I am all in on the Mac, but I hate APFS — or at least the way it's exposed by the Finder. There's no longer any obvious relationship between deleting stuff and getting disk space back, and at any one time you can find a range of
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by gmac 3y ago
High, mainly because of high tax rates. This is a good thing, because it reflects the social cost of carbon (plus pollutants, road-building, and other externalities). https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-social-cost-of-ca
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Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween and Christmas?(twitter.com)
3 points by gmac 3y ago|4 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
YMMV here. I’m in and from the UK, and have family members who are hospital doctors. The NHS is indeed collapsing, but my understanding is that this is a combination of (1) underfunding, (2) Brexit, which caused many healthcare workers from
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by gmac 3y ago
This just isn’t true, though. CarPlay has worked beautifully for me the last 5 years.
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by gmac 3y ago
Feels weird to get into a high-school debate about capital punishment here, but in essence: (a) Sometimes the wrong people get convicted. In this context, irreversible punishments suck. (b) “We’re going to kill you because killing people is
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by gmac 3y ago
Interesting, but maybe not the whole story. A relative has one of these and tells me its efficiency is godawful, which I put down at least in part to its bulky uprightness (I have a longer estate/station wagon which does nearly twice t
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by gmac 3y ago
Not necessarily. There are a lot of stupid ‘compact’ SUVs out there which are big on the outside and small on the inside, and inefficient for no reason. Things like the Nissan Juke. Those things should be taxed to oblivion, so people stop b
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by gmac 3y ago
In response to some of the comments here, I've just (11.45 GMT) tweaked the 'AI' to give even greater weight than before to corner and edge positions, which might make it a little stronger.

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