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by graemep 3mo ago
If you are not going to quote people accused of (or even known to be guilty of) sexual misconduct that covers a lot of authors and creative people in general.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Its not required reading in the UK and I still read Twain, as did my kids.
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by graemep 3mo ago
> So your American Homer’s legacy perhaps lies buried down in some unmarked indigenous grave. There are probably people similar to Homer in someways. However, the thing about Homer is that he influenced literature across most of Europe,
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by graemep 3mo ago
The British government switched most things available to the public over to ODF (the exception I have noticed is ONS stats in excel) years ago. I suspect they still use MS formats internally though.
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by graemep 3mo ago
If you are an individual, almost certainly, unless you are using LLMs very heavily. If you are a business employing many people all of who use LLMs reasonably heavily? You can still spread the hardware cost over many users and respond to
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by graemep 3mo ago
Someone living in India would have to follow Indian court orders regardless of where their domain was registered. Another TLD would mean obeying laws and court orders in another country as well
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by graemep 3mo ago
The thing you are skipping over there is not whether China is safe, but whether open weights are open source.
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by graemep 3mo ago
That is not a good analogy. Scotland voluntarily formed a union with the rest of the UK and played a disproportionate role in colonialism. Ireland would be a better one. The weakness in the GP's argument is that Russia is not the Sovie
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by graemep 3mo ago
> The CCP is the same government responsible for lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty. The CCP also put most of those people into such abject poverty from the 50s onwards. They give up on communism a
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by graemep 3mo ago
> Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? A lot of that was the result of stopping doing the damage they had done in previous five decades that resulted in
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by graemep 3mo ago
That is the point. You can create the list openly and without fear. You can create a long list of Chinese atrocities, but mentioning even one will get you into a lot of trouble.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Yes, but those laws are pretty effective. They do deter murderers and thieves, and take them out of society so they cannot repeat their offences. Ill thought out regulations can make things worse - I am convinced this is the case for the UK
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by graemep 3mo ago
That culture varies a lot between countries, but they share a direction of travel. > a collective entity IMO is likely to create more bureaucracy rather than less. I am convinced it is impossible without a common identity and culture. &g
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by graemep 3mo ago
I agree we should, but that does not mean that a particular regulation is the right way to do it. Its very hard to close loopholes and exploitation of exemptions.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The author wants to blame immigrants. I do not think it is fragmented culture either. There is no clear patter of bigger being better. I think it is complacency, bad government, and a decline in efficiency. I do agree it is endogenous.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Its been clear what he is politically since his "London is not white enough" post. He has only got worse since
497.
by graemep 3mo ago
I have not used lightning but I have found USB C to be much more fragile than USB A, although better than mini and micro. I would really rather have had evey thing be a few mm bigger and stick with A.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Someone I know woke up this morning to over 3 trillion dollars. Love to see how hyperscalers make your life easier and less worrying.
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by graemep 3mo ago
> But also, there were plenty of Christian and Catholic Nazi. The Catholic Church condemned Nazi ideology in the 1930s and said racism is incompatible with Christianity. The story of the papal encyclical is quite interesting. Lots of pri
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by graemep 3mo ago
You are right, of course, but there all sorts of nuances to this. The Nazis wanted to return to ancient values, specifically the values they perceived as those of the classical world. Himmler thought Christianity was a plot by Paul to under
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by graemep 3mo ago
There are bits of this that are at odds with current value systems, but also bits that accord with them. Offering them his own daughters as victims definitely does appal anyone today, and I guess comes from a strong culture of obligation to
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by graemep 3mo ago
> The EU came from the "European Union of coal and steel". It's a business first, not a government. And yes, they've really deceived a lot of people about this. That is true, but omits an important part of the motive
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by graemep 3mo ago
I think its the same as the UK. The person who sells to the customer is responsible, so if they sell to a retailer who sells to users then the retailer is responsible. If they sell directly the warranty terms cannot override the law so they
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by graemep 3mo ago
There are some structures worth preserving. Sagrada Família is one. Places of worship and private homes (at least those individually architect designed vs standard designs) tend to be a lot nicer than office blocks and other commercial pla
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by graemep 3mo ago
I had JS off. If I turn JS on it redirects me. Not "fine" though as it loads the page on bbc.com and then redirects which is slow and annoying.
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by graemep 3mo ago
I mean that, for example the link here is to bbc.com, and it does not recirect me to bbc.co.uk
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by graemep 3mo ago
See what happens when you miss a /s out?
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by graemep 3mo ago
The annoying thing about the BBC paywall is that it is implemented by using different domains, so (for example here) people in the UK go to bbc.com instead of bbc.co.uk
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by graemep 3mo ago
IIRC its kids who drank without adult supervision or with adults who allowed them to drink excessively (e.g. people who had alcohol problems themselves). I definitely think it is a result of learning more responsible habits from adults, wit
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by graemep 3mo ago
Did that actually work.

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