lambertsimnel

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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> I think it's more appropriate to talk about "suitable" therapist. Can you say any more about how a therapist might be more suitable for some patients than others? Is it about a methodology (like cognitive behavioral ther
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> imagine if some kind of yeast/virus affects humans to eat so much sugar I think the gut microbiome can indeed do this. The episode called "Swap Out Sugar" of the BBC podcast Just One Thing explains more - the relevant se
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
The website describes the online hangouts as weekly and doesn't list any future dates: http://minikanren.org/#hangouts Is there more information somewhere?
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> In your example, though, what you have done is try multiple models over multiple years, while the use-case hasn't changed one bit. So you have found an example where you could actually test multiple products yourself, and then dec
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
The article quotes Dunbar as saying "In the normal run of things, when a fifth person joins a group, it’ll become two conversations within about 20 seconds." I've noticed something similar. The article suggests this might be
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Microsoft faces £1B class action case in UK over software prices(bbc.co.uk)
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
The Google Workspace Team emailed yesterday notifying me of a change in their terms of service "effective October 16, 2024" more than three weeks ago. The terms of service linked are dated "16 November 2023" and they don
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Google Workspace Terms of Service(workspace.google.com)
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Chinese Air Fryers May Be Spying on Consumers, Which? Warns(infosecurity-magazine.com)
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Scientists successfully revive pig's brain an hour after its death(indy100.com)
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I suspect WP is Wikipedia. Presumably MF is MetaFilter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaFilter
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> Tactical voting probably occurred where the Lib Dems won. I suspect this is true to a greater extent in more marginal constituencies and to a lesser extent in less marginal constituencies
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I wonder which there were more of: voters who preferred Labour tactically voting for other parties or voters who preferred other parties tactically voting for Labour. Do you have data on that question?
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
My thinking is that spending gets split between richer and poorer people. The former buy assets with it, but the latter spend it on living costs. Each time it circulates, typically some goes to richer people and stops circulating. Various t
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> It's possible that if one company does end up with a monopoly, they will treat their employees better. If they can get away with paying employees so little, why would they voluntarily pay more as a monopoly? (Presumably they would
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
Am I right in thinking that if those employees save any of the money, then they accumulate wealth, but if they don't (because they don't receive enough compared to their fixed costs, or for any other reason) wealth accumulates els
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
But would the media have abandoned the Conservatives if Labour were offering something much different?
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I think StrongForth, Cat and Kitten are all statically-typed, stack-based languages: https://www.stephan-becher.de/strongforth/ https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language https://kittenla
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I just heard a podcast that mentions "we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it". There's a transcript here: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/qdtarchive/mixed-metaphors... Here's the relevant part:
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I don't know how reliably you can distinguish between stupidity arbitrage and lazy arbitrage, and there might be grey areas, but if it's actually more convenient it's probably lazy arbitrage and if it's easily confused w
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
Here in the UK, we have a problem of disreputable businesses - I'm not sure that they're actually illegal - charging fees for government services They aren't really providing a service, but they're getting between confus
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but I've had satisfactory results running 32-bit Windows games on x86_64 Linux On Debian, I found I had to run dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update and then install the wine32 packa
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
British comedian Dave Gorman claims the clocks are set to that time (actually 10.08 in his example), because that makes them look happy, and they sell better that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCRifY0H3Y
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
"Florida is another step closer to paving its roads with phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill into law Thursday. ...The [Environmental Protectio
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
> So which position am I taking when I teach students how to compute the determinant of a matrix? That how to compute the determinant of a matrix is not only worth knowing, but worth prioritising over other things. It's an eminently
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
Don't mutual funds separate voting rights from beneficial ownership? So maybe one way to gather voting rights for other people's shares would be to run a mutual fund. Shares can also be borrowed (for a fee) for the purpose of shor
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
Banks in the UK do all sorts of scammy things, not for that purpose, but as part of their usual business Judging by their frequent and long lectures about how I'd be liable for any fraud, it sounds like they've absolved themselves
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
It's also worth noting that this electoral system is highly proportional, so the PVV have fewer than a quarter of the seats. How easy will it be for the PVV to form a government with so few seats? > Only 23% voted for him. That&#x27
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
Those who already do it and others who might consider this type of work. If they didn't depend so much on it, maybe (for example) employers, customers, etc would have to treat them with more respect. Even if it isn't viable to inc
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by lambertsimnel 3y ago
Couldn’t it be the case that a universal basic income that gives low-wage workers more choice would increase competition among their employers, resulting in low-wage work becoming more enticing?

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