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by logifail 1y ago
> you can't run your bank's app I can log in to my bank account using my desktop PC > government eID apps I can sign into government websites using my desktop PC and its smart card reader and my government-issued eID sma
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Spent many (un)happy hours in front of both SGI Indy and SGI O2 during my PhD... High point was definitely when we found out that if you telnetted to another box you could remotely play audio clips and the operator typically had no idea wha
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> when I was doing A-level chemistry at school circa 1970 we were told always to check that any glassware we were heating up a lot (or might be very exothermic) had the PYREX symbol on it, otherwise bad things could happen Speaking of &q
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> US customs are now _worse_ than they were a month after 9/11 and this time it's not just the ones at airports Apologies, but "citation needed"? (As a non-US citizen) I flew into JFK earlier this year and did my (fir
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> teams are often made up of people from different locations anyway My wife works at a multinational which has also decided to push RTO. Her closest team member works in an office 200 miles away from her office (in a different countr
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> the BLS budget has been cut (DOGEd) and they have been warning for months now that this is impacting their ability to follow up on surveys This was broken long before DOGE was a thing: https://seekingalpha.com/news&#x2F
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by logifail 1y ago
Apologies but this isn't unique, nor has it anything specifically to do with the current POTUS. The US jobs figures has had huge revisions downwards before, for instance last year: https://seekingalpha.com/news/41
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> you fix incentives and hire competent data gatherers You assume the data gatherers were at fault... <chuckle> These data gatherers work for their government. How do you ensure they're happy to gather and publish data whi
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> Such simple statistics and data gathering [...] Simple?! "Sweet summer child..." On a more serious note, how would one ensure that a government department be sufficiently independent that it can publish data (implicitly) cr
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> interesting that everyone's immediate reaction now-a-days is to assume incompetence or maliciousness, rather than curiosity at the root cause I came across this claim last week regarding recent US jobs figures: > "All jobs
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> Are you reporting on this breaking news scandal that predictions about future events are not always perfectly accurate? If the predictions are always (or mostly) wrong but always in one direction then wouldn't one begin to suspe
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> You seem to be under the impression that these figures are exclusively sourced from employers, but they are not. They are sourced in part from a survey of 60,000 households every month, where each household in the the survey for severa
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> This is the furthest thing from a null hypothesis "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" Q: Why would one trust initial BLS jobs figures under this - or ind
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by logifail 1y ago
I'm not sure why you'd claim that. BLS figures have been revised downwards repeatedly over recent years. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/21/economy/bls-jobs-revision... "US job growth du
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> It would be good for everyone if people who are not professional economists paid less attention to this. It would be good for everyone if the BLS figures were trusted. Even "not professional economists" might lose trust in fi
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> no longer Citation needed. POTUSes come and go, BLS figures have been suspect for a long time.
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> how can departments like BLS screw up to this extent My null hypothesis might be that the BLS works for the government, so how can they not be under (implicit) pressure to goal-seek their figures. Once the figure has been published, an
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Q: Hasn't the US monthly jobs figure frequently been revised downwards over recent years, regardless of which administration was in charge? (edit - see for instance Aug 2024: https://seekingalpha.com/news/4142722-w
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> The early days were characterized by a feeling that anything goes as long as it wasn’t illegal or too extreme to defend. Q: Wouldn't most of us want to defend the right to publish content that's "not illegal"?
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> and server hardware is expensive up front You don't need to buy server hardware(!), the article specifically mentions renting from eg Hetzner. > The benefits of "just don't think about hardware" are real Can yo
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> it’s just true that this method reliably worked for me It's not just you. My kids didn't want to hear it, but they're coming round to the benefits of writing notes during their learning. Why Writing by Hand Is Better f
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> They were acquired by Google, so you could argue they aren't centred in the UK any more [..] They've been acquired. There's nothing left to argue. I was reading earlier today about how Kuka AG, the German mechanical eng
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> These two statements literally contradict each other in both cases Welcome to how multinational corporate entities structure their tax affairs! You might like to start by reading https://taxjustice.net/2024/11&#x2F
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The registered HQ and a large research center are in London, but ownership, executive control, substantial staffing, a big fraction of the training/serving compute, and the commercialization pathway run through Alphabet's U.S. ope
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in manufacturing <-- did you notice this bit? :) I was responding to the quote from Dame Wendy Hall claiming that that UK [has] "international leadership in AI"
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> "we're leaders in electronics manufacturing" The UK wasn't claiming to be "leaders _in manufacturing_", they were claiming "international leadership in AI". As I said elsewhere in the thread, ci
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> in general Google satellite offices often house the engineers of acquired startups who don't want to move to the mothership Would it be unfair to ask if (in this instance the UK's) satellite country taxpayers are subsidising
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I understand that iPhones are assembled in China, India and Vietnam. Would those countries issue press releases on "their leadership in iPhones"?
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"DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired b
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> “The ATI brand is well recognised internationally,” says Dame Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and the co-chair of a 2017 government AI review. “If it ceases to be the national institute for

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