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by n4r9 1y ago
Even if mainstream media had a left wing bias - which is a big stretch in the UK given that it's mostly owned by Rothermere, Murdoch, Barclay and Marshall - why would that prevent reliable and neutral media from existing?
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by n4r9 1y ago
Does that change your opinion on any of this?
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Similar. Was over a decade ago. Not easy, but gradually gets better. Sorry to hear about it, it's not something I'd wish on anyone.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Is their argument documented anywhere in text, rather than an 8 minutes video?
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The doorcam footage is clearly in broad daylight, it's dated February, and further down the article it says: > At around 1.30pm last Tuesday ... a detective sergeant and another officer knocked at her door You've made some edit
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by n4r9 1y ago
I don't think they came in "the middle of the night", full stop. That's just another embellishment you've pulled out of thin air. I think if you had a strong case, you wouldn't need embellish it so.
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by n4r9 1y ago
> uk is starting to arrest and jail or threaten to jail old grandmothers The linked article doesn't make any mention of arrest, jail, or threats thereof. I've previously posted a rebuttal about this "thousands arrested for
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by n4r9 1y ago
Counterpoint: when the product manager attempts to revise history about what was specified for a certain feature at a certain point in time, I'm often able to search my emails for a copy of a powerpoint they'd sent round with word
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by n4r9 1y ago
Thanks for relating your experience. Wow is it hard to get any concrete figures on questions like "how many takeaways did an average household get per week in 2004". Also pretty tricky to chase down the references from the article
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You're right, I apologise for not reading your post carefully enough. Whilst pure monopolies are rare, my impression is that surprisingly many markets consolidate to an oligopoly, and that this reduces competition and is generally pret
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Yes, it's Gauss. In fact the technique is sometimes known as "Gaussian summation". The New Scientist has an article where the author chases down early references to the story: https://www.americanscientist.org&#x2F
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I think you have OP's comment the other way around. They were saying that markets will naturally tend to fewer than 3-5 competitors, and only prevented from getting there by antitrust.
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I have an object representing piecewise linear functions, defined by a sequence of (x_i, y_i) tuples. It has a method to evaluate y for a given value of x. The first step is to find the least i for which x_i is greater than or equal to x: t
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by n4r9 1y ago
It's a good question. A related question is: "what's an example of something undeniably novel?". Like if you ask an agent out of the blue to prove the Collatz conjecture, and it writes out a proof or counterexample. If t
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I was born in the 80s in the UK. When I was a teenager, my family had a takeaway meal delivered every Wednesday night. My dad would ring up the restaurant, tell them the order and our address, and pay the driver when they arrived. It cost u
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by n4r9 1y ago
Market consolidation usually leads to higher prices, and it can certainly happen with 3 big players dominating a market. AirBnb is an interesting example. My gut feeling is that the service fees (and cleaning fees, bizarrely) are climbing a
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Hippos famously cannot swim, despite spending lots of time in water. They're too dense to float. There used to be a BBC filler video in the UK that featured an animation of hippos swimming from below. It was pure fantasy. In reality th
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Do you have a reference for that?
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When I sit and observe my thoughts and feelings I find a complex mix of desires. Some that are immediate/basic/short-term vs some that are conceptual/nuanced/long-term. The eventual course of action is a delicate comprom
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You're right. For substance additions the cause could be something like a toxic relationship or job stress. As soon as I put my smartphone away I realise I'm confronted with challenging feelings: the fear of engaging with the peop
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Gabor Maté - a physician who worked with people with serious substance abuse disorders for many years - talks about how addiction is usually a symptom of some other underlying suffering; often trauma. The addictive behaviours act as a way t
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I was also curious as I haven't heard of this before. There's a Wikipedia page about the massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre It links to a Wikimedia page including photos of written announ
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> If AI can: > Understand business requirements from documentation Wait, how are business requirements getting documented?
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Does anyone outside X actually know the current monthly active users and revenue figures? They stopped releasing them publicly when Musk took over. It's all guesswork at this point as far as I can tell.
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The point was not that all claims should be accepted. It's that adding a profit incentive to denials leads to worse outcomes.
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Graham writes in punchy sentences. But I often find the overall thrust uncompelling. He has a habit of waffling whilst glossing over nuance. I suspect you're right: writing for entrepeneurs is a slightly different skillset.
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It's a classic case of survey subjectivity and misportrayal. There was a poll which included the question: > agree or disagree with this statement: 'It's OK to be white.' Of the black respondents, 53% agreed, 26% disa
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by n4r9 1y ago
Likewise. For some reason the article ignores the raft of antibacterial compounds found in honey: > Various components contribute to the antibacterial efficacy of honey: the sugar content; polyphenol compounds; hydrogen peroxide; 1,2-dic
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For a review of this library see https://neilmadden.blog/2025/06/06/a-look-at-cloudflares-ai-... Upshot: though it's possible to attempt this with (heavily supervised) LLMs, it's not recommended.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Not sure what you mean. Uber scaled from VC funded startup to megacorp despite a raft of exploitative practices.

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