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by psd1 3y ago
Tidal energy.
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by psd1 3y ago
I'm happy to use heuristics, but Victorian England also included uncomfortable starched collars and crinolines; having yourself mummified is not a great deviation. Fortunately you and I live in an age where we dispose of each other&#x2
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by psd1 3y ago
Dairy implies veal. You can't have milk and butter without either a cull or an expanding herd. There may be a biotech solution, which may bring up new ethical concerns.
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by psd1 3y ago
Heuristics suggest that it's a lisp.
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by psd1 3y ago
..._Wensleydale a Stilton to the Brie or Roquefort_
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by psd1 3y ago
There's more to unpack about welfare being "paying not to work" - 82 year olds, absence of employment in mining towns - but you've put the argument for small government well. You made me imagine a monkey driving a bulldo
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by psd1 3y ago
Yes, viruses are a very useful concept. Ideas propagate in ways that put us in mind of epidemiology. Genotype is, broadly speaking, determined at birth. But our set of memes is in flux to a greater or lesser degree. That degree is the topic
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by psd1 3y ago
I agree - I'd call it a virtuous cycle. Although I suppose there's a time and effort cost. But I dint see how, e.g. the UK, could get there from here. If we started having six referenda a year, I foresee the electorate largely swi
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by psd1 3y ago
Didn't want to pollute my effortpost, but: thanks for clarifying, and I agree that the Schindler outlier isn't a point.
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by psd1 3y ago
I think Dawkins' model of memes is helpful. I'm going to use freighted language and examples for brevity. Readers, please be generous; I'm doing conservatism because it's the topic on hand, but this applies equally to pr
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by psd1 3y ago
Sounds like Switzerland. I think it works well there. But the Swiss make a virtue of civic duty, and, IIUC, voting is frequent and somewhat compulsory, which I imagine tends to sustain an informed electorate. If you don't have an infor
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by psd1 3y ago
Thanks. My door is always open to Cunningham. If you're in a pedagogical mood, may I submit further misconceptions? I've always linked Keynes with the concept of national debt as a lever to pull, so I'm surprised that you men
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by psd1 3y ago
I think the people have had enough of experts.
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by psd1 3y ago
I support your railing against bureaucracy, but question your assertion that a specific quantity of public spending is bad. Firstly, government spending does not imply greater bureaucracy; compare and contrast healthcare in America with pre
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by psd1 3y ago
Maybe, but on a maslow pyramid of healthy democracy, that would be a tier above an informed electorate and critical thinking skills. If you figure out how to develop those, please include Britain on your speaking tour.
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by psd1 3y ago
It is plain from the stories of fox news orphans that information diet can ruin good people, but I refuse to believe that people aren't different. I rebut your thesis thus: Oskar Schindler.
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by psd1 3y ago
That characterisation is imprecise to the point of being misleading; may I tell the story in detail? I particularly rebut any suggestion that the Tories organised the referendum. That's only true at the most superficial reading. The wh
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by psd1 3y ago
That's me, and I have yet to discover any upper limit - I eat less now because I'm bored of chewing.
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by psd1 3y ago
Lol. We exist. I got the taste for raspberry ripple ice cream in my mid-20s, and ate 10 litres a week - that's 2000+ kcal a day just in dessert. That's not binging. I put that on top of 500g dry weight of pasta with cheese and sau
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by psd1 3y ago
Ahhh. Thanks. I doubt we'll get anywhere thrashing this out, but I'll concede that the apocalypse is undesirable
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by psd1 3y ago
No-one can read the future. But I'm sure you read in TFA about the kill switch
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by psd1 3y ago
I'm on sabbatical, so not currently needing a switcher - but I'll get a displayport kvm next time.
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by psd1 3y ago
I have an amazon cheapo. It takes several seconds to switch hdmi, during which there's an edid exchange. I'd love to have a more sophisticated device that switches in under a second. Hdmi is also slightly glitchy. All in all, it&#
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by psd1 3y ago
Your experience may not be typical. I ran mail servers before office 365 was a thing, and I often had to get off block lists. There are stories on HN about it being worse, now that you have to request unblocking from MS and Google. Yours is
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by psd1 3y ago
Where did you get "automatic"? "ILS" means the pilot flies on instruments.
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by psd1 3y ago
Come on, surely you don't believe your own argument. If thermostats can offer fractional-degree adjustment in fahrenheit, they can offer it in celsius.
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by psd1 3y ago
The idea of sleeping on the wing is mind-boggling
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by psd1 3y ago
There are lots of lowering bollards in the UK. That allows you to do things like slow emergency vehicles, or allow motor traffic only at designated times.
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by psd1 3y ago
Alternative hypotheses: the information is published but not reported; the information is reported but you haven't seen the reporting; the information will become available at trial.
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by psd1 3y ago
You fumbled the link, let me ftfy: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-s...

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