rorylawless

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Scaling Social Science Research(openai.com)
3 points by rorylawless 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rorylawless 8mo ago
Happy Birthday, NNW! Such an elegant app, that does one thing extremely well. Here's to 23 more years!.
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by rorylawless 8mo ago
Growing up in the UK, we would be sent to a “play scheme” during the school holidays. Weird phrase.
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by rorylawless 8mo ago
I’ve always wondered 1) if those things are real and, if so, do they 2) ask for permission to include the logo.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
Yup, email is usually the preferred communication tool of record. In a previous job, our messages on Teams were wiped after 8 days so anything that needed to be recorded had to be in an email or some form of document.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
It isn’t universally awful in the US. Washington, DC’s system is great and should be the cornerstone of any revitalization that isn’t so reliant on the federal government.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
How are they estimating migration costs? It claims my tiny personal website hosted on Netlify would cost between $2500 and $5800 to migrate.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
No, not at all. The surveillance state nonsense is overplayed online.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
The sales problem being there isn't anything viable to compete with the established players. Europe has the capability, even without immigration from the US, it just needs a kick to make good enough products.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
Yes, however the next paragraph outlines why it wasn’t surprising to other observers. Summarized, low competition and structural constraints.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
https://archive.is/KW5lK
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Digital Euro 'only defence' against deepening US control of money(ft.com)
11 points by rorylawless 9mo ago|6 comments
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
Illegality is a floor, not a ceiling. It is justified to adhere to and promote a morality that sets higher standards than the law, including taking the view that creating and distributing indecent images of people should be prohibited.
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I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great(theverge.com)
769 points by rorylawless 9mo ago|733 comments
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
I fear we are at the point where descendants of ICE employees will be embarrassed to acknowledge the relation.
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
This is awesome. I had no idea Lyft publishes ride data, time to explore the DC version!
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by rorylawless 9mo ago
The downward trend seems to start ~2017, and was interrupted by a spike during the early months of COVID-19. I'd be interested to know what drove that jump, perhaps people were less hesitant to post when they were working from home?
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
My prior POV was that Apple would jettison the feature globally, but the discussion elsewhere in this thread suggests that salami slicing at the software-level is a cost larger companies are willing to bear.
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
My hope for laws such as the ones Japan and the EU enacted was that companies would see the writing on the wall and change their practices worldwide, if only for cost reasons (it presumably being more expensive to maintain multiple sets of
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
What collective term would you use to describe the parties referenced in the poll?
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
https://textarea.my/#i0wtBgA=
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
I was braced for more doom and gloom, so I’m pleasantly surprised that one explanation is reduced pollution.
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
https://archive.ph/CcFhs
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
I'm not so sure this argument is valid. The invention of the wheel barrow created new jobs in wheel barrow manufacturing and distribution. On the other hand, the promise/threat of AI seems to be the complete displacement of humans
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
This is approaching Saparmurat Niyazov levels of weirdness.
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by rorylawless 10mo ago
You can get larger packs of painkillers OTC by speaking with a pharmacist (OTC in the literal sense) or ordering online. For example, Boots sells a 96 count 400mg ibuprofen. https://www.boots.com/boots-ibuprofen-caplets-400m
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by rorylawless 11mo ago
If Universities are anything like other large public/public-adjacent organizations, the bulk of the in-house IT department was long since replaced by Microsoft resellers posing as IT. It’s insidious.
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Microsoft has 'ripped off the NHS', amid call for contracts with British firms(theguardian.com)
7 points by rorylawless 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rorylawless 11mo ago
Fascinating that they came up with 14 questions and none of them addressed the price of the service.
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by rorylawless 11mo ago
It seems he graduated early this year so hasn't been in the market for too long. A few months out of work is a soul destroying experience, however, it can get worse, unfortunately.

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