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by simonh 1y ago
We broke the charging port cover on our car a few weeks after we got it. Someone clipped it with their leg walking past while it was open. Small piece of plastic to replace. £60.
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Now you need to move and re-house the people to when it needs doing, train them, invest the capital costs needed, build out the administrative overhead, and tax the productive profitable economy to pay for it all. If there are things that n
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As adults we make our decisions as best we can. We can’t not make decisions, and the ones we do affect future generations whether they like it or not. That’s just life. Having said that I worry about the sustainability of these projects. If
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The court system is relevant for confidence in investing in an economy, and currencies are largely supported by and dependent on investment into the economy of the country. Even government debt instruments are a form of investment in the ec
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I think web views do make sense in situations where you’re presenting lots of remote content that may frequently change. After all that’s what the web is, and store content, and to an extent emails many of which are HTML anyway, are reasona
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Isn’t that a general problem with LLMs? The only way to know how good it is at something is to test it.
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This is the US devoting resources to do one thing, build things go bang abroad, instead of doing other things like building/renewing infrastructure or providing services to citizens. So, that is a cost. The question is what are the ben
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A 'far right' government that has a jewish president, and which large numbers of LGBT+ citizens have flocked to support militarily. https://www.lgbtmilitary.org.ua/en/
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There are plenty of well documented and unambiguous cases where the CIA has overthrown governments, directly interfered in elections and exerted covert influence but Ukraine really doesn't look like one of them. Possibly in the covert
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That's true to a point, but it has no legal mandate to operate domestically. That doesn't mean it has no domestic operations, it exists domestically after all, but it means it does so at the discretion of the entire rest of the ex
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The black holes orbit each other, and get closer and closer. This emits gravity waves, and when they merge a large proportion of their combined mass gets emitted as gravity waves. These are what LIGO is detecting.
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My wife is chinese and they have a very commonly used word for 10,000 so when she needs to say either 10,000 or 100,000 she almost always gets it wrong and says 1,000 instead of 10,000 and says 10,000 instead of 100,000. It's happened
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Chintzy for rather twee flowery patterns. The British Army uses a bazillion Indian words. Khaki for pale tan. I think it means dust in Urdu? Basha for your shelter of a tarpaulin usually suspended from a bush by... Bungees - stretchy rubber
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Approximately. +/- 0
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https://xkcd.com/2608/
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It's getting there, slowly, because a lot of the initial bootstrapping problems have been worked through. Lets say there are 1,000 decent engineers in a country and they get hired by various western companies and it's all a great
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My current and previous machines were 27” iMacs. The first one, a first gen 5k bought in 2014, is in our kitchen and still heavily used. I don’t know what I’ll do when I need a new personal machine.
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I think Jobs recognised that ads are intrusions into people’s lives. The advertiser has a responsibility to respect the audience. They don’t have a natural right to that attention, and have to earn it. Thats why the F1 wallet add is such a
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What geopolitical concerns can Iran have over Israel, that Egypt, Jordan or Saudi Arabia wouldn't have? They're all functionally Israeli allies now. It is important to understand how we got here, to understand what might be plausi
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All absolutely true. In fact we're only in this situation because Trump cancelled the nuclear deal with Iran, along with as many treaties as he could get away with so he could get the credit of renegotiating them. Except for the ones h
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The uranium enrichment is confirmed by the Iranians, the have published pictures of their leaders inspecting the centrifuges. You can find them with a quick search.
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You're looking for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Israel_in_Irani... >In 2024, Ali Khamenei told Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: "The divine promise to eliminate the Zionist entity will be
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I don't think the average Iranian citizen cares at all about Israel, one way or the other, but they don't have any say in Iranian state politics. There's no natural law setting the mullahs against the existence of Israel, as
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It can be simultaneously true that Iran is sitting on a huge pike of precursor materials for nuclear weapons, and is not currently actually making bombs. Last week she was emphasising the latter, now she’s emphasising the former. Disingenuo
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It's not so much them being a theocracy IMHO. It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. Put those Israeli shoes on. There's a state armed with ballistic missiles in easy range of you, t
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Just a data point, but I've had three devices repaired by Apple. One was in warranty (just), the other two times they weren't but Apple did the repair for free anyway. You certainly can't rely on them doing the latter, it&#x2
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It's tricky. Arming a country or group than then launches an attack, or uses those weapons in a war, doesn't make you a participant in that conflict. This is why Europe and the US can supply weapons to Ukraine without being partic
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The facility enriches Uranium hexafluoride gas.
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The main problem is the Iranian regime's view that it is their religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. This is why they supply weapons to Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and anyone who will attack Israel, and incite them to do so
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The regime is spectacularly unpopular with the majority of Iranians.

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