thu2111

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by thu2111 5y ago
By that definition anyone with a bank balance above zero is saving money, but that's not the normal definition of the term. Saving money does normally mean the accumulation of money.
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by thu2111 5y ago
making moves to ban the discussion of unfavourable history, such as the legacy of empire and such Where is this British establishment trying to ban discussion of the British Empire?
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by thu2111 5y ago
You are completely wrong, to the extent of sounding like you're living in a parallel universe. The UK government was so strongly against Brexit at the time that not only was it formally and officially committed to the campaign to remai
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by thu2111 5y ago
You appear to be finding GBN guilty of something they: a. Haven't done b. Are strongly against ... on the belief that wokeness and cancel culture is nothing beyond generic "fear of change", despite the fact that they were on
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by thu2111 5y ago
"... no obviously we're not going to do any of these things, it comes down to product, product, product"
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by thu2111 5y ago
That seems backwards: people at the end of their life aren't saving, they're spending the money they saved via pensions earlier in their life.
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by thu2111 5y ago
But this stuff is a direction continuation of his policies. Tim Cook was clearly picked to be a safe pair of hands - Jobs would have been making the exact same arguments in the exact same way.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Which raises the question why we study this subject at all, if it's not actually applicable to anything beyond making viral TED talks.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Hmm I'm not trying to be difficult but where does it say that? I can't find any language like that on the page. Rather the opposite, it says: "Special emphasis must be placed on the harm of excluding trials data supporting iv
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by thu2111 5y ago
Over time the large menagerie of inter-European organizations got merged into the EU. For example Euratom is the only former EC body that hasn't been incorporated into the EU completely and even then it's mostly still controlled b
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yes, Apple and Microsoft are from a different generation when the rules of business still applied. Even Google is from the tail end of it, although they needed vast VC injections in the beginning and didn't really have a workable busin
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by thu2111 5y ago
Microsoft Apple and Amazon date from a time before saturation internet access, Amazon being created right at the start. Back then internet advertising wasn't a plausible business model. Even when Google was new it wasn't taken ser
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by thu2111 5y ago
For ARM it was already deeply ambiguous because their CPU design teams are these days in Austin, Texas. Obviously a lot of staff are still in the UK but AFAIK the actual CPU design no longer is.
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by thu2111 5y ago
No idea why, tbh. Well, that's fairly straightforward. All European co-operation and regulatory is implemented through the EU. It didn't used to be like that, there used to be quite a lot of separate organizations that coordinat
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by thu2111 5y ago
All the people I know who like to think about issues deeply generally hate to be described as left or right and much prefer to reject labels. Sometimes I'm not sure they actually can't be labelled, and sometimes the difficulty in
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yes, they will, but protection is not the only way to solve a health problem, and if that protection comes at unacceptable cost, then it's possible for treatment to be the better option. It doesn't mean that's the case here,
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by thu2111 5y ago
Less reliable according to the people who are refusing the approval, but not according to the people arguing for it.
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by thu2111 5y ago
It's actually not a new wonder drug. It's an old generic drug that doctors have been experimenting with for COVID treatment for quite some time now, which has passed all safety trials a long time ago, and which is cheap and widely
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by thu2111 5y ago
It clearly is in this case. Nothing YouTube is doing is anything to do with factual understanding - Google's understanding of the topics in question is extremely poor and certainly not justified with any medical evidence. Their FAQ on
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by thu2111 5y ago
Your argument would be more compelling if it were really specific to YouTube but guess what, all kinds of institutions have been suppressing all kinds of topics, including journals, arXiv sites, ResearchGate and so on. The problem here is n
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by thu2111 5y ago
"Science and technology" are a vague abstraction. What people mean when they describe science as becoming a religion is more specific - they're using "science" as a shorthand for academic institutions specifically a
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by thu2111 5y ago
I also don't understand quite why there's disagreement here, so perhaps it's best to just end it here. From my perspective what the oversight board says is simple: Trump was banned, but not because he broke any actual rule, a
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by thu2111 5y ago
That's true, I had failed to notice the final paragraphs and was focusing on the earlier part.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Well, suppressing dissent using the military is kind of the opposite of granting independence, isn't it? There's no way to both say "you are now independent, we no longer will interfere" and then immediately quash violen
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by thu2111 5y ago
LePen is not going to change her opinion of the EU if it changes which language it uses because that's a surface level issue that doesn't affect any of the actual governance issues she or her voters care about. Neither Switzerland
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by thu2111 5y ago
That seems like an extreme oversimplification of history. The Partition is what happened after the British Empire left. The British were very much NOT in favour of it, and it was a policy created and implemented entirely by the local popu
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by thu2111 5y ago
More like myRocks. FoundationDB doesn't use LSM and definitely wants to do lots of overwriting in place. TiDB uses Rocksdb and would be closer.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Maybe you couldn't distinguish between Valley tech firms from reading this document, but if you expand to all companies then yeah actually most of them wouldn't ever explicitly say, on their blog, that they will systematically fir
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by thu2111 5y ago
I don't think the goal here is to create positive energy. A company is intended to create happy customers and via that, money, "positive energy" for employees is nice to have and may be an important ingredient of that, but it
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by thu2111 5y ago
But it does have goroutines and many other features which are easy to make a mess with. Also, the worst abuses of inheritance I've seen were all from supposedly senior engineers. And inheritance seems to be attacked a lot lately for qu

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