Camas

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by Camas 5y ago
Jails do not exist to rehabilitate prisoners, they exist to separate them from society.
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by Camas 5y ago
https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations
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by Camas 5y ago
Unbiased search is impossible, so DDG should be deliberately biased?
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by Camas 5y ago
Book is also online: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/ and on Github: https://github.com/amethyst/rustrogueliketutorial
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by Camas 5y ago
That's a press release for an unpublished paper disguised as an article.
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by Camas 5y ago
Anything interesting that happens at a school board makes the news now because everyone there has a phone and internet. What exciting scoops do you think we're missing?
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by Camas 5y ago
I can follow a few people on fb to get the same content that local newspapers provided. For free. Where's the downside?
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by Camas 5y ago
https://outline.com/DMNUXu Most of the article talks about post-retraction citations
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by Camas 5y ago
Many things improve but go down in price. Can't articulate fully but it instinctively feels like a rationalisation rather than a reason. >It's basically an early bird discount. When has that not been a marketing tactic
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by Camas 5y ago
>the idea is that the product becomes more valuable over time as a result of more features being added I have a hard time believing that's the main motivation
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by Camas 5y ago
>As I mentioned, I, as a lone tax payer, who made less then £100k, paid more in taxes in FAANG combined in the UK. Only true if you think companies shoulder none of the burden of VAT, income tax etc.
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by Camas 5y ago
In reality you'd just get a situation similar to Japan.
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by Camas 5y ago
Fair. From ~40% share of global gdp in the 60s to ~25% now
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by Camas 5y ago
I do tend to enjoy his content more when he doesn't mention politics.
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by Camas 5y ago
> Compared to 3.5bn in free money to private operators? Sadly London is not yet more important than the rest of the UK combined.
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by Camas 5y ago
> hung out to dry £1.8 billion in loans/grants
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by Camas 5y ago
NHS response to this and similar allegations Collecting GP data - advice for the public: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections...
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by Camas 5y ago
Prices are "criminal" but not worth you doing more than a cursory search for a cheaper ticket?
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by Camas 5y ago
http://www.leeches.uk.com/
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by Camas 5y ago
Felt similar when I learned what inverting/reversing a tree meant.
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by Camas 5y ago
Shady as in the data is unreliable or shady as in you have an ethical disagreement?
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by Camas 5y ago
You can. You can also create tokens that function the exact same as a password but with a customisable scope.
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by Camas 5y ago
Easier to exercise when there's a purpose to it.
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by Camas 5y ago
>A mid-life crisis is about impending old age and death And lack of meaning/purpose. >And how many people undergoing a mid-life crisis devote their time to architecture or mathematics? Plenty of mature students at universities. I
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by Camas 5y ago
Sounds like a permanent mid-life crisis.
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by Camas 6y ago
>Positive outcome rates are similar whatever people’s ethnicity is. Around 25% of searches result in some action being taken. https://fullfact.org/crime/stop-and-search-england-and-wales... That's for London
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by Camas 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
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by Camas 6y ago
https://capx.co/the-enduring-fantasy-of-secret-nhs-privatisa...
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by Camas 6y ago
Thank you billionaires for creating $1tn of value during these troubled times
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by Camas 6y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4#issuec... >Pylance [..] is planned to be included in proprietary service offerings.

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