arrowsmith

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by arrowsmith 5d ago
If all manufacturers except one were altruistic good guys, the one malevolent bad guy would undercut the altruists and drive them out of business. Regulation is the solution to this prisoner’s dilemma.
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by arrowsmith 7d ago
I'm still on an iPhone 11 that I bought second-hand a few years ago when the iPhone 15 was the newest. The battery life isn't great which is the only thing tempting me to upgrade, but I'll still put that off as long as possib
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by arrowsmith 18d ago
"We lost, let's change the rules"
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
I watched that movie so many times as a child I could probably still recite every line. RIP Long John Silver!
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
So it was never about principles, it was only about who was in charge. Colour me shocked.
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
I hadn't, but don't pretend there's not huge overlap between the people who were saying that then and the people who are saying this now.
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
Whatever happened to "Twitter can do what it wants, it's a private platform"?
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
They just announced the new "Omacom foundation" last Friday, with $8 million of funding from prominent tech people. That's why it's getting current flurry of attention
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by arrowsmith 22d ago
"all software is political" is a textbook deepity: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity
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Internet freedom is fading in the new era of social control(bigthink.com)
11 points by arrowsmith 2mo ago|1 comments
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
Knowledge for its own sake is great, but it's worth noting that many "useless" fields of mathematics turned out to be very practical in the long run. Number theory was long thought to have no practical application, but now it
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
Yes but it's always advertised as "$12/MONTH" in big letters with billed annually written somewhere small and non-obvous.
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
Regulation is a good thing for big, established incumbents who can afford expensive lawyers. It keeps them safe from competition.
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
Yes but that didn't happen in the Americas. They didn't settle or leave any lasting impact.
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
They briefly visited, they didn't "conquer"
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
The president of the European Commission is “elected” through a thin pretence of democracy that the people of Europe have effectively no control over, and mostly pay no attention to. If you think she’s there because the greater public decid
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by arrowsmith 2mo ago
Maybe an ESL thing? "Potatoes" are literally called "earth apples" in some languages (e.g. pommes de terre in French; Erdäpfel in some German dialects.)
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
Max Planck published the same paper in multiple journals in the 1940s, which was common practice at the time. He also published a second unrelated paper that happened to have the same title as the paper it was a response to. In 2011 both pa
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
Then it's perhaps not the best name, given what happened in the end to the empire's eastern border.
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2151/
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UK Even Wants Image Scanners on Unsupported Devices(reclaimthenet.org)
7 points by arrowsmith 3mo ago|4 comments
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Won't Somebody Think of the Children?(twitter.com)
3 points by arrowsmith 3mo ago|0 comments
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
The UK government has just create an upsurge of interest in digital privacy, so that might be why
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UK's Social Media Ban: The Monumental Pretext for Total Digital Surveillance(modernity.news)
18 points by arrowsmith 3mo ago|11 comments
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Canada Is Building a Surveillance State(twitter.com)
14 points by arrowsmith 3mo ago|1 comments
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
It's here: https://codeberg.org/rickoooooo/BannedBookLibrary/src/branch... For the curious, the "banned" books are (it's a short list): - Call of the Wild - Jack London - The Adventu
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
Yeah I had the same reaction. From the title I was expecting to find out what the "future of email" is. I'm still waiting.
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
US had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
Which led to a British journalist holding an "offensive poems about Erdogan" contest, which was won by Boris Johnson: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johns...
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by arrowsmith 3mo ago
In the UK, employers pay a stealth tax of 15% (recently increased from 13.8%) on top of the quoted salary minus the first £5k (recently decreased from £9,100.) So your "£50k" salary actually costs your employer £56,750, and that&#

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