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by cjs_ac 6d ago
My grandfather got his driving licence in 1940s Australia without doing a test, because the police sergeant who was supposed to conduct the test couldn't be bothered and was more interested in a ten-shilling note.
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by cjs_ac 8d ago
> Finally, we show that both free news access and media education improve media literacy skills (+0.08 to 0.26 sd), with larger effects among students taught by teachers with prior experience in media education. They taught the teenagers
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by cjs_ac 8d ago
I used to read the Grauniad , but I've become distrustful of it over the past few years because of how aggressively it panders to my sensibilities and biases. Also, it doesn't pursue any story more than any other broadsheet would
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by cjs_ac 8d ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians
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by cjs_ac 13d ago
Outside of monasteries, the intersection of men who were literate and men who were directly involved in food production was tiny. Farming men weren’t cooking their midday meal out in the fields; they took some bread and maybe some protein o
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by cjs_ac 16d ago
One observation I made when I was a teacher was that the more we did to help students (as a cohort) with their mental health, the worse it became. My theory is that teenagers are experimenting with different identities, so when you give the
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by cjs_ac 16d ago
I think it started on LinkedIn, where posts got more reach depending on how many users clicked the 'See More' expander link, so users who wanted to be 'Thought Leaders' were incentivised to present their banal ideas usin
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by cjs_ac 17d ago
Invested capital is not guaranteed to make returns within a tax year. Taxes on capital gains are morally right, but wait until the gain has been realised before levying the tax.
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by cjs_ac 17d ago
It’s not a once-off tax bill; it’s every year.
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by cjs_ac 17d ago
Let's revisit the very first sentence of the article. > Recently, my story as a Norwegian entrepreneur facing an unrealized gains wealth tax bill many times higher than my net income went viral, amassing over 100 million views on X.
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by cjs_ac 17d ago
> A sacked ALDI employee condemned by the Fair Work Commission for using "plain wrong" artificial intelligence (AI) advice in his failed bid to reverse his dismissal says he now plans to use "two or three" different A
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by cjs_ac 20d ago
The author’s product extracts data from bank statement PDFs and puts it in XLSX format. Both of the banks I use provide CSV data export from their apps. I’m not surprised the business is struggling - the author hasn’t found a deep enough pr
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by cjs_ac 23d ago
The vaguepost by Bessent in today’s Financial Times looked pretty weak: https://www.ft.com/content/cb865200-1a06-40be-86a3-10ee2bb05...
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by cjs_ac 24d ago
The government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.
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by cjs_ac 25d ago
It’s obvious that this page was written by an autistic person because the top third is a fairly witty and insightful joke and the bottom third is an explanation of the joke.
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by cjs_ac 29d ago
They’re a set of clip art provided with Microsoft PowerPoint called ‘Screen Beans’.
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by cjs_ac 29d ago
Technology cannot solve social problems. Societies can solve social problems using technology, just as they can without using technology, but ultimately it is the society that solves the problem.
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by cjs_ac 29d ago
The article isn't an attack on advertising to bring awareness of your product to an unaware market; it's an attack on being made to pay for a customer who has specifically asked for your product to be shown your product.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
To all the other currencies that are currently used as reserve currencies, other than the US dollar. There has never been a single reserve currency in the world.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
I started self-hosting my email last year, but I use MailPace (other email sending services are available) to avoid being memory-holed.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
It will bring the ability to tell investors that Netflix is using Large Language Models.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
GDPR requires websites to get user consent before doing sketchy shit. You don’t need a cookie popup if you’re not a scumbag.
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by cjs_ac 1mo ago
Not sure what the point of this is. Why would you need to personalise your payment reminders? If you're sending enough of them out that it's worth automating, you could just write some form emails and automate them yourself. Xero
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
SRM 2387 pairs well with a cup of ISO 3103. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
I expect that this is mainly due to AI and hardware. The US is about to lose its status as the world’s biggest agricultural exporter to Brazil.
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
Adding to this, US foreign and military policy is increasingly chaotic, so other countries are quietly disengaging, and tariffs are slowly unravelling the US’ trade relationships. The American people voted for Trump twice : Trumpism is now
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
I live in rural England where the road network is medieval, lane markings represent the opinion of someone who’s never driven a car and getting personal with a hedge is just part of letting an oncoming combine harvester pass. These anti-col
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
> The picture above is a clue. In the 18th and then 19th century there was a sequence of taxes on glass. Most famous of all is the window tax of the 18th century which, in fairness, wasn’t primarily a tax on glass. It was mostly a tax on
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
It was designed by the Road Research Laboratory and has been measured to have better traffic throughput than the conventional roundabout it replaced.
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
These were used in Australia on the Newnes railway line. Newnes was a shale oil mining town; its history is particularly colourful because its remoteness made it difficult to import sufficient food for the town's population. https:&#x

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