cycomanic

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Airbnb Preventing the Use of BnB(theguardian.com)
40 points by cycomanic 3d ago|9 comments
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by cycomanic 19d ago
Net immigration was never more than a million (let alone "millions" which was the lie I responded to). It reached a peak of 900 000 in 2023. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...
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by cycomanic 20d ago
There are no millions of people every year, stop spreading lies. Net immigration to the UK in 2025 where 170000 people. Decidedly not millions!
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by cycomanic 20d ago
"huge uncontrolled levels of immigration". Let's put some actual numbers to this. Net immigration in 2025 was about 170k people, over the next 10 years projections are for about 2.2 million net immigration. So that's abo
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by cycomanic 20d ago
Citation needed
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by cycomanic 1mo ago
That is simply not true. One example is a hilarious skit by an Australian comedian (John Safran) going to salt lake city and knocking on doors asking if he could talk to people about atheism. The amount of violent threads he received is qui
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by cycomanic 1mo ago
There was an interesting talk I heard a while ago about the scalability of oral exams vs written. They did quite a bit of study of typical exam preparation and marking times and the cross over point where oral exams were actually taking lon
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by cycomanic 1mo ago
> Even in Texas/California photovoltaic output in the winter is measly, anywhere more to the north and it's effectively inexistent. Solar+storage requires massive overprovisioning, to the level that it's cheaper to burn li
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by cycomanic 1mo ago
One additional tidbit of info. While the northern coast in Germany has certainly more wind, a reason why wind falls off so strongly towards the south, are the policies of the CSU party in Bavaria, which though not quite as bad as trump has
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by cycomanic 2mo ago
I can give you a prime example where you want to render all the data and quickly, oscilloscopes. It's quite common that you fetch traces with millions of samples, but then want to zoom into specific regions. There are lots of similar a
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by cycomanic 2mo ago
> The parent described a story from a different reality - one where people are people, where communities have basic expectations of conduct, and authority is respected on all sides. The cop was angered and snapped (bad), but was stopped
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by cycomanic 2mo ago
But the AI companies are not publishing the models? Moreover they are charging for access to the models.
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by cycomanic 2mo ago
You conveniently left out the fact that all the "easy" tracks (athletics, legacy, donor) are heavily skewed toward white applicants. It's interesting how everyone is riling about affirmative action, while at the same time nob
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
> When he reported the case to high-ranking officials at Brown, he got a cold reaction. The response from the president, he said, was absolute silence. The dean did not comment either until Serrano took the case before the Academic Code
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
> Because software you build it once and can resell it as much as you want, a stick of RAM is only sold once. Yes exactly, and theoretically if there was a functioning market that should have driven prices way down, because the marginal
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
It's funny how everyone (especially here on HN) accepted (and expected) extremely high profit margins from software businesses, but now that hardware companies are increasing their margins to match it is suddenly outrageous. The same w
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
If I understand your argument it's ethically ok to destill huge swathes of copyrighted work into a model without compensation, but then it is ethically wrong to use that model without compensation (well actually reduced pricing)? I don
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
That's not how electricity markets operate. Say you have 100GW demand (number are not in any way related to reality) and your Nuclear plant has a capacity of 50 GW. However it's a sunny day and solar is producing 80 GW. That solar
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
It seems your misinterpreting the quote, it does never says that > “These everyday things that are beloved to us, like food, can take on an entirely different dimension within the context of a dictatorship.” Is the definition of the bana
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
If you restrict typat to the basic functionally of markdown it is just as readable as plain text (not surprising considering that typat syntax was inspirered by markdown). However, once we include more unusual things I would argue that mark
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Markdown compared to typst or latex is extremely limited and using it for books or academic papers is very niche. I certainly would (and have for all my previous publications) prefer typst or latex over mark
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
But by that argument the EU holds all the cards because nobody can do what ASML can do. So everyone is dependent on the EU.
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
That ignores the fact that there is a incredibly well founded coalition of organisations with idiological (climate change by its nature requires collective action, but collective action is bad...) and economic (big oil, big tobacco...) moti
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
Ah apologies, that's what I get for skim reading and kneejerk replying. I completely agree with you, undergrads are highly unlikely to know more about a subject than their professor (obviously there can always be exceptions).
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
Like what? Seriously, nobody thought shouting rockets into space was impossible. Landing a rocket again nobody had thought it impossible. Sure they brought down prices, again nobody thought it impossible. The question is actually is it desi
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
It certainly is true in physics and engineering that a PhD student at least half way through their PhD should know more than there supervisor about their topic (and usually much earlier). Even a Masters thesis project student should underst
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
Can someone explain this statements: > While amusingly as of June 8 Blacksmith’s terms implied that their right to bill you is contingent on you providing payment information, a SaaS app certainly could have terms that obligate users to
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
Yeah it's much better to make your money by enabling the worlds worst dictators to steal money from their populations. In fact it's all the other countries taxes that are paying for the swiss social security, because of all the ai
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by cycomanic 3mo ago
That doesn't really make sense, you need the ability for significant overproduction before you start thinking about storage. The other way around is just wasting money. We are just starting to get there, but still have significant foss
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by cycomanic 4mo ago
It's interesting, I'm not a big notebook user myself, but others (and myself rarely) often take advantage of that feature, because it allows you to e.g. get data from an instrument, but then continue exploring the data using diffe

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