ellen364

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by ellen364 2mo ago
It doesn't really seem the same. In coupon hunting, I might not want to spend time finding a coupon and decide to pay full price. That's my choice. In surveillance pricing, I wouldn't get that choice, I'd just get a cust
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by ellen364 6mo ago
The person who runs archive.today decided to involve me, and every other visitor, in their dispute. They decided to use us to hurt someone else. That's a pretty big sin in my book.
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by ellen364 1y ago
To work, you need to provide a National Insurance number, which is unique and tied to certain state benefits like pension. The idea is you work, pay "national insurance" contributions and accrue "contributing years" to g
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by ellen364 1y ago
I've been thinking about whether "$some_country rape gangs" seems racist to me. I've come down on "yes". The reason might seem odd. But it ocurred to me that if you want to use immigration to reduce crime, inc
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by ellen364 1y ago
"Approximately 1 million a year net" is completely true. In 2023 the UK's net migration was 906,000. But for context I'll add that it was a historic high and in 2024 net migration fell to 431,000. The Migration Observato
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by ellen364 1y ago
Based on "a third of customer bills go on interest payments", I'd guess the original comment was about Thames Water. In 2023 their interest payments were 28% of revenue. They also made the news for dumping particularly large
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by ellen364 1y ago
Love a bit of source analysis. I'd widen the frame a bit. People scared of losing their jobs might underestimate the usefulness of AI. Makes sense to me, it's the comforting belief. Worth keeping in mind while reading articles sce
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by ellen364 1y ago
> what you’re demanding is that Apple allow you to run your own software on their OS Yes. I'm not the original commenter, but this is what I expect. From my POV, the OS exists to virtualise the hardware it runs on. I don't want
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by ellen364 1y ago
Admittedly a minor point of interest, but the last famine in England happened in 1623 and was local to an area called Westmorland [0]. That was 150 years before the Industrial Revolution, so the 10% figure might not be very reliable. [0] h
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by ellen364 1y ago
Channels about autism also disproportionally cover people who are willing to talk about their autism. Recently I've been reading The Lost Girls of Autism. Something that stood out in the anonymous accounts is the fear of being "di
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by ellen364 1y ago
I don't know if voters and non-voters have the same political leanings. It isn't something I've ever looked into. My observation was merely that measures of statical confidence assume random samples. Extrapolating from a non-
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by ellen364 1y ago
Under that rule of thumb, anything accused of being an MLM will seem like an MLM, even if the accusation is absurd. "Uh, what?? Air isn't an MLM, it's just the thing we breath. We all need it to live." "Huh, I guess
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by ellen364 1y ago
The electorate self-selected into voters and non-voters, it wasn't a random sample. Some chose to go to the polls and some chose to stay at home. Voter preferences don't say a lot about the preferences of non-voters, who've a
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by ellen364 1y ago
I've been mostly happy with a Terrmaster DAS attached to a mini PC running UnRaid. The bays are hotswappable and overall it's been solid. I say "mostly" happy because I almost returned it. The USB connection between mini
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by ellen364 1y ago
In the study I'm aware of, 18 patients became infected in hospital and there was a 28% death rate within 30 days [0] [0] https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(16)301...
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by ellen364 1y ago
From what I've seen and heard from others, budget shenanigans and office politics are both common reasons for hiring contractors/freelancers. If it's September and your budget expires in April (new tax year here in UK), hire
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by ellen364 1y ago
It seems more like a contract dispute to me. My first thought is that a commercial court could decide who keeps the money. (Clearly in the real world the American authorities have decided it's a criminal matter. I just find it odd that
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by ellen364 1y ago
I don't know where I stand on this, but not everyone thinks that 100% on-task, uncritical, 0 conflict communication is essential or even normal for work. It reminds me of an article that claimed Britain has become a more civil and less
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by ellen364 1y ago
I'm curious about this. When I've hired, I've always wondered how I can actually tell (a) what soft skills are required for the role and (b) whether a candidate has them. People sometimes think that's a silly thing to po
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by ellen364 2y ago
People invented and discovered remarkable things before modern statistics and RCTs (work on puerperal fever, antisepsis and germ theory stand out for me). Humans can make surprising progress with only small scale experimentation and observa
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by ellen364 2y ago
The grandparent article claims that Page and Brin were paid by NSF, working on DLI projects while researching PageRank and that the equipment for their prototype crawler was partly paid for by DLI. If that's true, I'd say they&#x2
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by ellen364 2y ago
> It's not about Cloudflare, it's about the millions of people in Spain who couldn't access a plethora of legitimate, unrelated websites and services because of the block. I happen to agree that La Liga wildly overreaching
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by ellen364 2y ago
How the current US administration is treating European and North American countries makes me wonder if they are serious about taking on China. As a Brit, I've been surprised by how much my view has shifted in the last few weeks. I used
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by ellen364 2y ago
Huh, looks like he changed the image in 2024 (based on url). Before today, I'd have said the jwz image was goatse.
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by ellen364 2y ago
Dugatkin, "Winner and Loser Effects and the Structure of Dominance Hierarchies" was an interesting read this morning. Thanks for the reference. The main thing I take away from the paper is that (in computer simulations) bigger win
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by ellen364 2y ago
A Bayesian prior of 50/50 seems high to me. It assumes that 50% of new disease variants come from lab leaks. In the last few decades there have been 1-2 confirmed lab leaks per year. And they're often thing like "we found a v
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by ellen364 2y ago
I can't immediately think of a major US naval deployment in the North Sea outside the big NATO exercises every 1-2 years. Were you thinking of a specific shipping lane?
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by ellen364 2y ago
> Like if this is a crowdsourcing project, why not do a first pass with an LLM and present users with both the image and the best-effort LLM pass? Possibly for the reason that came up in your other post: you mentioned that you spot check
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by ellen364 2y ago
This is great advice and I've seen it work for a few people. (Not specifically for cybersecurity.) The short version is when people can ease sideways to a completely new role at their current employer. The longer version involves getti
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by ellen364 2y ago
I'll confess I was sceptical about this but, at minimum, the database seems to exist. There's a company called Carfax that I'd never heard of. Their EU site seems to provide basic reports about the VIN, whether the car has be

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