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by logifail 8d ago
Very droll. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-... "The school curriculum in England is the responsibility of the Westminster Government. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsib
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by logifail 8d ago
"English pupils have pulled ahead of the rest of the UK in international reading, maths and science tests, new data suggests, with Scotland and Wales falling further behind." Appreciate this stuff gets political very quickly, but
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by logifail 10d ago
> I don't really care if either my neighbor or Elon Musk used my open source code. I wish we could spend less (collective) time here on HN talking about/worrying about Elon Musk. We're (allegedly) here for "anything t
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by logifail 11d ago
> So what are we missing? There are some (many?) European companies which are considered as least as much as a jobs program as anything else. In 2018, Alain Charmeau (in)famously expressed frustration with SpaceX in an interview with Der
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by logifail 14d ago
> just like passports are optional "Border controls aren’t supposed to exist between EU member states – that’s the promise of the 1985 Schengen treaty. Yet today, travelers routinely face checks when crossing borders within the [Eur
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by logifail 16d ago
> leaving insular academic institutions to self-police I'm not convinced that academic institutions are actually self-policing, it may not even be correct to assume they each act as one coherent entity. There are a lot of incentive
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by logifail 21d ago
> This is not a data exercise, this is real life [...] You may not wish to hear this, but real life is very much a data exercise: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
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by logifail 29d ago
Last week I had boarded a flight at LHR and the crew were just starting their safety briefing when everyone's phones went off with that wildfires 'emergency' alert message. I was unimpressed with the message, along with the (
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by logifail 2mo ago
> You're going to have a hard time convincing the judge that you "accidentally" gave the wrong pin in this case Counter-example: muscle memory. My OH has - more than once - attempted to tell me her PIN code. On more than
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by logifail 2mo ago
> Intentions matter Fed: "give us your PIN or else" me: "528491" Fed: <types 528491, presses OK> me: "no! 528419, I meant 528419!!" Fed: <watches phone wipe...>
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by logifail 2mo ago
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/... It's write and/or erase cycles that cause wear.
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by logifail 2mo ago
> It seems like you're going around tech forums arguing with the democratic decision and fear-mongering about how legitimate projects will be removed next. If we're going to argue that a platform is free to make decisions, aren
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by logifail 2mo ago
> How would it help your mental health [...] ...to be told the truth? Quite a lot. I've been inside companies that had to right-size their teams, it's not pretty, but my goodness honesty from management is better than pretendi
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by logifail 2mo ago
Is the app Apple-only?
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by logifail 2mo ago
> If your children have broken bones you can't explain [..] I don't mean to be combative about this but 1) do you have children and 2) if yes, how many times have you taken your child to hospital with a broken bone I have (unfo
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by logifail 2mo ago
> Even in the offline world that is not the case. Ex. Alkohol sales I bought a beer yesterday and shared it with our 16 year-old, and I shared some wine with him this evening. How does that not come under "parental responsibility&qu
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by logifail 2mo ago
> A sensible regulator would leave some responsibility to the parents (Speaking as a parent of three) why can't we just leave all responsibility to the parents? In our experience in the offline world it seems this applies! I spe
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by logifail 2mo ago
...even with the glut of pelicans, aren't there still far more images of actual bikes (with correct frames) available to train on? Perhaps I'm underestimating the number of pelicans(?!)
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by logifail 2mo ago
These scammers are breaking the law already, why would breaking yet another law matter to them?
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by logifail 2mo ago
"What costs make up an electricity bill?" from the House of Commons Library is worth a read[0], it reveals the typical breakdown of a household electricity bill in the UK: Wholesale electricity costs make up 28.7% of the bill Carb
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by logifail 2mo ago
Neither Binface nor Farage have any answers for the problems the UK appears to be facing; this election feels like something specifically designed to create material for viewers of Have I Got News For You[0] to laugh at. From The Atlantic:
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by logifail 2mo ago
> The confirmation vote is not just about the President of the Commission but the entire package, including other major positions in the Commission and major policy directions It's two votes, not one; the President and the rest of t
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by logifail 2mo ago
All the European Council's negotiations were private. No public hearings, no public votes, not even any public parliamentary debates(!) about different candidates for the Commission. This is indeed "the EU way", trying to f
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by logifail 2mo ago
> no need to bleed political capital I'm not sure the EU needs to worry about political capital in the way that many national and regional governments do. Power moves through negotiations between institutions, party groups, lobbyis
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by logifail 2mo ago
In Germany you're not allowed to mow your lawn with a motorised mower or to recycle glass bottles on Sundays either. "Banned" feels like a slightly clumsy word to use to describe restrictions such as these.
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by logifail 2mo ago
Playboy was never in school libraries either, basically because children aren't adults. Isn't this basic curation and child protection, not censorship?
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by logifail 2mo ago
> It would make moderation impossible otherwise. Why would you need to moderate private messages between users?
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by logifail 3mo ago
> It’s incorrect to say that catching the virus gives you “better” protection than a vaccine. An expert in the field would appear to disagree: Dr F: "the best vaccination is to get infected" https://www.c-span.org&#x
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by logifail 3mo ago
> A reduction is still a reduction, even if is not a 100% total and full stop The advice I was given from our family doctor was that having had an utterly mild case of (actual) Covid, as I had (two separate times!), during the pandemic,
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by logifail 3mo ago
> Vaccines reduce the chance of them spreading it [..] "Citation needed"... Covid vaccination did not reliably or durably block SARS-CoV-2 transmission, especially after Omicron and as immunity waned. https://pubmed.

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