polshaw

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by polshaw 2mo ago
>Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little
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by polshaw 3mo ago
Content restricted in the UK
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by polshaw 3mo ago
That's a huge misreading. Hiding comments in the UI empirically does not suppress discussion, if anything it actually attracts engagement. Lots of people are seeking the "wrong" to "correct" it. Suppressed debate is
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by polshaw 3mo ago
It's not "richer countries", unless none exist in Europe or Asia. SMS has only kept its primacy for text communication in North America. Also note the RoW has never had to pay to receive SMS. But NB even where messaging apps
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by polshaw 5mo ago
These are not product placements, it's as if someone wrote a movie or TV episode literally with an ad break.
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by polshaw 6mo ago
I don't want KDE but I would much prefer gnome to macos desktop, I think it's both prettier and more functional, and that's not a tahoe thing. I hate finder too, and don't see any way to properly use an alternative.
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by polshaw 6mo ago
sounds like 100% risk of getting scammed
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by polshaw 8mo ago
Could we perhaps include medical care in the necessities don't you think?
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by polshaw 8mo ago
UBI discussion invariably is way off the mark. The only thing UBI solves is how to give out the money, which is a massive misdirection, the real problem is how to get the money. Do you gut the state and allow people who don't work to h
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by polshaw 8mo ago
(regardless of the fact Google is included in the suit;) Youtube is a different model I think. Yes you can burn time with it forever if you are bored, but it's not the relentless dopamine machine gun that IG and Tiktok deliver. (which
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by polshaw 8mo ago
The range of stars is very deliberately NOT zero indexed, you cannot rate a product below 1.
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by polshaw 8mo ago
I think this is totally wrong. When you have both parties speaking multiple languages this happens all the time. You see this more with English being the loaner more often than it is the borrower, due to the reach that the language has. Lis
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by polshaw 8mo ago
FWIW Taiwan has had an e-scooter battery swap system for a decade; Gogoro
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by polshaw 8mo ago
US would lose out significantly if this were applied by everyone worldwide. The whole of Europe + Anglosphere have surrendered their whole tech related sectors to US companies, an enormous wealth transfer.
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by polshaw 9mo ago
Is there an option for it to read the contents from a pipe? that's by far my biggest use for the jq app.
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by polshaw 9mo ago
Your introductory paragraph comes across very much like "people who want to change the status quo are political and people who want to maintain it are not"; which is clearly nonsense. "how things are is how they should be&quo
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by polshaw 11mo ago
>Uptime 5 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours, 46 minutes Seems to have had no issue whatsoever! Even through the whole night period. Shows the depth of inefficiency of our 'advanced' systems.
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by polshaw 11mo ago
It's been happening, it's just one abstraction away. They have demonised unions for decades in US discourse.
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by polshaw 11mo ago
Indeed. RAM is the tool of planned obselecence (and profiteering for that matter).
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by polshaw 1y ago
So there is not a magical space where the law does not apply? that is what you call hypocritical.
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by polshaw 2y ago
You don't say it's "especially" red then do you. The comparison was started by the GP.
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by polshaw 2y ago
No, the monarch does not pick the Prime Minister. At all. They have a ceremonial role in confirming them. Like they do with every law that Parliament creates. If they ever actually practically exercised this theoretical power it would be th
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by polshaw 2y ago
There's a confusion here. Gaol is simply a rarely used (I would say archaic) spelling of jail. It does not mean prison. British English also differentiates jail and prison, by extension I assume that's universal.
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by polshaw 2y ago
o2 is the UK's largest mobile network operator. They bought naming rights to what was known as the millennium dome (not even a stadium).
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by polshaw 2y ago
This is cool, as far as a practical issue though (aside from the 280gb TTF file!) is that it makes it incompatible with all other fonts; if you copy and paste your "improved" text then it will no longer say what you thought it did
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by polshaw 2y ago
The critical part is knowing that TTF fonts can include a virtual machine.. then he pops an llm into that and replaces instances of !!!!!! with whatever the llm outputs.
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by polshaw 2y ago
Platform *decay seems inadequate though because it fails to make the distinction that the platform is declining specifically in quality and likely NOT in use.
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by polshaw 3y ago
RSI is not "universal". It is closer to an unemployment benefit than it is to a UBI.
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by polshaw 3y ago
And Amazon search, youtube search. There do seem to be somewhat different incentives involved though, those examples are primarily about increasingly pushing lower quality content (ads, more profitable items, more engaging items) because it
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by polshaw 3y ago
Your Europe page states "only open to candidates in Germany, Spain, Romania, the Netherlands or Denmark". Is this correct? I genuinely cannot imagine what would motivate that selection of countries.

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