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"audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers" It's funny they say this back in 1993. It feels like we've gone from computers being a niche but beloved piece …

Is it me or are those prices dead cheap compared to UK / US?

Trump has avoided a ground invasion up to this point for this exact reason, even trying to take one of outerlying islands would have heavy casualties due to drone warfare. There's …

Interestingly US-based newsrooms are still geo-blocking EU users. Not even bothering to ask for cookies.

This is a country of 90 million, compared to Gaza which was 2million

For people invested in AI it is becoming something like Maslow's Hammer - "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail"

At this rate that's a couple of large LEGO sets.

That's a big part of it for you perhaps, but not for everyone?

The biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is seen as the primary way of changing behaviours. It's correct to be anti-racist / anti-sexist / etc. but that doesn'…

The sad fact is that this is more expensive than my 1-bed flat was 15 years ago. Rent really is insane if this is preferable now.

I dropped the two BBC podcasts i'd been interested in (News Cast and In Our Time) for this reason, it's such a weird tack to take in order to chase views.

I wonder if any of the commentators from 2007-2013 can share what they've learned in 10 years

I'm always surprised Discourse was never integrated into SO.

New Zealand has a similar problem https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

Why would the US want to do a Marshall plan? It was in full asset stripping mode in the USA itself in the mid 90s

This, I find even trying to ignore news sources doesn't work. I continually try to prune the more tabloid papers like Daily Mail / Express / Sun but no avail.

This is something some delivery apps have been accused of doing though. https://www.eater.com/2020/1/29/21113416/grubhub-seamless-ki...

These days? Yeah, pretty much. Don't trust anything that isn't E2E encrypted and is on a centralised server.

AS someone who watches a lot of YouTube, like the Let's Play content mentioned, I recognise and sympathise with the OP. But I think the problem isn't necessarily YouTube - thats ju…

I don't think it was that different on the internet per se, but SE itself was relatively young at that point and more lax with its own rules. This early period is when you also had…

https://xkcd.com/1782/

If you know the answer and it's a valid question (i.e. it's not trivial or easily googled already), it's fine to do. The point is less to reputation farm as it is to share knowledg…

> What kind of lunatic watches someone's uploads out of chronological order? Welcome to the TikTok algorithmic feed. Viewing videos in order and with context is so passe. That said…

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/05/14/shanghai-covid-r... Not exactly ignored. CNN has regular reports on China's Covid-19 response.

95% of the country is basically fine. I have a few friends in cities like Chongqing and Nanjing and their only issues are travel restrictions between regions.