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I'm not saying this, because I'm not aware of this. I have a friend who is enjoying living in Osaka, but I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about Japanese sentiment towards him or a…

That "simple process" requires equipment most people don't own or know how to operate, an oil most people don't keep in their cupboards, and is suggested in a book most people have…

All metaphors break at some point. However, your example actually proves the point. How many people who want a good steak know how to identify a high quality cut? Do they even know…

TFA explains that Japan is unusual as being the only country in Asia with two cities in the top 10 most liveable cities in the World. That's why they wrote the article. If Spain ha…

It needs critical mass, but then it cascades. If you read through the description, what they talk about is that the culture is built around the idea of the individual being part of…

That "trope" is in almost every press release, every corporate announcement I have read in decades. AI is trained on all that material and regurgitates it. It is trained to do that…

> clearly 100% AI-generated First, show your working - just reads like generic announcement/PR speak from the last 30 years to me. Secondly, could everyone who wants to make commen…

I think I would trust a Nobel laureate on their topic of expertise, as indicated by their Nobel prize. The problem seems to be that they are asked - and often answer - questions on…

Indeed. The FIFA Peace Prize winners espousing views they don't seem to have any qualification to comment on (and may express factually incorrect views, unsupported by data), seems…

I'm currently weighing up a sabbatical (3 months), for a bunch of reasons. A vacation (or holiday, or PTO, or whatever you call it locally), is great, but normally too short to pro…

Gary Neville's mini-retirement hot take was the first thing I thought of when reading headline.

There is a pedagogical theory that states a student only really learns something when they apply it. Not read it, not highlight it, not copy it out: apply it. The only way to build…

I never again want to work on a team full of people who drink a lot of energy drinks. I'm not going to pretend I'm a saint and I only ever sip mineral water or kombucha (although I…

I guess you also think the "Hand of God" goal, was also a legitimate and fair goal because something something Maradonna something something Malvinas something something god? Look,…

This is definitely an iterative improvement on what we have today. However, I think from a fundamental approach, you've just highlighted the pain of working with AI that I hadn't q…

- The number of teams expanding weakened the group stage to a point of being ignorable - The extraordinary pricing of the tickets - "Hydration breaks" to cater for TV advertising -…

The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations be…

This is cool, but do you know what was really cool? 2 years earlier, they made a TV watch: https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/51.html

The only thing that annoyed me about HS2 more than "Oh, and it'll stop at Oak Common, and won't go to Manchester", was by that point they'd already flattened the Bree Louise.

OK, short version: no. And logically this makes sense, because you can see the pub problem as a subset of locations within all locations, and all of these pubs are clustered around…

I have a readers card for the BL, and agree its a marvellous thing - I regularly head over there despite my earlier comment about getting depressed on Euston Road. My preferred way…

Logically, no, as they all neighbour non-pub locations. There's a coffee shop or restaurant within a minute or two of each of the top 5, from memory. There used to be some UK celeb…

The problem - and I can't understate this enough - is that these are all relatively close to each other (naturally), in one of the most miserable parts of London you could spend ti…

When I was a teenager, I was a big fan of the show (and books), Red Dwarf . One part of the story describes one of the characters, Rimmer, preparing for an exam. He spends so much …

I've thought about this a few times over the years, and the protocol is broken in ways that lead to poor UX - the whole thing became over-ran with crap. I do think it's possible to…