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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 would…

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.…

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" contributi…

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 imm…

"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 …

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 …

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…

> 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 v…

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 Revo…

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 …

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 ass…

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 …

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 …

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 retu…

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)30…

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 expi…

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 …

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 articl…

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 so…

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 surprisin…

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…

> 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…

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…

Huh, looks like he changed the image in 2024 (based on url). Before today, I'd have said the jwz image was goatse.

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 …