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Its reddits digg moment

I miss the old days. I remember there being an experimental one to break i think 40k encryption to get everyone to up their level

Its not just shrinkflation for these mars bars. Its sugar tax to reduce obesity

Not just that but they are trying to force you to the all or login. I stopped posting on reddit years ago but still browse it and just get use the app or login messages Something n…

Im more concerned about the implications for index funds - the whole changing of the NASDAQ rules for SpaceX and AI stocks doesnt sit right. The whole IPO and the AI stock IPO's ar…

I do a yearly update of all important account details and passwords on a shared keepass. Then sit down annually to review it all. Outside this i have encrypted drives and shared pa…

The general trend of the past years has increased immigration https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisor... Its not an open border and the rules changed and now i…

Not sure what that means. What do you think the Uk claims to own? Lots of european countries owned colonies until the post-war settlement. And immigration to UK is at an all time h…

Yeah and helps demonstrate thst Tristan is strategically important

Luxotica are an eu company which makes me think the eu wont ban them

Sort of but then you have the west lothian question, about Scottish or Welsh MPs voting on English issues. For instance these MPs should never have voted on student loans

Id originally thought the nhs contract covered the whole UK, but the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales arent covered I honestly feel an English assembly covering NHS would…

There is a lot of information out there on improving cycling performance using wider tyres, waxed chains - but for me a lot of it centers around professional riders riding at 30mph…

I remember reading James Gliecks book genius about Richard Feynmann. The pages that always stuck were the post-bomb stance of oppenheimer vs teller. A lot of scientists viewed the …

Im relying in sentient AI realising how frustrating and soul destroying development can be, then deciding to go off and do something more constructive

This isnt a bad thing - it frees doctors up to work on cases that are harder to diagnose. So if AI can check scans or tests for cancers - great, doctors can focus on treatment The …

I had a friend working on tech to recycle ev car batteries for household storage. One of the issues has been that the durability of these batteries is much better than people thoug…

The later ones cover his breakdown and the early days of the goons I hadnt read them for years and Al Murray was talking about them on his ww2 podcast and i reread them I remember …

Spike Milligans war diaries - i love how he captures the banter and laughs amongst everyman soldiers in WW2, and how you can see the seeds of the goon show and monty python develop…

Im surprised we dont hear more about AI fails already - the odd db getting dropped but not much else

American or British farce?

Ok we see AI and agents constantly on HN, but never see people coming clean with there AI disasters. Anyone had disasters or things going wrong?