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I am a dog owner, and I agree that a loose and aggressive dog is a liability to humanity and you are making everyone a favor if you kill it even if you could have escaped (e.g. you…

My wife runs https://www.saviament.com/ , an open-access educational website in Catalan. She also sells printable content following the same style as the website, which has explode…

Wouldn't all the houses in the village lose way more than £400 in value? Last I was comparing houses in a neighborhood, the houses near a powerline were consistently worth 15k-30k …

The post I was replying to was edited and originally claimed that London had higher murder rate than New York.

You are right. Should not have relied on the most likely LLM-generated description attached to the data. I trusted it because I already had the wrong impression that it was less sa…

London murder rate per million in 2024: 11.6 NYC murder rate per million in 2024: 43 And from what I read, NYC is exceptionally safe for a US city, and London is exceptionally unsa…

Same boat. I have a 6D Mark II since 7 years ago now, and I misguidedly was counting on ML to be released within 3 years of my purchase. But luckily, it's still a fantastic camera.…

Can't the Western government strongarm the receiving bank by threatening to kick them out of SEPA/ACH/Fediwire?

If you are going scam people with locked iPhones over the internet, why send an iPhone at all? You should just send a literal paperweight. It will serve the same purpose. It's not …

It seems to me that it would increase safety, but I guess only a simulation could truly tell. I understand your take, but I have a different one: most accidents happens when someon…

I was trying to write a decent definition but Wiki does it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Agency In this context it could be able to do multiple actions…

This is the source to the 3.9TW number: https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF_2023-11-2... I understand your frustration. I had to dig quite a bit to find numbers I co…

Australia's target is more ambitious, but China has a larger share right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable... I am also not clear that it is that mu…

If you don't need the granularity, you can store all the credentials that will be used by a specific caller(s) in a single JSON object and it will cost you only those $0.50. You ca…

The article mentions it is not a limiter, but rather a speed limit warning. So none of your hypothetical scenarios apply, other than drivers might learn not to overtake if breaking…

2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greate…

You are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better. Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 3…

I love this genre, and Deep Rock Galactic and Alien Swarm are the only ones that are on the same level. Alien Swarm is even more tactic and punishing (no reviving at all). Full Met…

Buy houses and lots, keep them empty, and speculate on their value. Or just build their 6th mansion that uses a plot of land that could fit 400 apartments, keeping the people under…

This already happens in Spain. It is very common that the private eviction services negotiate rather than force them out. And the negotiation is basically a piece of the payment, s…

Basically only truly DRM-free, offline games in GOG/itch.io will be able to show "Buy", giving them an advertising edge.

I am not hopeful at all that it will go that way. Instead, I expect those buildings to invest in having the fastest, most stable internet connection with added redundancy and every…

I had the intuition that Netlify are extremely incompetent compared to Cloudflare, and this thread adds another data point. So no, if you value uptime you are not going to rely on …

Companies (not banks) that can now settle payments almost in real-time rather than wait a day to confirm that the payment has been received makes them more competitive global-econo…

If a non-notable person tweeted this, they might have lost their livelihood.