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Import dependency. The UK government put it at 43.5% in 2025 and 43.8% in 2024: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cd1451b5210... > EDIT: maybe you meant the UK total…

> Sovereign capability just means that no foreign government can pull the plug OK, fair enough on 'pull the plug ~instantly'. But models and chips age fast. If another country can …

Firstly, congrats! As a Brit this looks cool, and I'm happy to see it. I wish you every success. Secondly: I get that 'sovereign' is probably an important sales term for your compa…

The Economist is a British newspaper. HQ London, editors British. That said, ‘America’ is synonymous with the USA in writing and conversation here (and elsewhere in Europe in my ex…

> nowadays every 16-year-old web-dev reaches for Array.map(x => {x} ) when they write their pages in the most popular framework. These higher-order functions have now become part o…

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662

Not so - it was the majority of their music industry earnings, and they are apparently quite haunted by it to this day!

If you live in or near London, go for a (free) tour of the Linnean Society. Worth it to see his beautiful notebooks alone. Also learned that he included phoenixes in his original t…

One of the best things about living in London. If you visit, take a walk there and then end up in one of the many brilliant pubs nearby - The Holly Bush, Wells, Spainard’s Inn, Mag…

Your take is cliché, factually wrong, and makes you look callous all at once, congrats! Any other major religions' holidays you'd like to dismiss while you're at it?

Cal Newport is a tenured theoretical computer science professor. Seems like an accomplishment in an actual specialized domain to me!

Sounds wonderful! Would love if this were a thing elsewhere. I don't think I've experienced anything similar since I left uni, where unplanned, all-night conversations might happen…

I don't know enough (anything) about how market works, but that appears to be a crank article. It got zero interest before the WSBs/GME thing: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22An…

A lot of Brits would like the British Museum to give the marbles back too! <3

Principled - bravo!

Because the number of death from smoking or traffic accidents doesn't grow exponentially, as they're not caused by an infectious disease. You don't go from 100 lung cancer cases to…

Sure, but since that’s a median not a cap, doesn’t that point to ‘a more realistic cap is not even half that’ (75k) being a bit pessimistic? There are a lot of people in finance in…

I’m actually very surprised, and interested, to hear this. I’ve never felt software was looked down on in any middle class/professional circle I’ve mixed in. Perhaps a generational…

Definitely higher than half that. SWEs at FB, Google etc will get >100k. Even aside from that I regularly see higher than half that - e.g random example from a quick Google at 85k …

"LP dollars", LPs = Limited Partners = https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-limited...