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www.bbc.co.uk 1d ago

AliExpress gets record €550M fine from EU for allowing sale of illegal products

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taxpolicy.org.uk 8d ago

What would a land value tax do?

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www.wired.com 9d ago

Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?

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www.bbc.co.uk 13d ago

Why electric cars cost more to insure – and what's being done about it

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www.theregister.com 16d ago

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to BIS

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arstechnica.com 16d ago

Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250

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tacit.livejournal.com 25d ago

Quora and mass AI poisoning: An organized crime AI spam ring

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devblogs.microsoft.com 28d ago

Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?

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arstechnica.com 1mo ago

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

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www.nature.com 1mo ago

Hyperglycosylation is a metabolic driver of Alzheimer's disease

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arstechnica.com 1mo ago

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

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www.youtube.com 2mo ago

Medieval Europe (in 23 minutes) [video]

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www.tbray.org 2mo ago

Declining America

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cotypist.app 2mo ago

Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac

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www.tbray.org 2mo ago

Life During Class Wartime

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arstechnica.com 2mo ago

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2mo ago

The "Connectivome Theory": A New Model to Understand Autism Spectrum Disorders

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www.sentinelone.com 2mo ago

High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet

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allbrainsbelong.org 2mo ago

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

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www.bbc.co.uk 3mo ago

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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arstechnica.com 3mo ago

Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

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www.theatlantic.com 3mo ago

The World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism

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www.smbc-comics.com 3mo ago

The Music of the Spheres – By Terence Tao and Zack Weinersmith

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docs.rs 3mo ago

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Locks for Rust

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www.rockpapershotgun.com 3mo ago

GTA 6 publisher Take-Two lay off their head of AI and several of team members

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arstechnica.com 3mo ago

SpaceX files for IPO, targets $1.75T valuation

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www.tbray.org 4mo ago

Nash Burns Saves the Day

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arstechnica.com 4mo ago

Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app

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www.forbes.com 4mo ago

Beyond Oil: The Strait of Hormuz and the Global Food Risk

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www.lesswrong.com 5mo ago

AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days

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"I realize that my boss and I could have probably worked out some face-saving compromise behind closed doors before having any sort of public discussions."

Absolutely this. Nothing wrong with disagreeing, but don't have a screaming row with your boss in front of the team.

I assume that "index" in this case is for the index in the fully sorted list? i.e. if you're looking for the 50th place in a 100 item list, then it's 50th place in the sorted list you want.

But as you don't know what value that is, how do you know which partition it's in?

(I am feeling very stupid today and hoping someone can explain this to me)

Yeah. I (male) have a daughter who is very much like me, to the point where my wife finds it hilarious when I get frustrated at her behaving in the same ways my wife gets frustrated at me for behaving.

India had the second highest number of cases and the third highest number of deaths.

And that's before you start taking into account the terrible record tracking and lack of testing.

Agreed.

Generally, with QR menus I'm used to paying when we order. No need for secondary processes or worrying about something not being paid for.

If it was reductions they'd tell you so in the title. If they aren't doing that it's because they're trying to avoid giving you the bad news for as long as possible.

Entirely true.

If you want UBI without massive inflation then you have to suck back in most of the money you've produced.

Of course, you can then do that pretty sensibly so that you don't have cliff edges like we do at the moment.

It's more than when minimum wage goes up (which has a similar effect on people at the lowest end of the wage earners - their income goes up by X) the effect is not that food/housing immediately captures all of that X, it captures about 20% of X.

(I appreciate that I'm not offering sources, and am going from memory here. Sorry, if I had the time I would try and track them down.)

Bunch of research on this, and while it does lead to some inflation, so long as competition is acting on the market only a small percentage goes on this.