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Camason Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime

Jails do not exist to rehabilitate prisoners, they exist to separate them from society.

Camason Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (1998)

https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations

Camason DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”

Unbiased search is impossible, so DDG should be deliberately biased?

Camason Hands-On Rust: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play

Book is also online: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/

and on Github: https://github.com/amethyst/rustrogueliketutorial

Camason Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'

That's a press release for an unpublished paper disguised as an article.

Camason Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'

Anything interesting that happens at a school board makes the news now because everyone there has a phone and internet. What exciting scoops do you think we're missing?

Camason Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'

I can follow a few people on fb to get the same content that local newspapers provided. For free. Where's the downside?

Camason Zombie research haunts academic literature long after its supposed demise

https://outline.com/DMNUXu

Most of the article talks about post-retraction citations

Camason Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor

Many things improve but go down in price. Can't articulate fully but it instinctively feels like a rationalisation rather than a reason.

>It's basically an early bird discount.

When has that not been a marketing tactic

Camason Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor

>the idea is that the product becomes more valuable over time as a result of more features being added

I have a hard time believing that's the main motivation

Camason John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

>As I mentioned, I, as a lone tax payer, who made less then £100k, paid more in taxes in FAANG combined in the UK.

Only true if you think companies shoulder none of the burden of VAT, income tax etc.

Camason Kim Stanley Robinson: a declining world population could be a good thing

In reality you'd just get a situation similar to Japan.

Camason Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

Fair. From ~40% share of global gdp in the 60s to ~25% now

Camason J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer

I do tend to enjoy his content more when he doesn't mention politics.

Camason The myth of the driverless tube train

> Compared to 3.5bn in free money to private operators?

Sadly London is not yet more important than the rest of the UK combined.

Camason The myth of the driverless tube train

> hung out to dry

£1.8 billion in loans/grants

Camason English medical records are about to be given away. As GPs, we’re fighting back

NHS response to this and similar allegations

Collecting GP data - advice for the public: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections...

Camason UK Rail services to come under unified state control

Prices are "criminal" but not worth you doing more than a cursory search for a cheaper ticket?

Camason UK Rail services to come under unified state control

http://www.leeches.uk.com/

Camason Where the top of the stack is on x86 (2011)

Felt similar when I learned what inverting/reversing a tree meant.

Camason Clubhouse downloads are falling

Shady as in the data is unreliable or shady as in you have an ethical disagreement?

Camason A future without passwords

You can. You can also create tokens that function the exact same as a password but with a customisable scope.

Camason I hope work from home continues

Easier to exercise when there's a purpose to it.

Camason The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)

>A mid-life crisis is about impending old age and death

And lack of meaning/purpose.

>And how many people undergoing a mid-life crisis devote their time to architecture or mathematics?

Plenty of mature students at universities. In the series it's just asserted that people do these things. It's not explored.

>snide quip

"succinct description"

>As another poster asked, how would you live if you were able to choose?

I think I have more meaningful choice in this world than a human living in the culture so not an interesting question.

Camason The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)

Sounds like a permanent mid-life crisis.

Camason GitHub, fuck your name change

>Positive outcome rates are similar whatever people’s ethnicity is. Around 25% of searches result in some action being taken.

https://fullfact.org/crime/stop-and-search-england-and-wales...

That's for London

Camason Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

Camason Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit

https://capx.co/the-enduring-fantasy-of-secret-nhs-privatisa...

Camason Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle

Thank you billionaires for creating $1tn of value during these troubled times

Camason Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4#issuec...

>Pylance [..] is planned to be included in proprietary service offerings.