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glomph··on 34x34x34 Rubik's Cube
They mean that the outer 3x3 is unsolvable taken in isolaton. The tricks will involve unsolving the middle faces and solving them again.
glomph··on Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated
This website makes some claims about what has caused both growth and decline that are pretty contentious.

I think that many would argue that the growth following the second world war was the result of massive state investment in public services like creating the NHS and the building of council housing.

They baffelingly attribute yhat growth to the Conservative Govrernment of the 1930s rather than the post war labour government.

Similarly this page attributes growth in the 80s to the Conservative government privatisation program. Again many would argue that was actually the start of the decline which we are feeling the pain of now with things like a terrible and fractured rail service and not enough housing.

I think a perfect example of this is our water companies that have been private since the 80s and have done nothing but pay dividends to shareholders and now we have a disaster with shit being poured into all our rivers and costs to households rising dramatically.

Edit: I read on and they use the drop in passengers in the railway in 1965 as an argument against nationalisation of the rail service, somehow neglecting to mention the beeching cuts! That is incredibly missleading given 55% of stations were axed due to a /reduction/ of state infrastructure at that time.

glomph··on When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
I mean they did post on the open issue that they were working on it and got no reply.
glomph··on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
Historically yes it is a massive part of what unions have done and continue to do. For example there have been many examples of dock workers refusing to transport South African or Israeli goods. That this is done as a collective action organised by union is what protects workers from individual retaliation.
glomph··on Ill in England? Your Location Can Determine If You Live or Die
Labour under Blair significantly increased the spending on the NHS compared to the conservative government before them.
glomph··on Are We Prisoners of Geography?
Firefox Android seems to often crash on the Guardian for me and I have not been able to work out why or find anyone else talking about it.
glomph··on Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
I am not sure it is very insightful trying to read long term trends here as neither data sets is 'raw'. metacritic adjust the way they interpret reviews and imdb do a number of things to normalise scores over time.
glomph··on Dango Views Cheatsheets
Thanks!
glomph··on BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
>What I don't get is why the conservatives were so draconian over covid.

Because hundreds of people were dying every day? Because that would have been worse without widespread restrictions?

glomph··on Mackenzie Scott gives away another £2B
Interesting that Scott has asked for the focus to be on the organisations not her. https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/seeding-by-ceding-ea6de64...
glomph··on Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish
The stockfish blogpost is quite a lot clearer: https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/643239805544792064/stat...
glomph··on Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
glomph··on Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes
But everyone hates facebook at this point. Seems very unlikely they would pay for it rather than jumping ship.
glomph··on Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman
If it was that simple why does literally every nuclear power plant run way behind schedule and way over budget?
glomph··on Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
The situation is frustrating when there have been Firefox developers on this site assuring us that there will be full extension support eventually. This no longer seems to be the case.
glomph··on Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
The comment I was replying to is the other way around. The times the USA has attacked other countries are too numerous to type out.
glomph··on Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
If?
glomph··on Why did the A-level algorithm say no?
They had to submit ranking even if the class size was very small.
glomph··on Why did the A-level algorithm say no?
The problem is that they were all told no exams would take place and exam prep from schools largly stopped due to the schools being physically closed.
glomph··on Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11
Do you have your browser set up to open youtube links like that? If so could you explain how you set it up?
glomph··on How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
Drive less.
glomph··on LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks
I can recommend Voice https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiob... which is open source!
glomph··on Complex landscapes helped land animals evolve higher intelligence: study
Legitimate? Since when were idioms a question of legitimacy?

The only languages which do not change are dead ones. - David Crystal

glomph··on Most-streamed track of the day by country
Things don't have to be happy to be moving.
glomph··on uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview
Do you have a source for that?
glomph··on uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview
Has it been put in writing that they ever intend to enable full extension support?
glomph··on Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
Would it be possible to link to an example of what you mean?
glomph··on Google inserts links to its Duo video chat app when users text about Zoom
It is still a pretty unfortunate outcome. It could confuse people into thinking that was the medium that the person they are talking to has chosen.
glomph··on Show HN: Zoom Redirector
I guess I thought it was relevant in a thread about zoom which allows 100 participants for free.
glomph··on The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
That is not true in the UK. Walking away 'any time' can seriously impact your potential to get another job.
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