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I can't help but read a strong implication in the article of the problem being with Labour policies. But up until recently, the Conservatives have been in power, for 14 years straight.

We can pretend the problem is all nanny state and neglected shitty council housing - which I agree it partly is - but it's also the creation of a vast class of landlords and property developers milking the population for rent with shoddily built super-expensive apartments. Classical free market thinking would have you believe they'd build enough housing to satisfy demand but they seem more than satisfied with maintaining the status quo so they can continue to charge exorbitant rents for little shitboxes with paper-thin walls, made to look fancy from a distance. These landlords have had a tremendous influence on Tory politicians and on policy.

And with everybody stuck in those high-rent dividend-machines, people under 40 can't afford to outright buy a house or even an apartment. And if you own a house, by means of its value gradually increasing, your mortgage reducing, and your salary hopefully increasing somewhat, you can eventually move on to a bigger/better house making room for the next young family to buy the house you're leaving behind.

Not to mention the absolute scam that is selling people leaseholds on apartments designed to make it prohibitively expensive to buy off the lease. An uniquely devious instrument dreamt up by the rentseeking class to screw over the average middle-class Brit.

The free market, cutting red tape, etc, isn't the answer. The government and the councils could and in my opinion should pick up the slack from the property developers. Build affordable houses, sell them at a reasonable rate with a provision mandating the buyer actually occupies the property for the coming 5 years or so (outside of exigent circumstances like divorce - we can work out the details). Sell them to people who are actually going to live in the house rather than use it as a financial instrument to speculate with or to rent out.

Is that unfair competition to the rentseekers? Yes, it is. Tough luck. You can't demand the government play by free market rules if you've successfully been undermining the free market functioning for at least two decades.

Sadly, with the current Labour government being very 'Tory but change the typeface and make it red,' this isn't going to happen. Cause they're friends with the real estate class too.

I think not just like art, it is art. Making something for the sake of making it, not because it serves a practical need or purpose. Perhaps even because it doesn't.

That was true for Trump 1. This time round, things appear to have changed. The CEOs of these companies sitting front-row at the inauguration is the most visible sign of their newfound mutual love. MAGA have found out these companies will just bend to their ideological will in the interest of shareholder value and it shows.

Yes! I think the name put a lot of people off, but it’s super good. Really makes you appreciate breakfast and the integral principles of the structural dynamics of flow as a nice bonus.

Sure, but every country was affected by Covid. Not always to a similar degree as Britain but the differences in Europe in that regard aren't so big. Most handled it similarly, saw similar infection rates and are seeing similar long-term consequences. Just like we were all affected by cheap Russian gas disappearing.

I think you can safely cancel out Covid and Putin when comparing the way living standards and cost of living have changed over the last decade between the UK and countries like France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, etc.

The first one I saw was like that. But I went for a Second Opinion, as is my right, and it was a world of difference.

Another Dutchie here.

Anything not immediately fatal is indeed treated by just taking it easy and perhaps some paracetamol for the placebo effect.

I have a chronic illness in the same kind of category and it took me years to find out what it was and to get proper treatment. Which has improved my quality of life dramatically!

But even now I travel halfway across the country to a university hospital where a specialist takes me seriously, the GP is still a bit 'meh whatever'. I'm fairly sure he put a "psychosomatic/hypochondriac" flag on my file and never removed it when the specialists diagnosed me.

Our healthcare system has overcorrected on what they dismiss as 'aanstellerij' en 'Amerikaanse toestanden' and many in the field are actually quite proud of this.

This is getting scarily close to “most people who get cancer only have themselves to blame” which can be a comforting thought if you’re putting in a lot of effort to reduce your own risk of cancer but at the end of the day it’s not true and kind of a shitty thing to say when we’re commemorating someone who fell victim to this horrible disease.

Reduce the odds it’ll get you too as much as you want, you’re wise to do so, but keep in mind it can still get you too and it is never somebody’s own fault.

More importantly, you can (almost) never say that if a cancer patient had done this and that or not done such and so they wouldn’t have gotten sick. You just can’t know and even if you did it’d still be a shit thing to say.

As to why, no idea. I guess some engineer was just familiar with it from their undergrad days like the rest of us.

And which version, I know it’s MINIX 3 but beyond that? No idea. They probably heavily modified it and as Minix is not GPL, Intel never published it. Based on the timelines it’s likely 3.1 as the ME platform has heen around since approximately 2007 iirc.

Not to mention MINIX is hidden away in almost every modern Intel CPU as part of its Management Engine. This little known fact makes it one of the most widely distributed operating systems.

for my understanding, you need that entitlement so you can send an encrypted invisible notification which you can then decrypt locally in your app and push out again as a local notification that doesn't go over the network (i.e. not use apns)? Or is doing this kind of stuff just weirdly tied to that specific entitlement?

I'm in Europe and this hasn't been my experience _at all_. I recently started using HA. I bought a HomeAssistant Yellow box which was very easy and got delivered to me speedily from within Europe. I set up my device and the web interface allowed me to link it to their cloud offering, where I could subscribe to the plan in euros - because it knew I was in The Netherlands. But it also works just fine without the subscription.

You’d have to keep track of which proofs you’ve already seen, to prevent re-use. You’d have to make sure the (source, source port, destination and destination port)-tuple is a cryptographic part of the algorithm, to prevent me using the same proof of work for like a million machines.

Then there’s the issue of low power and/or battery-powered devices. You want people to be able to use your protocol without draining the battery. But by lowering the computational cost to accomodate that, you’re enabling the bad guys that can afford a fast GPU to go back to abusing the protocol cause the cost isn’t sufficiently high to deter them anymore.

And I’m sure there are plenty of other things I haven’t thought of.

It would seem you have an axe to grind that goes beyond the issue at hand and I don't think it's worthwhile for me to engage any further with that.

> Old tech running perfectly fine; if it ain't broken don't fix it.

Except it's not running perfectly fine. It's butchering customers' actual real names. That may have been acceptable in the 80s, but it isn't anymore.

Ha, yes, I have an 'eij' in my last name and constantly explaining it's both the short ei and the long ij is maddening. In reality of course, it's just an e followed by an 'ij' but yeah no never mind.

Idk, I personally did it for a HPC cluster two years ago. 2x100GbE + OmniPath was a sensible way to reduce cost, especially as the cluster was very light on GPU power and mostly focussed on CPU-bound jobs. Last I heard everyone there is still very happy with what we built.

> Right now Nvidia is just crushing it and there's zero chance anyone is going to catch up by introducing new Infiniband ASICs.

I mean, Cornelis Networks is trying with the resurrected OmniPath. I hope they pull it off, but I'm not holding my breath.

See: https://www.cornelisnetworks.com/products/

A correction written by nobody other than Michael Bailey. Yeah. He would, wouldn’t he?

Dreger is not exactly a neutral party in this. You can’t take her words as some sort of neutral account of what happened. If you don’t want trans people and specifically trans women to exist it’s very easy to use words like ‘trying to ruin’ to describe well-deserved criticism and rebuttal. That too, is a fundamental part of the scientific method.

Much of the dreg published back then by Bailey, Blanchard, Raymond and others has long since been discredited by the scientific community and before you say anything: no, not because of ‘wokeism gone mad’.

One pillar of their research back then (and in part - to this day) was insisting trans women are men who suffer from a condition called autogynephilia (a fetish for seeing oneself as an attractive woman - the theory Dreger is referring to). And yes, a considerable amount of trans women met the standards he set for this condition. But it turns out, the percentage is even higher among cis (non-trans) women. 93% of them qualify. I guess the remaining 7% are the real women.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19591032/

If you are sincerely interested I recommend reading the works of Julia Serano. This piece about the book you mentioned is a great place to start: http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2015/04/alice-dreger-and-mak... If you’re just looking for ammunition to throw at trans people because you don’t like them existing, as very much seems to be the case with Alice Dreger, I can only hope you’ll find a more meaningful and positive way to spend your time.

I have the same affliction and I’ve had it for over 20 years now. It’s never gonna go away.

Seeing a lot of comments say (in one way or another) 'well duh, wages are lower in the EU' than they are in Silicon Valley.

But I don't know, if they'd laid off their EU staff instead this thread would be full of people saying it's just too expensive to be EU-based due to all the regulations and 'unnecessary' worker protection. In fact, there are many such threads on this brightly-colored website.

Maybe, if you feel inclined to post something like that, consider if you'd used pretty much the same reasoning if it were the other way round and reflect on that.

It sucks this hampers your goal of getting the UBI package set expanded but that's not because of the rebuilders using it as a loophole, it's because of the course IBM/RedHat set.

They decided their new course was 'compatible enough' with the GPL and this is one of those area where you start to feel the pain that's the difference between 'compatible enough' and actually compatible with the GPL and the ideas behind it.

If you’ve just been laid off from big tech and have been applying for three months in the current climate you might want to take the insult and hope the startup succeeds in a way that brings you the rewards later. I don’t like it either but that’s where some of my friends are at right now.

Yeah i think it allows them to write the ‘loss’ of the content on their balance sheet at some estimated value it would have cost them if they hadn’t made it themselves.

That sort of management-by-spreadsheet without any of the humanity or long-term vision almost every corporation used to have seems to be an ongoing trend, especially in media, and it’s showing. Discovery, who have McDonnel-Douglassed HBO and are behind this mess, are a particularly good example of the kind of garbage heap that leadership style gets you.

primarying her into retirement might tho

The fact that apparently, this tiny little sensor board can reliably measure your heart rate from a distance by using radar is kind of blowing my mind.

then they would have supported ipv6 because it’s less effort not to strip it out of the open source software they’ve based their platform on

What I don’t understand is why. Their OS is built on a linux kernel from at most a couple of years ago. I’m assuming the same goes for the libraries and the parts of the userland they didn’t make themselves. On any linux kernel not from the 90s it’s more effort not to support IPv6. Unless they rolled their own, which would be a tremendously stupid thing to do.

Ne2000 was my first NIC and I remember it dearly. It allowed my crummy old computer to connect to the family computer and by proxy its modem and the internet. Having access to the internet from my own bedroom was a game-changer for me as a kid!