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helsinkiandrew
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GOV.UK pay has done £9.2B in payments in the last decade, with an average of £67 https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/performance/ A very crude calculation for £1B a year in payme…
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Not hiring replacements for the few percent of staff which churn every year would probably save the same amount of money without demoralising your staff. This looks like a simple cost cutting to boost…
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> If LLMs were around when I was a student, I would've also used them to "speed up" my homework assignments then proceed to fail all my tests. I agree - I would have been toast. I w…
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Does it say that in the full report somewhere else? I can't find that in the text. I think most people would be surprised if ex senior military Personnel didn't think military spending shoul…
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> These individuals had also been quoted, featured, or otherwise used as commentators in UK media coverage of defence, conflict, or national security issues. If they are promoting defence spending …
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> The US could/can, they're just not willing to undergo the mass casualties it would take to put boots on the ground It doesn’t matter what the reason, if you can’t do something you can’t…
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The issue is that once it's in the S&P500, Russel, Nasdaq100 etc indices - everyone with a pension or tracker fund will be buying it without thinking
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Matt Levine made an interesting point that the SpaceX IPO looks like a short squeeze/pump and dump [1]: 1. Do an IPO. 2. Sell a small amount (5%) to price insensitive Elon Musk-fans at a $2 trill…
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He's been wrong a few times, but has been right far more than ONCE and appears to be profitably making decisions. For example: Short dot.com stocks (55% return), short subprime mortgages (Massiv…
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> This is the country where organised marches must have police approval and follow an approved route You have to notify the police not get approval. They can "impose conditions and restrictio…
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> Why do we need AI here? As several comments in the issue mention, it's up to the developers that contribute to an open source package to decide how they do it. Complaining on an issue track…
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But they used Floppy disks and data chip thingies for transferring data. If the Cylons were any good they’d have eventually created a self perpetuating virus. Even humans have pulled that off (Stuxn…
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Your comparing apples and oranges, the sales figures are national, whilst the fines covered California alone. There’s state litigation in Texas and Arkansas at least and a national lawsuit https:…
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> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that? The miniscript language itself is MIT License: https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript The Minimicro code doesn't seem to hav…
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Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-25/the-ai-tr... …
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> I don't understand why US weapons manufactures are not lobbying harder It doesn’t really matter if your product is better or cheaper, if the customer thinks that service and spare parts migh…
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I don’t know the background to this project, but a nuclear project would likely be very transparent - with public studies on the impacts and meetings for the public to make their views known. It’s fa…
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Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/samsung-c... …
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Wasn't the Ptolemaic dynasty (300-30BC) Greek speaking and culturally Greek, presumably the Library at Alexandria had a full set of classic Greek texts.