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- Comment on NHS England to trial AI and robotic tools to detect and diagnose lung cancer 2 days ago:
Good, if it’s as good or better than we have currently then that’s great, if it’s not then oh well.
- Comment on Advertisements 4 days ago:
There hasn’t been an insignificant number of times I’ve found out about a new product or event I’m interested in, a sale for something I already want, or something like that through advertising.
It’s rare as a proportion, but it definitely does happen.
- Comment on Advertisements 4 days ago:
I believe that ads are just yet another tragedy of the commons type of thing, where bad actors not only ruin it for everyone, but also convert good actors to being bad actors.
I’d say there’s three tiers:
- Ads showing you things you actually want or need, and providing you with new information.
- These are going to have high CPMs, so you don’t need many per page, and having more per page will decrease their value, but kind of require tracking to ensure their relevance.
- Ads showing you things you might not want or need, but might cobsider buying, or information that isn’t immediately relevant.
- This is the baseline for reasonable quality, untargeted ads, and CPMs for these are going to be fairly low, but much higher if you click on them
- Ads promoting scams, malware, and things you neither want nor need.
- In this case, the CPMs will be virtually zero, so the site is forced to cram as many on the page as they can. They’re also encouraged to get you to click by mistake.
- This makes people block ads or trackers, reducing the number of ads in the first category and forcing more sites to adopt these patterns.
It’s kind of sad that it’s going this way (and has been for a while) but I guess it’s going to end up with just a return to paying for media with money rather than ads.
- Ads showing you things you actually want or need, and providing you with new information.
- Comment on Anon has a question 4 days ago:
I suspect it was intentional - afaik at least in English speaking countries, live event subtitles for a foreign language are either just in that language, or
[speaks in …]. It’s more for pre-recorded shows, and even then baked into the video feed rather than the subtitle track, that you get subtitles. - Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
The surge starts around 2016, could be political instability following David Cameron leaving/Brexit, smartphones being common enough that muggings increase, changes in policies due to Sadiq Khan being elected, children who grew up during the recession growing old enough to join gangs, or a number of other things
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
I think the drop is 2020 and then it never recovered actually?
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
Probably Switzerland.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 4 weeks ago:
Flags on lampposts isn’t seen to be an issue anywhere else. There’s also (as far as I’m aware) no reported issues of flags flying down, regardless of whether it causes accidents. Even then, if it’s not well secured, remove it or tie it properly, otherwise leave it, it’s the same amount of effort if not less than removing it.
- Comment on Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets 4 weeks ago:
In almost every other country other than Germany it’s very normal to see national flags flying everywhere. People on the right are starting to realise that and use it to say “they’re trying to stop us being patriotic.”
Taking flags down is only going to make that worse and create an “us vs them” mentality. What would help, is flying more flags. Fly a pride flag next to a St George’s Cross. Fly a Union Jack with a dragon in the middle. Fly the same flag as the far right, but see it to represent all the people who work to make the country what it is, no matter who they are. That’s far better than creating unnecessary divisions over something that really isn’t an issue.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 5 weeks ago:
It’s from 2018…
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 2 months ago:
The thing with PE is they only invest what they’re willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don’t make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.
If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that’d be the end of days, but that’s because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 months ago:
The whole point of a pardon is “we know you did the crime, but don’t think you should be punished.” It can only come about if there’s an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn’t make the danger worth it.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”
Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”
When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.
Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
In all cases, 2 at most.
North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 2 months ago:
Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.
I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…
Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.
- Comment on Germany 3 months ago:
The flags are the nationalities, he gave germany as an answer
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 3 months ago:
It doesn’t say anything about LLMs, they just do lyrics, and they’re definitively shit, and you can tell right away.
Image generation models actually aren’t terrible at generating melodies, so for genres like Jazz and EDM they make surprisingly acceptable music.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 4 months ago:
Same even in the UK, and I think the UK and Germany are are the most likely in Europe to do random things like the US, so it sounds like it’s just their thing
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 4 months ago:
Germanic speakers moment
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 months ago:
떡볶이us (or 떡볶이ius I guess?)
no complaints actually it sounds kind of cool
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 months ago:
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
- The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
- The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don’t even know the descendants of
- The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
- The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
- The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
- The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
- The founding fathers for founding the US
And plenty more I’m sure you could come up with
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 5 months ago:
And yet the type of woodland in Deadpool & Wolverine appears almost exclusively in Europe, and so (given how much they’d have to go out of their way to find somewhere like that elsewhere), must be European.
If anything I’m generalising that all North American woodland is either primeval or modern plantations, but nowhere have I said that there isn’t woodland like that in Europe.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 5 months ago:
Yeah there is, it’s in the growth patterns where you can tell the trees were either planted or allowed to grow in an arrangment that maximised yield, and historically but not recently regularly trimmed for wood and sticks without chopping them down.
Asia and Africa (other than Japan, which did it with evergreen trees) historically used other materials (mainly grasses/palms), and in the Americas they used different construction methods both pre- and post-colonisation, so you don’t get (as many) old managed woodlands.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 5 months ago:
Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 6 months ago:
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 6 months ago:
The $1m isn’t in cash… You forget that the average house price in London is around $900k, and for Sydney it’s $981k.
That means your pool for your car, furnishings, investments etc. are either minimal, or you have a mortgage, and definitely can’t live passively off $30-40k per year unless you’re living in cheaper than average housing (one would call this “not super wealthy”) and definitely not if you’re supporting a family.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 6 months ago:
Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US
Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)