Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
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andrewducker- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
- (tags:search web )
- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
- (tags:electricity )
- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
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Date: 2025-04-30 03:22 pm (UTC)#1 Can be done even easier: just announce via speakers in the streets that committing crimes is forbidden now.
#8. How come it it is not obvious to everyone, I wonder.
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Date: 2025-04-30 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-02 07:38 am (UTC)There is a large and profitable market for crap customer service, served by offshoring, automated queueing system, and increasingly by AI.
There is some empirical evidence that the market for crap software has always been profitable.
Pervasive, even.
The question, here, is whether the same is true of contract drafting, legal advice, and submissions to the courts; the politics and economics of providing 'public defenders' for excluded minorities suggests that disturbing answers already exist.
Also, there's a lot of profitably lowest-bidder work out there, drafting legislation. Badly.
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Date: 2025-04-30 05:44 pm (UTC)In any case I'm a fan of paying for things directly rather than me being sold to the advertisers.
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Date: 2025-04-30 08:19 pm (UTC)I really don't expect most people to read any more than the occasional one that catches their eye.
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Date: 2025-05-05 04:27 pm (UTC)You'll be getting a quiz later.
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Date: 2025-05-05 05:59 pm (UTC)(1) The Halting Problem.
(2) The first three countries are all using solar power extensively.
(3) It's a nanomaterial that is conductive up and down but an insulator side to side.
(4) Princes Street.
(5) A Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism.
(6) J K Rowling.
(7) Vaccinations.
(8) Aristotle.
(9) None of them have actually won an election.
(10) It's the cutest thing your daughter did last Thursday.
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Date: 2025-05-08 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-30 06:48 pm (UTC)DDG is still Much Better Than Google. But AFAIK Kagi's lapped them in average search-result-quality, is fiercely anti-advertisements, and is increasingly feature-rich. I've used it exclusively for a couple of years now, and was impressed enough by the company that I invested a little bit in it.
(I love Kagi primarily for its strongly anti-enshittification business plan, which is nicely old-fashioned. They've completely avoided taking money from the big VCs who generally turn companies to crap, and instead have just done small investments from some passionate customers.)