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Camas
·4 years ago·discuss
Jails do not exist to rehabilitate prisoners, they exist to separate them from society.
Camas
·4 years ago·discuss
https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations
Camas
·4 years ago·discuss
Unbiased search is impossible, so DDG should be deliberately biased?
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Book is also online: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/

and on Github: https://github.com/amethyst/rustrogueliketutorial
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
That's a press release for an unpublished paper disguised as an article.
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Anything interesting that happens at a school board makes the news now because everyone there has a phone and internet. What exciting scoops do you think we're missing?
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
I can follow a few people on fb to get the same content that local newspapers provided. For free. Where's the downside?
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
https://outline.com/DMNUXu

Most of the article talks about post-retraction citations
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Many things improve but go down in price. Can't articulate fully but it instinctively feels like a rationalisation rather than a reason.

>It's basically an early bird discount.

When has that not been a marketing tactic
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
>the idea is that the product becomes more valuable over time as a result of more features being added

I have a hard time believing that's the main motivation
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
>As I mentioned, I, as a lone tax payer, who made less then £100k, paid more in taxes in FAANG combined in the UK.

Only true if you think companies shoulder none of the burden of VAT, income tax etc.
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
In reality you'd just get a situation similar to Japan.
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Fair. From ~40% share of global gdp in the 60s to ~25% now
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
I do tend to enjoy his content more when he doesn't mention politics.
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
> Compared to 3.5bn in free money to private operators?

Sadly London is not yet more important than the rest of the UK combined.
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
> hung out to dry

£1.8 billion in loans/grants
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
NHS response to this and similar allegations

Collecting GP data - advice for the public: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections...
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Prices are "criminal" but not worth you doing more than a cursory search for a cheaper ticket?
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
http://www.leeches.uk.com/
Camas
·5 years ago·discuss
Felt similar when I learned what inverting/reversing a tree meant.