rwalker1501

rwalker1501, 1 month ago to delhi

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

This is just so nice

#15minuteCities #cities #urbanism #traffic #climate

drahardja, 1 month ago to cars

“That's because kangaroos are completely irrational animals, said David Pickett, Volvo Australia’s technical lead.”

“Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos”

#cars #animals #kangaroos #australia

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/hazard-identification-software-cant-make-sense-of-kangaroos/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 months ago to auscovid19

🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third

"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents"

#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

rwalker1501, 6 months ago to statistics

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

Very cool statistical critique of a well known experiment - with applications to much else #statistics #psychology #datascience

rwalker1501, 6 months ago to random

Swedish study in BMJ shows that the more often you are vaccinated the less the chance you will get long COVID (they call it PCC ) #LongCovid #covid

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990

dancinyogi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Do you know how to read and write cursive?

*Read all options before voting, as I have broken them down.

#poll

Please boost for a wider demographic.

rwalker1501, 6 months ago to privacy

Just had this pop up on my largely unused FB account. Seems like another good reason to finally unsubscribe but first a question for you legal/privacy people. Is this legal under GDPR? I thought companies could only collect personal info if it is necessary to deliver the service. Don't think that's the case here. Am I right? If so, could someone remind me of the maximum penalty from national privacy authorities #privacy #facebook #gdpr

HeavenlyPossum, 6 months ago to random

The firm is one of the foundational myths of capitalism. We are trained to believe that the firm—hierarchical, exclusively owned, wage-paying and profit-taking—is a transhistorical phenomenon, a natural and self-evident way of organizing cooperative behavior.

The story goes something like this: a very smart person has an idea, or a very thrifty person has saved capital. That person then hires other people for wages in order to produce some good or service to sell in the market. This person is the owner; the owner owns the whole firm, setting all the rules and issuing the instructions including all of its assets, and collects all of the revenues. They belong to the owner, so obviously that we don’t need to even question it. Workers get compensated for their contribution via wages, a smaller but guaranteed payment now in lieu of a share of larger but riskier profits later.

So the story goes.

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adrianfry, 6 months ago to Scotland

It would seem that because I oppose the 'core British value' of the #monarchy and support transition to a #republic, the #Tory government in Westminster consider me an #extremist.

For the record, I also oppose the disUK's FPTP #political system, and support free votes (with supermajority) on #Scotland becoming an #independent nation and a #united #Ireland.

#ToryDictatorship #dictatorship #ToryCorruption

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

rwalker1501, 7 months ago to Futurology

My friend Jiggy Fetil just posted this on facebook.

It was so good I thought I should share. (Original from 'Movement': https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781911344971) #transport #cycling #traffic #urbanism

ChrisMayLA6, 8 months ago to random

Zoe Williams suggests we're coming at the #inheritancetax 'debate' from the wrong direction:

'...we should go in studs first: suggest setting inheritance tax at 100%. No windfalls for anyone, ever; total generational redistribution delivered by death, the merry reaper. You may have questions, such as “what’s it all for, if I can’t burnish the prospects of my 58-year-old heirs?”& those questions may be legit. At least the debate will be different, and more interesting'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/25/the-inheritance-tax-debate-we-should-really-be-having-whether-to-set-it-at-100

ianrosewrites, 1 year ago to random

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.