martinclayton
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Comment · 11 days ago
Not sure what consequences you are aware of but the key point with corals is loss of biodiversity. It's (I believe) the tipping point that goes at the lowest temperature rise.
Comment · 12 days ago
I see no effort to handle GDPR/CCPA, which is a shame.
Comment · 1 month ago
ESA is a separate entity to the EU.
(When the UK left the EU it was able to remain in ESA because of this separation.)
Comment · 2 months ago
Some time ago I realised that second-hand Ikea furniture is a cheap source of material for DIY projects. Facebook Marketplace (UK) has plenty of Pax cupboards which provide useful large boards. Prices vary, but you can pick up almost pristine items for almost nothing. If you don't need whole boards, spot damage is acceptable. Buying similar new materials would perhaps be better, but cost considerably more.
Comment · 2 months ago
One option might be for the real Sean Byrne to move to the address in Sligo of the fictitious one, then ask to be removed from the Entity List on the grounds that he is a real person. I think that wouldn't work, and could be life-changing in a bad way, but it's an idea.
Comment · 2 months ago
Dataset does seem sketchy. My village has two pubs, neither appear. Two non-pub licensed locations (social club, stately home) do appear. The dot for the pub in the next village is off by about 100m.
Comment · 2 months ago
The words astro-nomy and astro-logy are similar, but this is no "fluke".
There's a Wikipedia article with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy
I imagine astronomers have been sighing resignedly at dinner parties for a couple of millenia:
In the Hellenistic world, the Greek words 'astrologia' and 'astronomia' were often used interchangeably, but they were conceptually not the same.
In his compilatory work Etymologiae [c. 625], Isidore of Seville noted explicitly the difference between the terms astronomy and astrology (Etymologiae, III, xxvii) and the same distinction appeared later in the texts of Arabian writers.
Comment · 3 months ago
No mention of chikenized reverse-centaurs in this piece?
I find these neologisms helpful as they quite precisely capture the intended meaning and are easy to remember. Doctorow is an impressive and entertaining communicator, and being an author he needs to market himself and his work, so fair play to him for trying to score a hit follow up to "enshittification".
The earliest use of "centaur" in this sort of context I know of is Kasparov's advanced chess idea from the late 1990s: "a bad (chess) player with a good computer program will always beat a good player with a bad program". How far we travelled since then...
Comment · 4 months ago
His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience.
He talks about it, and you can see some of these works in a YT vid here:
Comment · 4 months ago
Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.
Comment · 5 months ago
Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for listing. But they make money from the trading and associated services they facilitate, hence the desire to have the largest most liquid stocks.
https://resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources/cross-bor...
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050515/how-n...
Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, indeed. See (march) https://www.reuters.com/business/new-nasdaq-rules-include-fa...
Quote from Cameron Lilja, Nasdaq's global head of index solutions:
"It is not necessarily representative to have a company that's big and could have a sizable representation in the index to keep them out for that long," Lilja said in an interview. "We're seeing share and corporate structures change - and companies that are staying private considerably longer are thus growing to be truly mega-cap companies before they even come to the public markets."
There's been fewer IPOs recently so Nasdaq and competitors are all racing to woo the few big ones to list with them.
Comment · 5 months ago
What's the rationale offered by NASDAQ for their new "15-days and you're in the index" rule for these massive IPOs?
Seems equivalent to removing road safety rules for the least-tested, most-powerful new vehicles only.
Comment · 5 months ago
(Agreeing with you) In the 1980s Gary Shilling said:
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
A long-term principle that I think does still apply.
Comment · 6 months ago
This resonates with "the bitter lesson" somehow, interesting...
...On reading more it seems of use primarily in adversarial situations, so not-so-much resonant.
Former astronomer and ex-Starlink (no, not that one).
Co-author of https://foximax.com/ word game.