That’s true. I guess you just have to think you can keep up with the market, not necessarily beat it.

Not trying to be smug, just pointing out that a system that encourages self selection will tend to select for self belief, justified or not.

I actually don’t mind it too much in theory, private healthcare works better in the uk because 1. Anyone who uses it also pays for nhs cover anyway, so they’re paying in but not using the resources, saving money for everyone else. And 2. Private healthcare stays out of the emergency room, this is where duplicate effort is an enormous waste since you need them all over the country, having an emergency room not everyone can go to is just insane.

That said, i guess the danger is anyone who does pay private has an incentive to push back against the nhs, maybe that’s ruining things, though I bet they’d be doing it even harder if they were forced to lie next to poor people in the hospital, so I’m not sure we can avoid that

It’s inevitable, anyone wise enough to doubt their ability to outplay the market chooses not to try, the remainder all think they can

I know, the government is bad, so if we put a bad man in charge it’ll be a double negative and become good, right?

I think that’s a traditional part of anti-monopoly laws, shame nobody enforces those anymore

They cover that in the article, golf ball dimples are a different thing, trying to minimise delamination and pressure resistance (basically trying to encourage the air to pass around and behind the ball so it doesn’t have a pocket of low pressure behind that decelerates it). They actually cause chaotic flow, the opposite to the goal here, for golf balls they’ve basically given up on laminar flow already and are seeking simpler but less impressive improvements.

In this case I think they’re firstly assuming that delamination isn’t a relevant concern (basically that whoever is designing the aircraft will solve that by picking better shapes before they even think about the surface), and so the goal of the surface texture is instead to encourage laminar flow, which reduces the friction.

That said, you’re actually right that they knew perfect smoothness was not the best solution, previously it was known that sharks used a pattern of grooves following the flow direction. The discovery here is that a uniform pattern that doesn’t assume a flow direction can work too, which will probably make it easier to design and less restrictive.

I wonder if the ideal pattern though will be to use ridges in areas where the flow is very predictable, and this random pattern only on surfaces that experience a variety of flow directions

Endangering children and those trying to protect them just because you’re in a rush is pretty shameful.

Hopefully some karma comes their way.

I believe no blind spot, which is the place where all the nerves bundle together and pass through the sensing layer, leaving a hole in our vision (the brain works hard to hide this hole from our perception, but it’s still there and can cause accidents) Also maybe better vision in general?

Technically it’s nothing to do with Palestine itself, you can protest that fine.

The issue is the group Palestine action, which the gov declared a terror group because they wrecked some military planes, and we have a law forbidding the support for declared terror groups.

An overreaching dumb law applied badly as a way to overreach even further. I admit this is not much better than arresting Palestine protestors directly, it’s a pretty thin cover…

For context: jk Rowling

Fair point, after some googling I see I was significantly overestimating ais impact despite your comment previous comment, my bad.

It currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.

Realpolitik perspective defeating the nazis still feels like a good long term investment for Britain (though admittedly at enormous cost). We lost our empire, but we prevented a pan Europe empire forming right next to us. A united Europe with an expansionist bent would be the biggest threat to Britain I can imagine. Even if they left us alone for a while they’d surpass in capability once they had a chance to rebuild from the war, and at some point they’d start pushing their weight around, and we’d lose our empire then presumably they’d gobble us up on their way to a squabble with the US or something.

We won ww2 to keep Europe separated.

From the same perspective, brexit was a real blunder: a united Europe and we’re sat on the sidelines waiting to see what they do next? And now the Russians are forcing them to arm up and work together, we’ve practically recreated the lose scenario of ww2, admittedly with less nazis (which I admit is a pretty major win).

Edit to repeat: this is the realpolitik perspective, my real view is that the empire loss was a win for the world in general, the Nazis were a threat to humanity in general and that the EU is a really good neighbour to have, but it’s fun to look at things from the Machiavellian perspective occasionally.

Right, but to be fair Britain had no access to the nazi leaderships’ private writings at the time, and really couldn’t be sure if they felt that way, and we can’t be sure the nazis might have changed their minds in the face of a meeker and weaker British response.

So overall, I think perhaps the British response was pretty close to forced out, despite the theoretical full knowledge scenario of coexistence.

If evaporative cooling is the only solution then the market will adjust to the new cost by moving power generation towards the coasts or just increase the price, if there are other solutions they’ll become the economically more viable. Either way more water is conserved and you can always balance the cost benefit by adjusting the fine/tax to find a good balance.

Criminals are famously environmentally conscious, and never have any spare cash for a pricy car as a mode of transport. Of course.

It’s literally the non-verbal equivalent of the classic “crying fire in a crowded theatre” scenario, it should already be illegal by existing law imo.

“Honking horn at the operator of high speed multi-ton machine on their radio” seems pretty clear cut recklessness in my book.

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Worth a try, sharks are attracted to distressed/weakened movements, like an ungainly human trying to swim.

But you’re probably right, they’ve turned up already, they’d probably take a bite just for the sake of politeness at this point