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benjamoon commented on UK Government ignore concerns of 2.7M and carry on with Digital ID   petition.parliament.uk/pe... · Posted by u/benjamoon
benjamoon · 4 months ago
"We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon. "

I wonder how many different justifications are offered around the world for digital ID, and how those reasons shift depending on the issues perceived to be most pressing at the time.

benjamoon commented on Web search on the Anthropic API   anthropic.com/news/web-se... · Posted by u/cmogni1
benjamoon · 9 months ago
Good that it has an “allowed domain” list, makes it really useable. The OpenAI Responses api web search doesn’t let you limit domains currently so can’t make good use of it for client stuff.
benjamoon commented on A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system   theverge.com/news/614078/... · Posted by u/ianrahman
UrineSqueegee · a year ago
" Duffy said the team from SpaceX went to Virginia to “get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system.”"

I don't understand how anyone can be reasonably against this? They are not going to just overhaul everything overnight, they are going to upgrade the system based on ATC feedback.

benjamoon · a year ago
I agree, SpaceX has 13,000 genius staff working in the aerospace industry, I'm pretty sure they can add some value to an aging ATC system.

The system is largely developed by Lockheed, Raytheon and Thales (all defense contractors). If there's a legal issue with SpaceX doing this I'm sure you'll hear about it.

benjamoon commented on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week   future4days.com/list-of-2... · Posted by u/timermore
benjamoon · a year ago
Do these companies close on a week day, like they just don’t open on a Monday. Or do the staff just do 4 out of the 5 days, but the company operates all week and the team need coordinating so they have coverage all week? I’d love to do this at my place, but would want to close the whole business and I don’t think our clients would be happy.
benjamoon commented on AI Generated Song "Zo Zomer" in in Dutch Top25-NL Charts   top40.nl/john-de-koning/z... · Posted by u/TeeWEE
benjamoon · 2 years ago
It's Number 3 by the looks of it!
benjamoon commented on Paul Auster has died   nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bo... · Posted by u/koevet
earlyriser · 2 years ago
I'm guessing Paul Auster fans will comment here. 20 years ago I read a book that I cannot remember the name and I vaguely remember it was from Auster, but I'm not sure and I have been looking for ages. It was a compilation of short stories with the Noah's Ark somehow in each of them, but the stories were very different besides that part. Does this ring a bell?
benjamoon · 2 years ago
GPT:

The book you're thinking of is likely "In the Country of Last Things" by Paul Auster. While not a collection of short stories, this novel often gets mentioned in relation to discussions about Auster's work involving themes of dystopia and allegorical narratives. The reference to Noah's Ark might be metaphorical, reflecting the themes of catastrophe and survival that are common in Auster's work. If you specifically remember a collection of short stories involving Noah's Ark, it could be another author or a less known work of Auster, as his major works don't typically revolve around this theme directly in the form of short stories.

I’m not confident this is correct!

benjamoon commented on Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules   kff.org/medicare/issue-br... · Posted by u/cwwc
benjamoon · 2 years ago
It's about £2,500 ($3,100) per year in the UK if you just buy it online, not subsidised. I don't know how the US massive price hike is justified when the whole western world is buying it from the same supplier (Novo Nordisk in Denmark).

u/benjamoon

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