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Quick question. How much UK wealth do you think is squirrelled away 'offshore' away from the tax man?
£30 TRILLION!!!
Given that the UK national debt is £2 Trillion, that's a lot. So a theoretical tax of less than 7% on this would eradicate the national debt.
It shows how unequal our society is and highlights the massive gulf between the (few) rich and the (many) poor in this country.
But, by all means lets go after benefits cheats for £10m

Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

https://www.dawo.community/en/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841563

#HackerNews #DutchGovernment #NixOS #OpenSource #TechInnovation #MicrosoftAlternative

From organic waste to new life! Banana peels, cassava peels, leaves and other farm residues are left to decompose and return nutrients to the soil. A simple example of turning what looks like waste into a resource for growing food.

Fellow farmers, how do you turn organic waste into a resource on your farm?

#organicfarming #foodsecurity #WasteReduction #solarpunksunday #permaculture #soilhealth

@kumarvibe I suspect by “non-deterministic” you actually mean “randomized”. “Non-deterministic” involves a computational model of calculating results in parallel.

But randomized algorithms and software are not new at all. Plenty of systems use randomization. None of that changes the fact that this is all just software, created and controlled by humans, running on computers with capabilities that are also created and controlled by humans.

LightCloud – A cloud console organised like file system

https://www.light-cloud.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865067

#HackerNews #LightCloud #cloud #console #file #system #technology #innovation

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@pthenq1 You will have to explain what that file format is. Where's it documented?

@TheBreadmonkey

I read and review a *lot* of books. One of the things I do at the end of the year is write a summary of all my reviews - oldest book read, average score, gender ratio, etc.

To help, I've made a JSON feed of all 440 reviews I've published.

Feel free to play with it and let me know if you do anything interesting - it's CC BY-SA.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/json/library.json

Im Wald kann man gerade den „Buchenregen“ hören, wenn die ganzen Bucheckern zu Boden fallen

@luca_evangelisti per renderla scientifica Basta scriverla così:

"Ogni riforma negli ultimi trent'anni è stata un progresso nella direzione sbagliata"

@ricci @betelgeuse93 @tsm

"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865343

#HackerNews #LanguageModel #ChatTemplate #LLM #AIResearch #SelfReferential

@ApostateEnglishman

Counterpoint - she stopped you from doing some awesome breakdancing which would have been tremendous fun for all involved.

• Monumentale Konstrukte der Pilze • #maestros Well the structure is reminiscent of facades and columns; like gothic windows in #cathedrals with its tapered arches and the vertical, filigree structure of the Middle Ages. Not sure: either #Zunderschwamm (Fomes fomentarius) or #trametes hirsuta??

#Baukunst #naturephotography

#pilz #architecture #design #fungo

#mushrooms #nature #closeup #Nahaufnahme #fediverse

@TheBreadmonkey
I've seen it. They do.

Chase and I are currently in a war over who has ownership of the good armchair. This is how I stop him getting it when I’m not using it. Feel free to explain what thoughts are going through his head in the second picture.

@mattblaze Church is not a great metaphor here. The bible is an abhorrent source for morality. Just using your murder example, the bible presents all kinds of excuses for murder and even defends (commands, actually) acts of genocide.

Hands up who is beginning to think that #AndyBurnham just might be an effective good guy as PM.

I've noticed how he seems to turn enemies into friends by not reacting badly to their sniping. #DarrenJones was onside this morning. #PeterKyle criticised him yesterday and this morning Burnham was both complementary about him and said he's right.

Maybe he *is* doing politics differently. Even the Tories seem to be unsure of their footing, toning things down on tax and spend over social care reform.

And will people prefer "jam tomorrow tax cuts" over an ever more broken NHS and no social care when they are old, or will they choose fixing both #SocialCare and the #NHS - because it's easy to see that the biggest threat to the NHS is old people ending up in hospital because of broken social care.

#ukpol #UKLabour #LabourConference26

@cstross Thanks to your post I found the culprit on my site was images I'd recently uploaded and forgotten to optimise. Used Switcheroo on them and now I'm sitting at 15.1MB. However, it's really easy for me to do because I'm not a prolific writer with a real following and my website is more a playground for my silly ideas than anything else.