June 3, 2016

June 3, 2016 by yorksranter 3 comments

This is what the mandate of heaven looks like

Here is a really superb paper on the 50 cent party, the Chinese Communist Party’s army of loyalist Internet trolls. The researchers scraped literally millions of below-the-line comments and Weibo posts, hired Chinese students to identify the 50-centers in random samples and classify the posts by subject, checked that the students, who worked independently, agreed…

June 3, 2016 by yorksranter 2 comments

This one weird trick will completely fail to replicate the previous experimenter’s results

It’s pretty depressing that British politicians are shallow enough all to glom onto the same risible fad at the same time: It’s a thing. It’s definitely a thing. Someone is telling them to stand like this. pic.twitter.com/RcvelFujVa — SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) June 2, 2016 It’s even more depressing that the risible fad in question is also…

‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs | Drugs | The Guardian
They were calling up our finance department and demanding early payment. They’d want their commission for the whole length of stay upfront, even though people might drop out and want refunds,” he said. “And we were getting all these emails from the brokers with names of people, saying: ‘If this person writes to you, they […]
Let it go - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
I would gently suggest to the Conservative Party that relitigating an issue that helped to prompt a huge shift in public opinion away from them, contributing a great deal to the downfall of an election-winning Prime Minister and an eventual landslide defeat, is not the best use of the time of a new leader who […]
Qualcomm claims trial win in dispute with Arm over chip design licences
Qualcomm said it was pleased with the verdict. The jury had “vindicated Qualcomm’s right to innovate” and confirmed the products at issue in the case were protected by its existing contract with Arm, it said. Arm said would seek a retrial based on the fact that the jury was “unable to reach consensus across the […]
Foxconn quashes delay rumors: GB200 NVL72 server shipments set for 4Q24
industry sources confirm that Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) is maintaining its original schedule. Initial shipments are set to begin in December 2024 as planned // well they've not got long
Emmanuel Macron, une certaine idée du pouvoir
Full of quotes and petites phrases but in the end it's court gossip
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs - Ars Technica
That $50 million in alleged missing revenue looks like a relatively small amount to be fighting over, given that these are both billion-dollar companies—Arm made $3.23 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, while Qualcomm earned $39 billion in revenue. It also seems counterproductive for Arm to disrupt the business of one of its largest and […]
Former MI5 chief to lead search for new Archbishop of Canterbury
It is understood that no candidate will be able to apply for the role. Instead, they will be “invited” into the recruitment process if their name comes up for consideration.
SeekTruthFromFacts on X: "@CofESurvivor @churchofengland I totally agree that there is a massive old-school-tie/old-university-pal problem in the Church of England. But Oxford and Cambridge have Anglican chapels and chaplains that serve undergrads. Many f
Every ABC (bar Carey who was Durham) has been an oxbridge graduate for hundreds of years.
HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work | HS2 | The Guardian
“We have to acknowledge that HS2 in its core mission to control costs has failed,” he said. “We must break the cycle.” // kind of illuminating that the core mission is not to e.g. build a railway.
Légion d’honneur, mode d’emploi
Avec l’âge vient la course aux honneurs. Cela traduit aussi la peur d’être oublié