I believe 5 years is already required, and once the precedent is set for 5, 7 or 10 is doable.

I'm somewhat doubtful about the batteries being useful out to 10 years. Not hard to imagine companies contracting out supply and not fretting about quality of parts or prices.

A very informative, well-informed thread. Long but worth reading in full.

I'd also like the people who go 'Ah, but what about the opt-outs!' to tell me which opt outs the general public were really aware of and why they particularly liked them.

As an occasional politics nerd and pro EU person I'm only vaguely aware of what they were.

Well, I mean i'm not sure how much I'd object to dumping Farage, Lowe and Robinson on ascension island if that's what they mean, but not sure it is.

They don’t need to be decentralised which is 95% of their power consumption, slowness, cost overhead and crime friendlyness

I've been thinking that. If nothing worse than was already known was turned up and he's already been given the job aren't you really always going to tick amber on the second row? Without something worse than was already common knowledge it's really hard to justify blocking the appointment.

The thing is, it’s not inexplicable why the Mandelson vetting failure wasn’t reported up the chain. All that requires is no new information on someone who has already been appointed.

What is inexplicable is believing that he passed vetting without anyone explicitly confirming it.

The thing about revealed preferences as a term of art is that they aren’t necessarily preferred and what they reveal isn’t always apparent at first glance

If they did there would be no referendum

There is perhaps a point though at which it becomes more of a trap for the 'stay out' campaign than 'rejoin'. There will be a whole group of 'stay out' arguments that it would be possible to paint as 'boomer bullshit' if elements of rejoin play the game as dirty as it could.

An example perhaps that in the UK you can either be a political party campaigning for office, even if it's just some council seats, or a political organisation campaigning for change. You cannot be both.

It was more 89 for cell phones - although if you remember there was that early 2000s thing about how the providers had supposedly massively overpaid for the 3g licences that they were never going to be able to pay back because people were never going to use their phones for video

People shouldn’t campaign for rejoin if they support rejoining because not enough people support rejoining seems to somewhat misunderstand the purpose of campaigning.

Proposal: AI Insurance - before making factual claims in public based on AI generated summaries people should be required to take out insurance in case they a parroting fabricated bullshit.

“Why was the vetting failure ignored without telling no 10!”

Because the decision had already been made and so implicitly the decision to ignore the vetting had already been made.

I remember her, she was famous for misleading the house of commons wasn't she?

Tell me FIFA needs to be nuked from orbit without.. etc.

That was indeed the curse invoked by the mere nature of the 2016 referendum the moment it passed into law.

I didn’t spot predictions about how the unitary councils seats would stack up - though assuming wards are larger I’d expect it to favour whoever is in the overall lead even if well below 50% even more

Although those are even more likely to be Reform run so...

I think Brexit suggests that 'b' is unlikely to be true - The UK being content to just lob comments in but being excluded from the table when the decisions get made? We'd either stomp off out of EFTA, commit to rejoin, or sulk endlessly in the lobby stinking the place up.

My prediction for AI remains - significant boost to production net negative on productivity.

Did you model the implementation practicalities? ie do people get forced onto the tariff, do they have to apply, if so how much does the advertising cost, how do you reach people the ads might see, how do you avoid being seen as a scam or being a vector for a scam?

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Hey, that's not entirely fair - they've been punching their grudging but capable of recognising the other options are also terrible vote in the face as well.

People just don't like change and while it's not really a bad instinct (most change is bad, unless you deliberately filter out bad change from consideration) it's usually applied as an alternative to rather than a perspective for consideration on the merits.

Okay, so I think this is the beginning of the plot outline of a half dozen cyberpunk novels involving the investigation of the poorly covered up murder of said 'founder'. Sometimes by a rival, sometimes by an underling, often by the AI itself. Looking forward to finding out who murdered Zuckerberg!

Even people who are just in some mutual club or interest, simply by providing a collective source of social and mental stimulation, are reducing what might otherwise be a load on the NHS and social care.

I enjoy the fact that both sides of the argument seem to beq wrong about software tests. Which for additional fun are literally called test cases. First confuses test code with test execution. Second confuses test execution with test result

I've just realised i've managed to miss 'not' out in that twice.. I think it implicitly reads in, otherwise it makes no sense, but still.