<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: psychphysic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=psychphysic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:07:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=psychphysic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psychphysic in "Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>National Insurance is a tax,
additionally after 100k you start losing your personal allowance.<p>The net effect is an effective tax rate much higher than the nominal rate.<p>You lose other benefits to but they aren't factored in as depend on if you have kids or not etc.</p>
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<p>What's the difference in pay between a "full doctor" as you put it consultant (UK) or attending (US)?<p>UK a consultant earns £100k pretax and pays approximately 30% net tax rate and 60% marginal rate.<p>What about US?<p>Apparently family medicine in the US brings in 130% more than the equivalent in the UK (GP which makes up half of all UK doctors).<p><a href="https://revisingrubies.com/us-vs-uk-doctors-salary/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://revisingrubies.com/us-vs-uk-doctors-salary/</a><p>That's truly astounding.</p>
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<p>Given in the UK doctors have taken a real terms paycut circa of over 25% [0] the UK is not currently fit to fund anything.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6882/bma-ia-juniors-fact-sheet-for-journalists.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6882/bma-ia-juniors-fact-sheet-...</a></p>
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<p>Sounds like you want to hire them?<p>Or not pay them, and tell them what they can work on?</p>
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<p>How long before versions are distributed ready to play?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383024</link><dc:creator>psychphysic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psychphysic in "Call of Duty enlists AI to eavesdrop on voice chat and help ban toxic players"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By definition the gamers are adults, and playing at murder.<p>Some as terrorists.<p>Can't they just mute or block people they don't like? Cheating is the only real problem.</p>
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<p>But surely they realise that's the entire player base?</p>
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<p>This does seem nice and even simpler than TI's Ez430-chronos [0].<p>That said, 3 years on a single battery doesn't seem great of course I suppose it depends what apps you use and load..and that it's programmable that is cool.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10019" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10019</a></p>
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<p>> The word for that is "trolling".<p>Oh that is fascinating, so highlighting a verbatim quote, in context can be trolling?<p>What that makes me think of is that people are in denial about what the quote tells us and have displaced those feelings on to me! Amazing stuff.<p>> I  asked and you avoided answering. What does that tell us?<p>This is interesting because no you didn't ask me what it tells us. You asked if I wanted to say something and I answered that the quote stands alone.<p>Really interesting stuff in this thread!</p>
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<p>I'm actually quite enjoying how divisive a simple quote can be.<p>I wonder how often I've made a comment and gotten no engagement. This quote seems to have gotten more engagement than the original comment. And quite emotive engagement.<p>Makes me wonder what that means. Is it genuine curiosity? Or is the quote saying something that the original commenter couldn't see themselves? It's interesting they suggested if I was insinuating something negative about them.<p>Importantly, they did not ask me. They told me. That too tells us something about what pairing experience with them would be.</p>
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<p>I think it's too valuable to Meta and Alphabet to retain the option to exit a market than comply with these restrictions.<p>Similar attitude to the UK Online Safety Bill.<p>Giving in would just start a landslide of restrictions and demands for moneym</p>
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<p>I doubt if either will have any interest in paying any amount since it'd open the door to every country wanting some payment.<p>Better to continue blocking Canada and ignore.</p>
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<p>The article suggests control of fire is what lead to recovery of the population. So indeed quite a different time.</p>
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<p>The estimate is the estimate (1280 with SEM of 131).<p>It's be foolish of them to mask it intentionally.<p>Once independent estimates are made then you might synthesize an reasonable estimate.<p>Both the editor summary I'm science and the headline here don't place much emphasis on the precise number.</p>
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<p>Yuzu also has an android build although I believe it runs only on snapdragon devices.<p><a href="https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-android/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-android/</a><p>On desktop at least it has an early access programme via patreon (but available here <a href="https://pineappleea.github.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pineappleea.github.io/</a> )<p>Skyline runs on Android but I've never managed to get it to work on any device. It's no longer in development<p><a href="https://skyline-emu.one/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://skyline-emu.one/</a></p>
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<p>This must depend on your jurisdiction.<p>But if you own the game, does it matter how you got the ROM?</p>
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<p>Yeah feature creep is a crime in open source projects.<p>It's killed more useful projects than it's ever benefitted.</p>
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<p>The ACLU are pretty useless these days</p>
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<p>It feels like it's pretty much gameover for free speech in any context.<p>Too much of the population of the world wants rid and it doesn't matter much that they disagree on precisely which opinions are unacceptable.</p>
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<p>Indeed there are dramatic differences between ascending and descending colon cancers.<p>They are also dissimilar in their chances of presenting early with symptoms making screening less useful vs those that don't present early.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/</a></p>
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