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Things have drifted since Robert Peel defined successful policing as "Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime". Civil forfeiture is a good example that would horrify him.

His insistence that "The police are the public and the public are the police" doesn't really hold up in many countries anymore.


A dandy-horse, or a velocipede.


My first bike shop job, we had an old crazy guy who scooted around town on his draisienne (read: a regular bike with a big ol' wooden dowel in place of the crankset). Not sure it really caught on.


The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.


Right; The Soleus Muscle Pump aka Soleal Pump aka Peripheral Heart aka Sural Pump.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleus_muscle ;

Also, in upright posture, the soleus is responsible for pumping venous blood back into the heart from the periphery each time it contracts and is hence often called the skeletal muscle pump, peripheral heart or the sural (tricipital) pump.

Soleus Pushup - https://stories.uh.edu/2022-soleus-pushup/index.html and https://www.physio-pedia.com/Soleus_Push_Up

This is the science behind the Baithak aka Hindu Squat.


Fascinating. I had to read up on this. Apparently it was Ritonavir and polymorphism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir


A friend of mine planted a small tree in one, after many months of notifying the local council. It was fixed very quickly.


The FT podcast series “Hot Money” season one explained a lot about this. Basically the payment card industry shapes what adult content is produced by governing the money flow.

https://www.ft.com/hot-money


They have more usability problems than that. Driving Mercedes Benz hire cars a couple of times recently in UK and Ireland was a shock - they have the automatic gearbox PRND selector on the right-hand stalk, and indicators on the left hand one. I could maybe excuse that on a LHD car, but on an RHD car, it is infuriating. Using the windscreen wipers instead of indicating is a trivial low-consequence mistake, bumping into neutral is not.


Most cars I have driven in the UK have the indicators on the left stalk? I think that is the norm here.

Gear selector for automatics tends to vary but usually center-console, but my id3 has it on an extra stalk on the right of the steering wheel (coming off of the dashboard - it's weird). I've never seen it on a normal steering wheel stalk like lights or indicators or wipers.


(2012). Another article on the same doctor was discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957231


Regarding Claude: As I have unticked the "Help improve Claude" checkbox, I was under the impression that Claude did not do this.

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...


You can opt out with all three (Codex, Claude, Copilot) except for Gemini


Last time I checked Codex didn't have that option for $20 plan


> except for Gemini

This is incorrect. If you are a paid subscriber, Gemini explicitly states it doesn't use your data to train its models.


Yeah you're right, I filed it away as no opt out for some reason


Maybe because Google "does not sell" personal information, yet almost all their revenue comes from personal information?


They sell aggregated information.


And targeted information.


I had it happen to me, on a long-haul flight, in business class. I was shocked. I stood up to look at the guy after no-one did anything.

I told him that phone speakers "make me gassy" and then he turned it off.


You’re an every day hero. Thank you!


Thanks mate. If he can assault my ears, I can assault his nose, right. Or threaten to ;)


Can you follow through on that? I don’t really know how I would assault someone’s nose on command. Would appreciate some tips.


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