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Working paper. Runs ~500k Chinese graduate dissertations through plagiarism-detection software, then links them to 60k successful civil-service recruits (and controls). Individuals with high plagiarism scores substantially more likely to enter government + advance faster.

Fresh evidence has emerged of a second burial ground at the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Ongoing excavations have uncovered further remains believed to be of infants from the period when the home was active. #VMNews

This actually happened.

Oh, the irony! Dmitriev uses VPN to access X in order to criticize the EU for censorship against X. He needs to use VPN because X is banned in russia.

‘What Irish people really think’ Irish people are the fourth most supportive of NATO out of 30 countries. This puts into perspective the disproportionate voice of the pro Kremlin Irish left on this platform, supporting the belief that much content originates outside the state.

EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax

Today marks 40 years since the first mobile phone call was made in Ireland rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Why is pasting into VSCode Terminal slow? Because it sleeps for 5ms every 50 characters.

A valuable flute went missing yesterday from the owner's bike on the way to a lunchtime session in Cassidy's in Camden St. It has huge sentimental value and a reward has been offered. If anyone sees it, please send a DM. RTs appreciated.

Most people would say Windows, but, the one with less impact is macOS. Deleting Linux or Windows out of the sudden could be catastrophic, but we can survive without macOS. So, obviously, I delete Windows.

Christians celebrate Christmas here in Dubai more openly and safely than in Europe Let that sink in !

Your longest-running EC2 instance was launched in 2017. It's called "temp-test-delete-me." It processes payroll.

What is notable here is that Walid Saadaoui failed, despite attempts, to purchase firearms from local illicit sources, who refused to supply based on their suspicions he would commit a terror attack. UK CT continues to benefit from self policing by illegal dealers

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Among Trump's bullying tactics is to punish Europeans for their speech, by cutting them off from American banking services, including Amex, Visa, and Mastercard. So of course, now Europe has to build a competitor to these services. Trump's destruction of America's softpower is

🚨 RAG is broken and nobody's talking about it. Stanford just exposed the fatal flaw killing every "AI that reads your docs" product. It's called "Semantic Collapse", and it happens the moment your knowledge base hits critical mass. Here's the brutal math (and why your RAG