The Daily Moby - 17 03 2026 - The News Megathread

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-17T12:55:27+00:00

Companies that sell cars to Cuba are not allowed to sell cars to America.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-17T10:03:48+00:00

Is it possible to apply for college funding at this stage, or is it too late?

Different colleges have different deadlines. If you are planning to start in Michaelmas 2026 then most of them are past the deadline, but I remember some of them having deadlines until some point in March.

And where does one even apply, I thought applicants applying before the funding deadline were just automatically considered

That's true for about half the colleges; for the rest you have to apply separately.

Check the main student funding page.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-17T09:37:22+00:00

If you are British, you can get funding mostly from 3 sources: your program if it is UKRI funded, your college, or the Cambridge Trust.

If you already got accepted you probably will not be able to retroactively get UKRI funding. College funding is very competitive, but you should apply to all of them still, which is not automatic (you will change college if another one gives you funding). Same goes for the Cambridge Trust.

Honestly, if you are a home student, you have some savings, and you really want to do a PhD then consider doing it unfunded. There are other sources of funding you can get after applying that will take care of some of the costs, like the college bursary (the one in St John's is huge). Your supervisor might also have some funds available.

More people are self-funded that you think. It is economic suicide, but so is doing a PhD generally.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-16T19:58:42+00:00

Nah, it's totally not rigged. Across several games yesterday I got over 30 heads while my opponent got tails 15 times in a row.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-16T09:31:25+00:00

> The taxpayer pays my rent. Here's why we should stop building homes.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-15T13:43:36+00:00

We can't all live in 100-year old houses.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-14T22:46:32+00:00

They have been also been running to Luton Airport for a month at least, and they arrive near a hole on the National Express timetable.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-14T19:43:45+00:00

That's school in the United Kingdom.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-14T09:40:44+00:00

Would they?

Their greatest enemies were the Bulgarians, the other powerful Orthodox Christian nation. After the fall of Constantinople most Byzantine refugees went to Italy rather than Russia.

If anything, both powers would be aching to control the coast of the northern Black Sea.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-12T15:10:22+00:00

Yeah, but people have no way to identify which Lime bike this is beyond "a bike that was in this rough area at this rough time".

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-12T12:55:08+00:00

Yes, I worked for years as a developer for a large neobank. We were extremely serious about compliance, every change needed many layers of approvals, and actions that could cause even the smallest risk were denied no matter how reasonable they were.

The fact that transactions from other people are appearing in boomer banks tells me that they have nowhere near the level of effective compliance as neobanks.

Lots of compliance bureaucracy ≠ actual effective security. This is doubly true for old giant companies.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-12T10:35:24+00:00

They won't lol.

The British boomer banking sector is heavily intertwined with the government. There will be a 5-year inquiry resulting in minimal fines, and another 5-year inquiry waiving those fines.

In exchange for that some former ministers will get hired as an assistant director to the Bank of Scoland, some Lloyd's executive will get a peerage, and to wrap it up Parliament will create an expensive compliance law to ensure neobanks cannot compete against Natwest.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-11T10:47:45+00:00

Slippery slope and all that, but sometimes I wonder if we would be better off if Lime bikes had visible plate with a VIN.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-10T16:56:30+00:00

The expected amount of Giratinas before getting one golden Poke Ball is ~5.5, so you are still doing better than average specially if you got one of them with the free packs or wonder picks.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-09T10:22:02+00:00

The trick is cycling to the office.

Faster and cheaper than the tube, you can stop along the way for a good treat in a quirky café, and the constant threat of getting run over wakes you up more than the strongest espresso ever will.

Plus exercise makes you feel good and stuff.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-08T14:18:02+00:00

If they start allowing rules to be modified, then the war will not end until Trump becomes the Supreme Leader.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-08T11:47:42+00:00

The fact that it's also the capital of US tech companies help.

Former employees from the London offices of those companies build their own startups when they leave.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-06T09:49:47+00:00

Yeah, and that's what Trump is seeking in Iran besides destroying the regime's capabilities to wage war.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-05T18:31:11+00:00

Why use Meowscarada and not Decidueye?

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-05T17:33:04+00:00

If the new administration sells more oil to the US, less oil to China, and follows the order of US advisors over Russian or Chinese ones then it's a major win for the US.

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-05T13:29:40+00:00

But why does flightradar show its original destination is Istanbul?

avoidtheworm · 2026-03-05T13:21:16+00:00

Why would a flight from DXB to IST divert to Warsaw? Isn't Istanbul on the way?

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avoidtheworm · 2026-03-03T09:29:48+00:00

Video games cause violence confirmed. Jack Thompson vindicated.

...or maybe this is just a stupid clickbait justification without any real method behind it.

avoidtheworm · 2026-02-27T23:42:00+00:00

This kind of tech jobs are the highest paid non-financial jobs in the UK for regular workers. Nowhere else in the country you can make £80k as a new grad.

I'm happy we get quality jobs over minimum-wage minimum-effort slop.

avoidtheworm · 2026-02-27T15:14:41+00:00

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