CaptainMarvel

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by CaptainMarvel 3y ago
Utter rubbish. Prime ministers have long held weekly audiences with the monarch. The monarch has the right to review legislation before it is put to parliament. That mechanism has been used to change laws - in your lifetime, on this side of
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by CaptainMarvel 3y ago
She may have earned the house to some degree (the article outlines a number of government subsidies which make this doubtful), but she definitely didn’t earn the land value increase. I’m reminded of this quote: > Landlords grow rich in t
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by CaptainMarvel 3y ago
Don’t forget there have been massive loopholes in vehicle emission regulations which favour larger SUVs and pick-up trucks. If regulations actually focused on MPG, these vehicles would not be the size and weight that they are. https:/
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
Not a single sentence of this article refers to renewables.
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
It sounds so hard to believe that streets became “much more dangerous” with “cyclists out there to kill pedestrians” that I looked for sources on the matter. First result [0] says there were zero pedestrian or cyclist fatalities in 2019, wi
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
Perhaps they should continually reject the commission until it is composed of exactly the members the parliament has selected itself.
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
The police chose to ignore it, but when we consider the full history of the police and wider institutions choosing to ignore children being abused in a variety of ways by a variety of people, the reason “not to look racist” is patently absu
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
I use EFTSTUB with Arch Linux and I agree about it taking up more of your time. However, for me, this was all the very start to first set it up. Since then, it’s been smooth sailing. I also use multiple kernels and I have had issues with ke
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
Some previous laptops were rebranded Clevo, but the new StarBooks are their own design.
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by CaptainMarvel 4y ago
This is like the Framework laptop but it's a UK-based company that has been around for years, and with an explicit focus on Linux compatibility to boot. I'm surprised I haven't come across them before as I've been lookin
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
Yes, please! I often tap the “[-]” button as well and it is quite difficult to get right. Especially now that the “next” button has been added. It is very disorientating when I accidentally tap that. In fact, all tap targets are too small f
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
In the UK, employers pay National Insurance based on their employees salaries and this is not shown on the employees’ payslips. This is a tax on the income of workers which almost no one in the UK even realises exists. The “gross” salary nu
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
The UK similarly did simulations five years ago [0], but didn’t act on the findings from those either. [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/07/coronavirus...
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
I’m going to call bullshit on everything you just said. > the UK the government are claiming that the virus effects everyone equally I haven’t heard anyone from the government say that. > claiming all pregnant women need the vaccine b
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
Everyone is making excuses, but the simple answer is: yes, it’s misleading and deceptive. It’s allowed, as many, many, many other bad things in this world are.
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
Funnily enough, my reaction was the opposite. This is blunt, honest, and makes fun of all the crap marketing and fake sale pitches of other services.
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
The law didn’t exist until there were enough electric cars to care about this. The cause and effect starts with the number of quiet cars.
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
This certainly depends on local rules. For example, in the UK I believe dental businesses can only be opened by a qualified dentist. I was surprised when I learnt this earlier this year. This source [0] says “non-dentists cannot set up or b
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
I started using Migadu recently because it offers - as far as I know - unlimited mailboxes and aliases on a single domain, and unlimited domains for a cheap, fixed price. There isn’t anyone else that does this that I know of, and so the val
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
A 1080 Ti is not a mobile GPU. Mobile GPUs have the “m” suffix. You just happen to have a (probably underclocked) desktop GPU in your laptop.
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by CaptainMarvel 5y ago
I’d bet the lunch I’m about to eat that the bright pink aisle will predominantly contain imagery of girls or toys typically played with by girls. For it to be geared towards both boys and girls, it would need to be bright pink with equal im
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
The UK has laws that prevent all of these things AND still has corporation tax. Expensing anything is difficult as it must be solely for the business purposes and not personal use. For example, you cannot generally expense food, clothes, ho
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
Flying didn’t become as safe as it is today by relying on the pilots to be perfect
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
Yes - this was the comment I was replying too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561120
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
It’s the opposite for me, having fewer monitors makes it harder to find a window. I have to go through alt-tabbing slowly to get to the one I’m after. With three monitors, I know exactly where my windows are. If I have more than three windo
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
I couldn’t agree more with this. A 49” 5120x1440 curved monitor is brilliant for productivity. It’s better than two or three separate monitors. I do miss high DPI but I wouldn’t trade this type of monitor for the current batch of smaller hi
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
To clarify: I mean I have no idea why Mac OS doesn't let ME select that resolution while SwitchResX does.
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
I use gTile for gnome. I had to play around to find a setup that I like. I eventually settled on ignoring most of the features that were offered out of box. Now I have configured a few simple keyboard shortcuts. For example, Super + Up Arro
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
I use Rectangle. I’ve configured it with a few keyboard shortcuts that let me move a window into specific regions on the display. I use it to quickly have multiple non-overlapping windows. I cannot imagine using a large display without it!
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by CaptainMarvel 6y ago
Text looks similar to Windows and Linux (both of which definitely run at native resolution). macOS Mojave 10.14.6 MacBook Pro 15” 2019 Radeon Pro 555X Intel UHD 630

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