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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
We had "cookie laws" when DNT was created, too.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
That's not strictly true. It's the Crown that is the font of all power. Parliament legislates as the Crown in Parliament - hence the mace must be present in the chambers while Parliament is sitting and all bills must receive royal
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>as to why the pfizer is effective against the delta it's probably just picking the right sequence that is slightly closer to the delta by chance. The encoded spike protein in Pfizer and Moderna is identical,[0] so it's probabl
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>It would likely help their cause if there were an alternative public domain recognized symbol. The ISO standard is apparently White cross on green background: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:E003 but pretty
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> There needs to be some minimum complexity for a trademark. A cross is one of the most common human symbols. The Red Cross symbol is sui generis, it is not a (normal) trademark. Use of the symbols in peace time is prohibited under Artic
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>(Perhaps I should have said joules, not Wh? Units are confusing.) 1 Wh = 3600 J, so you're not wrong . It's the same thing as talking about using tonnes instead of kilograms, only the conversion factor here is 3600 instead of
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698059
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by "effective" (i.e. are you talking about infection, hospitalisation or death?), and relative to what (i.e. ancestral wild type vs Alpha vs Delta). If you're talking Alpha vs Delta and about hospital
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Hedging bets - It's better to have a booster ready and approved and not need it than need one and not have it.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
IIRC, there's only one cheese producer left in the actual village of Cheddar (others have moved to the surrounding areas), and they don't want to use a a PDO.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
However or whenever they measure the prototype kilogram, it weighs[0] exactly 1kg by definition. [0] Well, not any more as the kilogram was redefined in 2019
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Wikipedia infoboxes can (and in small numbers are) being populated by Wikidata information. Some languages are making more use of this than others.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Additionally Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights[0] >Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. >There shall be no interference by a public authority with the e
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
There are a couple of reasons. DNT is primarily about tracking , this new spec is more general and covers much more processing of personal data, and allows one to opt-in (or out) of specific instances of processing of specific (categories)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The GDPR doesn't even mention cookies. It's the ePrivacy Directive that regulates them (or, more precisely, "information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber"). And the ePrivacy Directive does , in fact, def
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Privacy is a human right , and respecting it does not, in any way whatsoever, break the internet.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Noyb - one of the organisations behind this proposal - have started contacting the operators of non-compliant websites,[0] as the first step in forcing them towards compliance. If they change their ways then good, if not Noyb has a much mor
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Don't worry, Google will just "accidentally" break compatibility for those extensions in a way that's totally not just anticompetitive behaviour, because they've never done that sort of thing, like breaking othe
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Context is important.
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Advanced Data Protection Control: A Human-Centric and Enforceable Privacy Spec(dataprotectioncontrol.org)
1 points by M2Ys4U 5y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Why? Because that’s not a real law, its a creature of the courts and every time the legislature got involved it was to make a real law Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. Common law is law, and Parliament, the courts and the gove
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
VCs don't want you to feel like they're bosses.
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG(ln.hixie.ch)
2 points by M2Ys4U 5y ago|1 comments
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
This is good news for countries where US companies are active, but use creative accounting to move their profits out of those countries.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I guess it depends on how much is owned. A percent or two would be very different to 30-40% (which would probably be a controlling interest).
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
£44k according to the April 2020 release of the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings by the Office for National Statistics. That is the figure for "programmers and software development professionals", anyway.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
People who are morning larks also face less social stigma than night owls
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
You can add the UK to that list, too. Again, the problem is FPTP.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>That will make a whole lot of business models out there not feasible. Good.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Well, not really. These are directives, not laws. The GDPR is not a Directive, it is a Regulation (the clue is in the name...). Regulations are law, they have what is known as "direct effect"[0] and apply as-is throughout th

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