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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
$779.88 a year? Yikes. That's a lot of money.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>[edit: changed "their own" to British", because readers might misread it as "companies owned by government officials"] Perhaps not owned by government officials, but Cummings' pals are certainly getting a
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Oh please. If you think that the vote in Crimea to join Russia was free and fair I have a bridge to sell you.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
On Twitter you follow people, on a site like Reddit you subscribe to subreddits. Switching between accounts on Twitter means your follows/followers are lost, switching accounts on Reddit doesn't lose you anything (unless you'
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>EV certificates might be harder EV certs are completely worthless (as in they provide no extra value above that provided by regular DV certs) so nobody should care if they're harder to obtain.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That assumes you're using a device that is powered on at midnight, or at any particular time of day really.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Raw pointers in Rust can be null. (star)const T and (star)mut T both have an is_null method and there is std::ptr::null and std::ptr::null_mut available to create null pointers.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
At current exchange rates, $100k is about £80k or €88k. In the UK that pre-tax income would put you well in the 95th percentile. Post-tax the 97th percentile.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
That sounds like a very quick way to get a tax evasion charge...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Be friends with Dominic Cummings
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>GDPR is the European privacy law. It protects European citizens The GDPR does not discriminate based on citizenship. It applies if the organisation providing the service is in the EU/EEA* OR if the user of the service is in the EU&
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>GDPR is mostly about processing user data, not storing them. Storage is considered as processing. But yes, you're right that the Right to Erasure is not absolute.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Not "PII", personal data. PII is a US legal term and means precisely nothing in the context of the GDPR.
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The First Internet Bench(youtube.com)
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>Some web admins have no choice if their CMS sets cookies. Then the solution is simple: Stop using those CMSes. >So most banners are just a notification rather than a choice. e.g. Continue to use the site and you automatically opt in.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> The issue with a high speed rail project like HS2 is that the people most affected by it are the ones who don't see much direct benefits from it. >If the line is coming past you then you have to put up with the noise from it an
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> This highlights a flaw with the UK's infrastructure projects. The UK is focused on connecting cities with cities, not connection within cities and towns. I agree, but HS2 will provide a huge benefit local and regional rail service
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
> I could well be wrong but this was never one of the touted benefits of HS2 when it was being (mis?)sold to the British public, which makes me very suspicious. HS2's PR has been, frankly, awful . Hell, its name has been its bigges
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Birmingham will definitely benefit as it will mean that more local and regional trains can use the WCML when intercity trains move over to HS2.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Okay, now here's the next paragraph: >Proponents of HS2 will point out ad nauseam that the point isn’t the journey time; it’s the increased capacity that a new railway will bring, allowing faster trains to shift on to their own trac
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Even if people work from home more, we will still want to shift freight from road to rail, and the WCML is full.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>All things being equal, sure, but a high speed line is going to be more expensive, specially at the speeds required. It's actually not that much more expensive...
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>A new trans-pennine rail tunnel from Liverpool-Manchester-Sheffield under the peaks, and Manc-Leeds-Hull would add vastly more value than a faster connection between already well connected cities. "A faster connection between alrea
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Facebook was also complicit in the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
>I wonder what those officers were thinking, arresting a reporter on live camera. "This man is Black, therefore he is the enemy", probably.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
I'm so glad that this is illegal in the UK
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
Video conference is commonly called VC
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
From the Mastodon creator: >For once am not happy about Mastodon being on the HN frontpage. Someone submitted a work-in-progress pull request there. Half the comments are circlejerking about free speech as always, the other half gives op
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
The law said one must not leave one's house without a "reasonable excuse". Going for an hour+ drive just to see if your eyes work is not a reasonable excuse.
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by M2Ys4U 6y ago
I tried to use Org Mode at work last year, to take meeting notes, track time spent on the 12 different projects I have to chip in to and to organise my calendar. It was okay , but I didn't (and still don't) use Emacs for anything

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