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by Nursie 3mo ago
No, better to make him look like a corrupt loser running up against a guy in a bin costume. And it works!
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by Nursie 3mo ago
An opinion piece in an American right-wing tabloid? That's surely the end of the argument then!
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> How do international high energy costs single out the UK and make our energy costs the highest? Because of the marginal energy pricing scheme in use, which pays for all generation as if it were the most expensive. That and taxes etc. T
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Net Zero is not the cause of high energy costs in the UK. The cause is international al energy costs, a way of setting the benchmark price per unit against the most expensive power, and tax. Clean, renewable power is a way out of the mess.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
This election was designed to distract from investigations into Nigel Farage’s funding. The reason Binface is getting a lot of attention is because none of the major parties are standing, as a ‘fuck you’ to Farage, to make his distraction l
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by Nursie 3mo ago
As much as Brexit was a footgun, this has always seemed to me a very valid criticism of the EU that the remain side of that debate never really tackled. There is a huge democratic deficit in the organisation. The Council, made up of heads o
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driving the car. I rented a car in the UK about six weeks ago
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by Nursie 4mo ago
If you read the link, that’s not necessarily how things have to work. You can make limited-use ZK schemes, plus you fall into the usual trap of binary thinking, that if something isn’t 100% effective it is necessarily 0%.
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Just outside Perth, WA. I pay for 400Mbps 'fixed wireless', which became available last year (prior to that it was capped at 250). On a good day I get 200/14. Starlink was approximately the same at a similar pricepoint but I
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by Nursie 4mo ago
That's not the argument here, the argument is that the free market delivers value, but only when it's well set up. According to the article, US has effectively enshrined local fiefdoms for ISPs, so free market competition just doe
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> In parts of America, you can drive for 24 hours in the same direction without even crossing into a different state Which US states can you do this in? You can drive across Texas from El Paso to Port Arthur in 12 AFAICT. Alaska maybe? N
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by Nursie 4mo ago
I don't really believe this is true, there are schemes which allow limited use tokens but which don't compromise the ZK nature of things - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou
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by Nursie 4mo ago
There are a variety of schemes possible that do not have these flaws. There's an interesting post here which goes into some of this - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou... So -
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by Nursie 4mo ago
I don't know how well it translates to the EU countries, but there seems to be this idea in the UK that air conditioning is a decadent frivolity, and really only for the weak. And yes it does seem to get singled out as bad for global w
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> Unless you're using the "Two or more people get together to plan something" definition of the word "conspiracy" -which happens to neatly cover planning to go to lunch-, I don't consider this to be a conspi
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Everyone is free to make up their mind and vote for what they believe. And if I disagree strongly enough then I am free to take my business elsewhere. Especially if the money I hand over might go to support speech and parties I fundamentall
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> I suppose you missed the part where I said The part that I quoted? That would be quite a feat. Either way I think it's definitely a choice to entirely ignore what a country is doing in this area due to historical reasons, when t
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> "You must honor the signals you get from Beefed-Up Parental Controls and we fine or jail you if you do not" > If anything, I'd expect a client-side implementation to be far more robust... You're not really descri
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> You use law and regulation? I mean, 'papers please' mechanisms are a type of law and regulation, we're arguing over what sort of law and regulation should be used, no? In Australia, platforms are being regulated, the reg
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> If there were honest intent, then the regs would be beefing up the "Parental Controls" mechanisms present in every major OS Not everyone knows they exist, and there's a huge install base of older and/or cheaper devi
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by Nursie 4mo ago
You really only need the banners if you're doing privacy-impinging things. Much like the GDPR notices that a small industry of 'compliance' product companies sold seemingly to everyone as necessary, they aren't if you&#x
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Social media as it has become now is a shitshow where a minority of angry and/or disingenuous posters dominate discourse. Twitter (X) was never the public square, and now it's little more than a playground for propagandists. The r
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by Nursie 4mo ago
It's funny how this played out in different countries. In Australia there is no chance of anything happening, because the courts ruled that payouts were limited to provable incurred losses. You pirated a movie? The maximum awarded at t
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by Nursie 4mo ago
What makes you think that age verification on the internet wouldn't be wildly popular with the demos?
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Yep, there are all sorts of technically interesting ways in which age can be proven without identity being compromised, this link has a good exploration of anonymous credentials, for a start - https://blog.cryptographyengineering
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Yep, there are a variety of ways this can work well, but the overwhelming 'vibe' here at HN is a) that the tech is too complex and b) that governments actually want to end privacy anyway for their own nefarious reasons. I find &#x
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by Nursie 4mo ago
> So I'm constantly grabbing new tokens from the government every time ... Every time you set up an account, would generally be the idea. So relatively infrequently.
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Revolut! Damn you autocorrect!
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by Nursie 4mo ago
Wise isn’t a neobank though, it’s a transfer service. Personally, given that story, I’d stop using Revolution!
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by Nursie 4mo ago
That's why the on and off ramps should be regulated, heavily, instead. Presuming you want to 'kill' cryptocurrency, starving it of interactions with the real economy seems a much easier way to do it.

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