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by anon1385 10y ago
>this claim was garbage and was quietly retired after focus groups showed that nobody believed it The public believing something is totally unrelated to how true it is. This kind of facile populist attitude is what people are criticising
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by anon1385 10y ago
Of course, but you have to take into account the strength of feeling over this issue in the UK. The referendum was the most acrimonious vote in the UK in my lifetime. Turnout was very high. The majority of people who normally vote for May&#
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by anon1385 10y ago
>Gove was clearly talking about a very specific subset of all possible 'experts' here - the ones from various (mostly governmental) acronymed organisations The question was about the following "experts" (it was Gove w
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by anon1385 10y ago
>With respect to "it's difficult to leave without screwing the economy", that seems hard to justify given the number of countries that are not in the EU and yet which are not "screwed". Never having been in the E
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by anon1385 10y ago
>* Axing Thunderbird, one of the last usable non-web-based email clients. I don't like nor use TB, but maintaining a decent email client cant be that hard for Mozilla, and it is important for the web. I don't want to be overly
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UK Security services spied on 20 celebrities in questionable operations(theguardian.com)
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Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason(huffingtonpost.com)
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by anon1385 10y ago
There's a greater than zero chance that EU residents will lose the right to legally reside in the UK. The new PM has threatened it, and when she was called out her response was "What you want to let criminals stay in the country
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by anon1385 10y ago
In the UK the motorways (straight, multi-lane, higher speed limits, barriers) are the safest roads, in terms of death or serious injury per vehicle mile. The most dangerous roads are typically single carriage A roads that are twisty, contai
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by anon1385 10y ago
The UK isn't in the Eurozone.
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by anon1385 10y ago
Already happened: http://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-robbers-pokemon-app-target-vi...
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by anon1385 10y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/the-eu-will-treat... (The Telegraph is a right wing paper that backed Brexit)
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by anon1385 10y ago
>Prediction markets still gave a ~15% change to "Leave" at their most pessimistic It was 10% in the hours after the polls closed. The odds for a Leave victory in England were out of step with the odds for a UK wide leave vote f
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by anon1385 10y ago
The UK isn't a member of the eurozone.
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by anon1385 10y ago
The PM resigning does not result in new elections. The Conservative party will vote on a new leader and that person will become the new PM until 2020. (As things stand).
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by anon1385 10y ago
To be honest it feels like a lot of this stuff is their method of resolving difficult issues with customers. If somebody makes a serious complaint about their Tesla and Tesla disagrees with them about it then it has become standard for the
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UK Government Extends Voter Registration Deadline After Website Crashes(theguardian.com)
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by anon1385 10y ago
>In a single page, you clearly see your gross income, your estimated income tax, and the history of pension contributions. And now so can Google thanks to gov.uk forcing use of Google Analytics on all government departments just because
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by anon1385 10y ago
Uber also tried to overcome the "all drivers on the road should have valid insurance" rules.
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by anon1385 10y ago
>What spirit of the project are you thinking of Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html >how is hosting stuff on Github antithetical to it? Github is s a proprietary cloud service: http:/&
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by anon1385 10y ago
>You should file a bug report. This should in fact, work, and did, in fact, work, when i stopped working on it. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14319 (12 years ago, status: suspended)
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by anon1385 10y ago
>If he'd said that on HN he'd have been (I assume) banned No he wouldn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5883501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6098474
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by anon1385 10y ago
If the EFF was able to write posts that weren't full of gross hyperbole and flat out untruths then every comment thread about an EFF statement wouldn't require discussion about how the EFF is misleading people. They know perfectly
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Google has access to huge haul of NHS patient data(newscientist.com)
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by anon1385 10y ago
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-believe... >Such examples, along with others in my years on the conspiracy beat, are emblematic of a trend I have detected that people who believe in one such the
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by anon1385 10y ago
I'm not American so I'm slightly confused by the terminology here. In the article it says she was renting a one bedroom place and looking for a roommate. I've frequently assumed that when Americans say 'roommate' th
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by anon1385 10y ago
Where I live in the UK the issue is rarely a single piece of litter. It's things like lay-bys or roadsides strewn with thousands of pieces of litter (and human faeces, used sanitary/contraceptive products etc). The logistics indus
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by anon1385 10y ago
>btw. I'm pretty sure I heard that glibc broke this behavior sometime recently. You are perhaps thinking of this: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 I'm not sure if that change broke gli
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by anon1385 10y ago
> I don't actually expect glibc to break this in the foreseeable future Would you have said this if Ulrich Drepper was still in charge of glibc? Under his ownership glibc broke all sorts of things that happened to rely on memcpy beh
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by anon1385 11y ago
>We're talking about Chrome No we aren't. We are talking about the Google Safe Browsing service. They are different things. One is a web browser, the other is a blacklist that any software can use. It's used by Firefox, Ch

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