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by anoncake 5y ago
And where does the Basic Law mandate this?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Unless taxes are regressive, the rich still get more representation in that example.
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by anoncake 5y ago
99% < 100%. If the Accept-Language header is set correctly reliably enough, why don't websites respect it?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Somewhere more prominent, in the main UI. The user may want to see different pages in different languages (e.g. to avoid garbage translations). Or perhaps explicitly ask the user.
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by anoncake 5y ago
No, because browser makers don't expose it appropriately. There aren't any real alternatives: The only way to determine the user's language preference that can actually work is for them to provide it.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If only there was some sort of Accept-Language header.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Sounds good at first, but it's actually deeply anti-democratic: You're giving people more influence on the state depending on their income and wealth. That's like wealth-based suffrage.
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by anoncake 5y ago
No, democracy is the form of government in which the people (directly or indirectly) rules itself. I.e. ideally, everyone has the same amount of influence on the country's governance.
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by anoncake 5y ago
There are people who would.
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by anoncake 5y ago
> (well, this was specifically trained by meowing at the cat at appropriate times). You meowed at your cat when you wanted to walk outside?
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by anoncake 5y ago
The difference is that even if you don't negotiate with terrorists, they can still terrorize you. It's impossible to successfully ransom someone without their cooperation.
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by anoncake 5y ago
I do what now?
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by anoncake 5y ago
It's similar to how before modern medicine, everything was a fever.
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by anoncake 5y ago
> (Maintaining changes in URI philosophy and organization over tens to hundreds of years sounds like a maintenance nightmare.) I can't see why. You maintain a table of redirects. When you change the URI organization, which would bre
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by anoncake 5y ago
gdpr.eu is not official. This has been mentioned on HN dozens of times.
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by anoncake 5y ago
No, you need to build a button pushing robot then.
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by anoncake 5y ago
It's obsolete, replaced by display-line-numbers-mode
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by anoncake 5y ago
And the GDPR is not a directive.
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by anoncake 5y ago
No, we politely inform you that geoblocking is not actually required. But thanks for protecting us from your privacy-violating website anyway.
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by anoncake 5y ago
It obviously doesn't scare them enough, even if it should in theory.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Yeah, China. The other land of the free.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If the state can only regulate the economy, which is part of its core task and cannot be done by any other entity, or pump money into it, I'd absolutely prefer the former.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Because people are inclined to do research for a university with that kind of policy? Quite optimistic.
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by anoncake 5y ago
What does Google use for internal chat?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Google Search itself has become staggeringly bad so it fits.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If you make twice as much as you need without being extremely frugal, you likely have the skills to compensate that.
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by anoncake 5y ago
> 100% of the males who get naturally pregnant. Almost, some trans men can get pregnant. But I am being pedantic.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Of course not, universal suffrage is merely a necessary condition for democracy. Many formally democratic states of today arguably aren't democratic either. By the standards of its time, I'm sure the UK was already democratic back
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by anoncake 5y ago
That's roughly correct, it depends on the university. Usually most of the cost is for the public transport ticket.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Countries don't compete, they make the rules.

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