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871.
by ascorbic 6y ago
The reverse is true though. If a non-right of way is used as one for long enough then it can be designated as one. This is why landowners instead designate them as permissive paths and close them for one day per year.
872.
by ascorbic 6y ago
The UK foreshore is owned by the Crown, except for some cases where it has been sold off. These are the minority though. If anyone else owns this it's likely to be the Ministry of Defence.
873.
A filmmaker thinks he can turn Universal Paperclips into a movie (2019)(kotaku.com)
3 points by ascorbic 6y ago|2 comments
874.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Yes, but my point is that it isn't an example of the US adopting a standard. It's the US just happening to have chosen the more popular of two arbitrary options.
875.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Left vs right hand drive is a poor comparison. The choice is entirely arbitrary, and nobody can seriously say that one is "better".
876.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Have half a litre then. Speaking as someone from the only country that legally mandates beer in both pints (on draught) and metric (in bottles), I prefer a (UK, 20oz) pint if I'm drinking, because it's larger and I'm thirsty.
877.
by ascorbic 6y ago
> Smaller nations have no problem changing everything. The marginal benefit is too small for a giant to turn on a dime. Every other nation seemed to manage it. It's just the usual American exceptionalism. There's nothing specia
878.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Right, I meant they're not bound by the first amendment. There are plenty of other regulations that apply to specific outlets, but they're not rules to protect free speech
879.
by ascorbic 6y ago
If they didn't intend it, they were being incredibly naive. If your defining characteristic is that you don't censor things that are banned on Reddit, then your site is only attractive to people who want to do things banned on Red
880.
by ascorbic 6y ago
They don't "have more freedom in this area": they're not bound by it at all. They can ban whatever they want from their own platforms.
881.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Almost none of those 400k people are dying in Europe or the US though. They're dying in poor countries, mostly in Africa.
882.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Pumped hydro has an efficiency of around 80%, which is similar to lithium ion batteries. They also have massive capacity. The downside is that there aren't many places where they can be built.
883.
by ascorbic 6y ago
They don't need a whole nuclear power station built around them though.
884.
by ascorbic 6y ago
I'm not sure how you can call something that kills 400k people per year "not a major threat"
885.
by ascorbic 6y ago
In the US, iMessage is the most important app for lock-in. I wonder how much of the reason for lower iPhone market share outside the US is down to the fact iMessage is far less widely used by Apple users, who instead use cross platform apps
886.
by ascorbic 6y ago
> Jan & Feb were added later. At which point it was no longer the tenth month.
887.
by ascorbic 6y ago
In Latin, sure, but not in English. It's meant "kill or destroy a large proportion" for centuries. Wait til you hear about "December"
888.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Well done for never running out of any household item
889.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Magstripe readers were ubiquitous in the UK 15 years ago. The banks started issuing chip and PIN cards and terminals, then did the liability shift a couple of years later. That shift is what's needed to make retailers switch, and is wh
890.
The Lessons We Learned Developing the UK Contact Tracing App(tanzu.vmware.com)
7 points by ascorbic 6y ago|0 comments
891.
by ascorbic 6y ago
It doesn't talk about technical features because it's about the macroeconomic features (unsurprisingly, as Varoufakis is an economist). He criticises it because it removes the ability of central banks to sharply increase the money
892.
by ascorbic 6y ago
It's certainly comparable, and does compete with O365. Legally, a monopoly doesn't mean it has no competitors, just that it dominates the market.
893.
by ascorbic 6y ago
G-Suite isn't a monopoly, but Office is.
894.
by ascorbic 6y ago
> Surely a bundle of software can include whatever they desire to include. Not when the bundle is a monopoly. This was established with the rulings on MS bundling IE with Windows.
895.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Office 365 is more of a monopoly than Windows now. This kind of bundling and cross-subsidy is classic monopoly abuse, and is almost identical to the IE case.
896.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Even if they were both open standards it wouldn't affect this. The issue here is pricing, and specifically bundling. There's no way anyone can compete fairly when Teams is bundled with a seperate monopoly product.
897.
by ascorbic 6y ago
Whether or not they actually welcomed competition, this lawsuit is perfectly consistent with that letter. The allegation is that MS is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.
898.
by ascorbic 6y ago
It's not a good measure of reliability, but it's a good measure of quality control, where Tesla seems to be sorely lacking. I've had two Model 3s, and I love the car. I had one last year that I had to return when I changed jo
899.
by ascorbic 6y ago
I met my now wife on OkCupid in 2005, and while not necessarily holding a stigma it would certainly raise comment. By 2010 it was no longer weird, and by 2015 not even worth mentioning.
900.
by ascorbic 6y ago
According to Wikipedia there has been some success building FPGAs for Autodock, so maybe it could be. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoDock

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