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by beejiu 11mo ago
Keeping out communists from a state broadcaster at the height of the Cold War sounds sensible.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
Having 8 governments in 9 years probably didn't help
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by beejiu 11mo ago
The impact on trade is almost entirely in goods and the UK is >80% services. Services is basically unaffected by Brexit. ( https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7657... ) Hits on GDP a
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by beejiu 11mo ago
Yes, and this already happens, every day.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
> No one can be expected to know or abide laws of another country. If this is your view, do not travel or do business in other countries. It's simple.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
I'm not sure, but it wouldn't apply in the case we are discussing or I assume most businesses operating globally.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
Seems reasonable. If I committed what is considered a crime on American soil, I wouldn't expect to be able to enter the US without arrest.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
Your First Amendment rights only apply within the United States, this should be obvious. Nonetheless, extradition treaties generally require that a crime be considered a crime within both jurisdictions.
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by beejiu 11mo ago
I don't really understand the concern. The UK objects to suicide forums and American operators of suicide forums are protected by the First Amendment of extradition to the UK. So if you want to operate a suicide forum from America, jus
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by beejiu 1y ago
A server doesn't need to "know" where in the world it is (unless it needs to know the position in the sun in the sky for some reason).
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by beejiu 1y ago
Oh yes, please don't think I was blaming Imgur!
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by beejiu 1y ago
It's unfortunate this article is about the UK and Imgur has blocked the UK because of the Online Safety Act :(
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by beejiu 1y ago
The face mask was his face.
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China Accessed Classified UK Systems for a Decade, Officials Say(bloomberg.com)
18 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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Chinese interests purchased the data hub used by Whitehall departments(twitter.com)
2 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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by beejiu 1y ago
Isn't it the case that US prices are without sales tax, whereas all EU/UK prices are inclusive of tax by law?
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by beejiu 1y ago
Doesn't Google Workspace start at $7 per month? I can't see a business user going to those lengths to save $1 or $2 per month.
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by beejiu 1y ago
Press conference is being broadcast live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-StZggK4hhA
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NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding [video](youtube.com)
3 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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by beejiu 1y ago
> At a standard dose, paracetamol slightly reduces fever,[13][17][18] though it is inferior to ibuprofen in that respect[19] It's good you can take both at the same time then! (For adults.)
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Wikimedia Foundation vs. Secretary of State (re Online Safety Act) [pdf](judiciary.uk)
2 points by beejiu 1y ago|0 comments
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by beejiu 1y ago
Worth noting that was before the High Court's further judgments today, and the article has been updated. The full judgment is here: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi...
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by beejiu 1y ago
Supposedly it can carry up to 800 pounds ( https://www.skydweller.aero/ ), although not clear what was tested.
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by beejiu 1y ago
GIFs scale quadratically with their resolution and they don't even support an alpha channel, which makes them inflexible.
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by beejiu 1y ago
An engineer could build that much faster than it would take to build an animated GIF in an editor. (For a start, it's a much more complex animation than 6 frames.)
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by beejiu 1y ago
That's surprising because Googlebot publishes IP ranges for its crawlers and it's fairly simple to block fake crawlers these days (super easy through Cloudflare, for example).
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by beejiu 1y ago
Yes, but if you fill out the rest of the questionnaire I suspect it says you are not in scope.
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by beejiu 1y ago
They're in scope because they provide a pornographic service, I don't see that is arguable. If you don't have the competence in house to follow the guidelines and need to hire expensive lawyers, then yes it's an "ex
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by beejiu 1y ago
I have no idea what this service is, but clicking around on their site they mention it's 18+, that they don't allow "Child pornography, Sexualized depictions of minors, Heavy gore, Bestiality, Sexual violence". I don&#x2
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by beejiu 1y ago
So you have no counter evidence?

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