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by belorn 1y ago
Looking at Europe for the last decade (and a bit more), the questions has only been about what strategy should be used, whom deserve to pay for it and whom should be exempted. The left and right has enough combat ground to fight over those
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by belorn 1y ago
In the case of the underage kid, they are actually gaining something by using a fake ID to buy smokes for which they otherwise would not be able to buy. The situation that the website is promoting would be if the kid used an ID of an other
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by belorn 1y ago
Seems like a good case for some kind of handshake protocol where the caller and recipient can negotiate if they want to use AI or not, and have the AI talk to the other AI if both side agrees. The tool itself seems like a fine response to c
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by belorn 1y ago
Law often focus on intent. I am not sure if identity fraud can be applied if the person are not gaining anything (assuming they are of the right age). Service providers might be of fault if their verification practices are not compliant wit
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by belorn 1y ago
The technical term of "any form of violence" seems to be Partner Abuse, and the definition is: "violence refers to behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts
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by belorn 1y ago
The statistics is a bit more complex and nuanced than giving straight answers. Studies looking at any form of violence in partner relationships shows both women and men having equal amount. When looking at physical violence, especially thos
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by belorn 1y ago
> I tend to understand her side quite well when I see fare hoppers, people blasting loud music, shouting incoherently or doing drugs - and I probably see one of those every time I ride. That seems to describe city streets. I had a relati
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by belorn 1y ago
I would assume it was triggered by insects crossing the sensor. Optical smoke detectors are common in hotels.
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by belorn 1y ago
Then the solution is fairly simple. Make the soy more costly than a lesser emission heavy alternative. Cows only need imported soy in order to be marginally cheaper.
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by belorn 1y ago
I don't see any discussion on the claim that cloudflare is acting as a host. Are they? Usually we only describe the last link in the chain as the host. Everything else is usually not "the host" for a website. DNS providers, T
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by belorn 1y ago
A lot of people raised similar objections to dna databases, and later when those same databases was used by law enforcement. It did not take very long until law makers and law enforcement made i praxis that such data bases are up to grab fo
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by belorn 1y ago
That is about the numbers that we get in Sweden. Those months were solar production is lowest is also the months that consumption is highest for the average household, around 400% compared to the warmest summer months. As a result, energy p
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by belorn 1y ago
Firefox history is one of the most annoying part of the browser. It is impossible to click on a historical page and keep the context of the other visited pages that date/time. As soon you click on it, it will put it on top of the histo
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by belorn 1y ago
Trying to solve bad speech by censorship will never work, and there has never been an authoritarian movement that has been silenced by censorship. It do not work. At best it does nothing, and at worst it increase their support and reduce an
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by belorn 1y ago
The wast majority of piracy are not literal copies. Movies and music get constantly transformed into different sizes and scales, with the majority using lossy transformations that changes the work. A movie taken as raw format and transforme
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by belorn 1y ago
Freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and freedom of receiving and imparting information and ideas. The United Nations was fully aware when making the declaration of human rights that bad acto
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by belorn 1y ago
Floating ice will actually increase the ocean a tiny bit as it melts into water because the ice has lower salinity than the ocean. Its comparable to around 3% of ice that melts on a land.
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by belorn 1y ago
If you drive around in EU then be aware that the law is different depending on the country. Schweiz for example do not allow to use or sell databases that has the location of speed cameras. In Germany you are not allowed to use apps that wa
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by belorn 1y ago
> If a reputable business is offering horse rides, then I have a little extra assurance of the horse's training or the handler's capabilities. Them what we are talking about is training. Many dog owners will agree that training
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by belorn 1y ago
There is a reason why meta studies that look at findings from different countries often has to account of cultural bias. Different objective truths can be found depending on how one look, including findings that give contradicting conclusio
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by belorn 1y ago
I would not called it a solved problem, but lets describe the Swedish approach. Any government or organization acting for the government (which schools and universities are included), must act under the principle of objectiveness and equall
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by belorn 1y ago
> It makes no sense that any other large animal with similar characteristics as a large pitbull would have been disallowed, but because a pitbull falls under dog, it is allowed. I will just point toward horses, which are dangerous animal
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by belorn 1y ago
I don't live in the US, but can't the winning party still appeal? Here in Sweden it is not uncommon that both parties appeal important cases, sometimes with the explicit goal of getting the highest court to make a judgement. Some
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by belorn 1y ago
There is a rather interesting historical person called Hans Jonatan (19th century) who was an escaped slave from a Danish colony, fled to the danish fleet, fought in the Battle of Copenhagen, and then fled to live in Iceland. Because of the
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by belorn 1y ago
It is always good to look at current grids and prices to see how things are. In Sweden, the sunny days around may-juli have made those months almost free. Solar and the reduced need for heating, in combination of very limited use of AC, mea
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by belorn 1y ago
Technology neutrality is fairly important. The role of the government should be in controlling the requirements which has a collective/social cost, like emissions, grid stability and price variability (as those are things that voters w
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by belorn 1y ago
There are two boats that are under primary suspicion. One Russian salvage ship named SS-750 that carries a mini-submarine, which circled around for no apparent reason in the vicinity of the explosion area 4 days before the explosion. Then t
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by belorn 1y ago
Could someone describe what 'allow_active' privileges is on Linux?
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by belorn 1y ago
This strongly reminds me how naval warfare had period where participants was supposed to act according to certain fair rules. First they would fly the right color, then they would request the attacked ship to surrender, then they would atta
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by belorn 1y ago
My anecdotal experience as a diver in Sweden that do a few ocean clean days per year, and who have operated during the periods of before, during and after a plastic bag ban, my experience has been that the ban worked greatly in reducing bag

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