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by corney91 5y ago
A frequent flyer tax would help here. Everyone gets a tax-free flight, then a low tax for the next one, and it keeps increasing for more flying. ~23 minutes in this podcast describes it and explains how it'd make a huge impact: https:
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by corney91 6y ago
This is my go-to search engine, it's pretty good. While I like the idea of a privacy-focused search engine eg. DuckDuckGo, I think the climate is a more important issue and I figure at least Ecosia is based in the EU where they're
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by corney91 6y ago
For root rsync in Ansible, have you tried using "become: no" and the synchronize module with "rsync_path: sudo rsync"? IIRC that's worked quite well for me. It'd need passwordless sudo so only a minor improveme
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by corney91 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. Good to know that states A and B are still accessible, I remember thinking they'd disappeared forever. Next time I try emacs (no doubt there'll be a next time!) I'll bear this in
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by corney91 6y ago
I've tried Org+Evil a couple of times and really liked it, but missing key strokes always make me go back to Vim+Markdown. If I mistype something in Vim it's trivial to undo/redo to get where I need to be, but I never managed
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by corney91 8y ago
Sure, but the story is not inherently about the EU. It's about the free movement between neighbouring countries, which is something Leave campaigners are determined to stop as part of our withdrawal. Leaving could've been over rel
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by corney91 8y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that the net is the saviour you claim. For example, I'm British but hadn't seen most of these points until more than two years later: [1] Presumably I didn't see these adverts because I was cat
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by corney91 8y ago
Regarding your original comment, I can't say with certainty but it was probably flagged because it's misleading. You stated that the EU doesn't have freedom of speech, but your link shows is specifically about Austria and how
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by corney91 9y ago
> If they had the ability to measure confidence in the system, they would use it to issue warnings or disable autopilot Yeah, that's basically what I'm asking for, maybe a warning light at a certain threshold would be a better
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by corney91 9y ago
> On top of all that is going on in traffic you would add interpreting one more abstracted symbol to your cognitive load? I think I'd find it a simpler metric to follow than the more qualitative information about car behaviour, as w
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by corney91 9y ago
If I was driving a car like that I think I'd feel safer if there was a "confidence meter" available, I have no idea about how these auto-drive systems work but I'm guessing there's some metric for how confident the
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by corney91 9y ago
Cookies required for providing the service of the website don't require a consent notification (for example, if a website has a user management system). Search for the word "exempt": http://ec.europa.eu/ipg&#x
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by corney91 9y ago
Surely this would be an automatic sanction when GDPR comes into effect, leaving your wifi on isn't exactly "explicit consent".
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by corney91 9y ago
True, but the "remember me" checkbox is sufficient consent: > Persistent login cookies which store an authentication token across browser sessions are not exempted under CRITERION B. This is an important distinction because the
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by corney91 9y ago
>All sites need to implement a nag screen for unknown users It wasn't all sites though, it was just sites that use third-party tracking and things like that, you didn't need a nag screen if the cookie was part of the functional
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by corney91 9y ago
I think the idea's reasonable but it was implemented wrongly by everyone, making it stupid. The aim was to stop unnecessary tracking, not all tracking. See the list of exempt cookies here: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/b
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by corney91 9y ago
They probably do have some sort of automation, but it's likely specific to their environment.
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by corney91 9y ago
Good point, I intentionally left the phrase "open-source" out of my comment for that reason but didn't think it all the way through. There's clearly a need for this sort of support so it makes senses. Either that, or Win
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by corney91 9y ago
>If I buy a toaster it comes with a one year warranty, maybe. A nice car might come with a five year or two hundred thousand mile limited warranty. The analogy falls down when you consider it's possible to fix your own toaster or ca
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by corney91 9y ago
Most of these are due to lack of funding, just look at the examples given in the article -- "lack of beds and nurses" sums up a lot of them. This makes sense when you see that the UK spends 9.78% GDP on healthcare when the US spen
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by corney91 9y ago
>The coalition agreement did not require them to vote to raise tuition fees. Except the ones in government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_collective_responsibil... Apparently being part of the cabinet means
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by corney91 9y ago
That might be changing (although I'm still not getting my hopes up about this year's GE...): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39693277 https://www.tactical2017.com/
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by corney91 9y ago
Because people thought they were "Tory enablers" and the tuition fee thing was the perfect example of that. But comparing the coalition with the current Conservative government, I think it's clear they were actually beneficia
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by corney91 9y ago
> Also the tuition thing was if they won outright not formed a coalition, so they literally didn't go back on their word. Hate to disagree here, but it wasn't the manifesto plan of free tuition (which is what they'd do in
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by corney91 9y ago
> then there's the Lib Dems who had their shot at power, and immediately went back on their promises and raised student loans through the roof. Does anybody (who can critically think) actually care about this? All political parties
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by corney91 9y ago
I've started exercising over lunch, a half hour run instead of sitting in front of Hacker News and Reddit really helps clear my head for the afternoon's problems, as well as the obvious health benefits. I'd definitely recomme
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by corney91 10y ago
It looks like the only problem is they've missed off the GoDaddy intermediate certificate (which presumably most users will have cached from other sites). Funny how all the more complicated things like ciphers are considered well-confi
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by corney91 10y ago
Politics. Pride and stupidity are better names for it though. The two objectives the government are aiming to please "the will of the people" with are limiting immigration from the EU and to regain sovereignty. The deceit is that
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by corney91 10y ago
For graphical browsers uMatrix is a good way to do this sort of thing. For every website you visit, you can tell it what resources from which domains to load and it'll block everything else.
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by corney91 10y ago
1. Functionality that'll be used should be tested before going into production. 2. Using something like setroubleshoot will make sure any SELinux denials appear in the syslog so should be simple to diagnose, and sealert will tell you l

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