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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think a large part of the resistance British people have to the idea of abolishing the monarchy is that they don't know what they would replace it with, and they think that having a royal family is a harmless fairy tale that makes Br
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The dynamics of such a system are rarely considered, which is why it's such an easy trap for societies to fall into, especially societies with high regard for their institutions. It starts with the voices of reason ("Isn't th
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That might be true in the case where that amount of knowledge is precisely zero.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Ah yes, mass surveillance is well known to be only supported by left-wing ideologues, such as Viktor Orbán: https://www.connectontech.com/2016-2-19-hungary-condemned-fo...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Knowledge is power, and power corrupts, so what you're saying is "I don't mind giving the Norwegian government absolute power, because they aren't absolutely corrupt (yet)".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The paper does discuss such relationships, but "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)" is an extension to the protocol to allow a participant to choose from more than two (i.e. Crush / No Crush) possible opinions about someone. It'
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"Couple to Get Married on the Bitcoin Blockchain at Disney Bitcoin Conference" Sep 23, 2014 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/couple-get-marrie...
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You start with 2048 single people, and have to act as matchmaker to pair them off into married couples who each produce at least one child. A generation later, you take the 1024 first-borns of each couple and have to pair them off too, int
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“Works on contingency? No, money down!”
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm really impressed with how readable and how funny that is, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one of the jokes contained within. In particular, they suggest an extension to their protocol called "SENPAI-MTT (More Than
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"According to ... the Constitution Act, 1982, the Canadian Constitution consists of the Canada Act 1982 (which includes the Constitution Act, 1982), acts and orders referred to in its schedule (including in particular the Constitution
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The relevant observation here is that you, and most schoolchildren, and most prime ministers, have a capacity for self-awareness and a sense of shame.
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The "deep state" nature of the Queen's advisers[0] is the second dirtiest secret of the British monarchical system, after Queen's/Prince's Consent.[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priv
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> There’s a reason wealth taxes are not popular in OECD countries. Well, there are two reasons: the Prisoner's Dilemma, and good old fashioned bribery (or "campaign financing" as we euphemistically call it). Fortunately,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I see what you're saying, and there's definitely reason to question which entities have gained the most influence from social media (out of corporations, governments, or activists). As for "the purpose" of social media,
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Fortunately there are a couple of bright lines that can be drawn between those two hypothetical laws. Firstly, there is only one front page of each edition of the NYT, and the page has a very limited data/readability capacity. On Twit
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> wouldn't be allowed to block linking to mastodon because of the second amendment I don't know how I feel about a well regulated Militia overthrowing the government to protect free software and open standards...
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> It's literally the dumbest idea possible. Unless the aim was literally to destroy these large left-leaning, people-empowering, highly profitable, internationally reaching businesses. Now imagine which political party and which geo
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> (draw at optimal play on a 5x5 board, win for first player on smaller boards) Somewhat relatedly, I keep wondering how board size affects the game of chess in particular. It seems that a 1x8 board definitely leads to a stalemate (becau
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> European monarchs don't ... sign laws That may be technically correct (the best kind of correct), but the details are more interesting: "Since the sixteenth century no [British] monarch has actually signed a Bill themselves.
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If the state were so keen to serve the interests of the public, it would have auctioned off this land already, regardless of whether a land value tax had popular support. I suppose I'm hoping that if people knew who really owned the co
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I believe that disestablishmentarianism is usually understood to refer solely to the question of whether the Church of England should be the Established (i.e. state) church. There are probably some antidisestablishmentarianists who disagree
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
By that logic we should make Charles the Prime Minister and shut down parliament. Maybe the reason the Queen is so respected is that she doesn't (visibly) exercise much power, and the lesson there is actually that Prime Ministers shoul
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It makes it harder to introduce a land value tax, I guess?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The Court has also long held that corporations, like social media platforms, have robust First Amendment rights, perhaps most famously in Citizens United v. FEC (2010). That's your problem right there. Courts have actually accept
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Except the government has only done the bare minimum for leasehold reform, and has seemingly abandoned the more ambitious plans it had promised for this session of parliament[0]. As for the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022, it'
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> ordinary britons would notice zero change But that only proves that what we have now is an elective dictatorship where the Prime Minister of the day effectively exercises all the powers of the sovereign, without any real accountability
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> People conflate SPF/DKIM/DMARC with spam checking.. they're not systems to prevent spam. They're intended to prevent forgery. That's why I said that mandating these things was the easy half. Once spoofing isn&#
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Big email providers need to set a flag day after which they will drop all email from domains that don't have DKIM+SPF. Their servers also have to support TLS for sending and receiving mail. That's the easy half. Next, we need a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Presumably this functionality is going to be baked into iOS and Android, and then standardised across billions of devices. Lots of countries already require that you carry government ID with you, but once they start to accept (and prefer) t

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