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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Of 109 lockdown laws, only eight were considered by parliament before coming into force, usually only a day before. I can't think of a legitimate reason why these 101 laws couldn't require at least one MP from the main opposi
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Covid laws took away our rights with flick of a pen. Don’t let that happen again(theguardian.com)
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Thank you, I should have clarified that in the original comment. (I admit that I actually edited that original comment, since the link I initially included was more speculative, talking about a law that was expected to pass, and being much
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> I have some ideas if anyone is interested. I'm a little interested, if you want to share a follow-up comment, but I had an idea of my own that I wanted to share too. My vague understanding is that in international law, there is a
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The more civilised way of doing this is to have an independent commission whose job it is to regularly review the state of the laws on the books and put forward lists of them to be repealed by the legislature. This works quite well in the U
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> Whatsapp and Signal are walled gardens. Until next year? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220701IP...
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> Step 1. Sign in using your existing device That's possible, unless you are switching device because your previous one broke (or was destroyed/stolen/lost). I imagine that Apple has very precise data about the reasons why
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When you say "the FIDO Alliance", you mean the entity that runs a Metadata Service[0] which: > provides organizations deploying FIDO Authentication with a centralized and trusted source of information about FIDO authenticators.
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Thanks for the reply. I hadn't realised that SIOP has been around for a long time, but I'm pleased that Microsoft and others still seem to be working on it (the most recent draft was published last month). That's an interest
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> Hellō provides a fully-featured OpenID Connect interface Why not just use self-issued OpenID identities then? Well, I guess the reason is that the standard[0] hasn't even been finalised yet, and there are no implementations (as fa
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Putin apologists would say that he's "messing with geopolitical issues" by allowing the Ukrainian military to use Starlink (for free?) in eastern Ukraine at all. So Elon is far from becoming irrelevant, and that's the pr
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The "status quo" under international law and US policy was that Crimea belongs to Ukraine, so when he enabled Starlink for Ukrainian, he should have enabled it for all Ukrainian territory. This is not "staying out of it&quo
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The problem is, the poor can only afford the inexpensive goods, so they are "cheap" (i.e. they make cost-inefficient purchases) through lack of choice.
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But in a few years, governments will be able to confidently claim that any device not running in so-called Secure Boot mode is a cyber-security risk and can't be allowed online. Similarly, they'll claim that all devices must eithe
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For what it's worth, people have tried to use the minimal data we have to make a reasonable estimate of the probability of a nuclear war. > Keep in mind that the following are annualized probabilities. For a child born today (say 75
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A bigger concern is that it's expensive to be poor. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2015/09/03/its-expen...
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For what it's worth, current policies in Europe may already be enough[0]: > The EU-27’s population is projected to increase from 446.8 million in 2019 and peak to 449.3 million in 2026 The situation in China is apparently similar[1]
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> Making the Constitution easier to amend in the future I think that any changes that give more power to gerrymandered legislatures (at the state and federal levels) are a bad idea. That's before we consider the problem that politi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"The thing" you are trying to keep private is either private or it is not, too. Maybe you're saying that some information is more sensitive than others, which is true, but some security failures are worse than others (e.g. de
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> security is a binary (can an attacker gain access to information) Only if you're looking through a very narrow lens. There are a range of potential attackers out there with different motivations and resources available to them. T
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You are correct. There is currently an open issue[0] requesting support for migrating posts, that was opened in 2019 and unsurprisingly has some comments from today pointing out how useful such a feature would be. [0] https://gi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Mastodon does inform your followers when your account moves[0], but unfortunately doesn't allow you to automatically migrate your existing posts over to your new account.[1] [0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
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> These days you could pull out your phone while in the voting booth, or have a small slip of paper in your wallet, purse, or pocket. You're completely right about the possibility of bringing a slip of paper, and I was probably over
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Actually that's not the only invulnerable system; there's also "Asset Voting", which I've mentioned in a comment above[0]. It also obligates you to bullet vote, since the voter's honest first preference is the
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Actually there's another option which hasn't been mentioned so far, which is just as easy to implement as plurality (for both voting and counting by hand), and has pretty much all the benefits of IRV/RCV. That method is &quot
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> not all strategies are equally as bad That's an important point. Also, just because a strategy exists in theory, doesn't mean that in practice any voter can confidently find that strategy (since they lack perfect information
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Thank you for pointing out how overused "Arrow's impossibility theorem" is as an argument against all voting systems (and therefore often as an argument against all reforms to the current near-worst possible voting system).
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> it happens only when you don't specify who your vote should go to if your first pick doesn't have enough supporters And your second pick, and your third pick... right? A big reason for electoral reform is to encourage a wider
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> 85% found it simple. 73% ranked multiple candidates. But what's conspicuously absent from these statistics is how happy the voters are with the outcome (compared to a counterfactual world where the election had been carried out un
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> The probability with which a voter bullet votes vs votes three conveys the degree of preference for that candidates. I can see why that would be a useful assumption, but is there really empirical evidence to confirm that? A much bigger

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