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by ectopod 5y ago
I don't think that a law that can be repealed is binding the legislature. You think it is. We will have to agree to differ. Edited to add: for all I know, in the legal traditions of our respective countries we may both be right.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Sure, defence contractors could do that, but suing your customers isn't such a great idea. These climate policies are not merely goals. They are laws, and they remain in force until they are repealed. It doesn't matter what kind
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by ectopod 5y ago
All governments are bound by existing law until it is changed. The alternative is tyranny. The usual limit on binding future legislatures is that you can't pass a law that is impossible to repeal. Courts don't step in. Complain
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by ectopod 5y ago
The problem (in Europe anyway) is that the legislatures are creating legally binding targets on carbon reduction, but not creating policies that can plausibly achieve this. When you have a contradiction like this it is the job of the court
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by ectopod 5y ago
> but how have we always just accepted the lack of personal privacy when it comes to finance? We didn't. This is something that has changed in the UK in my lifetime. Unless you were the subject of an investigation you didn't
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by ectopod 5y ago
> The emergency brakes of that cart were intermittently triggering My guess: each time a strand within the cable broke the cable stretched a little and the brake triggered. Five years ago a company was hired to maintain the cable car. T
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by ectopod 5y ago
My micro-USB charging cable is worse than that. It appears to transfer data but it always flips a few bits. Quite surprisingly, no part of the protocol stack catches this. The cable quietly delivers slightly broken files.
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by ectopod 5y ago
If a tardigrade was sitting on an asteroid, wouldn't the atmosphere blow it free? And then it could float gently down to earth.
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by ectopod 5y ago
28"
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by ectopod 5y ago
I just bought a dumb TV for ~$130. I don't care about having an enormous screen. Maybe the GP doesn't either.
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by ectopod 5y ago
If your criminal activities leave anus prints you deserve to get caught.
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by ectopod 5y ago
With really old dogs the gland sometimes won't unblock itself and becomes infected. The cure is to milk it. This is a vet's least favourite job, and they have some pretty grim tasks. Source: I heard it from a vet.
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by ectopod 5y ago
> Many jets are thin and bright all along their length. “How does it shine? How do we see it?” Chen wonders. It looks like nobody knows for sure.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The GP is talking about the tower location, not your own location.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It started off as an allegedly positive thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
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by ectopod 5y ago
At that scale it's more likely a wicker man.
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by ectopod 5y ago
No, I don't think it's about apps modifying the root store used by Firefox. Rather, it's about well-intentioned apps using Mozilla's root store in their own https client, but doing it incorrectly so they don't get t
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by ectopod 5y ago
Is your XBox online? Are you sure the DVD player doesn't report back what you're watching and how you're watching it?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Fridges are mostly plastic. In the UK the somebody with a truck will cut out the compressor motor (releasing all the gas) and leave the rest of the fridge. Now you have two problems.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Firebase is a hosting platform and a third party.
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by ectopod 5y ago
You don't have to remake the whole of society. Just stop making more of the bits that don't work.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Is this a London thing? I've rented in the UK for decades and I've never had a dishwasher or space for one. Friends haven't bothered with dishwashers until they had kids, and then they needed to create a space and add some p
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by ectopod 5y ago
Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn't seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?
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by ectopod 5y ago
The law says that the fees paid for IP in this way have to be plausible. Franchising is a long-established business model and nobody would run a franchise if the franchise fee ate all the profit. So Starbucks' franchise fees are not
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by ectopod 5y ago
Pure hucksterese. How do people still fall for this? You don't even need to start to parse the content to know you're being conned.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Not in the UK. My cousin just had a bad dose of something. It's not covid (negative test, he's vaccinated and he had covid a few months ago) and it's not life-threatening so, quite reasonably, nobody cares what it is.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I thought this was very insightful: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181 When choosing what to believe people ask “what is the social consequence of accepting the facts as they are?” It explains the tribalism and
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by ectopod 5y ago
Raising to the power of .5 rather than using the sqrt function does whiff a bit. Even better, use hypot. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/web/javascript/refe... https://docs.python.or
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by ectopod 5y ago
Surely no-one believes the CIA always behaves ethically. Especially after the post-9/11 kidnap, torture and murder rampage. Perhaps you meant a lot of people question if the CIA ever behaves ethically.
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by ectopod 5y ago
You can file them online yourself. https://www.gov.uk/file-your-company-accounts-and-tax-return

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