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by flipbrad 4y ago
Illegal under which laws. Qatari law, which outlaws homosexuality? Russian law, which prohibits referring to the "invasion" of Ukraine? Or do you assume everyone around the world is subject to US law, so it's fine for all
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Apps can easily layer that stuff over OSM, e.g. I use precisely such an overlay in Vespucci to edit OSM on Android.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Invoke the GDPR. Ask them for all internal communications and service agent notes that they hold about you. That should at least get you confirmation of why you got banned. And no, you don't have to be in the EU or UK to invoke GDPR.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
This feels like a complex solution, compared to just making the airlines pay interest on top of the sum they owe to the consumer. That would make repayments quasi-instant
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by flipbrad 4y ago
It's fraud, of course it's a crime
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by flipbrad 4y ago
So is data loss prevention or other forms of workplace monitoring
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Vienna is in Austria, not Germany
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by flipbrad 4y ago
France has access to shops called Decathlon, who provide extremely good value for money pedal bikes and some pretty solid aftersales service for them as well.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I appreciate the correction - I only wish I could still edit my original post! But thank you
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by flipbrad 4y ago
We'll want to be a little careful with how society responds to this. Basquiat put it well ( http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html ) Excerpt follows: "We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The EU+UK e-privacy "cookie" rule applies to apps in the same way as anything else that's sending/receiving data over a public network (e.g. the Internet): all storage of information to, or reading of information from, t
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Strasbourg seems fairly well-connected, too
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Finding a source that conveniently supports the judgement you wish to deliver, is not quite the same thing as being swayed by the source you come across. Both would manifest as an increase in citations, and it's hard to tell which has
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, I'm not sure why encryption would be the forcing factor there and not, for instance, CCTV, blanket data retention or preflight passenger screening? If presumption of innocence necessarily had to mea
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by flipbrad 4y ago
To be clear, that isn't my own view. My whole comment is speculation about someone else's state of mind.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I suspect there are some that instead think in much more utilitarian terms: yes, of course bad guys will continue to use other services that don't accept a backdoor. But those will be easier to target for covert action instead. Gett
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by flipbrad 4y ago
It's also an observation made by Agent Smith in the Matrix. It's even observable in the schoolyard, with kids subjecting themselves and others to utterly avoidable drama, for no discernible reason
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The worst thing is, with the EU DSA coming in, a lot of this is probably completely unnecessary. So it creates extra bureaucracy, and gives the UK establishment a new boot to place on the necks of those that carry others' speech (and
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by flipbrad 4y ago
High concentration of crooks. Particularly near Portcullis House and the Houses of Parliament.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Is it fanciful to hope this could - in and of itself - allow several polluting power stations to be decommissioned, and/or appreciably reduce energy prices for the rest of us?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Have a read of this: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Essay... ?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Cool. Just a heads' up that I had to disable it on Zendesk and Asana so they could talk to each other - you might experience similar issues.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I suspect these laws bear out their effects in considerably more numerous (and more subtle) ways than many critics realise. I suspect most will understand (i) the law immediately addresses a numerical imbalance, and (ii) also creates visib
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Perhaps they also believe markets are imperfect, especially over the short to medium term timescales that the current and incoming generation of women (and other people who care about these things) actually care about?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I'd love to better understand how crashes start / propagate. A lot of the discussion seems to talk in slightly binary terms - "bear" vs "bull", "crash" as an on/off state, etc. But if we think
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Don't ignore the advantages of buying a used laptop (e.g. a ThinkPad), either! Battery backup against power loss, super power efficient, keyboard and screen for when your networking or SSH config is screwed up...
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Which country's law?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
They put the UK prices up on a family account up from £12 to £14 in March 2021, and now again to £16, from next month. I.e. 30% over 14 months. In the interim content I appreciate has got ever scarcer - when it comes to that, I'm will
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by flipbrad 5y ago
Embarrassing "We are STACKT" typo right in the middle of the page, too.
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by flipbrad 5y ago
In very young kids at considerably reduced dosage

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