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by flukus 6y ago
And this was a hip "tech savvy" PM who was CxO at an ISP, the rest of them are worse.
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by flukus 6y ago
It was the Britons that stole it, the "English" were still chilling over in Scandinavia or eastern Europe.
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by flukus 6y ago
I think quite a few of those also have multi party proportional representation which tend to avoid parliamentary majorities, so checks and balances are their in a different (I would argue better) form.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Btw, Can the brit people name any other candidate to be the queen or the king? From the existing family or a new one? Theoretically yes through parliament, who approves succession issues in a complex system with precedents that about 3
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by flukus 6y ago
> I'm looking at you, readers from Ireland and France. :) Have at it. They've already had at it. The French in 1066 and the Irish have invaded Wales and Scotland. So have the Dutch, Germans and Scandinavians for that matter, it
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by flukus 6y ago
Because the powers they hold have to be given to someone else. Replacing them with an elected president or parliamentary appointed one potentially create there own issues and sacrifice the long term stability of a monarch. If the crown was
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by flukus 6y ago
> The British system is strictly about convention and precedent, whereas Americans have a little more explicit guidance from the Constitution. This is complicated by the supreme court which is far more political in the US than the rest o
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by flukus 6y ago
The Queen/GG were probably taking into account a very similar situation in Australia known as "The Dismissal" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional... Considering how controversi
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by flukus 6y ago
It really depends on your requirements, but if you only need one city then you're hardware requirements are in the raspberry pi territory: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ The site linked already provides doc
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by flukus 6y ago
The Romans weren't super consistent either, at least when it came to the size of their military units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion > How'd they end up speaking German? You've probably hear
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by flukus 6y ago
> To wit, every definition of Asia also includes the Arabian Peninsula Specifically the first definition, it refers to Anatolia or the Persian empire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continent_name_etymolo... )
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by flukus 6y ago
I think the problem with doing that is that we've only seen the milky way from one angle (earth + rounding error). The smartest algorithms like the ones that make 3D images from pictures need a lot of pictures from different angles to
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by flukus 6y ago
> Computers are stupidly cheap slave workers and are easy to spin up compared to dev time. Does it actually matter in almost any profitable business? The complexities mentioned generally fall on the developers and sysadmins who have to b
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by flukus 6y ago
If it's part of your job then you spend time in your regular 9-5 day keeping up with technologies correct? Otherwise it's not part of your job, it's part of your personal time. Employers tend to want people with the right ski
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by flukus 6y ago
Most compilers won't fsync will they? The output is likely not being written straight to disk. It's caches all the way down.
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by flukus 6y ago
I used to work for a CEO who was always going on about "we're going to be the google of x". No 20% time, no food provided, low pay, horrible management and would hire any random contractors that applied, but we had an xbox we
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by flukus 6y ago
> The state of the art in denialism They don't climb through the denialism steps like a ladder, they run through them like a mouse wheel. The people saying 1, 2 and 3 will be back to denying it's happening sooner or later. Some
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by flukus 6y ago
It's not the warmest places but the warm + humid places because evaporative cooling ceases to work. Lagos has a very high average humidity and temperature tot eh point where a few degrees more could make it unlivable, parts of Texas se
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by flukus 6y ago
There's plenty of crappy science journalism out there, but odds are you're forgetting all the qualifying statements like "as early as" and "if emissions keep growing at the current rate". If you go check articl
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by flukus 6y ago
This seems to be especially true with the UK variant, just today Australia had another transmission in hotel quarantine between people that shared the same floor and only opened the door to get food. > The woman's husband, in her 70
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by flukus 6y ago
Tents have extremely simple evacuation procedures.
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by flukus 6y ago
Also christians/religious and people that don't speak in correct PC terms all the time tend to come from poorer backgrounds, so "diversity" ends up discriminating against the poorest of society. For historical reasons th
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by flukus 6y ago
Amusingly "info bash" took me to the man page until a separate bash-doc package was installed. One day I'm going to write a script to automatically install missing "-doc" packages and learn to navigate info.
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by flukus 6y ago
They're forced to include newspaper links and to disclose their algorithm. The whole thing is a boondoggle for Rupert Murdoch, even our government funded media is excluded.
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by flukus 6y ago
A recent one for me was alfredo, I've always had either the dry stove top packets or bought it from a restaurant. I was simultaneously amazed at how easy it was to cook and how packed with different types of fat it is, and this is in a
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by flukus 6y ago
It gets cold enough that people spend much more time congregating inside, that's all that matters to the virus.
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by flukus 6y ago
Then compare the Queensland-NSW border or the Victoria-NSW border, probably comparable with most European borders or at least within 1 order of magnitude. Both borders were closed (with exceptions) at various times to contain outbreaks to o
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by flukus 6y ago
> Why are the countries consistently being cited for doing good jobs in this thread seem to be island nations? Because these are western english speaking nations with a similar culture that have people posting on HN.
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by flukus 6y ago
It depends on the issue. When it comes to privacy apple are the good guys AFAIK, they aren't in the surveillance tech business like google, facebook, and half of silicon valley. When it comes to empowering users to control and modify&#
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by flukus 6y ago
> The trick is getting that candidate through the primaries if the scene looks like 2016, After Trumpists, tea partiers and evangelicals it will be interesting to see what happens next. The latter two groups seemed happy to align with tr

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