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by foldr 1y ago
I didn’t make any claim about people being good at their jobs. But I’m not sure why you think that this will have a negative impact on OFCOM’s goals. Imposing the fine is probably just a formal preliminary to having UK ISPs block 4chan.
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by foldr 1y ago
The UK does not ‘ban’ leading opposition candidates. The largest opposition party in Parliament is the Conservatives; Kemi Badenoch is not banned. The opposition party leading in the polls is Reform; Nigel Farage is not banned.
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by foldr 1y ago
Courts ruling on matters of legal interpretation is how things are supposed to work. This is like saying “the US Constitution is whatever the kangaroo Supreme Court says that it is.”
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by foldr 1y ago
Sure I mean, people generally want to do their jobs, which in this case means fining sites that don’t comply with the legislation. I don’t see any reason to think that it’s more complex than that. If 4chan doesn’t comply then the site will
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by foldr 1y ago
You don’t refer to any specific cases so I can’t offer any specific response, but the key phrase is > under ___ laws. A police state is one where the police arrest whoever the government directs them to arrest (rather than enforcing the
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by foldr 1y ago
I think you’re overanalyzing it. They’re just enforcing the law. You and I may agree that it’s a bad law, but that doesn’t mean that the people in charge of enforcing it necessarily have complex and sinister motives.
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by foldr 1y ago
Enforcing bad legislation that was enacted through the democratic process doesn’t make a country a police state. It’s just the rule of law. That has always included the enforcement of bad laws as well as good ones.
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by foldr 1y ago
There’s an important distinction between being able to see the difference and caring about it. I can tell the difference between 30Hz and 60Hz but it makes no difference to my enjoyment of the game. (What can I say - I’m a 90s kid and 30fps
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by foldr 1y ago
A 'plot'? That must be some kind of weird online conspiracy theory. Apple Maps worked poorly on initial release for reasons that are entirely unmysterious (the lack of comprehensive and accurate geographical data). Forstall was of
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by foldr 1y ago
I think this will be an Apple Maps situation. Embarrassing initially, but a few years later, there’ll be a perfectly usable product.
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by foldr 1y ago
A couple of years ago Amazon UK somehow bamboozled me into buying a monthly subscription for a pot of hair product. When the next month's item was delivered and I saw the charge on my card, I was so infuriated that I impulsively disput
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by foldr 1y ago
>You need only look at the CCTV usage in the UK to see how you can have a reasonable society with strong surveillance. It's not really 'surveillance' as the vast majority of those cameras are privately owned and on private
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by foldr 1y ago
This whole dispute seems to be as abstract and difficult to understand as Nix itself. I'm so pathetically attracted to internet drama that I ended up reading through pages of this stuff. I still have absolutely no idea what, concretely
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m not sure how people make such confident pronouncements about the 10th century (a great many things will have happened that long ago without any surviving historical record), but there is some evidence of negative attitudes towards gende
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by foldr 1y ago
The point made is a perfectly sensible one if you include a bit more context: > Amid all the battles and conquest, however, Æthelstan brought a cosmopolitan flair to his new kingdom. Today there is a tendency – particularly among the far
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by foldr 1y ago
Hmm, this seems like an odd take to me as a gay man. We've been dating online since the late 90s. My marriage and the LTRs of the other gay guys I know all started from online dating. Fundamentally it's just a way for people to me
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by foldr 1y ago
The UK is an intermediate case. It’s got more pull than Afghanistan and less than the EU. If Imgur still has assets in the UK (e.g. bank accounts) then the UK government can potentially take at least some action.
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by foldr 1y ago
Afghanistan can do that. You’re protected by Afghanistan’s lack of any realistic ability to enforce laws far outside its borders, not by some general principle of international law saying that countries can’t make laws about websites.
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by foldr 1y ago
>Depending on the decision, either lists of decimal numbers or lists of version numbers will be sorted wrong. Yes. I don’t see why this is a big deal. I didn’t suggest adjusting the logic based on the number of decimal points.
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by foldr 1y ago
As I said, the sorting rule won’t always give pleasing results, but it seems to me like a simple and reasonable modification of lexicographic ordering.
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by foldr 1y ago
It has nothing to do with decimal points. It just looks at any contiguous sequence of digits and treats it as a single character for the purposes of sorting. The decimal point could be any other character and the behavior would be the same.
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by foldr 1y ago
Ah yes sorry, 1.10 comes after 1.2 because 10 is bigger than 2 (so in fact different from your example). But assuming your original list is a list of versions (which seems reasonable given the presence of multiple decimal points for some ca
563.
by foldr 1y ago
Your examples don’t need any extra rules to be sorted correctly. The basic idea is that any sequence of digits is treated for sorting as if it were a single character. On my iPhone, your examples are sorted as expected.
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by foldr 1y ago
He was acquitted by a jury. Do you think Keir Starmer is bribing juries when the defendant is a Labour supporter or something? I'm sorry if that sounds flippant, but what exactly is your assumption about the underlying mechanism here?
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by foldr 1y ago
In the last 10 years the UK has had 4 general elections and the Brexit referendum. Some countries have more local democracy (e.g. direct elections of DAs in the US), but in terms of opportunities to change the national government or influen
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by foldr 1y ago
We keep getting told that these people are predominantly young men of working age. If only someone could come up with a brilliant idea which might allow them to make a long-term contribution to the economy far in excess of the cost of proce
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by foldr 1y ago
Don't be misled by the reaction on HN. The general concept of a national ID card is not unpopular in the UK: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/support-for-th... IMO this is a gimmick and prob
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by foldr 1y ago
>A National Insurance Card (needed to get a job) You don't need the card itself in order to get a job, just the number. In this respect it's rather like an American social security card. (I know some US employers will ask to se
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by foldr 1y ago
My favorite recent Deus Ex discovery is that you can skip the entire Paris sewer section of the game by grenade jumping off the Paris rooftops and then grenade climbing into the area containing the entrance to the Catacombs. Nothing breaks!
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by foldr 1y ago
I don't have a strong personal opinion on this, but the PG essay mentioned in the comment you link to advises people not to start a startup while in college and to do other things in their "early 20s", while Early Decision is

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