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961.
by foldr 2y ago
Elon described himself as a free speech absolutist. There is no inconsistency in pointing out that his actions don’t align with this description, regardless of whether or not the person doing so is themselves a free speech absolutist.
962.
by foldr 2y ago
I think that’s somewhat unclear. In principle, the new carriers with F-35s should have a much bigger advantage over the Argentinian navy and air force than the tiny carriers we sent to the Falkland’s with Harrier jump jets. But of course it
963.
by foldr 2y ago
>They are built on the assumption will subsidise their defence almost entirely. This is an exaggeration. The larger European military powers spent enough on defence to be able to operate without US assistance in a range of circumstances
964.
by foldr 2y ago
It's a long-term shift. European militaries are built on the assumption of US support via NATO in the event of an attack on a member state. That assumption is looking very shaky now, and it will affect future planning.
965.
by foldr 2y ago
I think the point is that the US is no longer a reliable ally, so people will no longer want to buy weapons systems for which the US might withdraw support at any moment.
966.
by foldr 2y ago
Nope, the Bindel incident was in 2019. Here (God help me) is GB news saying the same thing: https://www.gbnews.com/news/feminist-writer-julie-bindel-tra... There's also a Times article behind a paywall that I thin
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by foldr 2y ago
I find that the only thing that works with Airnbnb is just to read all the reviews after excluding anything that isn't close to a 5.0 rating. Some kinds of negative comments in reviews can safely be ignored (e.g. the people who rented
968.
by foldr 2y ago
That’s a 2024 article about an incident that happened in 2019. You can see the date mentioned in this non-paywalled write up: https://freespeechunion.org/i-too-had-visit-from-police-over... This is why it’s important to sho
969.
by foldr 2y ago
Even if you don't want to have an evidence-based discussion with me, I hope that you will check more carefully before making sweeping claims about the UK on HN in future.
970.
by foldr 2y ago
Indeed, it is probably not a coincidence that George Orwell set his novel in the country that he's from. I think you might be onto something there! > I'm not interested in finding every. single. incident so you can dispute it o
971.
by foldr 2y ago
Erm, it matters because the police were required to change their approach in light of that court judgment, as explained in the article that I linked. How can it possibly not matter that the checks and balances provided by the court of appea
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by foldr 2y ago
Were you not aware of the subsequent court judgment in favor of the guy in the 2019 article? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-59727118.... No country can prevent all police officers from doing stupid
973.
by foldr 2y ago
It’s still not clear where you’re getting the number 20 from or which incidents you’re talking about. But it sounds like these are cases of people being questioned by police and then…not getting arrested because they weren’t committing a cr
974.
by foldr 2y ago
What exactly is it that you are saying has happened 20 times? Described in objective terms, not using vague and emotive language like “thought police”, etc etc.
975.
by foldr 2y ago
Are you not wildly exaggerating when you suggest that the ‘cops’ frequently show up at people’s houses based on things that they’ve tweeted? There aren’t even enough police officers in the UK for this to be feasible if they wanted to do i
976.
by foldr 2y ago
Lots of things are troubling. I am complaining about wild exaggerations, not saying that there is nothing to worry about or that the UK is perfect. Unfortunately a lot of people are getting their news from Twitter, from accounts that are ob
977.
by foldr 2y ago
How many people have been imprisoned for that? If we’ve had a decade of being an Orwellian police state, it should be quite a few people, no?
978.
by foldr 2y ago
Nothing actually happened to the guy with the blank sheet of paper (or at least, if it did, that’s not reported in the article). Certainly you can find examples of the British police overpolicing protests, and that’s something that people r
979.
by foldr 2y ago
The event you’re referring to is actually a bit of a non-story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo.amp You’re not allowed to protest right outside an abortion clinic: https://www.gov.uk&#x
980.
by foldr 2y ago
Just link to a report of an incident that you think proves your point. It’s impossible to have a sensible discussion about this issue when comments are so vague.
981.
by foldr 2y ago
If Firefox smears its CPU usage over multiple threads, that leaves more single-threaded performance on the table for other apps that may need it. So there could still be an effect on overall system performance.
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by foldr 2y ago
I don’t doubt that Vim is an efficient tool for you. In the end it’s just a text editor. Editing text is not the hard part of writing code. I do not understand the impulse to judge people according to their largely inconsequential choice of
983.
by foldr 2y ago
If you really mean Civ 4 then that’s easy to answer: hexes and one unit per tile.
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by foldr 2y ago
It's based on this outmoded idea called 'diplomacy', where you build positive relations with allies rather than trying to buy them, or threaten to invade them or crash their economies.
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by foldr 2y ago
All of those are copies and hence O(n) in the size of the value copied. This is hidden somewhat because your examples use constants and literals. (As numeric constants aren’t typed in Go the first example arguably doesn’t involve a copy, bu
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by foldr 2y ago
Don't all conversions require copying the value at the level of the language semantics? You can cast a float to an int, but you can't assign an integer value to a float variable (leaving aside whatever optimizations the compiler m
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by foldr 2y ago
> likes to demagic tools through exploration, values completely open source, highly tinkerable community driven projects, etc. I liked all this stuff when I coded as a hobby. Now that it’s my job, I like VSCode because I never need to ti
988.
by foldr 2y ago
It’s obvious that this is O(n), no? You’re casting something immutable to something mutable, so it has to be copied.
989.
by foldr 2y ago
I understand. However, I think your original post was very much open to being misinterpreted by people who don’t live in the UK or follow UK news. It’s obvious to us that protests still happen in the UK. But many people here only read neg
990.
by foldr 2y ago
I didn’t tell you not to worry about authoritarian power grabs. I was just pointing out that you’re going off on a tangent rather than responding to the question that was asked.

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