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by gpvos 3mo ago
For starters, Ars shouldn't write "this journal" when it's about another publication than themselves.
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by gpvos 3mo ago
A company shouldn't be able to fire an employee over their opinion,[0] so that wouldn't matter to me. For a major owner, the donation amount starts to matter to me around $5-10K, but YMMV. [0] I suppose unless they have a very inf
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by gpvos 3mo ago
The guy owns half the company, so a significant part of the money I'm paying is involved. Yes, it is quite ethical to decide based on matters like that. It's not an employee or minor shareholder.
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by gpvos 3mo ago
Including a statement from the other founder.
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by gpvos 3mo ago
"Mullvad AB and its parent company Amagicom AB are 100% owned by founders [1 person] and Daniel Berntsson [...]"[0] So I'll assume he owns about 50%. Well, that ends my usage of Mullvad.[1] I appreciate that probably many of
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by gpvos 3mo ago
To hold large corps accountable you need clout, and the individual countries don't have that.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
We were talking about the fallback system, see earlier in the thread.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Actually, I read stories that on some of the long distance trains with restauration they gave away all food and non-alcoholic drinks for free.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I have no idea which is cheaper, upgrading those or paying for one 2G network to remain on (at least enough cell towers to cover the railway network).
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I'm roughly at the same level. The main improvement of vim over vi is the infinite undo, and more recently the UTF-8 support. I like the more elaborate status line and the syntax colouring, and I actually have cpoptions set to "do
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by gpvos 4mo ago
It is more like a one-line visual mode, you can actually use the same commands as there. Depending on terminal capabilities (that's why there are apparently three submodes), you can move the cursor left and right, and insert and delete
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I mostly used it when I logged in over a 1200 baud modem. The terminal would have supported working full-screen, but it was just quicker to not keep the entire screen visible all the time (even though classic vi is already very efficient ab
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Upgrade to 4G or 5G.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
They are. Rail gauge and loading gauge are different concepts. Use Wikipedia.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Don't be sorry for me, I was only relaying earlier experiences.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Trains are being started up again (staggered because the current draw of so many accelerating trains could cause problems) since about 10 minutes past midnight, 30 minutes ago.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Incorrect. They wouldn't fit in the tiny UK loading gauge (profile). UK trains are indeed variants of continental models, but made to custom size, and many (most?) of them in the UK.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Its return train is currently stuck at Oberhausen.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Thirty years of it.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
The fallback for GSM-R is the normal GSM network, but according to informed guesses I've read, the handsets still need to authenticate using their GSM-R credentials (it's just normal GSM roaming), and that's failing too.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
The same as usual I suppose: stopped at a station in a tiny village, without any information. Train staff will provide water, but that's about it.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
You may not be far off. Word is that it's a failed software update.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Yes, I was highlighting the difference with the US system. Another difference is that if you know someone's account number, you can send them money but not take any out of their account. I understand it's more or less the other wa
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Please elaborate.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
There is no such thing as free money, you're paying for it somehow. Maybe higher processing fees, maybe beggars on the streets and a society out of whack.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
As long as you don't go too far below zero, payments will go through. This may differ a bit per country.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
Among the middle and higher as well.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I think we'll keep disagreeing on what "fundamentally different" means. Agreed that the Danish gov't proposals are reprehensible and deserve counteraction.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
I know of many examples from the US and none from Germany and the UK. If they're truly so plentiful, please enlighten me with a link or two of the latter.
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by gpvos 4mo ago
> Many Europeans believe that the US promised to protect Ukraine in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. European here, following the Ukraine situation closely. I absolutely never heard that one. The main issue in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum

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