graemep

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by graemep 4mo ago
This is a case of inaction by regulators, rather than action. They do it because they can and its not important to most people.
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So much the same as Facebook?
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> Lot of astroturfing here. The guidelines say "assume good faith" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by graemep 4mo ago
What about more social housing, reductions in working hours, and opposition to privatisation? Sounds left wing to me. They have been called Marxist-Lenninist by more mainstream politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by graemep 4mo ago
They were definitely extreme by the standards of the time. Their aim was explicitly to completely revolutionise European politics, culture, religion.... everything. One comment I heard recent (on The Rest is History podcast, I think Tom Hol
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by graemep 4mo ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? The idea I just put forward does not involve questions, it involves replacing one group of people with another doing the same job. Framing questions is already a problem with legislation. You can frame &
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by graemep 4mo ago
Juries are unpaid and obscure. I think most people in the UK would be delighted to sit in Parliament for the a £100k an year salary + expenses (what MP's currently get) plus a lot of prestige and the experience. It would be a pretty go
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In the case of HSBC I said the app would not work on my phone and they send me a security widget.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Those are left wing positions. Until 2023 the UK's Green Party's policy was to leave NATO, and there is still a lot of support in the part for that. When the UK's Labour party was socialist they were anti-EU. If you look at c
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by graemep 4mo ago
its not uncommon. The overtly racist parties in the UK (e.g. the BNP has quite a lot of left wing policies (e.g. nationalisation of utilities), ending NHS outsourcing to the private sector, and free healthcare. Its a combination that appeal
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by graemep 4mo ago
Even in countries where you have a wide choice of banks (the UK, for example) more and more banks are pushing people to use mobile apps. We have the problem of the government and other businesses and organisations pushing people to use apps
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by graemep 4mo ago
I pay for an internet connection anyway. Even if I use a pay as you go mobile connection (on which the telco makes a profit) its still a lot cheaper to use Whatsapp than either SMS or voice calls. There is no subsidy, its telecoms companies
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by graemep 4mo ago
The party in question seems to be an anti-immigration strongly secularist left wing party with Marxist roots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party I am not sure "far right" is an accurate label. Ma
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by graemep 4mo ago
What about banking apps?
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by graemep 4mo ago
Even where its not required, it can be a lot cheaper (e.g. for international calls) and has features (conference calls) not offered by consumer phones. Whatsapp's success has partly been driven by telecoms companies over-charging.
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by graemep 4mo ago
My sense of humour. TLA = Three Letter Abbreviation.
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by graemep 4mo ago
The pro-remain campaign lied too and I would argue a great deal more. Take a look at the predictions of the immediate effect of Brexit vote (for 1017-18) on page 9 of the Treasury report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&
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by graemep 4mo ago
An alternative would be to select representatives by lot. It would get rid of a political class, would automatically be representative (so no arguments about whether women, minorities, whoever are fairly represented) and not select for peop
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by graemep 4mo ago
It took me a a minute to figure out what an ATS was. Not familiar with this particular means of a much used TLA. Even better Wikipedia lists the abbreviation I am familiar with but give a different interpretation of the same words: https:&
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by graemep 4mo ago
I used to be a subscriber. It is good but I have more than enough to read without it. Also one of the few places that has published a letter from me :) For tech people its had some interesting articles promoting retro-computing and FOSS as
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by graemep 4mo ago
Its an argument about whether you want an init that is just an init, or an init that is designed as an extra layer of the OS. If they were comparable (i.e. if systemd was just an init system) there would be no debate. it does not help that
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by graemep 4mo ago
That is a straw man. Plenty of people have different opinions on different issues. > but that's like KDE having a file manager and complaining that plasma DE is a monolith On the other hand it would be very rare to use Plasma withou
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by graemep 4mo ago
> systemd is just a service manager it's you who decide to use other systemd parts. What makes systemd different from other init systems is that it is specifically designed to work with the other parts. It aims to provide a standard
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by graemep 4mo ago
Systemd does not solve the deployment problem, and will not unless it adds something like a systemd package manager. It is interesting that Linux is far more widely used than alternatives that are not fragmented (e.g. FreeBSD) and has not s
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Deepmind I can undertand, as it was early days and no guarantee of success? Its companies with no guarantee of success that are the future innovators. Look at how important Deepmind's field has become. > But UK sells nearly eve
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by graemep 4mo ago
Less important than NATO, and not EU either - 10 countries, six of which are in the EU, three including the lead country are not.
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That can make a lot of sense. People do tent to put too much value on their own experience - there is a tendency to think your experiences are normal.
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Which makes it even more difficult to limit access to Americans. Deepmind was originally a British company and has R & D in multiple countries to it will be even more awkward with them. I have always thought the UK was too liberal in al
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Why would you compile it each time? You would compile the binary once and the use it. This is what Go equivalents of this already do (e.g. Hugo).
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Its very niche. This is a static site generator so you could run something a lot heavier and then rsync the output to the server. Even lighter on the server than running bash there. It is also limited so you might have to add other things

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