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by iso1631 11mo ago
Same way as the executive in the westminster system is appointed.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
80% of the UK public were in favour of the "online safety" idiocy.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
In the UK all I can do is vote for my member of parliament. The victorious member may or may not get in with a majority of votes (about half get under 50%) They then in effect elect a Prime Minister, who appoints an executive, who create la
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by iso1631 11mo ago
That describes pretty much every democratic government in the world, from the USA to New Zealand
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Which ones are unelected - the democratically elected heads of the member state governments? Or the democratically elected members of the EU parliament? Or the commissioners that are appointed by the democratically elected heads of the memb
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Forced - was this an EU navy ship parking off Dublin?
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by iso1631 11mo ago
> Corporations can't go to prison. A major problem with the western world, total lack of accountability For GPL a court could fine them the value of their company, or settle by releasing the code. A court won't but that's
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by iso1631 11mo ago
How much do you pay them? If the GPL license didn't exist, and instead you just relying on copyright, then that's an injunction. You have to stop using the code you "stole" and pay reparations. In UK law, if you distribu
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by iso1631 11mo ago
If you don't like the license, then don't accept it. You are then restricted by copyright just like with any other creation. If I include the source code of Windows into my product, I can't simply choose to re-license it to s
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I think the idea is that the CO2 emitted from burning the tree is the same as is removed by the tree growing, so it cancels out. The tree is effectively a capacitor. Fairly irrelevant when it comes to cattle though, as it's the methane
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I remember some years ago waiting on my bike at some traffic lights behind a pair of police horses, which then proceeded to decorate the road in front of me with their emissions. No apologies from the officers, no attempt to clean it up. Di
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by iso1631 11mo ago
This legal argument has been tried many times in Penistone
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by iso1631 11mo ago
If you're just doing an edit on main and push changes, git can do that fine just as well as svn, but no need to run a specific server on your laptop either, and in a client/server basis back to your home pi you just use standard s
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I remember the Tuesday well - pretty much every website was down due to the load, only Slashdot remained (with static pages, downloading over my 4kbit/second modem connection)
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by iso1631 11mo ago
FT's advertising revenue is under half of their total revenue
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Social networks have network effects, the value comes from other people on the network, not the platform itself.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
You must be new here
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Unlikely in Europe given that fuel prices across the continent are roughly the same (if anything the UK is cheaper) Fuel taxes raise £25b a year (there's also a "sales tax" on top of that which raises another c. £10b a year)
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by iso1631 11mo ago
The "punch out" part is the problem. You can't "punch out" without using special tricks (send UDP source port 1234 to target port 1234 on both machines at the same time and then pretend that UDP is an established co
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I wonder what percentage of people on HN have ever used subversion or cvs, let alone older systems.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
My ISP provides me with upto 8 ipv4 addresses if I want them. At auction an IPv4 to buy is only $20 each. not $20 a month, $20. Having an ISP rips you off is not mitigated with ipv6, you still have an ISP that rips you off. I have to put
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by iso1631 11mo ago
> Fuel taxes and licensing costs don't remotely cover the infrastructure costs In which country? Because they certainly do in the UK - about £10b a year on maintenance vs £33b a year from road taxes. Half that maintenance comes from
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Waiting for Tallinn to collapse. It's been 12 years now.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Successive UK conservative prime ministers increased minimum wage 97% from May 2010 to May 2024 Normal earnings increased just 55% in that time and tracking inflation would have meant increasing 49.5%
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I've been involved in public outages (i.e. major newspapers wrote articles about it) on one more than one occasion due to an outage, one was nearly 5 minutes long, the other only 20 seconds, both were terrible.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Someone buying one doesn't care if it's $898.54 or $898.84. However the price point is set to $899 regardless Then if someone can save just 10 cents each on 10 million units, that's $1m in "savings". Despite making
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by iso1631 11mo ago
That will be someone elses area Boss 1 saved 0.02% of the cost of the laptop, but thanks to scale works out to be $2.4m. He walks away with his $240k bonus. Boss 2 sees increased complaints about Teams and blames Microsoft.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Your premise is based on a trillion dollar company saying "I need less money" They'll (try to) charge the most they can to maximise the profit
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Not just overflies the US, but gets close to the US. Looking at the airport pairs, flights like Toronto to Europe are deemed to be flying over the US, whether they do or not. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo
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by iso1631 11mo ago
If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear (/s incase it isn't obvious)

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