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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
The forthcoming Car Park Capital[0] looks like an interesting reflection of your sentiment (but it's about planning cities to make them more car centric). [0] https://www.microprose.com/games/car-park-capital/
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
What I mean is that if no victim was present there couldn't have been the violence or threat of violence necessary to turn the theft/larceny into robbery:[0] > Robbery, in turn, was simply a "compound" form of larceny
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that breaking into an unoccupied car isn't robbery (but it might be theft and/or criminal damage). Wouldn't being convicted of armed robbery without committing a robbery be a serious injustice?
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
That was Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/28/oklahoma-superintende...
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
> It's much more accurate to say that Cloudflare is no longer acting as a host for pirate sites in the UK. I understood from the article that it was for users in the UK, not for hosts in the UK.
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
In that case, can Signal users take advantage of this to export their own messages?
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Scotland to host UK's national supercomputer(gov.uk)
3 points by lambertsimnel 1y ago|0 comments
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
A YouTuber who exposes scams is trying to contact Google after his Google account was (presumably mistakenly) locked pending deletion. It sounds like a typo in the alternative email address he submitted for the appeal process might prevent
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I need your help – This channel is set for deletion [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lambertsimnel 1y ago|7 comments
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
Indeed, but I'm speculating that they do that without owning the data or even claiming to. That's consistent with the article, but I haven't read the other relevant documents. Maybe they have a license to use the data. Maybe
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
Perhaps they want the prohibition on using the site content for AI training to be considered based on something other than their ownership of it, like bandwidth usage or users' rights
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869445
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
And C in Four Functions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353532
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
> I don't really see how Vanguard gets "power" here. They have no choices. They do have voting rights in companies that are part of the index. In my judgement, that's the more reasonable interpretation of the GP'
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
That's a fascinating suggestion! > I suppose at some point it stops being a secret election because the number of voters sharing all attributes becomes too small, or the parliament would get unwieldily large trying to represent ever
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
There's a distinction between the complexity of choosing how to vote, completing a ballot paper and administering an election. I don't expect any one can be minimised without raising another. The tradeoff might be made easier by e
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
If popular CT scans do account for 5% of all cancer cases a year, don't they do that regardless of the time interval?
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
I don't think there are any easy answers to the question of how to respond to this but you might consider: - voting with your feet - contacting your elected representatives - contacting media outlets - becoming a member or donor of civ
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
There's a comparison table of messengers here: https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm Note the list of "messengers that are relevant but did not make it on the list" in case none of the messengers in t
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by lambertsimnel 1y ago
If the conversation was recorded with the microphone on the driver's phone, and the Lyft has different apps for drivers and passengers, mightn't the microphone consent only appear to the driver, and not to the passenger?
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The online accounts and Company Tax Return service is closing(gov.uk)
1 points by lambertsimnel 2y ago|0 comments
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> How do you know she was harassed? I don't. When I posted I was (mis?)reading between the lines, based on Vi Hart's new YouTube bio. > Does anybody here have an insight? Other commenters have some ideas, but there seems not
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Vi Hart Videos on the Internet Archive(archive.org)
11 points by lambertsimnel 2y ago|11 comments
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
"Sending lots of love to Vi Hart. May the world someday become a safe place for you to share your videos once again. Our students love you." https://x.com/ChurchofMath/status/1886860186452943001 Edit: I
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
The New Statesman ran a story about fake submissions to Metro's Rush Hour Crush section: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/12/why-i-spent-th...
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
We certainly could, but we already use 0-9 and then letters for hexadecimal. Using all 26 letters for base 36, but not base 26, is just an extension of that.
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
...in decimal. https://t5k.org/notes/words.html points out that "When we work in base 36 all the letters are used - hence all words are numbers." Primes can be especially memorable in base 36. "Did,&quot
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
I don't disagree, but... > Property taxes could be cut, or decoupled from property values (e.g. poll tax), but that never happens. Couldn't the total property tax take be set to be proportional to incomes, shared between househ
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
> What does it mean for climate change? ...think twice if you want a basement Why is climate change a problem for basements? Is it to do with flooding? If floods are likely to affect basements, doesn't that suggest an opportunity fo
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by lambertsimnel 2y ago
Like you, I'm older than dijit and went to school in the home counties, but my experiences were also unpleasant enough for me to question the value of my time at school. I went to non-selective "state" (i.e. public-sector) sc

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