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by logifail 2y ago
Reminds me of a glorious question from undergraduate physics: Calculate the change in the length of the Earth's day if the UK were to switch to vehicles driving on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left..
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by logifail 2y ago
> This is an incorrect statement - the police are obliged to disclose any relevant, unused material (eg material they have that they don't produce in evidence) that will either undermine the prosecution case or advance the defence.
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by logifail 2y ago
> what the probability / details are for the non-happy-path processes Why would one expect to enter a country via a "non-happy-path" and expect a happy outcome? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013&#
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by logifail 2y ago
I know this is just two anecdotes, but: I flew into the US two weeks ago and the immigration queue was a) short and b) the officers were super-friendly, I did my Global Entry interview on arrival, was basically a quickly friendly chat plus
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by logifail 2y ago
> To get this going, we had to buy 1 home, not 6 of them You had to buy land for six, though? This side of the pond buying (vacant) land to build one family home would run well into six figures (USD $$$,$$$ where the first digit is def
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by logifail 2y ago
"In 2022, 692,334 new EU-made cars were exported to the US, worth €36bn ($37bn; £30bn). While only 116,207 new US-made cars went in the opposite direction, for €5.2bn." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c
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by logifail 2y ago
> The big question is why. It's not like there are a dearth of social justices non-profits out there. It couldn't be easier to donate directly to such projects. Managers like to build empires?
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by logifail 2y ago
> Hacked doesn't seem like the right term ... and this term only appears in the headline, not (anywhere!) in the body text. Wonder if the author of the article intended that term to be used, or whether the (sub)editors put it in t
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by logifail 2y ago
But repeatedly using sentences which start with with words such as "but" or "and" can feel clumsy. And for some people it's hard to ignore these stylistic things. It wasn't just extra prose. I found it genui
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by logifail 2y ago
I'm certainly showing my age, but despite it being an interesting topic I really struggled with the English style in the piece.
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by logifail 2y ago
> As for American gold holdings, they’re essentially pointless I appreciate opinions on (physical) gold vary, but this seems particular line seems unnecessarily dismissive. Why does the author think the Strategic Petroleum Reserve make s
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by logifail 2y ago
> The idea that the US protects Taiwan from a possible Chinese invasion over chips is one of those things that sounds believable but really isn't going to happen. I recently got (second-hand) one Taiwanese business perspective on th
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by logifail 2y ago
> If you do nothing, the enemy has no reason not to escalate. Identifying your actual enemy is obviously step 1, and getting this right might be harder than you'd think. Look at Nord Stream 2...
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by logifail 2y ago
> there are occasions where you need to type a password. For instance, bootstrapping a new device that doesn't have your password manager installed already Right, but the whole point is that the (hopefully) one-time pain of doing th
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by logifail 2y ago
> it's still easy to remember and type I think the "ah-ha" moment for me was realising that I needed neither to be able to remember nor to type my passwords. Once that happens, passwords like 5Ze2vz7AdDjWbXXq start to look
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by logifail 2y ago
There have been reports of RS Online having refused orders from UK consumers saying that: "It is restricted to professional users and cannot be supplied to the general public (non-trade customers)" Are RS Online gold-plating the r
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by logifail 2y ago
> I recently was looking for lead free solder [...] I went looking for leaded solder(!) recently. Turned out it's got quite hard to buy in the EU, but I was able to purchase it online from a US supplier and have it shipped.
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by logifail 2y ago
> we owned a 200 year old cottage in Ireland that definitely had leaded paint [..] I had a newborn at the time, too Not a great combo. "In the home, lead pipes, red lead paint on metal work, leaded paint on windowsills, bannisters,
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by logifail 2y ago
> nobody in Europe seems to take lead paint seriously Do you live in an older property or do you think there might be a significant amount of lead-containing paint in your living/working environment? (Not suggesting lead isn't
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by logifail 2y ago
> Less documentation/examples of new tech -> New model doesn't have enough info on new tech to be useful -> Less uptake of new technology -> Less documentation/examples to build a corpus.... Q: Could it be that th
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by logifail 2y ago
> However you don't sue a product designer for using your patented screws https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-cop... Copyright: "Artistic, literary, or intellectually created wor
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by logifail 2y ago
> "No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately. To me personally, it feels unavoidable: I can’t look down at my phone or glance up at a TV without seeing something that makes me upset.&
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by logifail 2y ago
> https://signal.org/bigbrother/ > "When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here" Sure, except if
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by logifail 2y ago
> The aim should be to engineer the system so that you don't (and can't) have access to the information So when law enforcement and/or a three-letter agency rocks up with the legal paperwork (whether it be a National Secur
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by logifail 2y ago
> Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc? Has anyone asked themselves how these Chinese firms are so cheap? Of course we've asked ourselves that, we know the answers too! Manufacturing c
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by logifail 2y ago
> by default they won't log you but that they can be "forced" to log a user if a law enforcement agency asks them to do so Not wishing to be negative, but how (or more specifically for how long) can any provider refuse to
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by logifail 2y ago
> Even if you restrict yourself to classic American cuisine the food is still world class [...] > [...] said through a mouthful of cheeseburger > If there's one thing America can do it's cook FWIW, a variety of other opin
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> they're so vague I think a thermostat might apply Quite. One wonders if the people who came up with this have any actual understanding of the technology they're attempting to regulate.
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by logifail 2y ago
Q: Why are there (still) classified documents at USAID? https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-for... : "U.S.A.I.D. was created in 1961 to help the United States win the “hearts and
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by logifail 2y ago
> if you can stay longer than 90 days There are places where there is a 90/180 day rule (a maximum of 90 days within any 180-day period) for instance in the EU's Schengen Area https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites&#x

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