manarth

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   by manarth 7mo ago

   "If one or both was under 18 when they first met" The age of 18 relates to the age of consent for step- relationships. The age of consent in the UK for most relationships is 16. It's raised to 18 in the case of many
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   > "the line for images should be aligned with the line for the act itself" The headline from the LBC article is slightly at odds with their first paragraph: > "Peers agreed by a majority of one to ban vi
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   there is something very funny about the idea that “give a chimpanzee stuff and see if they like it” This is the premise behind the "Ignobel prize" – awards for scientific research which at first-glance may appear to be a
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   https://archive.is/4G8Dj
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   There seems to be a nuance (which is missing from the title). The initial paragraph refers to activities which are prohibited. Peers agreed by a majority of one to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be al
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   There's a helpful introduction paragraph: Peers agreed by a majority of one to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life. They also agreed to bring intimate pictures and videos
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   Subtitle: "How a million new satellites could turn night into day" https://archive.ph/KZZYZ
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   I wonder where the line for "porn" will be drawn on this topic. Will this make a number of Game of Thrones episodes illegal? Should they already be illegal, as Cersei and Jamie are full, not step-siblings?
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   by manarth 7mo ago

   I'm not sure _many_ consumers of any porn are particular attentive to the believability (nor to the dialogue or plotline)
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    by manarth 7mo ago

    Cousin marriage and sexual activity is not prohibited in the UK.
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    by manarth 7mo ago

    "it's unclear what the lawmakers, road designers, and police intend" In many cases, there's a gap between the original intention and the current need. Many speed limits and policies were established in an era o
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    by manarth 7mo ago

    It's reported that Ayatollah Khamenei nominated multiple successors for his role and a number of other military roles, to guard against this policy. "Last summer during the 12-day war with Israel, Khamenei had named three po
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    https://archive.is/M8iP6
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    https://archive.is/Al7V3
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    I wonder where "sausage dog" fits into this lexicon
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    As an idiomatic expression, "Hot water" = "trouble". Are there idiomatic expressions for warm/cold/dirty water, which mean something other than a literal adjective describing the temperature or condition of wat
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    > "many customers complained, and the police were called to the venue. > The event went viral on the Internet and attracted worldwide media attention" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%2
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    Looks great now! And thanks for an example with nested CSS, I hadn't seen that outside SASS before, hadn't realised that had made its way into W3C standards :-)
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    HN formatting isn't quite markdown: you want a 4-space prefix to identify/format text as code.
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    I described an approach here – feel free to use this if it's fit for your use-case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    > "people you don't want using the service" That's a subjective evaluation, which doesn't have a clear criteria.
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    > "Prices are information" > "Is a particular route lightly used? Is it overcrowded?" There are plenty of ways to evaluate that without charging a fee. You can track utilisation without needing to cha
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    The Berne Convention (author's life + 50 years) is the baseline for the copyright laws in most countries. Many countries have a longer copyright period than Berne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_d
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    I hadn't appreciated that ~/.<appname> was an anti-pattern. Do you have any resources / references on the alternative best-practice, please?
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    > Our ancestores have been sleeping perfectly fine on hay and grass Our ancestors also had very different environmental influences. Artificial light distorts our circadian rhythm and hormones. Stimulants such as caffeine also i
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    (Video)
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    You're right - the app sandbox model in iOS prevents inter-app communication of notifications, and there is no iOS equivalent to the Android ListenerNotificationService API.
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    Android does, at the level of "Allow notifications from app X" and "Block notifications from app X". DoNotNotify gives granularity and rules (which a specific app may have chosen not to implement). For example: &qu
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    The NotificationListenerService. It has genuine use-cases such as this DoNotNotify app, but could easily be misused - e.g. malware intercepting a wallet OTP notification and forwarding it to the attacker. Access to the API is controlled by
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    by manarth 8mo ago

    The aircraft reached 107kt on the taxiway. V1 (the "point of no return" where a takeoff should not be aborted) for an A320 is around 120kt to 145kt.