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901.
by mavhc 5y ago
Not a law, but it's part of the design, because "omg inflation is bad, the government are taking your money!" theories from people who left before Economics 102
902.
by mavhc 5y ago
They can just counter claim and the hoster has to put it back up, they don't need to prove anything https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/responding-dmca-takedown-no...
903.
by mavhc 5y ago
No info on how effective they are of course, how many people/mines have they detected vs missed?
904.
by mavhc 5y ago
Probably need to call the Estonians
905.
by mavhc 5y ago
Which is not to say that people weren’t trying. They tried sending off fleets of spaceships to do battle or business in distant parts, but these usually took thousands of years to get anywhere. By the time they eventually arrived, other for
906.
by mavhc 5y ago
You're buying electricity, and using it to make the bitcoins. The red flag is you're buying something that's useless. The cost of a bitcoin may be correct, but doesn't mean it's worth the cost.
907.
by mavhc 5y ago
I bought a 3 year old Leaf 7 years ago for £6500, apart from tyres, spent £30 on new windscreen wipers, and last week £125 on a suspension thing. 1p/mile, £0 tax per year. And same year model is on sale for more than £6500 today
908.
by mavhc 5y ago
Bitcoin has 3 mechanisms built in to make it almost always increase in value, halving of the rewards, finite total+lost bitcoins, and increasing complexity when more people are mining. In the end all you're doing is buying electricity
909.
by mavhc 5y ago
Did they fix the security flaws mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID yet?
910.
by mavhc 5y ago
"constructivism", and similar ideas about schools with no lessons where children just learn what they want to, are all based on children of smart parents who encourage such things. The average child is happy watching youtube video
911.
by mavhc 5y ago
It's not e-ink, it's a transflexive LCD where you can remove the colour and turn off the backlight to get higher res, as the subpixels are setup like a camera (square of RG/GB) instead of the normal 3 vertical subpixels (RGB)
912.
by mavhc 5y ago
That's great, but using a load of poor countries to alpha test your new OS ideas seems a bit dodgy. Everyone should have realised inventing something brand new for every part of the stack would fail. We want new hardware, and firmware,
913.
by mavhc 5y ago
Well, it got html and rtf and attachments bodged into it, and never got encryption working. And it's plagued with spam and attacks and fakes. Chat is sending text, and files, and encryption, and now doing all that to groups of people,
914.
by mavhc 5y ago
Everything should have a pollution tax of the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it creates, then use the money to clean it up
915.
by mavhc 5y ago
And because there's no username or password, so anyone can use it. Which is its fundamental problem as phone numbers are terrible for everything
916.
by mavhc 5y ago
That's the fundamental problem, non standard products can iterate way faster than standards based products. Look at all the new features email has! Of course as we're on HN we obviously hate anything but plain text, but that'
917.
by mavhc 5y ago
It was weird, Wave's main reason for existing is for businesses with massive email chains of 100 versions of a document, but they killed it about a month after enabling it for business accounts
918.
by mavhc 5y ago
That you can't lie to potential employers?
919.
by mavhc 5y ago
Overlapped windows are great, until someone invented raise-on-click
920.
by mavhc 5y ago
We did once, so we banned guns.
921.
by mavhc 5y ago
But most schools are primary schools https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-sta... Headcount 8,911,853 Number of schools 24,413 Average class size 26.6 So 335000 classes that's just England, which is
922.
by mavhc 5y ago
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Hooloovoo
923.
by mavhc 5y ago
Shouldn't a universal Resume format also include digitally signed proof of your claims of degrees and certifications?
924.
by mavhc 5y ago
There's probably some kind of largest pandemic in 100 years thing going on, tends to cause people to not want to die
925.
by mavhc 5y ago
Old people, who pay less tax usually, also watch a lot of TV, and vote in their droves for Conservatives
926.
by mavhc 5y ago
I read somewhere that Amazon pay more because they don't ask you for the CVC number, to enable easier purchasing
927.
by mavhc 5y ago
The cheaper model sold out in the past 13 hours
928.
by mavhc 5y ago
Should have said Is it the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop, d'oh
929.
by mavhc 5y ago
They completely messed up their response to covid, had partial lockdowns that didn't work and thus went on longer, didn't screen people coming into the country, didn't shut schools for ages, and now UK has the highest infecti
930.
by mavhc 5y ago
No one cares about the desktop any more, and linux won the mobile race, in some fashion.

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