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by nicky0 8y ago
Bercow ruled yesterday that today's motion is sufficiently different.
572.
by nicky0 8y ago
The think is, strings that make sense has been a major goal of Swift, that's why they have been iterating on it so heavily. FWIW I think Swift's is probably one of the cleanest String abstractions out there with respect to unicode
573.
by nicky0 8y ago
FWIW Facebook will not only sign but encrypt its emails sent to you using your PGP key.
574.
by nicky0 8y ago
I see.
575.
by nicky0 8y ago
Their signature item is the Big Mac
576.
by nicky0 8y ago
There is some useful content and updates in the groups I am a member of.
577.
by nicky0 8y ago
Betteridge's law says that if the title is a question the answer is no.
578.
by nicky0 8y ago
Another useful feature is you can opt to have the same key publicly displayed on your Faceook profile page.
579.
by nicky0 8y ago
In Facebook's settings you can paste a PGP public key. Notification emails sent to you by Facebook will then be encrypted using that key.
580.
by nicky0 8y ago
Charge for the project. "You logo will cost $5,000" Hourly billing is for chumps.
581.
by nicky0 8y ago
Call me crazy but sometimes it's nice to sit down.
582.
by nicky0 8y ago
I dunno, why do people insist on reading websites on mobiles? :)
583.
by nicky0 8y ago
I've done the same, it works brilliantly. I also added an exception not to move emails from senders in my Address Book. That way I can whitelist senders just by adding to address book.
584.
by nicky0 8y ago
A meme newsletter?...
585.
by nicky0 8y ago
That's why you bring a small shovel.
586.
by nicky0 8y ago
Say what you mean - are you saying that Aopple doesn't respect privacy, or that do but they somehow don't "care" about it?
587.
by nicky0 8y ago
Presumably they wanted to see if they had picked up any accent from their American girlfriend.
588.
by nicky0 8y ago
tl;dr "people have a lot of subscriptions so they might start unsubscribing"
589.
by nicky0 8y ago
And half the time Autoupdate just wants to update itself!
590.
by nicky0 8y ago
No, in a democratic soceity the state is a servant of the public.
591.
by nicky0 8y ago
Can't object to that. My point was more in response to the following sub-discussion which had become a blame-assigning process.
592.
by nicky0 8y ago
It seems you don't understand what it means to hear a side of a story.
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by nicky0 8y ago
But being Amreica, someone has to be to blame. It can't just be an unlucky accident of circumstances.
594.
by nicky0 8y ago
Not sure you have really thought this through.
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by nicky0 8y ago
An index fund without customers is not really an index fund. It's just a private investment trust. Basically you are saying the state should just slowly buy stock in every company until it owns every company.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Except that the the UK the goverment is formed from the elected members of the house. In the EU the only body with real power, the commision, is appointed by a process in which the "elected" president of the commision is the only
597.
by nicky0 8y ago
You are not far off. I think most people voting in the 2016 referendum were, in their minds, answering the question "do you want to give th establishment a good kicking?".
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by nicky0 8y ago
In fact non UK citizens do vote. Any citizeon of Ireland or of a Commonwealth nation, resident in the UK, is entitled to vote in every UK general election.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Those who didn't bother to vote should not be considered at all. If you do not vote your forfeit your voice.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Not so. The UK parliament is at the root of democratic authority in the UK. The European Parliament is a largely powerless rubber-stamping body.

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