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by nirimda 3y ago
SunOS is most of a decade older than IPoAC, how can you call its users young to a SunOS user?
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by nirimda 3y ago
Well, companies are known for organising their affairs to avoid taxes. I suppose they can organise their affairs to avoid fines as well.
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by nirimda 3y ago
Yes it is better to say "he can be sentence to no more than 20 years if found guilty". The 20 years is just a limitation on the court's discretion: hindering a federal investigation is never so bad that a person should be sen
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by nirimda 3y ago
Technically it's not the difference, the possible 20 years is actually from deliberately obstructing a federal investigation. Incidentally, I don't know if deliberately crashing a plane is a criminal act in and of itself, because
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by nirimda 3y ago
There's three ways. One is the git way, which is to let people do whatever and then ask them to handle it afterwards. The next best is used by some other annoying system I used early in my career, which is to require people to check ou
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by nirimda 3y ago
I think the first sentence can carry a lot more of the weight of explanation than you grant. There was a suspicion of big banks, which result in one particular law. But it also probably related in other rules and other behaviors.
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by nirimda 3y ago
> There are lots of planned cities that are natural experiments in this... They ... produced mixed results at best, eg Brasilia's original strictly separated zoning has been widely panned as a disaster. I'm not sure if there&#
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by nirimda 3y ago
You look at the 19th century and instead of calling it neoliberalism, it was just called liberalism. It wasn't called neo- because they weren't trying to revive a discredited ideology, that's all. But it was still a contested
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by nirimda 3y ago
The bigger problem is that they've used "anglosaxon" to use what we would probably refer to as neoliberalism, acting as if a controversial policy setting is somehow cultural or racial. You can be a good anglosaxon who opposes
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by nirimda 4y ago
It depends on how you found out what the new key value is. By the sounds of your description, you're fine. But in principle there's more than one way people could proceed from here. If you read the blog post on a verified domain a
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by nirimda 4y ago
I think the problem is that you don't actually know what the permission is for. It isn't in relation to anything. It's a blanket permission. But almost everything asks for some kind of blanket permission when you install it.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Nature provides everything we need, but sometimes nature's method of providing what we need is humans.
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by nirimda 4y ago
I think the problem is that American anti-car rhetoric doesn't speak with one voice. There are people who know what they're talking about, who are mostly saying "If we follow some of the Dutch practices, we can get a city whe
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by nirimda 4y ago
I think there's a difference between not trusting the news, as in, thinking what they're saying is lies and there's actually a great conspiracy that we can work out, and not trusting the news, as in, thinking that the informa
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by nirimda 4y ago
Introduce new laws (into operation) or introduce new bills (into the agenda)? I thought it could introduce new laws that were directly applicable so long as they were related to certain matters. But the bills for the laws have to be introdu
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by nirimda 4y ago
The directive was approved by the European parliament and the Council of the EU. The Council of the EU is made up of the governments of the member states of the EU. Therefore, when one says "Portugal voted for the directive", one
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by nirimda 4y ago
There is a problem with any legislative process that begins with the executive obligating the country to adopt certain specific laws, and only then asks the legislature whether those certain specific laws should become the law of the land.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Copyright law changes aren't good or bad; they serve certain people's interest and harm others'. Is it a good change or a bad change? That depends on what you want out of the law.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Ultimately retirement always has the same problem: a retired person wants to consume something today without producing anything today. They can't genuinely save it up: if they packed meat in their 20s and wrote code in their 40s, the m
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by nirimda 4y ago
The copyright in the source code has a big jump from 2007 to 2022, so I guess possibly no-one, it's probably more entertainment/skills development for someone who finds modern always-on internet computers too distracting. I someti
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by nirimda 4y ago
> I think the Australians might have a few objections to that proposal... As one of them, I know I do at least! Well, Australia claims about half of Antarctica so as long as we can enforce that claim maybe it's not the end of the c
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by nirimda 4y ago
Only because it's at the south pole. If we tilted the earth a bit, it would warm up and start raining. But if we tilted the earth a bit, Australia could probably also get wetter. As far as I understand it, the dryness of Australia, the
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by nirimda 4y ago
That is not an independent undergoing of centumisation or satemisation. The terms specifically relate to the development of the three PIE velars. "Satemisation" is not simply a synonym for "velar palatalisation"; it mean
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by nirimda 4y ago
So why can't you and a thousand of your closest friends get together and organise private health insurance for you as a collective? Then you get the size leverage. You would also be able to pay off the risks that one person might face,
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by nirimda 4y ago
> Which means it should be firmly in the hands of the people and never in those of a centralized government I don't understand this sentence. In political discourse, "the hands of the people" usually means the people corpo
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by nirimda 4y ago
I think it's a weird objection because it's a work of fiction whose content is irrelevant, but the post-revamp screenshot has an email from "Alessandro" but an feminine-looking avatar, and there's the keys for a &qu
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by nirimda 4y ago
Oh! I am glad I'm not the only one who has a problem with its search. I wish it would just make it easy to send a search to the remote server instead of hiding it behind so many layers of complexity. If it's a deliberate feature t
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by nirimda 4y ago
I use K9 with Fastmail. I don't like how difficult it is to search. It seems to involve some complex process of navigating back through the mailbox (from unified Inbox to the actual Inbox of the server) and then running the search loca
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by nirimda 4y ago
So Windows 1.0 was a "modern", "clean" (i.e. flat) user interface, like Windows 10. They have a substantially different color scheme and a substantially different layout preference, but we can pass them off as theming an
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by nirimda 4y ago
It says "careful" as a warning, and then it fails. I think it's more about the number of times that how hard you tilt it but I don't know.

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