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by nirimda 4y ago
As far as I know most countries do or at least did in fact refuse to deliver mail addressed to "Crimea, Russia". In order for it to get through, you either need someone to bounce it within Russia or to disguise it from your nation
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by nirimda 4y ago
Freedom for whom? Total freedom means freedom for the strongest. Laws exists to ensure there is more freedom for the weaker and less freedom for the stronger. They prevent a stronger person from doing something that allows a weaker person t
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by nirimda 4y ago
I think the confusion is a couple of comments up you said "There's a plan to put a reservoir for one on top of a mesa in the desert in Arizona" which is really confusing since of course they're planning to put a pair of
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by nirimda 4y ago
There's some weird thing in the law. You can accept or reject data collection, but they can collect data for which a legitimate business interest exists unless you object - so if the law makes it default to no, you reject, but if it&#x
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by nirimda 4y ago
There's a lot of pressure, in every modern democracy, to have the timezone at least not behind the sun. It's so easy to sleep in, I guess, and so those of us stuck inside during working hours want at least some leisure time outsid
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by nirimda 4y ago
Tzdata intends to be accurate since 1970, but Windows has fewer timezones so it couldn't possibly be as accurate. There is also a historical extension to tzdata somewhere. (Tzdata, used by Unix, has a model that asks what timezone offs
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by nirimda 4y ago
The government. They're not opposed to the timezone, it's just not established in law. Probably helps to know you're entering a region where people harmlessly ignore a certain law, and probably makes the people who live their
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by nirimda 4y ago
It is apparently widespread in Xinjiang outside of the biggest cities, to the point where bus timetables are written in unofficial timezones. In some cities you have know whether the business uses local time or standard time to understand t
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by nirimda 4y ago
How many tourists are going to drive that far? It's a 13 hour drive from Adelaide, 12 hours from Perth. I've only ever heard of people driving to Perth, stopping at a roadhouse, and getting weirded out by the clock not matching th
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by nirimda 4y ago
South Australia's timezone is already weird, being somewhere between Ballarat and Melbourne iirc (in the winter). It was the first timezone set outside of the territory it contains. The 45 minute offset is just to find the midpoint bet
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by nirimda 4y ago
Drag-and-drop seems to have an excellent UX. The semantics are incredibly clear: Take this data from this app and put them into this container in that app. Any insecurities would be an accident of implementation rather than part of the core
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by nirimda 4y ago
Sure but if you have them in WhatsApp, you have them in your phone. At least, I can't add someone to WhatsApp - I can only add them as a phone contact and then WhatsApp magically parasites off that.
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by nirimda 4y ago
The EU legislation didn't create the incentives to collect the data. The EU legislation did inform companies of community expectations, which the companies proceeded to ignore. It is the companies - and their defenders - who need to st
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by nirimda 4y ago
Do contemporary/current-gen AMD laptops do "modern standby" or "traditional standby"?
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by nirimda 4y ago
The cookies popups are not the fault of the EU. It's the fault of private companies who want to collect more information than they're allowed to without installing cookie popups. All necessary cookies are allowed without a popup,
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by nirimda 4y ago
If you were trying to get something done you probably just didn't pay enough attention to what you were doing, and you forgot about it. It could have been years ago. I don't think it's all that strange: can you remember every
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by nirimda 4y ago
Fwiw, it's included in the output of `apt-get dist-upgrade`, so using `apt-get` is not going to immunise you from unnecessarily patching scripts that break.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Well at least they're taking their own advice, if the worry about it so little that they don't even know where the ads they aren't worried about are showing.
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by nirimda 4y ago
If you're watching TV and they interrupt the show to say "Consider subscribing to this streaming service, buying that brand of instant noodles, booking a flight to some holiday destination with a certain travel agent", surely
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by nirimda 4y ago
The King doesn't dissolve the government. The King can dissolve parliament and dismiss the government. If the King dissolves parliament, the people have to elect a new one. If the King dismisses the government, the King must immediatel
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by nirimda 4y ago
That isn't true. There's many cases where e.g. through corruption and distrust, the state's capacity to collect taxes has been seriously weakened and the currency has gone into freefall so the country begins to operate - even
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by nirimda 4y ago
It normally means "something something conspiracy theory", but it's actually the name of a post-covid economic recovery plan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset I struggle to understand what the
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by nirimda 4y ago
I don't think a GBP or EUR hyperinflation would introduce any genuinely novel limitations of dollarisation. If the GBP hyperinflates, you won't need to dollarise something of the scale of today's UK. Their economy will be wor
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by nirimda 4y ago
What happened in 2019 that caused globalisation to die? I remember the first volleys against it being the onset of the pandemic and border tightenings in Feb/Mar 2020. In 2019, COVID-19 still seemed like it might be a local phenomenon
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by nirimda 4y ago
Companies don't really have a choice. Employees retire and are trained up. Companies die and new companies are created. Foreign companies can expand into new markets. If there is a change of circumstance that leads to new avenues of pr
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by nirimda 4y ago
If the law obliges construction to happen, and the law prevents it from being prevented, then the will of the people is expressed legislatively. This would normally be considered an expression of representation. This kind of a SEZ could be
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by nirimda 4y ago
> In one of the later posts, the OP writes that the homeless will lose any physical thing after N weeks. So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution. This is not a technical problem and should not be automate
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by nirimda 4y ago
The comment has been deleted to remove the unnecessary comment: you're seeing the improved version.
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by nirimda 4y ago
GeoDNS is a technology that allows you to point web users to a nearby server. That's great, but you still need to coordinate each server. For instance, if you have distributed app servers and a single database server, you still have lo
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by nirimda 4y ago
Usually such a comment is a reference to a certain American media mogul who has tried to swing several recent elections and found themselves largely preaching to the choir with a very much reduced audience. But their miss rate is now exceed

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