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by orra 5y ago
I wrote about just one example here. The BBC spent years on a hit piece equating trans people with sex offenders, meanwhile uncritically platforming an extremist trans-eliminist sex offender. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by orra 5y ago
> to sow hate against e.g. jews and migrants I mean, the BBC is very happy to turn refugees drowning in the English sea into entertainment . And is currently waging a war on trans people. Sure, the BBC is less bad than RT, but not pumpi
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by orra 5y ago
The chairman of the board, and several other members, is appointed by the UK head of state (the monarch), on recommendation of government ministers. There is also a revolving door between high up positions in the Tory party (the party of go
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by orra 5y ago
Even if surviving infection confers immunity similar to one vaccination dose, that's not enough. COVID is so virulent and severe that you want multiple vaccine doses.
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by orra 5y ago
Omicron branched off the original lineage IIRC, not Delta nor Beta. So, no, we can’t make that assumption.
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by orra 5y ago
> I would disagree that they are anti rapid change on social issues. Eh, no. The BBC is institutionally anti LGBT, like much of the establishment in the UK. As just one example, a few months ago they did a hit piece, to equate trans peop
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by orra 5y ago
You can meet a major LGPL requirement by dynamically linking your dependencies or by providing object files that the user can statically relink. Neither is circumventing the LGPL, however. I take your point the Qt company wants (L)GPL lic
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by orra 5y ago
Dynamic linking doesn't circumvent copyright law, so it doesn't circumvent copyleft.
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by orra 5y ago
> Terseness is not always a virtue. This is a subjective thing, right? Personally, I hate boilerplate: either it's a distraction because it's boring and superfluous, or worse it's long and it's wrong. Regardless, it a
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by orra 5y ago
The single market is a core part of the European Union. Requiring separate apps for Netherlands versus the rest of the EU is likely unlawful.
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by orra 5y ago
fosspatents? I strongly remember this alleged FOSS supporter shilling for Oracle back in the day of the Oracle v. Google case. On the topic of the article: good. Apple was clearly taking the piss by charging 27% for not processing payment
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by orra 5y ago
No, was outrageously high, as highlighted at the time of approval by the National Audit Office. As I said, renewables are cheaper and faster to build: offshore wind a few years ago was given guaranteed strike prices of only £40/MWh. Cu
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by orra 5y ago
Furthermore, it's not clear they are doing a fantastic job building Hinkley Point in the UK. First, in the decade or decade and a half they're taking to build it, you could build so much renewable capacity. Second, Hinkley Point o
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by orra 5y ago
That makes sense. In the UK you can buy induction hobs that plug into sockets, but they are limited to a measly 3.7kW or there abouts. A nicer 32A induction hob needs hardwired (single phase). You can have upgrade your domestic supply to th
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by orra 5y ago
Wow. A typical induction hob in the UK is 32A at 230V. 230V is of course the nominal voltage of a single phase, although in practice in the UK the voltage is closer to 240V. That's only 7.35kW of power. Do you have significantly more p
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by orra 5y ago
I’m surprised that’s a design crtieria. Being able to calculate hashes quickly is advantageous. Speeding up hashing by, what, a few orders of magnitude shouldn’t break your ≥ 128 bits of preimage protection, surely?
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by orra 5y ago
> Igalia really seems to do interesting stuff. A lot of which is WebKit based, so this is indeed an interesting twist.
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by orra 5y ago
Obviously cis het people can spread HIV. But the AIDS pandemic was absolutely brutal—devastating—for a generation of LGBT people, especially gay men.
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by orra 5y ago
No, that's not a criteria for “personal information” under GDPR. Your name or your date of birth or your postal address isn't unique either, but they are still personal information.
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by orra 5y ago
It's a fair question. The amount of earthing and electrical safety required, when repairing EVs, is quite something.
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by orra 5y ago
> The pandemic, as in the actual killing ... That's not the definition of pandemic. A pandemic is a very widespread infectious disease. Theoretically, the disease doesn't even have to be deadly. It's true that the vaccines
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by orra 5y ago
Maybe not a huge surprise. The initial reports in South Africa, which referred to Omicron being mild, referred to double vaccinated people. Ballpark, (surviving) infection confers immunity similar to one vaccine dose—with all the downsides
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by orra 5y ago
> And this of course leaves aside the whole matter of T-cell immunity still providing protection against severe disease. Quite. But it’s hard to quantify so we don’t bother.
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by orra 5y ago
The vaccines are pretty great. I am happy to believe that if a strain of COVID occurs which the vaccines are less effective against, then the strain will necessarily be less severe. This is plausible because the vaccines target the spike pr
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by orra 5y ago
You’re right. Mutations are more likely, the more infections you have. Vacckne resistant strains of viruses tend to evolve in unvaccinated populations.
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by orra 5y ago
Mutations evolve in infected people. Vaccines reduce infection, both directly and via reduced spread. Hence fewer mutations. But muations happen all the time. Is a particular mutation viable, does it spread, then outcompete? Thankfully empe
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by orra 5y ago
You didn’t listen to me fully. Let me repeat myself. Freedom of Information law provides for the publication of statistical information. It provides for the publication of patient-anonymised data. A&E waiting times are periodically publ
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by orra 5y ago
We should definitely treat this with skepticism, given the source anonymity. Such statistical data is freely available under Freedom of Information law in the UK. (Privacy laws obviously protect individuals, but not public bodies.)
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by orra 5y ago
I’m sure in a few weeks we will discover there was already widespread domestic transmission of Omicron, in Germany. When Omicron was initially discovered, the United Kingdom promptly closed its borders to several African countries—but oddly
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by orra 5y ago
43 cases isn't statistically significant. It's unlikely to be representative either. The 70% figure is readily available. It's in this article somebody else quoted when failing to make an opposing point: https://ww

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