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by paddez 5y ago
Ireland is the name of the state in the English language. The name of the state is not the Republic of Ireland - that is the description of the state. Additionally, we don't call Ireland Éire unless we're conversing in the Irish l
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by paddez 5y ago
Yes. Banks close accounts all the time of clients they no longer want to risk business with.
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by paddez 6y ago
I believe it's more to do with DNS requiring using a subset of ASCII characters. Punycode was devised as a way to encode Unicode characters into this subset of characters that DNS recommends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by paddez 6y ago
Retailers may round up the new prices to the nearest pound/whole number, rather than doing a straight conversion.
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by paddez 6y ago
2FA slows down the entire log-in process a non-trivial amount - even more so if it's implemented over SMS.
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by paddez 6y ago
I'm starting to really enjoy this amount of good news.
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by paddez 6y ago
> About 2.2% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens You've conflated "citizenship" with "ethnicity".
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by paddez 6y ago
There was an immigration case a few months ago which involved a person born in Northern Ireland attempting to use an immigration scheme for her husband which was only available to EU Nationals. Because the British State conferred British Ci
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by paddez 6y ago
Right, hence a representative democracy. Our elected representatives, represent our voices in their votes.
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by paddez 6y ago
> Ursula von der Leyen did not receive any votes She was nominated by the Council of Europe (comprised of the heads of state for each of the EU nations), and confirmed by the European Parliament (which represents the European electorate)
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by paddez 6y ago
I'm not sure where you came across this - but in Sweden it's a judge which rules on an extradition based on the extradition treaty between the US & Sweden. There's precedent in the Swedish court system which has previousl
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by paddez 6y ago
> Citizenship Is a legal construct, which can be granted to a natural person by law. Legislation can be (relatively) easily changed. I don't think there's anything preventing legislators from granting citizenship to $PERSON for
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by paddez 6y ago
What about your ancestors? American citizenship is granted if you're born on American soil, regardless of your ancestry. It says nothing about requiring blood spilt.
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by paddez 6y ago
I'd imagine that the data on which tweets are contrary to Twitters own policy - and are only up for public interest - would be fairly interesting Twitter should try and make this a bit more visible in general.
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by paddez 6y ago
> Aren't allowed to be biased. Where does this come from?
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by paddez 6y ago
Yeah - I remember reading it at the time - it's governance is part of the OpenJS Foundation now, rather than Google. https://openjsf.org/blog/2019/10/10/openjs-foundation-welcom...
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by paddez 6y ago
It's direction is no-longer owned by Google, but by the OpenJS Foundation, right?
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by paddez 6y ago
The PiHole interacts with DNS servers. Theoretically - imagine a crafted TXT Record which is somehow improperly handled by dnsmasq. Essentially - it's reading user-defined data - which is probably enough to be really bad, incase of a m
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by paddez 6y ago
I really wish I kept my mIRC scripts somewhere. It'd be interesting to see how I progressed.
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by paddez 6y ago
That was an unrelated localised issue. There's no details on the evening's Libertal Global issues.
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by paddez 6y ago
I mean, this is an article from a Nintendo Blog catered to a western audience. I'd be surprised if they led with anything else.
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by paddez 6y ago
For me, it seemed to keep going offline around :15-:20 every hour or so. I also heard that it was also affecting a larger portion of Liberty Global ISPs, and not just Virgin Media.
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by paddez 6y ago
TLS is an Application layer protocol, so it's encapsulated within a TCP connection. TCP connections themselves are encapsulated within IP - so if you can masquerade an IP packet, the inner TLS segment won't protect against decisio