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by rlpb 5y ago
> Telegram has now joined the club of the apps that have... Telegram's client app is Free Software, they actually provide an API, and third party clients are permitted, so I think it's in a rather different club here. I think i
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by rlpb 5y ago
> We do have an alternative to animal testing. We can use humans who are desperate enough to volunteer... This situation would presumably only arise because somebody else previously made the decision not to perform that experiment on an
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by rlpb 5y ago
> In the unjustified cases, the shooter is found guilty. That's how the system functions: by shooting, you are certain enough that the individual is committing a crime that you are willing to go to jail if incorrect. And meanwhile,
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by rlpb 5y ago
You see someone under your car, shoot them dead, and it turns out to be a teenager who was crawling after their pet cat. It doesn't matter what happens to you after this. The child is dead. And the killing of that child was encouraged
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by rlpb 5y ago
An overdraft limit of 0 just means that you end up in an unauthorised overdraft sooner. Monzo might be an exception here.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> What would be the societal and political implications of this? Lockdowns only for people who have this marker? I don't think this would be necessary. Vulnerable people can decide for themselves what precautions they wish to take.
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by rlpb 5y ago
To be clear, I don't agree with it, but it is how the current account market in the UK operates. More information here: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03... And a Supreme Court decision
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by rlpb 5y ago
Any chance of a reference here please? I've been unable to find the law (in my case the UK, but an EU regulation reference would help) which enacts this, and I'm dealing with a dispute at the moment where this would be helpful.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> can't be overcharged, can't go below zero In the UK, it's really hard to get a bank account where they'll do that. Instead they'll pay it, call it an "unauthorised overdraft" and then charge you for t
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by rlpb 5y ago
> I don't understand what value distribution is providing by repackaging python libs... I want to easily and safely use some app my distribution ships. I want to receive security updates automatically for all such apps. I don't
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by rlpb 5y ago
According to the ONS, the total fertility rate in the UK has been below the replacement rate of 2.1 since before 1980. Immigration is what has been sustaining (and growing) the population. I think the current impact on the environment demon
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by rlpb 5y ago
> If they don't want to continue making auditable builds for this package then that's fine... You're mistaken if you think this is what is going on. The build is as auditable as any deb. Here's the source repository:
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by rlpb 5y ago
However a modern washer uses a fraction of the water and electricity of an old one - at least in parts of the world where these things are regulated. Pressure in this direction is probably the reason you're not happy with the quality o
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by rlpb 5y ago
Except that if you enable Secret Chat, a bunch of useful features are no longer available. For example, there's no Live Location possible if you're in a Secret Chat.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Looking at that function, I'm not convinced that it's copyrightable in the first place. Once you know what it's supposed to do, how else would you express it? Of course it's only appropriate to credit the author anyway,
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by rlpb 5y ago
You could tax income from mining instead, which would have the same effect but keep the electricity price stable for everyone else. A challenge might be in effective tax collection, but it isn't that hard to find heavy electricity cons
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by rlpb 5y ago
You might say that a regular electric heater is 100% efficient, converting every unit of electricity into exactly one unit of equivalent heat. Crypto mining hardware is >100% efficient, as it's exactly as efficient as an electric he
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by rlpb 5y ago
I recently moved phones and had the opposite experience. The Signal migration went very smoothly. Moving WhatsApp did not. I ended up managing to do it but not before about five attempts, each of which made me reauth my phone number and I h
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by rlpb 5y ago
> And couldn't they have told the scientist that it's "Worcestershire Sauce" and not "Worcester Sauce"? I've heard plenty of English people pronounce it "Wooster Sauce". I'm pretty sure t
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by rlpb 5y ago
> So compare that 30,000 lbs of oil to the amount of lithium in a Tesla battery pack, which is about 138lbs. 138lbs < 30,000lbs I think you need to account for the amount of material that was mined to get to that 138lb battery. My und
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by rlpb 5y ago
It's classed as "pilot carry-on" equipment and doesn't need to be certified. Only stuff permanently installed gets that treatment. Just as I don't have to have my pen and pad (or indeed my iPad) certified either :)
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by rlpb 5y ago
My point is that achieving energy density parity with jet fuel isn't enough to make battery powered intercontinental flights viable. Such an aircraft will not be able to get to its destination. You can't get a fair comparison unle
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by rlpb 5y ago
Also, batteries weigh the same when they're depleted, whereas used fuel doesn't weigh anything.
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think the key difference is the microphone boom. If a microphone is close to your mouth, then most of the ambient noise cancellation is done.
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by rlpb 5y ago
I finally switched my default to DDG after Google introduced their mandatory nag permission box in Incognito windows. It wasn't worth using Google any more after that. I use Incognito often when generally searching the Internet to avoi
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by rlpb 5y ago
Here's some further information on sway specifically. Looks like it couldn't be updated because depending packages weren't ready for the switch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phoc/+b
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by rlpb 5y ago
Sorry that wasn't included. Please understand that it's not about "you" and "me" though. Anyone can contribute to Ubuntu, and "any responsibility can be carried by any contributor who demonstrates the requ
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by rlpb 5y ago
I understand how people use their computers. I merely object to those people then blaming the distro for not writing software that can magically work around how they hacked it up.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Users can only realistically do what their third party software providers tell them to do. The third party software providers, however, owe it to their users to provide reliable and responsible mechanisms for users to consume their stuff. P
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by rlpb 5y ago
> "oh, you used your Linux distribution in a way we said you could in our docs?" Huh? Adding third party repositories has never been a supported path. You're welcome to use them since you own your system, but the future st

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