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by rlpb 6y ago
Why not do both? In any case, most countries do already "increase tax" by levying taxes on gas that they don't levy on electric.
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by rlpb 6y ago
Now try doing that internationally.
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by rlpb 6y ago
I wonder if a civil prosecution might be easier. Have people pay for others' loss of wages, medical expenses, the support of dependents of people they caused to kill, etc, when they can be shown to have caused the spread and been irr
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by rlpb 6y ago
The law isn't as fuzzy as you think. > An app like Yelp could claim that one of their essential features is to show you restaurants physically close to you, so location information is essential. They could claim that but it would no
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Change your CTAs from being labelled "Buy" to "Buy a limited license for on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time" if that's what it is. It should be the other way round. If it said "Buy",
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Why risk it? It's worth pointing out that during a pandemic, while participating in a trial does carry a risk, so does not participating. A participant has some substantially greater probability* than the general population of a
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by rlpb 6y ago
I believe this is an urban myth. Can you cite the appropriate EU regulation or directive that makes this true? If a directive what about the implementation in the UK? https://www.gov.uk/accepting-returns-and-giving-refunds
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by rlpb 6y ago
It looks to me like it's not possible to acquire or make the correct tool, and only Ferrari dealers have it, because it's been restricted by Ferrari. But that's not clear from the information given.
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by rlpb 6y ago
> The solution here was probably simple: bring the car outside, and let Ferrari do it's thing. Or trailer it to a certified dealership to have it reset there. This sounds like it invokes the "right to repair" issue though.
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by rlpb 6y ago
Mens rea generally only applies to criminal law. Lack of mens rea doesn't insulate you from civil liability, even if it might affect it. See the first paragraph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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by rlpb 6y ago
> This could set a potentially dangerous legal precedent. Microsoft are arguing that the malware operation damages Microsoft's brand, instead of putting the fault onto themselves for making vulnerable software. I think both can be t
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by rlpb 6y ago
The legal basis is that a court awards a remedy [1] for harm done (or being done). Often that's monetary damages, but it doesn't have to be. The courts chooses what remedy is appropriate. I'm not sure that's relevant th
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Pro side: I don't see anything wrong with requiring a surety to ensure that people awaiting trial don't flee, in principle. In the UK you get bail automatically unless you are a flight risk. The burden of proof is on the pr
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by rlpb 6y ago
Another specific couple of aspects of the US situation boggle me: > The Supreme Court has basically ruled that consumer class action suits don't exist any more... The Supreme Court ruling only applies under the current law and doe
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by rlpb 6y ago
Surely "truly paranoid" people don't rely on a website using HSTS and hit it with HTTPS directly?
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by rlpb 6y ago
Who said that it's for a user to interface with directly? mutt interfaces with it perfectly fine, and mutt's PGP UX is also fine.
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by rlpb 6y ago
I've bought stuff that supports everything I own, and so I don't have to carry multiple cables or chargers. Different physical connectors would be a step backwards for me.
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by rlpb 6y ago
Some devices have greater power demands than others. So there are two design choices that can be made: (1) require all chargers and cables to support charging all devices; or (2) allow "lesser" chargers and cables. Choosing (1) wo
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by rlpb 6y ago
It could be done gradually. The first step is to introduce the assessment and remittance infrastructure. Governments could then choose to start with a 95% discount on the fee for example, and ramp it up over time. It could also choose to re
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by rlpb 6y ago
> The only containers which are infinitely recyclable are aluminum and coloured glass (nearly), but that takes energy. I've heard people say that the environmental cost of producing the clean water necessary to wash bottles for reus
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by rlpb 6y ago
> I am only telling fb, if you have this user with this email, show him an ad. You're also telling Facebook "by the way, I have a relationship with someone with this email address". That's personally identifiable info
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by rlpb 6y ago
Note that the availability of snaps is both distro and release -independent. > At least for Ubuntu 20.04, Letsencrypt does not require you to install the Python stack for certbot anymore and switched to a Snapd package. To be clear: the
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by rlpb 6y ago
> No one built the One True Tool that got it right. Finding the One True Tool takes time. Developers need to experiment to explore the various corners of the problem space. Eventually we'll settle on the best way to solve the proble
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by rlpb 6y ago
Yes - that'll work fine. As others have pointed out, Chromium is no longer packaged as a deb. You can use Firefox, or get Chromium from another source. An AppImage is available for example. I haven't tried it, but it should be fun
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by rlpb 6y ago
You can install Chromium from a third party source just like you could before. New distribution releases always add and remove packages. Chromium has been removed (as a deb). It's is no longer packaged as a deb because it's a roll
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by rlpb 6y ago
Snaps are shipped as compressed squashfs images that are dynamically read at runtime rather than being extracted to your filesystem at install time. The trade-off is that you win on hard disk usage and installation / revert time, but t
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by rlpb 6y ago
> Just so we're clear, it's not that the apps auto-update, it's that there's no way to stop them auto-updating. Actually you can. https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--... f
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by rlpb 6y ago
> This just isn't true. Its clear that Ubuntu is moving away from debs and to snaps. It's clear that Ubuntu is promoting snaps where they make sense . That means for third party software distribution, software that is "ro
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by rlpb 6y ago
Don't use it then? The apt CLI, GNOME Software and Synaptic are all available as debs.
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by rlpb 6y ago
The specific reason it's done for Chromium is that Chromium upstream is a rolling release. If you want security updates, you must also accept new features. Sometimes those new features need new versions of build dependencies. This does

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