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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean see above. The Irish rural fibre programme was specifically for premises where it would not be economic for the other fibre networks to roll out. It was _expensive_ (probably about 4000 euro per premises in the end), but it worked. I
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Is this a setup where the same company owns the infra and provides the service? That’s probably best avoided.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The whole thing really does feel like a bit of a repeat of the N1 in the sense that it seems to be a “lash loads of relatively small engines together and see what happens” effort, though the N1 was abandoned quickly. I did wonder about this
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Well, first of all, it isn't. It's the best-selling EV, but this is largely due to the fact that Tesla has a very different product approach to the other big EV manufacturers. Tesla has exactly two real models. BYD and VW AG have
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Has any company ever dominated _any_ major market for a century? Struggling to think of one.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, given the pyrotechnics, the most obvious historical analog is the N1.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
But it doesn't make any _money_. Approximately all the ballpoint pens in the world are dependent on a single company, Mikron Group. It has a market capitalisation of about CHF 275.5 million. "We're the only ones who do that&q
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
https://www.ookla.com/articles/ireland-national-broadband-pl... > The pattern is unambiguous. In townlands still unserved by mid-2026, LEO provider Starlink has grown relentlessly and now accounts for 14.3% of fixed
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The nativist far-right is in some ways weirdly internationalist.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, I think the problem is that the UK is post-Waldo-Moment already, tbh.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> He would suddenly have a serious job with real responsibilities. Backbench independent MP is not a serious job with real responsibilities; really most backbenchers in general barely do anything. Farage himself is fairly notorious for h
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
... Wait, what would the mechanism of action be there?! Like, if the choice of explanations is (a) obesity, and maybe some pesticide stuff, who knows, or (b) _witchcraft_, Occam's razor points a particular way.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> Nobody lifts weights or does labor like they used to. I'm fairly sure _vastly_ more people lift weights today than in the 70s. At that point it was, well, not niche exactly, but you didn't have anything _remotely_ like the nu
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Per the article, they did at least try to control for age (it'd be a completely uninteresting result if they hadn't). The big concern is that they did _not_ control for obesity or diabetes.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> Does that imply it's currently not allowed? Not for the last few months, no; Chat Control 1 expired.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Found Dennis Reynolds' HN account.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Part of the confusion is that there are two things involved here; 'Chat Control 1', an existing (but expiring) derogation to the ePrivacy Directive which allows, but does not require, providers to scan messages. 'Chat Control
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
... I mean, it's in Portugal. Are you expecting Russia or a Florida school board or whatever to bomb it?
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
One thing to note about this list is that it mostly seems to be books which were _banned at some point_. It's also terribly incomplete; while they got unbanned a while back, at one point Ireland banned _thousands_ of books, for instanc
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Historically (and maybe still today, in some very authoritarian countries!) university libraries were often this.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
... Wait, are you claiming that people are, having not previously been exposed to Nazism, reading it, and going "well, this seems like a pretty good idea really"? I'm fairly sure that's not a thing. No-one's being r
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Per Google, yes; Jean-Luc Melenchon a bunch of times, and Jeremy Corbyn once.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
None. She was involved in embezzling about three million euro. As in most countries, stealing large amounts of money is illegal in France, even if you're a very special racist politician. France is perhaps a _little_ unusual in that it
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Ah, but it gets messier than that. What's a Celt, anyway? It was traditionally believed that Celts were in some sense a single ethnic group, but the genetics don't _really_ support that, in particular for British and Irish Celts.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Not just pubs; it was also off-licenses. The Thursday before at my local supermarket was always like the apocalypse, with people panic-buying booze. There were some weird exceptions to the rule, too; in particular you could buy alcohol on t
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> The train to Dublin is way slower than it should be. There is, FWIW, a plan to improve that ( https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/06/22/funding-to-cut... ), though mostly on the Republic side of t
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
... oh, wow. It's a Uwe Boll film! You'd think Musk could find someone better than the guy who is generally reputed as the world's worst director to do his propaganda for him. Boll was, of course, himself a migrant for many y
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The thing about it is, _if taken as directed_ it's extremely safe, moreso than just about any other painkiller. In some countries it's the only one available in supermarkets.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
NI gets slightly messy; do you include the Enterprise service to Dublin? If so, only the ones run by Translink, or also the ones run by Irish Rail? (The Dublin-Belfast service is a particularly weird train service in that it has _two_ opera
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The Isle of Man is not strictly speaking part of the UK at all.

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