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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Well, for a start, electric motors worked properly and didn’t generate infinite amounts of unreadable crap.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Eh, this varies by European country. In Ireland, for a long time, there was an element of "seek forgiveness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Plaza_(Dublin)#History (built ten meters higher than they ha
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Eh, there’s a tension there, becuase on the other hand as more renewable power is added to the grid, you’d expect divergence. Especially in countries which are letting people buy at spot price; that can be horribly expensive, or go _negativ
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Outside the car industry, it's unusual for the vendor to be the lender, tho.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Oh, no! Anyway...
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
... Maybe it's localised or something? I see a section "How to install apps from a developer’s website in the European Union". Do you see that? (They do require notarisation, but not review/approval).
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Ah, yes, what could go wrong? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Yes: https://support.apple.com/en-mk/117767
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
... If watermarking is a perversion of writing, what does that make 'writing' with an LLM?
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Oh, sure, it was probably the right thing to do, no argument there.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
What I'm getting at is that _in practice_ they would not be subject to Schengen or the euro anyway. For Schengen, see the Northern Ireland situation post-Brexit; exactly the same problem would emerge. For the Euro, see Poland.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I mean I think that's _very_ different. It is _fitting_ to do good works, but it is _convenient_ not to bother.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Which is... quite weird, really, because the former opt-outs were mostly fairly minor. I assume they'd be allowed stay out of Schengen in practice; Ireland's not in it and they have an essentially un-closeable border with Ireland
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I mean, you've got to imagine that even if Binface somehow won, he'd at least be a better MP than Farage. Like, it would not be hard. Turning up for work occasionally would do it.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
But... it didn't. It essentially destroyed the Tories, and did Labour no favours either. That's why there were all those PMs.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Brexit essentially created the short-term PM thing in the first place. Thatcher was 11 years, Major was 7, Blair was 10, Cameron was 6, even Brown managed 3. The new-PM-every-five-minutes thing is mostly a Brexit phenomenon.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> The UK has no constitutional method to remove a PM. It absolutely does. Now, it's rare that it is used, because normally the party will dump the leader first (or simply implicitly threaten to). But it exists.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I mean that one came true in 2016.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I saw someone interviewed who said that they supported Reform but couldn't vote for Farage. Which is particularly odd as Reform is _basically_ the Nigel Farage party; it wouldn't survive losing him.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
The US bailout paid for itself... If you consider the equivalent of 0.6% growth, not adjusted for inflation, paying for itself. In practice the US's cost of borrowing the money was substantially more than that.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I kind of miss teletext. It was by far the fastest way to get a quick weather forecast.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosioi , presumably.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Generally water nationalisation means nationalising the companies which supply water to homes and businesses. Not, er, literally nationalising water as in the substance.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
The US incarcerates more people per capita than anywhere else in the world except a couple of tiny countries and possibly North Korea (numbers for North Korea, for obvious reasons, are vague, but it probably does incarcerate more per capita
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Not that I know of; you may blame whoever designed the kitchen.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
One potential issue is that some English words have changed meaning since it was written, and sometimes in extremely confusing or misleading ways. For instance 'convenient' and 'prevent' used to have radically different
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> I have trouble connecting with the thinkers of the Middle Ages. Their thinking seems to me to be frightened, so overcautious, so cramped and circumscribed, I can't read it without sadness for the way that medieval Christianity str
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Were these ever particularly common on steam ships? They were definitely a thing on trains, but I thought they more or less only showed up as the transition to oil fired boilers was getting going anyway.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
He probably thinks they’re coal-fired.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Well, for a start, they’re probably on dodgy ground there with other European regulations. You’re not really supposed to hold onto hold onto potentially very sensitive data that you have no legitimate interest (a term of art; it doesn’t jus

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