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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The simpler answer is to just ban it. The law doesn't need to be technically detailed or envision every single technological adaptation: it just needs to be sufficient for a judge to be able to recognise it when a prosecutor describes
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Thanks for the clear answer. I think I like that system. Sometimes minority governments make more sense that slightly larger but more fractious coalitions. If I was trying to design a republican constitution for my own country I think I wou
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
They didn't. They occupied the legislative building, but they didn't seize the government because they made no attempt to exercise power, and if they had it wouldn't have been taken seriously.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
According to Wikipedia: * The speaker of parliament is responsible for nominating and dismissing the prime minister (who appoints the prime minister? the parliament as a whole appoint the prime minister? does the king get to, but is compell
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
In several states with such a semi-presidential system, if the prime minister and the president are oppositional, the prime minister will take primary responsibility for more domestic matters like education and health, whereas the president
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> We do not want to compensate journalists, We barely have the choice to compensate journalists. For them to do their jobs effectively, they need to group together. But the people who control the groupings of journalists take active step
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> The dot behavior, however, is weird. Nobody does it that way, 'cept Google. I think it makes good sense for a free email provider. You don't want to distinguish bobsmith@... from Bob.Smith@.... It will just cause misdelivered
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> I don't agree with the article that you should always select a relational database up front. Should Calculator really use a relational database to persist configurations? This is exactly where YAGNI applies. I don't think thi
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I don't think that's fair. Yagni is a rule of thumb and it works with other rules of thumbs to create effective, maintainable systems.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
If you can't get data on your phone, how does a QR code link help you out? It seems you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
It is trivial to get people to pay for their meal before eating. In Australia it's very common in some kinds of place, in a way that I understand confuses some tourists. The reason these QR codes would last is because of the telemetry
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The text "Google Lens" may not appear even though it is present. My Google Lens button is a cryptic symbol. Modern user interface design seems to give bonus points for being cryptic and obscure because companies are hostile to the
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Firefox has a QR code scanner - if you tap the URL bar, it has a "scan" button that lets you scan a QR code and use it as a URL. Perhaps Chrome does as well, i d k because I don't use Chrome. Till I learnt about that, I used
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> No dining out after March 2020... but this will change next month (finally). Is that something that very much depends on the region, or a personal obligation? I've eaten in restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich during pandemic
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
This isn't necessarily the case. If restaurant service in a region is slow as a rule, it's probably a matter of different priorities. There may well be less pressure for such a system to speed up the process of ordering, because a
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Here's an example: Someone read that fd-passing is a thing, so now systemd listens to just about everything and spawns stuff on-demand. This feature benefits some people. Even if your service requires socket activation, you can st
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
You and I have very different definitions of fun! I got annoyed when it asked me for a profile picture and I just closed it.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
That was a shockingly productive and constructive resolution. Are we doing Hacker News wrong? Should we have a system to encourage models of good and productive interchanges, which leave the participants happy and the product better? I thin
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> You know what? I know that scraping is currently legal, but then we end up with things like that company or Clearview AI. We need some laws, ASAP, prohibiting data for being scraped for specific reasons. I don't think there's
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
So the law is likely to get watered down. But what's a good goal? What would be an effective limitation on online advertising companies?
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> By the same logic, if only factory workers decided it's immoral to build weapons, there would be no wars. But those spineless creatures just want bread on the table and don't care about world peace. I think the question is, a
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Has this happened before (to websites primarily of concern to those not in the US)? The internet has been forking for a while, and I suppose eventually we will have national internets subject to border controls like other forms of commerce,
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
That's a strange argument. "If we pay you for the product you give us, we'll never be able to pay our service providers. Instead, we'll give sell it to someone else."
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I don't find reviews helpful in making a decision for a restaurant - as long as the food isn't so bad it'll make me sick it's fine. I do like to see the menus and opening hours, though. But a lot of people really do appr
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
There's nothing wrong with the English word "curated". I think pp is being a little punctilious. The writer just means that they aren't giving you a random data dump, they've engaged in some activity analogous to e.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
How about if the system will only run signed builds? Couldn't you use it to verify the signed build by stripping the signature and comparing them?
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
So? We are trying to protect against a malicious interloper damaging the machine of a trusted and trustworthy partner. You are bringing up red herrings about trusted partners being malicious and untrustworthy. Do you genuinely believe we sh
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The question isn't whether they're perfect, nor is it whether they prevent anything. But it does help a person who suspects something is up rule certain things in and out, which increases the chances that the weak link can be foun
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> As you described above, they damanded a conversation about why he was making the request he did. They didn't demand a conversation. They continued a conversation. If he doesn't want to engage in discussion with them he should
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Failing that they could release their project under a non-free license that restricts redistribution in a way that excludes NixOS. He wasn't happy with Fedora doing it either. It's a matter of redistribution, not a matter of

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