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by toyg 2y ago
Absolutely.
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by toyg 2y ago
Yeah but when $dictator shows up on tv and talks about figthing $bloodyColonialists at the UN, it's uncontroversial (regardless of the issue being fought) and takes time from talking about his embezzlement/corruption/etc. Mea
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by toyg 2y ago
I'd like to see your sources on this. I expect it's a bit simpler than that: anti-colonial policies resonate deeply with African voters, and are very uncontroversial.
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by toyg 2y ago
It might well be at risk. Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526 TL;DR: ICANN policy forces deletion if CC disappears from the ISO list of countries, with one famous exception (.su); but Ma
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by toyg 2y ago
"What do you mean, 'you people' ? "
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by toyg 2y ago
Protection is not just about military matters - it's about relationships. Mauritius will likely want to push other stuff at the UN level, bid for money from international bodies, etc etc... US help in those matters will be valuable.
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by toyg 2y ago
I think it warrants establishing a permanent base of operations, running continuous training sessions for the benefit of the whole company. Obviously I'm talking about on-site training, which is much more beneficial than remote courses
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by toyg 2y ago
> might allow the US to station nuclear weapons there (which it probably currently does) It's a bit more than probable - being one of the very few places in the world where nuclear submarines can dock. It's also extremely unl
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by toyg 2y ago
It could well morph into "MIOT", maintaining the CC for the benefit of Mauritian citizens. After all, western interests have already extracted benefits from their land for decades, it would be only just that they get to keep some
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by toyg 2y ago
> The land will go to Mauritius Mauritius could decide to incorporate it as "Mauritius Indian Ocean Territory", hence maintaining the CC. I expect .io owners will likely suggest something like that, while showing them how muc
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by toyg 2y ago
because there are fewer combinations of two-letter codes. This is also why they are reserved to actual countries.
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by toyg 2y ago
> I was surprised to discover that Ascension even has a ccTLD That's because it was created by the same guy who created .io and .sh - British DNS "pioneer" Paul Kane, who clearly had a passion for finding remaining corne
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by toyg 2y ago
The .io/.sh/.ac TLDs were effectively invented and run by a British guy; he states some of the resulting profits were shared back with the UK government, which controls those territories, to benefit the inhabitants of such territo
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by toyg 2y ago
> "Jordan" goes some ways back [...] The Great Gatsby Jordan is a river in the Middle East (also in the Bible) and more recently a country near such river. Like Brooklyn or Paris, it is a topological name that was co-opted
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by toyg 2y ago
> It's probably more important No, it absolutely is not - the opposite actually. F1 history is full of mediocre drivers getting catapulted into top spots by rocket-cars, only to fall back into mediocrity once competing teams catch
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by toyg 2y ago
> my biggest complaint is finding decaf when I’m out I've been drinking decaf for a long time (now exclusively so), and this is a real issue sadly. Even when you go to a regular coffeeshop that has it, it's often been roasted
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by toyg 2y ago
From what I understand (I'm not a scientist), caffeine doesn't "give" you energy, but rather makes your body ignore the tiredness , by turning off some of the machinery that would make you feel tired. By having coffee i
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by toyg 2y ago
> Pretty realistic. Like most of the wire in fact. The show creator worked for years as a journalist on the crime beat in Baltimore, I expect most of the opsec seen in the series comes from real cases. > really don't understa
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by toyg 2y ago
Jython has historically lagged hard , often falling behind for very extended periods. For a time their releases basically just stopped, which led to them missing support for pretty much anything between 2.7 and 3.6 (iirc). I know the proje
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by toyg 2y ago
They might have watched The Wire: you page Alice, and she uses a public phone to call you. Undetectable unless you wire all public phones in the city, or someone is dumb enough to always use the same phone (which is what happens in the seri
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by toyg 2y ago
Working on calendar software is boring , so the big players likely give it to interns and new recruits. Office suites are so last century. I don't think things will improve unless we find a way to shame big companies in paying attenti
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by toyg 2y ago
I wonder what the chances are that asteroids such as these will actually collide with our moon one day - and what it would mean for the planet.
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by toyg 2y ago
IBM was only interested in Java and lowballed the price. Oracle was interested in hardware too, and offered more money. IIRC, reports were that IBM negotiated the price down with a stinky "who else is ever going to buy you" attitu
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by toyg 2y ago
IBM needed one thing from SUN: Java. Oracle needed two things from SUN: Java and hardware. Nobody else had the money or the inclination to buy the company. Going with Ellison was the least-worst option. I just find it funny how people who v
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by toyg 2y ago
Who would have thought that all those big numbers in TV deals were actually underestimated by the billions. The general public is even more desperate/gullible than we ever considered possible. And OF and YT are just the beginning.
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by toyg 2y ago
That rant is famous, but I always wonder at the naivety of Cantrill and friends. Ellison was already known for being a shameless shark since the '80s, 20 years before the SUN acquisition. Believing he would leave your little blade of g
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by toyg 2y ago
Anybody who's ever been in a few meetings that try to put together stakeholders, designers, and developers, know how it will inevitably descend in painful back and forth about a shade of hue or an icon size. People get distracted by co
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by toyg 2y ago
I've not heard that nickname in 20 years! I went to his same highschool ( liceo ), he's two years older, and I was always pretty amazed by the guy - including how he took what was effectively an offensive slur against him ("c
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by toyg 2y ago
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by toyg 2y ago
> Do you really believe Apple-Ireland is the only cosy tax-based incentive that any EU member state has offered to any international company Cases are prosecuted if someone (either competitors or the Commission) thinks they're wor

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