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In the spirit of keeping these comments high quality I'd love engage with you about this. Why do you think that? I'm actually a dual citizen of the UK and Australia and I have to say my experience is that neither country is anything like the US. (Beware when assuming you know who you're talking to on the internet ;) )
Believing that companies should be allowed to exploit data for profit is a political position, not corruption. Same for most of the things discussed in your links. Just because you might find something callous, or otherwise objectionable, doesn't make it corruption.

It's also not inherently corruption when a (group of) companies go to a politician and say "we think X would be good" and the politician goes on to support X. Even if X is profitable for the companies. Many things that are profitable are also good for wider society.
Good point, especially homeless people are vulnerable, if they lose their papers they might not be able to get new ones.
Well yeah, but I still had a head start because I already knew that PCs were a crap architecture and I could focus on the Amiga instead as soon as I could get my hands on one ;)

It goes much beyond the CPU architecture though, more important (and expensive) is the entire software ecosystem that needs to be built around such "non-standard" CPUs. From an economical pov it doesn't make sense to create a "computing island".
This, 100%.

GDPR and California et al. turned data privacy from a technical-moral issue into a legal one.

And healthy companies have a robust, empowered legal department to keep them on the right side of the law.

When Technical Architect says "We shouldn't do this," few listen. When General Counsel says "We can't do this," things change.
>It is also prohibited because addicts turn to petty crime

I was about to write a rebuttal but once I read the rest of your comment you are spot on.

Decriminialization is not enough. You also need to help people get out of the vicious chemical dependency cycle in a way that doesn't break their bank account.

The high cost of drugs drives secondary criminal activity because people have to finance their drugs somehow and that usually means theft and involuntary prostitution.
Farage could continue campaigning if he wishes, but its not up to him.

It's also apparent to me that the remain camp did keep fighting Brexit tooth & nail much like Farage might have, so I guess we have symmetry.
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As a Brit living in it I would tend to disagree. By the way if you're a leaver I've been looking for someone to cover the additional costs you've voted to put on me, DM if interested.
Ethereum is as inefficient as Bitcoin, just at a slightly smaller scale.
The same thing happened with Trump, and American flashpoint politics more generally.

Note that it's morning in Europe, and as such there will be lots of British/European people around, for whom Brexit is a bigger deal.
Man that sounds like something I would do. I'm born here and ride Amtrack often too.
Come on, that's not fair. The EEC was a very different beast to today's EU. The modern form of the EU could certainly be argued as starting with the Treaty of Lisbon.
The real fun is when you have to go from Gimpo to Inchon on a short connection because your company’s travel agents don’t know.
That's one of the issues on the internet nowadays; people use their soapbox to present a thought as fact. Even if they're being called out on it and proven wrong, the statement is made and a seed is planted in someone's brain.

It's like newspaper headlines that say X, but (have to) nuance it in the article itself. Except that Twitter doesn't support articles, so it's only headlines.
I didn't get to vote in the original election to join the EU, so can we re-run that one too?
I think given the timezone difference, most people on here this time of day are probably in the UK/Europe. I guess the emotive nature of the subject is showing through.
We wouldn't have been required to join the EU for the vaccine scheme if we were a member, and were offered to join when we weren't. So I don't see how it is relevant.
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Seems there's a reason reputable news outlets aren't reporting this:

> The government has sent a first signal of its intention for UK data protection laws to part company with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. In a Financial Times article last week, culture secretary Oliver Dowden said he would use the appointment of a new information commissioner to focus not just on privacy but on the use of data for ‘economic and social goals’.

So we don't know the UK is going to depart from the GDPR, but despite that, this website is reporting that it will.
Instead of trying to remove the symptoms, the government should focus on increasing their peoples productivity to put them in a position to pay higher electricity prices
This article summarizes most of my gaming experience in the late 80s.
(ok, add also Sierra On Line to the list to be fully accurate).

This is marvellous to remember those times!!!!
GDP doesn't matter for export/import. You don't know anything about these things, so why comment?
In New York, the Free Market gave us fire escapes built out of wood before regulations came around.
I think it's more unsportsmanlike to not play to the best of one's ability, especially in an international event like this.
I am not an expert but wouldn't this just mean that the safe dose is very low? It's entirely possible that what is considered a normal dose today is actually an overdose that merely didn't kill the user.
We do exactly the same you describe here in Latvia.
So we know you're young.
Can you supply a link - the UK would need something like GDPR in law (which we currently have rolled over) for the EU to recognise our laws... it seems like it would be difficult and pointless to change to something that slightly differs from the GDPR only to have to implement all of it's concerns for EU data anyway...
There are some points I want to make about the article; firstly, the article doesn't paint listeners (including myself in that group as an owner of ~100 Japanese 70s/80s records) as orientalists. Rather, it claims that the surge in the popularity of city pop has emerged out of stereotypes and biases about Japan, the past, and past Japan. Those stereotypes, and being built into a fetish, is the orientalist element.

The Pitchfork writer doesn't say that's a problem. It's more of an article along the lines that the unexamined life is not worth living. Neither the writer (nor the academic they cite) are going to be starting a campaign to get Google to take down city pop album rips on YouTube. They're not on a campaign to get it banned. They're not going to be breaking into your house to confiscate your headphones. They're not calling me racist.

If someone had written an article about the rise in popularity of Jazz in the 50s being founded in the idea of the black entertainer to be appreciated for his amazing skill in contrast to other blacks (think along the lines of the movie Green Book for an exploration of the ideas), that might be a valid observation, and something to think about. What attracts you to jazz? Do you know what attracts you to jazz, and how do you know that? It doesn't mean you're a racist, in the same way liking porn doesn't mean you're a misogynist.

So there is no 'problem', but maybe it's something to think about and reflect on. I think the article prompted me to do that, but maybe not in the way it intended. Desires and preferences (as much as people can pass things off as 'just what I like') may be worthy of moral consideration, according to some philosophers. I'll keep listening to my records, but I'll also examine what's behind them in my mind. The article does a good job of pointing to the phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' without actually mentioning it. In particular, the last sentence.

On the other hand, it's worth considering what effects articles like these have on listeners. If they come away with the impression that it's wrong to listen to city pop or any music that isn't from "their culture", there's been a failure in communication that would seem to encourage people to become cloistered in the superiority of their own cultures, which reduces the recognition of what we have in common as humans.

It's a complicated issue. I don't think the article does a great job of addressing it.
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There were also Crystal Quest, a labyrith game in a pyramid and a helicopter where you had to fly in russian-named cities.

Oh my god, that article opened a pandora box in my memories.
> lead-acid's very low risk of fire

Isn't lead-acid prone to releasing hydrogen gas?

When jump-starting a car, it is commonly recommended to connect the ground (black) cable to the chassis, not to the battery's black terminal, to avoid a spark igniting the hydrogen and causing an explosion.
Healthcare is paid via taxes, so how does one overcharge it?
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I mean, I'm not asking why something easy to use is used more than something not easy to use. That would be silly. Maybe someone thought that, and that's why I got downvoted? What you've replied can be reduced to "because it's easier to use". These are not the thoughts I'm after, so let me clarify / reiterate.

I'm asking why a highly usable technology that has been in existence for two decades has not found its way into a accessible easy to use implementation. Seemed like an interesting thing to get an opinion on, but I also don't care enough to offend anyone.
There are some theories in the UK that are close to conspiracy theory.

Many leading brexit proponents are rich people who made their money from the collapse of the soviet union and have assets largely outside the UK. One conspiracy theory is that they are attempting to crash the UK economy in order to buy the dip, make money from shorts and the sell off of state assets.

Another conspiracy theory is that brexit has an ideological basis in the idea of the soverign individual - related to the idea of the randian hero, the idea is that as states weaken in power, rich people will be able to transcend citizenship and attain some kind of libertarian utopia where they can do what ever they want. One of the leading brexiteers dad wrote a book about it which apparently has some following, but maybe people are just surprised that right wing politicians want a smaller state.

There is also an idea that the UK and its dependencies (e.g. virgin islands) are a tax haven. A lot of brexit money came from US activist billionaires and hedge funds, but a lot of it came from very rich russians who fled tot he UK in the 1990s with huge amounts of money that Russia say was stolen visa corruption and other criminality. The theory is that brexit was a response to EU money laundering and tax evasion rules that would have linked these rich criminals to their money to its sources, leaving them open to russian legal challenge. The theory is that for those people, brexit was a means to escape the net.

In my opinion, the role these factors played is probably overstated - brexit was primarily a backlash against globalisation and change, and a protest against the UK status quo by parts of the population that didn't believe they benefited enough from it, much like the election of Trump in the US.
To be honest, there is little emotional investment in Europe regarding Brexit. People wanted to be done with it as the process was wasting valuable union time and there was a feeling it was needlessly draging on but from what I have seen Europeans actually care very little about the UK.

Brexit mostly was and remains a domestic issue which is why it's such a touchy subject on HN where there is probably a significant number of Britons commenting.
Corruption might be the wrong word. But 'disagree politically' suggests that what voters think matters, instead of what financial contributors desire. Every political decision has winners and losers. This one seems heavily biased towards the 0.01% of people directly financially incentivized, while the rest has to deal with the breach of privacy and the social effects of hyper targeted advertisement ( a case can be made that this includes things like the QAnon bubble )
I've been leetcoding recently and I feel like most leetcode problems have similar requirements to what you describe vis a vis data structures. I've been focusing on Medium difficulty, maybe it's different on hard, but I've been doing the occasional hard too and not noticed it. The problems mostly seem to be about realizing what algorithm you'll need and implementing it.

I actually solved a problem recently that I thought would require a QuadTree, and after implementing one and solving the problem I was proud of myself until I looked at the other solutions and realized I didn't need a QuadTree at all. In my notes I recorded the problem as a likely fail, because if I were the interviewer I'd take unnecessary complexity as a red flag. Part of me, I think, just wanted the chance to implement a QuadTree.
> Utility classes, while sometimes cumbersome to read, always state their intent.

CSS properties always state their intent as well and IMO are even more explicit in what they are doing.
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And I want to say that's fine, but it's the methods involved. Recently, a LOT of decisions have been made that (to me, armchair internet guy) seem to be aimed at short-term gain.

Like Brexit, the people benefiting most from it are already well settled, they're working on their short- to mid-term plan to earn a lot of money before retiring to their private island or estate or whatever. They live outside of the negative consequences of their decisions.

Meanwhile, the rest of the population will have to suffer through the consequences for the foreseeable.

Tl;dr, policy optimizing for short term individual gain instead of long term sustainable gain. And the long term gain would be so much more better as well.

All of the countries currently under a short term gain capitalist regime could be so much better for their inhabitants. Wealth, socialist policies, comfort, safety, stability, etc is all in reach. But instead the people at the top - who already live a very comfortable and privileged life so they don't see and never will see the problem - choose short term personal gain for them and their 1% friends.
It "works" if your priority is getting things done, but it absolutely does not work if you value liberty and personal freedom.

Ask minority groups in China like Christians wanting to build a church or Uyghurs how well the model works.
AC above 100 Volts kills quickly too. It can actually kill more easily.

You need about 4 times as much DC current going through the body compared to AC. 220Volt DC is safer than 220Volt AC. This is in part because our body (specifically the heart) can handle a constant voltage shock much better than a constant frequency interfering with the nervous system. When you get hit with DC, all your muscles contract once, then adapt. When you get hit with AC, all your muscles contract 50 times a second. In fact the IEEE did experiments, concluding that it's easier to let go of a possibly lethal DC source than an AC source for this reason.

Additionally, the human body has a higher impedance to DC than to low frequency AC. So you already need more DC voltage to induce the same current.
Link says Government sent a "first signal of its intention", title says "UK to depart".

Comments skip straight to how dumb we all are.

:shrug:
Way to miss the point. The examples I gave are just illustrations and not restricted to the USA. In simple terms: if you make a "selfish" purchase there is always an opportunity cost in terms of money not spent on loved ones. I don't see how parents can justify having a large personal budget unless their total budget is millionaire-level large. Have nicer and/or more frequent holidays instead, or get a larger house in a nicer neighborhood, hire a nanny perhaps.
This one's frequently suggested: https://mullvad.net/en/

You can pay by cash or cryptocurrencies, you don't need to provide them with your email address, headquartered in the EU, Mozilla's VPN is a partnership with them, open source clients with reproducible builds, WireGuard support.
I don't know of a competition, but there is an 8-bit retro discord server: https://disboard.org/server/643973143358341151

Various projects get shown off, plenty of boards built around retro (and quasi-retro) CPUs, some more audacious stuff like rebuilding the Apollo Guidance Computer.

The ultimate homebrew derby is those brave enough to make their designs available for sale, I suppose.
Big Oil will be replaced with Big ML. The lobbyists will erode our liberties after rinsing our planet. They will make cutesy ads tricking the masses into trusting the models and anyone using protection online will be branded a terrorist.
I have two sincere questions.

What were your reasons behind your decision?
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I use ; a lot.

However I don't mind using shift as I always press it with the opposite hand to one that's pressing the key to be shifted.

I also use a lot insert mode Ctrl commands.

I think any keyboard interface that you can use without looking at the keyboard is Ok by me.

I would probably be happy enough in emacs even with all the weird cording but I'm just too wedded to Vim at this point to want to change.
> 73% of 18-24 year olds say they voted remain, but did they actually show up?

I haven't done the math, so I won't make assumptions, but I would bet the percentages from the polls roughly match up with the actual results from the referendum

> Also did they vote remain because it's cool or did they actually have some other reason?

That's an entirely different point, you're just moving the goalposts now. The question isn't whether young people were justified in voting remain, the question is did they vote remain.
That's basically true but I want to note that halon is a gas that actually suppresses fire while argonite is just there to get rid of oxygen.
Ah yes, the common myth that before the EU nobody could live in any other country which is now a constituent of the EU.
I personally have used two: cryptostorm and mullvad. Both were good, mullvad was better (and has regular independent audits: see, e.g. https://cure53.de/pentest-report_mullvad_2020_v2.pdf)
I never enjoy seeing this line of argumentation pop up when we (as the computing industry) discuss practicalities of data structures and algorithm choices. I've got a bit over twice your time in the industry and one of the things that is still very clearly on an upward walk is the size of our N's (think big O) in all of our applications and across all of our data structures.

I'm not sure what kinds of applications you're building, but if any of your collections contain on the orders of thousands/10s/100s thousands of items, you really should be considering the impact of how you shape that data for consumption inside your application. You hint at the need to do so, arraylists being good enough until they're not and then hashmaps, etc.

I think there is a pretty reasonable line between expecting our engineers and peers to pick proper containers for the data they're consuming without stepping over into purely 'academic' territory. Shutting down the discussions with 'well I've never had to use this' feels a bit icky and not a great way to advance any of the conversation.
That makes sense. I was more calling out that you don’t need to wait for the physical renewal form to do an online renewal - the system seems to make it an option 5-6 months prior to expiration.
Healthcare is largely paid via a forced savings account, not via taxes. It's the same account you'd use to buy property, for instance.

The price controls also apply to medical tourism.

In theory this kind of thing should show up on those economic freedom indices but they're so enamored of Singapore's lavish aid to foreign investors that they tend to look past this stuff (especially since it mostly just applies to locals).
Why can't I upvote this?
It should be both, I think. Types take away part of the need of tests, but they're not mutually exclusive. I know I ended up writing a lot more tests when doing Javascript, just to cover type edge cases.
‚Meanwhile one of the architects of the GDPR, German MEP Axel Voss, last week called for the regulation to be updated to take into account developments such as blockchain technology...’

What does that have to do with personal data? Sounds like keyword stuffing
Amazon's recommendation algorithms don't seem to skew as extreme as YouTube's, in my experience?

Probably to be chalked up to the difference between "I'll watch something that shocks me" and "I'll buy something that shocks me."
Okay, fair point, they might just re-include the UK in whatever exclusion list they have and that'll be that. But since GDPR came into force, others have followed suit, several other countries have begun implementing similar legislation.

This is anecdata, so fair warning, but over the last year (at a guess) I've noticed many US sites, FAANG companies but also smaller sites too, all flashing cookie/data protection type popups at me where they didn't previously. I've assumed that's because they need to comply with the CCPA which came into force last year, though it's totally a guess. I suppose their geoIP tracking may've just improved and spotted I'm in a GDPR country.

When does this type of legislation reach a point of critical mass where the UK is simply behind the curve and most companies just show the popup by default?

From a development perspective, having a whitelist or varying set of conditions per country adds complexity, I could very easily see a development decision being made to use GDPR as the common denominator and just code once for that, knowing that'll cover the company globally. Sure if your business relies on tracking and serving ads, then you may accept the additional complexity to behave different for different countries, but it still becomes a development decision that didn't have to be made before, and it's one with diminishing returns as legislation on privacy tightens.
Why is everyone so sure about your last paragraph? You could say the same for the EU block and even have more historical evidence of supranations falling apart.
I'm willing to bet that this:

>The UK has the freedom to strike its own partnerships, he said, and he would announce priority countries for data adequacy agreements shortly

will be an announcement that the US has adequate data protection.
It doesn't make it ok at all. But this is a double edged sword. Just keeping this in the public eye but without hard action against it simply normalizes the situation as "problem that's only big enough to complain about". People need to see action being taken, like right to repair initiatives that bore fruit.

Unfortunately unlike right to repair, this is a fight against a government which already has too much leverage on anyone and gaining more, making the fight progressively more difficult. It's clear that the gov't will use any power at it's disposal to fight against any such citizen initiative.
At this point you might as well use normal CSS.