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Having valid opinions about politics and engaging with the existing political system are not the same thing. I am super happy to chat about political questions (of all sorts) irres…

I have an iPhone SE and will hold onto it until the day they make something vaguely commensurate but better. It isn't like I would be rushing to upgrade anyway but the refusal to c…

> Super bleak reading - it's a very dark rabbit hole! That it is! It will require an actual change to the societal contract to resolve as best I can tell - and it remains unclear t…

> In the UK, funding for libraries [] has been increasingly cut in the name of austerity. Focusing on one thing here, for convenience. The problem remains that costs are up far in …

A couple of dictionary checks suggest some set of: - Ruler who is unrestrained by law or constitution - A usurper of sovereignty - Ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly Obv…

At the risk of being dumb, wouldn't an easier solution be physical? ie have a usb stick with two actual "disks" and a an appropriately obscured physical switch to define what plugg…

> Whenver I think my job is bad I remember that time and I'm glad for what I have. I generally suspect folks would be a lot happier if they'd had a few more crap jobs as a baseline…

Me and a friend had a minecraft server we'd built up over the years (hosted on my free azure msdn license credits). I lost the license along with my job and we migrated to a tradit…

> Previously it was capped at 500€. So your request could cost you thousands of euros. To be clear, it is currently costing the taxpayer said thousands of Euros. Time spent by gove…

You say "entering the city" but it literally applies to people who live there. My old car would have cost me every use even if all I did was move it to respect a temporary parking …

> How is ulez unpopular? As a rule most people with a ~10 year old car which runs fine at low cost are going to be frustrated at an extra tax on their vehicle. (It is not like the …

> I think it would help with making companies handle that externality. This is backwards, companies do not choose where employees live. Employees do. That they choose to live with …

> I think a closer estimate is probably total annual operational costs divided by total shouts, (£18 MM / 2,000) or about £9,000 per shout. That's a more useful estimate than merel…

> Let's hope our regulations hit these "social networks" hard enough so that never dare deploy this kind of technology. You'd do as well to hope that people wake up and stop openin…

> an average helicopter bill was smth around $200K if I remember correctly, with spikes up to $500K. Those numbers made me blanch somewhat! Having been in a helicopter (aka Air Amb…

I'd probably rather it just tell me the answer and give the option to continue :)

They still make and support games :)

I've never had a steam update take more than 30secs. Game updates can take a lot longer if you need them (ie multiplayer) to play. idk

Most commonly ime the application domain may only be some small fraction of the database which is designed/optimised for a much broader dataset.

> Investment gains are not work Say, for example, my job is allocating capital across the S&P 500. My work is picking the stocks, the fruits of my labour are excess returns. Are th…

Compared to the 40 ft led screen blaring images out to everyone 24h a day in central London I will take the newspaper any day. Drives me nuts

> It is the devices. It's 100% the devices. That anyone is pretending otherwise is mind boggling to me.

A goose was protecting its young as some (crows/ravens/idk) hopped around close on the ground. Mama hissed and flapped a little. Crows back off a bit. Meanwhile another crow flies …

> Psychology is the study of the psyche of white male psychology students Huh? Maybe my uni was an outlier / it is a UK thing, but there were ~99 female and 1 male psych students i…

Man, at the rate I can generate pancakes I fear four children would murder me and just drink the batter raw. Though maybe I'd buy a second pan in advance xD