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Tell me about it.

> Reading logs means grepping files over ssh. Ah, happier times.

I mean the lawyers who will argue the fine is unfair.

Does anyone know if these fines ever get collected? And if they get collected what % of the headline figure? Or are many of these headlines just a pay day for lawyers?

And the alpha_3 for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is GBR. The Western European Archipelago is a complex place.

Hacker News on Northern Ireland is worse than Hacker News on CSS. Which is saying a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudy_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing

If it was automatic the trigger seems to be just the mention of a name, which then triggers a pretty nuclear response.

Scanned, automated or manual, for what though?

"EU assumed good behavior. US & UK manoeuvred to benefit themselves." Assuming that is true, which it isn't, on what basis did the EU assume good behaviour?

> People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time. Two wrongs do not a right make.

Quite right, if only all comments on hn came backed with evidence. ;) https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1351129930264948748 1 tweet is not evidence of bias in itself, though, …

Sorry, but Dave Keating is not a honest broker here, pretty rabidly pro EU.

Like Ireland?

https://spectator.co.uk is decent

Northern Ireland has a rate of 133 per 100k, for the last 7 days. The figure you've quoted is close to the total for all of Northern Ireland (2,505) for the last 7 days.

*burning oil