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| terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath. No idea how intelligent he is, I wouldn't say I've seen any obvious signs of outs…

I've just looked up the regulations. If he plans to withdraw he only has until 4pm Monday 20th July. After that he's on the ballot regardless.

|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result. I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not …

|which isn’t going to happen I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote. Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good dea…

I appreciate that in global terms I live a life of data privilege, but I really don't think a 95mb download is any problem at all if the thing I'm downloading has utility.

It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod... .…

As the article mentions under some circumstances trailer mounted generators are not considered stationary and that is the basis of the plaintiffs claim.

Wasn't this move meant to be delayed until after the IPO?

I haven't read the prospectus but I would be interested to know, when he dies, to what degree the "... control the outcome of matters requiring shareholder approval" part will be i…

He _says_ he doesn't like renewables but secretly he loves them ;-)

It's hilarious (or would be if it didn't involve killing people), the same dullards who wanted to "drill, baby, drill" have accelerated the move to renewables in a way they would h…

Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh. None of this touches on standing charges, I …

> That's not all that much May not be much in world terms but here in NZ national demand maxes out at around 5.5GW so bringing another GW on stream would be quite handy. Most of th…

Stop masking passwords by default. Masked passwords were boring when passwords were typically 'goeagles' but now they're 'Justlongenough22!' they're a real barrier to anybody who d…

> What’s the counter to that? In the case of the AWS scenario someone driving by who decides to nick it? Or the courier puts the box down upside down? Just by the way is a package …

Good line from the blog post ... "So what is the plan now?" - "Move a little faster and not break things"

> He needs to either _completely_ own up to it I'm not advocating on BG's behalf but your suggestion pre-supposes that his activities exceeded those he has already admitted to. I d…

If you're not British please don't assume that "ejecting heriditary nobles" from the upper house of parliament is automatically going to increase the quality of governance. For mor…

The plan is not to "remove trial by jury" but to "remove trial by jury for some types of offense".

The first sentence of the cited article makes clear the matter at hand is not "elimination of jury trials" but "a plan to abolish some jury trials". The proposal is an attempt to r…

| Congress could pass a new law requiring it, of course, but I think we all understand that this would not accomplish the administration's real goal of letting Trump prove he's the…

Don't bet too much, from the linked article ... They ran the exact same question with the same forced choice between "drive" and > "walk," no additional context, past 10,000 real p…

The article is a little difficult to read so perhaps I missed this. Surely a key determinant in making your project closed source is your willingness to cut yourself off from depen…

The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?