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Reproductive control undermines most right-wing ideologies; outlawing it patches up the cracks.

Trust the Finns to invent communal night storage heaters :D great stuff.

IP on everything :D

> Not at all. In fact, American sunscreens may be less safe. Are they less safe, or _may_ they be less safe? The distinction is important, and I'm wary of overexcited editors "upgr…

This is yet another negative article with LiberOffice/TDF at the centre of it (this time with Collabora freely dragging themselves into the muck). This after attacks on OnlyOffice …

The tech community has had pretty much free reign over the last few decades, and has always chosen adult convenience over child safety (and mostly profit over both). The "middle gr…

Could Project Managers start talking to me like the suggestion in Scenario 1 too please, that's clearly better.

It should be acknowledged that this was at least significantly about lobbying, and shouldn't be considered a cut-and-dry "failed experiment" (though clearly there are lessons that …

I used to use Curve but they became really unreliable, especially when paying for public transport, so I just switched back to a normal card. Shame because you can get some nice wa…

It does, doesn't it! This is basically the reason scepticism in screening has risen (amongst scientists and medics, not the general population) - research seems to show that screen…

One important point is that many people die WITH cancer but not OF cancer. So even for the 1.8%, only a fraction of those people were going to die of the disease (or even suffer si…

This is incredibly cool tech built on an idea of participatory, consensus-building democracy that I want to believe is possible and sustainable.

Basic Income and UBI are colloquially synonyms, people use them interchangeably, and the Irish government are almost certainly using it to endear themselves to supporters of UBI an…

If they think this is good/important then fine but what they've created is a grant programme, not a UBI. Personally I would have thought this money would have been better spent get…

Marxists don't like Basic Income and it's incompatible with Marxist ideology. "Marxism" has just become thought-terminating shorthand for "thing I don't like".

OpenStack was created by NASA and Rackspace, both very American..

The whole post is a gish gallop of half truths and nonsense.

By the powerful oat lobby?

The wanker licensing board defected to Reform last week

I think the wisdom of "just fork it" is that in a project the power lies with the people who do the work (yes, that power is often rented out in exchange for a pay cheque), and in …

Are competing search indexes (Bing, Ecosia/Qwant, etc) objectively worse in significant ways, or is Google just so entrenched that people don't want to "risk it" with another provi…

You might be thinking of the second "Hangouts", whereas what I'm referring to was apparently "Google+ Hangouts" and was the original. You could get 25 people on there, and for a bi…

> At one point Zoom was the only one that could figure out how to video conference well. I may be misremembering but wasn't it _Google_ who worked it out first (Hangouts was free a…

I used to teach with it - at classroom-scale it was really good. Unfortunately they shut all that down a little while back, and there wasn't really a good replacement. Which was a …