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The differences in regional accents between say local Dublin English and the Supra regional Dublin accent (i.e. without even leaving the city) are reasonably large. I dunno what it…

It's actually worse than this; you'd need centralised control over pronunciation as well. Otherwise, would a speaker of local Dublin english spell tree and three the same? And shou…

UK was legally obliged to by the EU. See the "metric martyrs" for how weirdly controversial this all was.

This is interesting, but I suspect Maersk's work on ammonia/Methanol engines may beat it to decarbonising shipping. Interestingly Maersk Oil tried using wind power a few years ago …

Lots of them didn't. Under 5 mortality is down ~79% since my parents were born (using US figures. Down 92% where I live).

>If we ever want to get close to the dream of an European Federation we need to get the Army done. If we want an EU army, we need a single EU foreign policy first. Otherwise who de…

More so than Ireland was in 1921? And will that continue to be the case, with the NIP imposing barriers between it & GB?

Scotland, and NI. Which are 2/3 of the constituent "kingdoms" that were united to form the "United Kingdom". Of course, it might not happen, but odds are rather better, in both cas…

I don't think this is true. Firstly they didn't get free trade - there are tariffs, rules of origin, and a lack of equivalence for SPS & product safety rules. The last one is espec…

Worth noting: this kind of rule is both normal, & legal in both IE & UK. The idea that this wasn't the case somewhere sounds weird (although nice!) to my European ears.

> The fact that other countries manage to be outside the EU and do just fine. This is the wrong way of thinking about things. Yes, other countries manage to be outside the EU, and …

Does the average American respond to a stupid law by campaigning for secession?

No. The example of a giffen good given is a high calorie food, that's exceptionally low status. Thus, when its price falls, people will demand less of it, as they can afford to rep…

Do service charges count as tips?

That article indicates that there are both tipped, and untipped minimum wages - i.e. tipped staff earn less at minimum wage.

I worked in a McDonalds for six months. The money was rubbish, but that aside, I quite enjoyed it. There's a sense of camraderie in that kind of job that you don't get in more well…

nor was Nostradamus'

Are you really comparing Uber to MLK, Rosa Parks, and Ghandi?

>which is what socialism is, and nothing else Actually, socialism is the ownership by the workers of the means of production. A system of co-operatives would also be socialist.

Init scripts are code though. I mean, they're code that's mostly boiler plate, but they're still code - I can do arbitary things in them, reasonably unconstrained by their stated p…

You're assuming that poverty doesn't cause impulsiveness, and that poor people don't face any costs that the middle classes don't. Both of these assumptions are likely untrue. Pove…

Ansible can do this, using sshpass (and openSSH).

Original research (which has extra issues) is here. Linked in the cryptography engineering as well.

https://www.smacktls.com/ (Discussion of the actual flaws)

Do you have EU customers? And if so, how do you deal with data protection?