Viewing profile — liminvorous

The reason is roughly that there were devastating food shortages in the world wars, and avoiding that happening again has been an important force in Dutch politics since.

I don't believe UK social housing has any work requirements, it is just massively oversubscribed, such that you need to be very vulnerable to realistically be offered council housi…

I believe 4chan is taking ofcom to court for trying to restrict their first amendment rights rather than blocking the UK, at least I'm still able to access it without a vpn.

70% is by most measures, pretty close to 66% (2/3)...

The point is not about whether video games should be exempt, it's about being able to tell whether they are covered by this law or not

An atmosphere reduces the amount of fuel needed to land, because you can use aerobraking to slow down rather than carry fuel to do it. See the Apollo return capsule, which landed w…

Do pre-paid plans not exist in the US?

No one had built a nuclear bomb before the Manhattan project either.

I've heard from a clinical psychologist and also from a bunch of people on the internet that the symptoms of BDP are often presented by (especially female) traumatized autists, and…

I got a certificate error you might want to look into: > Web sites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not…

You can't halve the temperature of something by halving its measument in Celcius, because the celcius starts at some arbitary point above absolute zero. 50 degrees celcius is 86% a…

There have been some studies recently screening older people who grew up with more restrictive diagnostic criteria for autism that suggest that increasing rates of autism diagnosis…

You can't copyright a recipe, the thing reason it doesn't make sense for Pepsi to make an exact duplicate of coke is that Coke is better at selling Coke that Pepsi is, and it's bet…

40 crashes per million flights has still got to be better than current road safety, at a very rough calculation the US for example had 128 road deaths per million people , which I'…

I think rule 12 covers the vowel, and then rule 20 explains why it's sï+ not skï+ but I could be wrong about whether the vowel is a front vowel or not.

The breakeven point seems to be around 50-100 uses depending on the exact kind of reusable bag, so you’re probably winning: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environme…

I don't think the internet can funciton as a public platform, which it both is and should continue to be, without allowing infrastucture providers to provide services without being…

If you own the copyright to the application then you do not need a license to use it. The case where you would be violating a license would be if someone else owns the copyright to…

On the other hand I am almost always annoyed at apps opening websites in SFSafariViewController, and would prefer to be able to completely disable it and have it always open in the…

They want to be able to process both the material they prototyped with and the material they started with (straw) and the material they tried to scale up with (corn cobs), and prob…

They already do this in their Apps, e.g. gmail at least at one piont prompted you to install chrome whenever you tried to open a link in a browser.

Gerrymandering is where you make sure all your districts are 51/49 in favor of you, and all your opositions are 90/10, so you get more representatives

The ability to rely on another person's body to keep you alive is clearly a positive right if it exists, which I think no one believes in general, some but people believe in the sp…

I mean I basically want Apple to do this to any proprietary software and untrustworthy free software, I just want to be able to make an exception for trustworthy free software. Giv…