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Meta is free to close shop (in the EU) if it's not worth it to them. Not all business have the right to exist.

Magna carta only created rights for the oligarchs of the time, many of which have descents today with the same inherited wealth. You don't have to dig that deeply in the UK society…

Moreover, regardless of how large the sum is, when they took the policy they should have known if they could pay it? I'd have thought there's regulations on that.

I just spent more than 5 minutes trying to get past the captcha (matching angles) but still couldn't.

what is a harder drug than heroin?

> It's wrapping the generator in a bash script that pipes the result through AWK, etc. Which is itself a generator

Sure, I'm just saying the countries from the former soviet block and possibly others weren't in the empire business.

> When people from former empires What about when people who were under the boot of empires (which is a substantial part of the people of the EU) complain about it? > it strikes me…

I got the same INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR (after a longer wait than usual) by asking it "why are you mean?"

>> MAD is a terrible strategy What is a better strategy? >> and I dont think our Nuclear weapons serve the function many believe they do. What function do you believe many believe …

> Reference? here are some references, though not sure if this was what GP was refering to. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette... https://www.theguardian.…

maybe "null", can't think of anything else.

> Debian is like Ubuntu but without all the cruft. Unfortunately for me, I only seem to like the font rendering in Ubuntu, any other distro I tried (and I habitually try lots) don'…

> I had to google for how to install the non-snap version Out of curiosity, how did you do it? I ended up downloading the firefox tar from their website and setting that the defaul…

> workers can freely move west to east Can't speak for other eastern europen countries, but I'd not move back to the one I come from even for a bigger salary. I might have more mon…

> What's the difference between "enforcing citizens rights" and "ensuring that the private org understands that the government of the people is in charge" The difference is that yo…

> The only difference between them is that one group was free to think about the long-term consequences of the treaty, while the other group was under pressure to pander. I agree t…

> It's supposed to be "you can't just..." Honest question, why can't you? Is it disallowed by law?

I don't know what the likelihoods of either are but if I had to guess I would say that yes, hostile third countries are more dangerous than my own country. Also, I consider that I …

> The foreign actor has no jurisdiction over me. You can be subjected to blackmail and/or other hostile actions from a foreign jurisdiction.

> I haven't anything like it in other languages Is that different from compiling one lib with --std=c++11 and another with --std=c++17?

You are conflating "the way you are born" with "something you've done" e.g. something you can't choose with something you can.

I disagree. Competition is good. Don't want to end up with every C/C++ compiler being a clang skin in the same way as (almost) every browser is a chrome skin. And for what it's wor…

What would the alternative be? Do nothing?