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Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.
The country would still be called United Kingdom if it contained three constituent provinces instead of four
It should be possible to geofence it such that requests from within Switzerland are redirected to the correct address.
Geofencing is a typical techie "solution" that solves nothing and only brings headache to people.
Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are: - The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo - Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25... ) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.
> p*rn Who are you doing this for? All the small children on HN who will be scandalized reading the word "porn" but are safe so long as the "o" is censored with an asterisk?
Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are: - The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo - Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25... ) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.
> p*rn Who are you doing this for? All the small children on HN who will be scandalized reading the word "porn" but are safe so long as the "o" is censored with an asterisk?
Or their autocorrect has now learnt to respell it anyways.
Or, they didn’t really spend hours debating the pros and cons of using either spelling and just went with whatever felt ok at the time.
But why choose generosity when one can choose snarky ass instead.
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Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.
Rename it to “United Kingdom of England and Scotland” and party like it’s 1707. Problem solved.
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> p*rn Who are you doing this for? All the small children on HN who will be scandalized reading the word "porn" but are safe so long as the "o" is censored with an asterisk?
The obvious answer is that this user likely also comments on other platforms that do not allow using the word openly and instead of the mental overload of constantly deciding which site does and doesn’t allow spelling out the word they choose the safer option in every case. Or their autocorrect has now learnt to respell it anyways. Or, they didn’t really spend hours debating the pros and cons of using either spelling…
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The obvious answer is that this user likely also comments on other platforms that do not allow using the word openly and instead of the mental overload of constantly deciding which site does and doesn’t allow spelling out the word they choose the safer option in every case. Or their autocorrect has now learnt to respell it anyways. Or, they didn’t really spend hours debating the pros and cons of using either spelling…
I don't think bhaney was being snarky. Censoring words that don't need censoring seems to me to be a recent phenomena. I'm glad there is push back.