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geoblocking should be on ofcom. they should be able to order UK ISPs to block non-compliant sites. everyone gets their own great firewall

I don't know how I missed this. Yes, geoblocking should be on ofcom. If they don't like my forum, then instead of sending me a ridiculously big check, putting me on interpol, capturing me at the airport etc, just tell their ISPs to block my forum.

For me a bit of grunt work to start the day is like morning strechs

Forcing myself to do something like that would be a great way to ruin my day ;)

A lot more than thousands of people are insane, by a few orders of magnitude

"More than thousands" is still "thousands".

https://www.businessinsider.com/mom-arrested-after-tween-wal...

there's a general issue with rise in protectionism


I am empathetic to 99% of this woman's case and the article.

However, the ending though, really feels like they're one step away from anti-vax, anti-education, and pro-hate pro-bigotry.

This case really feels like an over-reach. But to condemn the entire system because they have an interest in making sure the country functions and sets minimum standards of life and care is not a "bad thing". The government represents the collective decision-making of millions, hundreds-of-millions of people.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water because one cop (in rural Georgia of all places) over-reacted.


Finally, Newfoundland was right all along. First as per usual

India also has half hour offset. & no DST


To your metaphor, their point is that if everyone is grabbing buckets while someone else is working to spring more leaks, maybe someone needs to set aside their bucket & stop the person springing leaks


I have all my clocks set to UTC. Works for me


I also did that for some time, I just don't perceived clocks to have a single point that is up and mentally rotated clocks all the time. The hours just lost their meaning beyond their numerical value.


Good for you. I am currently living in Japan, and I don't want sunrise to happen at 21:00, noon at 3:00, and sunset at 9:00.


>I don't want sunrise to happen at 21:00, noon at 3:00, and sunset at 9:00

but it will happen regardless of what you think about it, the only choice you have is to pretend it's happening at a "different time" because you assign a different number to it


True, but I want the numbers assigned to it to have a sensible meaning for us humans.

Even if dealing with time zones is annoying, we must remember that computers should serve humans, not the other way around.


first one is a really slick tooltip ui to make sure people read tooltips. hover over button, it slides out while revealing tooltip text in its place, move cursor to button again

if you want to make sure people read a lot of instructions you can chain this so that you need to hover over the button multiple times, revealing the instructions a bit at a time


I'm literally no one


Clearly


fraud here is real, but

> a good journal—it has an 18% acceptance rate

is this supposed to be read as sarcasm?

amusing when the quality of a journal is measured by denying papers. kind of reminds me of one of the last People I (Mostly) Admire interviews, with Michael Crow of Arizona State https://freakonomics.com/podcast/a-new-kind-of-university where he critiques elite universities as measuring their value on how many students they reject, which ultimately makes them infeasible as institutions to distribute knowledge as much as possible


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