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Comment · 3 years ago
That's a foreign law applying to a foreign country
Comment · 3 years ago
Bush and the Congress in general certainly did commit the single most successful act of terrorism in recent history. I'm not sure how showing ID would have prevented that though. The US public brought it on themselves, and today's world is a world away from the hacking culture of the 1980s
Comment · 3 years ago
That's so sad in the "land of the free"

Do you have to show photo ID when filling up with gas within 100 miles of the border?

Comment · 3 years ago
Still the case in the UK, no law saying you have to provide any ID on a domestic flight (although you'll need a boarding pass), certainly I don't whenever I fly domestically (rarely). Some airlines require ID for ticket purposes (to prevent you from selling your ticket to someone else). Flights between the UK and Ireland are a little trickier, you don't need a passport, as long as you can prove you are either British or Irish. If you don't have a photo ID you can fly from the UK to Belfast and then drive/train/bus to the Republic.

The requirement for a passport and appropriate visa on international flights departing from the UK is I think solely an airline requirement, as if you land in a country you don't have a right to immigrate to the airline gets fined. If you're flying privately it's a different matter.

Obviously you need a passport or other authority to travel when you get to the border of another country (Ireland being the obvious exception for the UK).

Comment · 3 years ago
Not any more, other than no sales tax on the panels.
Comment · 3 years ago
And thus competition pushes those prices down.

Either way I'd personally pay more to use an app, so win-win for me.

Comment · 3 years ago
Supermarkets pay more than that and while aren't exactly cushy, they aren't as bad as the reported warehouse conditions of an amazon factory.
Comment · 3 years ago
Either that or due to political restrictions preventing more housing being built, land is overvalued.

Any increase in wages is taken by landlords who increase the rent. The competition for a house isn't the next door house, it's not living in the city at all.

Comment · 3 years ago
Depends on the consumer, I'd far rather order in my own time on my phone. You want to pay more to employ someone to serve you then fine.
Comment · 3 years ago
This does work today at grid scale, people use their home batteries (either on wheels or not) to charge/discharge to the grid in the UK all the time.

If someone builds that storage facility to do it commercially then great.

> rooftop solar can't exist without special subsidies

Yet it does

Comment · 3 years ago
And you can still access it while it's open from the /proc directory
Comment · 4 years ago
In Europe you have EU261, which if the flight is significantly delayed (hours rather than minutes) means you get several hundered euros in compensation. The exact delay and amount depends on the length of the flight.
Comment · 4 years ago
You can use name constraints on the CA, but they are a bit hit and miss when it comes to client support.

For a local CA with the CA only on one machine you're perhaps OK if you are careful, but once you share the server with a couple of collegues you are potentially into a world of hurt.

On OSX you can choose "Always Trust" or "Never Trust" for various purposes (code signing, SSL, EAP, etc).

Why can't I have "Ask first time", or "Trust only for specific domains"

Same with built in ones. That "Hong Kong Post" root CA raises some eyebrows with me, I'd love to set that to "Ask first time" on it.

Comment · 4 years ago
The old lira was retired and the new lira came in 2005 roughly at about 1.30 to the dollar.

It's now 16 to the dollar, up from 8 to the dollar a year ago.

The old Lira was 15 to the dollar in 1975, by 1985 it was 500 to the dollar (devaluing 42% a year), 1995 was 43,000 to the dollar (56% a year), and by 2001 it reached 1.3 million to the dollar (77% a year)

From 2001 to 2005 it was relatively stable, and the new lira came in and only lost half its value from 2005 to 2015. Things have been getting worse since 2015 though.

Comment · 4 years ago
Pretty much the entire field contribution system of BBC News uses ffmpeg (or ffmbc, an ffmpeg fork from years back with some specific broadcast related additions) from the commandline (launched from a custom program), has done for about 15 years.

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