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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 to find the old aristocracy alive and well and still above others and usually the law.

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 as sour grapes at best

It's a legit complaint. No one can change the behaviors of previous generations but they can attempt chaining the behavior of current ones.

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 they serve, and what function do you believe they actually serve?

> 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.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/queen-immuni...

There are others, search for "royal consent" as apposed to "royal assent"

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't seem to get it quite right (for my taste anyway).

> 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 default browser. Could not find any trustworthy deb packages.

> 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 money but I'd still have to live in worse conditions (infrastuture, public services, interactions with the state, etc...).

> 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 you can use "ensuring that the private org understands that the government of the people is in charge" for anything including abusing citizens rights

> 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 that's the difference, I don't think it comes from the term length though. The lords are toothless so it doesen't make sense to apply your presure/lobying there. Also some percentage of them weren't politicians before being named in the lords.

> 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 would have more recourse against an actor from my own jurisdiction, I think you have pretty much zero recourse against the government of a hostile third country.

> 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 worth cl compiles faster for me than even clang-cl. I like having both available though.

What would the alternative be? Do nothing?

> it goes neck to neck with C++. Sure, Rust or Go or C

I hate to be that guy but 1) java does not go neck to neck with c++ unless you mean it can be in the same order of magnitude and 2) C++ is not slower than C or Go or Rust

Note: by c++ I mean c++ compiled by a decent compiler e.g. gcc/clang/msvc

> That she is on the position is testament to the democratic dysfunction of the Union.

I know almost nothing about her but my impression of the actual decision making in the EU is that it's fairly distributed (by design) and there is not a single person which has the power to do anything on their own. Also there are lots of opportunities for various stakeholders to veto decisions.

First time loading any of the examples it takes a noticeable time but it creates some cache files e.g. "e33b398b592a74de7cce1c9035ee8082-le64.cache-7" which seem binary. Subsequent loads are fast.

> Well, I am not sure I call huge compile times a joy to use...

I just compiled this on windows and a full build after cloning the repo took about a minute.

> As for the fighter jets: how could they possibly help the situation? Shoot her?

Shoot the plane down before it hits a building/populated area I would assume.

> in the same way as agreeing to receive phone marketing should imply they can track whether you answered the phone.

But agreeing to receive a snail mail does not imply consent to track if it was read. I feel that email is closer to that.