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| terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath.
No idea how intelligent he is, I wouldn't say I've seen any obvious signs of outstanding cerebral capabilities.
As to his education, he got a 2.1, quite respectable but given the resources employed (Eton and Oxford) in his education anything less would have been shameful.
I've just looked up the regulations. If he plans to withdraw he only has until 4pm Monday 20th July. After that he's on the ballot regardless.
|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result.
I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not due to the committee ordering it but rather sufficient electors in the Member's constituency petitioning for it.
The recall election only becomes a possibility if any suspension is greater than ten days in length.
|which isn’t going to happen
I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote.
Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good deal of his vote to a comedy candidate would significantly damage his long term political prospects. If the polls look really bad for him it might be better to cut and run.
If that happened it would be difficult for the Count as I assume he would win the seat, but having to be a reasonably behaved MP is an onerous task and one that he might prefer not to take on.
I appreciate that in global terms I live a life of data privilege, but I really don't think a 95mb download is any problem at all if the thing I'm downloading has utility.
It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod... .
As the article mentions under some circumstances trailer mounted generators are not considered stationary and that is the basis of the plaintiffs claim.
Wasn't this move meant to be delayed until after the IPO?
I haven't read the prospectus but I would be interested to know, when he dies, to what degree the "... control the outcome of matters requiring shareholder approval" part will be inherited. Does that facility just go along with the Class B super-voting shares? And if it does what does it mean if more than one person inherits his shares?
On the subject of the governance structure this [1] is worth a read ...
"The company significantly limits shareholders' rights to sue. SpaceX's bylaws will make it clear that anyone who owns shares "irrevocably and unconditionally" waives all rights to pursue a jury trial. Shareholders will also be prohibited from bringing class actions against the company, its directors, officers, controlling shareholders or bankers tied to the IPO, according to the filing.
Instead, shareholders will be subject to mandatory arbitration, which had long been illegal in the U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission reversed its position, opens new tab in September, allowing companies to adopt mandatory arbitration policies, which are private proceedings overseen by arbitrators."
... I can't remember how much he spent in Pennsylvania but you might argue it was money well spent.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
He _says_ he doesn't like renewables but secretly he loves them ;-)
It's hilarious (or would be if it didn't involve killing people), the same dullards who wanted to "drill, baby, drill" have accelerated the move to renewables in a way they would have struggled to do if they were the most greeny administration ever seen.
Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.
None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.
That's not all that much
May not be much in world terms but here in NZ national demand maxes out at around 5.5GW so bringing another GW on stream would be quite handy. Most of the geothermal is a lot closer to Auckland* than our hydro is so so that would be another positive aspect.
* Auckland has 25% of the population so a corresponding amount of energy has to be pushed its way.
Stop masking passwords by default.
Masked passwords were boring when passwords were typically 'goeagles' but now they're 'Justlongenough22!' they're a real barrier to anybody who doesn't type the string multiple times a day.
If you really think that someone staring over the users shoulder is a genuine risk factor than allow people to turn it on, not (if the user is lucky) allow them to turn it off.
What’s the counter to that?
In the case of the AWS scenario someone driving by who decides to nick it?
Or the courier puts the box down upside down?
Just by the way is a package delivery company going to be willing to deliver a package to an abandoned lot?
Your solar panel equipped, "rest and recharge" idea is interesting.
Good line from the blog post ...
"So what is the plan now?" - "Move a little faster and not break things"
He needs to either _completely_ own up to it
I'm not advocating on BG's behalf but your suggestion pre-supposes that his activities exceeded those he has already admitted to. I don't know whether they did or not, but I think it's worth noting that Epstein was very keen to make contacts with influential people and then boast of those contacts. It's at least worth considering what while boasting he made up some stuff about the nature of his activities with those people. For that reason I'm not willing to assume that everyone who ever had contact with Epstein was involved in child sex crimes.
If you're not British please don't assume that "ejecting heriditary nobles" from the upper house of parliament is automatically going to increase the quality of governance.
For more than a century the majority of those who sit in the House of Lords have been "Life Peers", appointed by a politician and without any heriditary aspect. They include such towers of statepersonship as : Evgeny Lebedev (Russian businessman, son of a KGB officer); Alexander Lebedev (another Russian businessman, he's actually been in the KGB); Charlotte Owen (junior aide to Boris Johnson for three years) ... the list goes on.
This isn't new (although in recent time the dodginess has risen to new highs) and many of those appointed to Life Peerages meet the goal of having significant life experience they can use to illuminate aspects of legislation that might otherwise be missed. Equally heriditary peers are not all some Wodehousian stereotype of bumbling idiots.
The plan is not to "remove trial by jury" but to "remove trial by jury for some types of offense".
The first sentence of the cited article makes clear the matter at hand is not "elimination of jury trials" but "a plan to abolish some jury trials". The proposal is an attempt to reduce the time which those who are accused must wait for trial.
FWIW the majority of all criminal cases in the UK are dealt with by either a single judge, or three judges[1]. This is hardly surprising as assembling a jury is vastly time consuming and for minor criminal matters is hard to justify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_offence#United_Kingdom
| Congress could pass a new law requiring it, of course, but I think we all understand that this would not accomplish the administration's real goal of letting Trump prove he's the specialest boy and everyone has to give him what he wants.
... plus it would require "tech firms" to actually modify their behaviour and that would never do.
Don't bet too much, from the linked article ...
They ran the exact same question with the same forced choice between "drive" and > "walk," no additional context, past 10,000 real people through their human feedback platform.
71.5% said drive.
The article is a little difficult to read so perhaps I missed this.
Surely a key determinant in making your project closed source is your willingness to cut yourself off from dependencies with strong copyleft licences? And, correct me if I'm wrong, this is true at whatever depth of dependency the copyleft licensed dependency is found, which in some environments ("hello npm registry") is going to exclude an awful lot of code.
The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
What are these checks and scrutiny and how are they applied in the time available? Given the time available is not great ("I'm on the next flight") and the amount of money is modest if humans are involved I'm intrigued to know what could be done that $45 would cover.
My view may be as realistic as these architectural drawings but I've long thought that some sort of micro payment system would address a lot of problems, many more significant than tipping software developers.
The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be.
Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF board and you've got a new CEO and maybe CF is sold off to "a friend of the show".
Nothing specific to CF here it's just how all US companies need to be viewed.
I too use pipenv unless there's a reason not to. I hope people use whatever works best for them.
I feel that sometimes there's a desire on the part of those who use tool X that everyone should use tool X. For some types of technology (car seat belts, antibiotics...) that might be reasonable but otherwise it seems more like a desire for validation of the advocate's own choice.
FWIW the "industry sources say" line on the incident is that it occurred on 30 October[1], so further back than ten days ago but of course there may have been other CME incidents at that time.
The European Agency Aviation Safety Agency [2] instruction describes the characteristics of the incident but not the date.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/28/airbus-issu...
I don't have ADHD but I would find that useful (I'm not a mac user so your implementation is not for me).
I have used pomodoro timers that have a sound (for instance a clock ticking) and that's a useful way to be reminded. Unfortunately the ones I've seen to date have a reasonably limited range of sound configuration options, generally a one second tick. I would prefer to hear a quiet sound every thirty seconds, I'd also be interested in the option of a voice announcing, say, every five minutes elapsed.