[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They have some powers, they got upset at Facebook and decided to flex a bit by sending one of the boys around, to invite one of his mates for a chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

The person sent was the serjeant at arms. They carry a sword. Doubt they took it out but they also carry one of the House of Commons maces, which is gold covered and jewel encrusted, about 1.5m (4.9ft) long and weighs roughly 10kg (22 lbs).

Imagine some large, pissed off looking dude, dressed like he’s from the year 1415, kicking your hotel door in because you didn’t RSPV properly. Then being told hand over documents or we may stick you in jail (and you know the pretended it would be the Tower of London).

The 1,000 yard stare he must get when asked if he enjoyed London and how lovely that history must be.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yes but not for long.

As (generally climate denying) people love to point out, wind and solar is erratic power generation. For this reason you need triple capacity Vs requirements.

This means that for a huge amount of time you'll have excess energy, once we start to be predominantly renewables, battery storage is expensive. One of the solutions is to create hydrogen, also pumped hydrogen, etc.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Banking sector regulations require financial reserves that can be used to cover emergencies.

The EU revised the rules recently that meant banks could count the cost of its software as part of its cash reserves, increasing them by € billions each year.

You try and sell your copy of windows 10 and Norton anti virus to make ends meet.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

She was protesting about the physical and sexual abuse of children by the church. The criticism helped to continue the protection of pedophiles, which continued for decades and still happens.

Joe Pesci (a study in short man syndrome) said on TV he wanted to slap her for ripping up a photo and the audience applauded him for it.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Russia invaded Ukraine not the other way around.

Russia is threatening to attack commercial ships, NATO countries are going to restrict Russian naval moves through their territories to stop ther murder of civilians.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If commuting, I take public transport so charge on last bit of journey before (or after work) if needed or a heavy phone day.

At home/weekends - whenever it drops and I have time.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They do train LLMs on others. A fairly successful new tact has been to train them not on the output but on how the LLM got to the output. So teaching how to answer questions rather than answers by rote.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can talk from a UK perspective.

Whilst investigating someone, the police should not normally release the name of the person because it could endanger their life or lead to disorder.

The media are free to name suspects BUT get it right or have the ever loving shit sued out of them. This is even as far as naming a small group of people.

Once charged, then police release the names, it becomes public knowledge. Where it's serious cases like rape or child abuse then it's often proactively released. This is because it helps gather evidence or get others to come forward.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

When the Soviet Union imploded, they had 30,000 nuclear warheads dotted about in various states. People were predicting that they would be used then as well.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There are a few reasons. Firstly it’s in their own interests to protect their people from huge climate change. Secondly renewables are cheaper than coal, without the same variability of supply (Australia had political falling out before and Russia may not be the very stable genius we think).

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits different treatment of insured persons on the basis of their sex in connection with pension funds. This was a supreme court ruling, so kind of linked but not quite.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/253100

Interestingly, in UK and EU it became illegal to discriminate by sex for car insurance from about 2012, without very careful use of data - which doesn't happen. It is allowed to be linked on things like jobs though.

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