Posts by A nosy macro wound 14 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2016
It's easy to fall into this nihilism.
But nihilism is what allows such dark forces to win. They are only able to ascend to (and hold onto) power because large numbers of people have given up hope. By contrast, maintaining hope is what unites individuals into driven social groups that collectively have the power to change the world.
Don't give up hope. Get inspired, get active, get involved.
> The majority of the "tech" companies involved are not UK companies and would not be subject to UK laws anyway.
What utter tosh. Facebook (and others) has a significant presence in the UK, from physical assets to employees—jurisdiction over any or all of which could be exercised by UK authorities to enforce UK law. Crikey, look how despite Elon's absolute very best efforts to avoid it, X was compelled to comply with Brazilian law.
> reliance on libraries to do anything interesting
The Rust standard library provides abstractions around most of the C standard library, and for anything else C relies on libraries "to do anything interesting" to precisely the *same* extent that Rust does.
https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies.
> why didn't he simply resign from the board then...?
Presumably he had hoped/expected that (a majority of) the board were going to back him, and was either deaf or blind to the fact that they weren't. That, or his allies changed their minds at the last minute and screwed him over.
China don't need to force OEMs to pre-install their surveillance software, as their police just forcibly install it after-market.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/02/chinas-latest-xinjiang-spying-smartphone-app-targets-tourists-instead-of-locals/
I haven't checked, but I assume BT were advancing the argument that RPI is erroneous (which it is: the ONS announced they were dumping it as an official measure of inflation in 2013 due to its flawed use of an arithmetic rather than geometric mean).
The ONS did for a while publish an alternative index, RPIJ, which recalculated RPI using a geometric mean instead—but they have recently decided to abandon that on the basis that it was only designed to illustrate how flawed RPI is.
GIven that the government's official statistics authority very publicly states that RPI gets inflation wrong (an effect which compounds exponentially over time), it does seem to me quite right that pension liabilities be determined according to some other index that calculates it correctly instead (e.g. CPI). To do otherwise places a totally unaffordable burden on the fund.
Assuming that this point was litigated, then I guess the court determined the fund's contractual commitments cannot be varied to account for this (long term) error—despite the disastrous impact this will have on it and its members.
> Only disadvantaged in the fantasy world where registrars are entitled to rake in profits from utterly pointless domain names.
No, disadvantaged in the very real world where he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars under a contract in consideration of which ICANN had promised (explicitly or implicitly) to deal with his application fairly—a contractual promise that they have unquestionably breached.
I very much doubt the courts would care to hear argument about the merits of his application, or the consequential losses ("profits from utterly pointless domain names") he might have suffered: like the IRP, their concern will probably rest entirely on the question of whether the process was conducted properly.
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