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Re:Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:10PM (#35905969)
> 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries.

Can you share your sources please? Here, for example, they claim that the UK produces 5.5 tons per person, not 8. Much less than, say, the US with 15 tons:

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

No, Google never stood up to Russia. A year ago they blocked a perfectly legal list of candidates published by Navalny team.
Re:The Twitter Advertiser Exodus on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:04AM (#33716434)
Brands don't care at all what's next to their advertising. It is much more important for them to be on the right side of the conflict.
Re:The world map that reboots your brain on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:04PM (#32535557)
What if you want to see Australia and Greenland at the same time? Globes have their limitations.
They will simply have their company taken away from them.

Nevertheless, they had many years before the war to start marking their news as 'Official'. Or sell the news service. They certainly could have done so. This would have solved their image problems.

Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:44PM (#31085562)
Very often they say things like this: “War is certainly bad and unfair, but we have to go all the way once we have started it”. Or, “the war is unfair, but I can't be against my own country”.

There are no war supporters among people I know though, everyone has their own bubble.

My bet is X.com as a twitter replacement.
Putin might nuke Warsaw an hour after the no-fly zone is imposed. He's that crazy.
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:46AM (#30510506)
Maybe you should double or triple the prices for Russian clients and send extra to Ukrainian charities or the army. As a Russian customer, I would be sympathetic to this and would be happy to support Ukraine in this way.
Exactly. Putin on nuclear options:

“Certainly, it would be a global disaster for humanity; a disaster for the entire world,” Putin said, in an interview for a Russian documentary “The World Order 2018,” adding that “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state I must ask myself: Why would we want a world without Russia?”

https://www.rt.com/news/420715-putin-world-russia-nuclear/

Re:Back to EU on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:33AM (#28851858)
I presume EU customers mostly use non-EU operating systems, browsers, other software. I find it hard to believe there's a real barrier.
There is no law in Russia that prevents Apple from hosting an app called Navalny published by Roman Rubanov. The content of the app is also legal even by Russian standards: it is basically a list of officially registered candidates supported by Navalny.
Re:Starbucks pauses Advertising on all Social Media on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:59PM (#23672002)
Nice, this will hurt both Starbucks and social media. The rest of us win.
Re:Notion for everyone on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:21PM (#23237456)
On iPadOS it ignores pointer and external keyboard. Wish their apps were more native to the platforms.
Re:Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app on Saturday October 05, 2019 @04:01AM (#21164320)
Our game uses emoji to represent players and their structures on the map. Just like HKMap app which displays live events using iOS emoji font.

We’ve been rejected until we came up with our own graphics for emoji. Who knows, maybe this was why they were rejected. Also, the UI is quite buggy. Could be another reason.

Re:Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:31AM (#20984387)
Putin is free not to tell anything to his voters, as always. See Smolenkov, a high profile spy who safely left Russia. Voters don’t care much.
Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:39PM (#20494115)
"Even in US we can find certain domains which are blocked and cannot be accessed like those which contain CP or wild anti-humanism contents."

Is it true? I always assumed US never blocks access to websites. They would rather ask the hosting provider to take down the website or try to arrest the author.

As soon as you have internet you will check lottery results first. It's more exciting.
Re:We value your privacy now, but maybe not later on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:43PM (#19008700)
The problem for the majority of the visitors are pop-ups. Everyone just clicks the green button. No time to read two clear options or bother with dropdowns. That's how people behave.

These pop-ups are required by GDPR. If your site doesn't have a pop-up you risk losing 20M Euro.

Re:Show HN: Cheapshot, a multiplayer GPS game on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:50AM (#18450188)
Thank you! Emoji is a free and a well-known franchise that we actually love. Our first submission to the App Store was without any graphics, just emoji symbols. However, we found ourselves in the Emoji Crackdown (Apple rejecting everything with Apple emoji) so we had to create our own set.
Re:John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories on Monday May 14, 2018 @05:31PM (#17069627)
I'm pretty sure this pattern was also common in Ancient Greece. Diogenes was exceptional.
Re:Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation on Saturday October 14, 2017 @01:52PM (#15473298)
It's been 20 years now without any success. Maybe it's time to move on?
Re:Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City on Thursday September 21, 2017 @04:47PM (#15307204)
Why would they dig a fake 18-level underground city?
Re:Safari no longer supported by Spotify on Sunday September 17, 2017 @10:25AM (#15269732)
~2% Safari for Mac usage is global. Spotify is doing business in 60 countries. Most of the markets are developed (no China, India or Russia) and tend to have more Mac/Safari users.

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