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by PeterisP 3y ago
> If outside air makes up a significant fraction, the energy use can be enormous. I don't work on HVAC, but don't even simple passive mechanical heat exchangers cut out most of the heat difference from ventilation of outside ai
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Is Unity-2023 version a billion dollars better than Unity-2022, or even close to that?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It does matter, since the license of the fork you can make has a huge effect on the long-term sustainability of that fork. If Unreal screws you, then you can fork it to build some features you need for your current project. If Godot screws
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Tests effectively freeze requirements; you should test those things which should be preserved throughout any changes, and not test those things which should be open to change. In this case, it seems that is no real requirements for any of t
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Why? That would create lots of small functions that each is called only once from only one place in the code and still are extremely coupled to the invoking switch statement, often having multiple inputs and multiple outputs which then the
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by PeterisP 3y ago
My point is that liability for consequences determines who (and if) does due diligence. If there are no remedies then customers are on their own, and either they do due diligence themselves or there is no due diligence at all; but as soon
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If the app actually does something Marl needs or enables him to do something he wants to do, then that's great, but all that means Marl simply isn't the marginal user for that app that the article is talking about, he's a cor
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Just as in game microtransactions, it doesn't matter how much or little the median person is paying, because all the profit is in the minority of very big payers / 'whales', so you optimize the payment structure of the s
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The general solution, at least as done by some other countries, is to hold the seller/importer also wholly responsible for upholding all the regulations and warranties - so if the manufacturer is bankrupt, or not responding, or oversea
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The debt issuer would note that they had to write most of that debt off, so the credit score impact will mean that the same borrower will have a much harder time getting another loan.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The obvious limitation is that they only sell hopeless debt for pennies on the dollar - no lender will allow a community to buy all of their debt at a significant discount. You'll be able to buy your neighbors' debt only if yo
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Interchange fees are a feature of all major card platforms (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc), however the fees have been regulated and limited in Europe, with credit card interchange fee being capped at 0.3% and the total merchant cost for card
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In EU law all payments get pretty much the same protections as USA credit card payments, even for debit cards the customer is legally out at most 50 EUR, so there is no advantage in it being a credit card. The motivation of Chip&PIN i
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Yes, the residence matters - in USA (and some other countries, I think at least UK as well) there are major legal differences between debit cards and credit cards with respect what the consumer rights and practical protections are for them,
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Well, people can be denied jobs for almost every reason (except a couple explicitly listed taboo reasons i.e. protected classes), so if any employer believes that defaulting on your debt correlates with e.g. trustworthiness of a candidate,
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There is nothing technical that prevents Pegasus from spreading by itself, some of the reportedly involved vulnerabilities could be "wormable", however, there are practical reasons that prevent that - for malware like Pegasus, the
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The target audience for this verification quite clearly is not consumers but store chains (or possibly restaurant chains), so that they can verify what their suppliers are selling them.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Internal policy documents about how a company handles food are the same thing as internal policy documents about how a company handles speech.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
What "rights to private property"? It's about information, not property, and it is well established that the state can "just state an interest" in truthfulness about products sold to its citizens and compel a manufa
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No matter what your opinion is on these categories, "A statement of whether the current version of the terms of service defines each of the following categories of content" is a quite straightforward question - what do your terms
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Users, many of whom are California, should have the right to truthful information about the product they're using (which, for a media product, includes the moderation policies of that media), and the state has a reasonable interest in
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Sure, but Twitter banning (or not banning) your account for praising Hitler is political speech, however, Twitter stating "we are/aren't a platform for free speech" or "our moderation will/won't ban your a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The tricky thing here is whether Twitter is required to have explicit and clear moderation policies that actually determine the decisions they are likely to take or whether their (constitutionally protected!) right to moderation includes
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In a cheaper location outside of Canada, $1m is sufficient to never ever have to work in your life - that is one impact of the absolute numbers, because at this level of wealth suddenly there are other options than having to live where the
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There's no inherent need to have a condo in Toronto; you always have an option to cash out and rent, or cash out and buy at a cheaper location - and in both of these cases the absolute value of the increase matters a lot.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
"promise of not expanding NATO" is an invention of Russian propaganda with no basis in any treaties, and even Gorbachev personally has admitted that no such promises were made.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, this is not happening because they are clueless on what they can do - this is happening because they believe they can get away with this (by seeing that most companies do that). There is a clear global consensus on whether they are perm
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Well, great! That's how we would like it and how it should be, isn't it?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The general principle of copyright law is that copying/distributing work that combines multiple copyrightable parts requires the permission of every author/copyright holder. Copyright law does not attempt to establish a single own
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Especially do note that you could lie on all the other parts of the complaint, such as the issue whether the violation actually occurred, but the one thing that's under the penalty of perjury is whether you're actually represent

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