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by quesera 6mo ago
> Commonwealth countries have extraterritorial jurisdiction No countries have extraterritorial jurisdiction. Some countries have a lot of influence over the local jurisdiction outside of their own territory. The UK doesn't have
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by quesera 6mo ago
That'd be great, if your goal was to hemorrhage customers.
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by quesera 6mo ago
> A launcher for a climbing rope or grappling hook. Have you ever tried getting a rope up over a branch on a very tall tree? You might look into arborist's throw line launchers and line guns. They come in slingshot and pneumatic v
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by quesera 6mo ago
Good editing and curation take time. It has to be compensated, or a labor of love. That would not be a mere project, but a huge commitment. Which would be devalued if the content was not published consistently, regularly, predictably with n
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by quesera 7mo ago
What is the reference to Plan9 here? !x has been a shell history expansion since at least csh (1978?).
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by quesera 7mo ago
OVH operates three hosting brands: OVH, SYS (So You Start), and KimSufi. It's a bit confusing! IIRC they bring the newest hardware into OVH and push it down the line to SYS and KS as it ages.
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by quesera 7mo ago
That's funny as a human, amazing as a developer, and terrifying as a data processor. All at the same time. I'll bet that pair has stories to tell.
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by quesera 7mo ago
Voting errors and fraud are reversible. Instances of errors are reversed in every election. Instances of fraud are very very rare, but also reversed. This happens before the winners are certified, and before they're given the ability t
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by quesera 7mo ago
If you were the government, and the legal structure gave you an obligation to do X, you would do X. Your implied comparison of "promotion" vs "monitoring" makes zero sense though.
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by quesera 7mo ago
Fewer people want guns than want to vote. Consequences of errors with guns are higher than with voting, because elections are audited and mistakes and fraud are found and reversed. You cannot helpfully audit misuse of guns, after the fact
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by quesera 7mo ago
Sorry, I was imprecise. The EU can theoretically sanction entities with establishment inside the EU, for actions outside the EU. I'm not sure if GDPR allows this, but (as a terrible example), I've read of laws to punish foreign tr
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by quesera 7mo ago
Because the data is collected while voting is ongoing, and audited after the fact. This is how we know how extremely few problems there are, and how we catch the accidents (which are backed out, hence the delay between voting and election
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by quesera 7mo ago
I didn't know those existed, and so I kind of see your point. The counterpoint is that if your job was to prevent/punish financial crimes that affect consumers, would it make sense to ignore these exchanges? Heck, if M:TG cards we
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by quesera 7mo ago
Because 10% of US citizens (legitimate voters) do not have the forms of ID required in these proposed laws, and it can be expensive and time-consuming to get those forms of ID which are not otherwise required for their lives (QED), and they
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by quesera 7mo ago
I don't understand this position. Cryptocurrency exchanges are the primary legal touch point (fiat offramp) for a lot of criminal activity. Of course they will get attention for AML.
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by quesera 7mo ago
FWIW, there are vanishingly few problems with improper voting in the US, and the extremely unusual occurrences are mostly PartyB voters trying to "counteract" the imaginary PartyA violations. Anyone who tells you differently is
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by quesera 7mo ago
You're not wrong, but there is a huge difference between moving US government regulated currency to (possibly) foreign and (possibly) nefarious actors, and this.
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by quesera 7mo ago
I'd have to dig deeper, but generally "storing" (or maintaining storage) is not "processing" in the local US legal vernacular. Where both apply (PCI DSS, etc), both terms are used. In my personal (business) case, we
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by quesera 7mo ago
Yes! I'm sure you know this, but for anyone with similar problems: You can disable this conversion "feature" in the Excel "Automatic Data Conversions" preference pane. ...and I hope you have better luck getting peop
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by quesera 7mo ago
I get it, but the operative point is not "potentially harder", but "literally impossible" to enforce -- unless the corp has some presence in the EU of course. FWIW, I just checked Wikipedia to sanity-check my memory of o
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by quesera 7mo ago
I don't think the "rest of the world" does anything consistently! :) But the pronunciation difference between Indiana ("short I", in-dee-ANN-uh) vs Idaho ("long I", EYE-duh-hoe) isn't necessarily mean
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by quesera 7mo ago
I agree that ignorance is the most likely explanation. But it's not like these folks didn't grow up with "Italy" and "Italian" being on the radio/TV all the time , spoken correctly by newscasters. So ther
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's written that way, perhaps. But there's no jurisdictional reality that any of country/union A's rights will protect a person while they are present in country/union B. In the same way that a US citizen does no
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by quesera 7mo ago
Yes, I think you're right. The middle ground, which I'll phoneticize as "uh-RON" or even "uh-RAN" is what I hear in most places. The effete "ih-RAHN" is the voice that you mentioned might get side-eye
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by quesera 7mo ago
I didn't think of it in time to update my previous comment, so I'll add another! Decades ago, I knew people who pronounced "Italian" as eye-TAL-yun. They were usually older, sometimes WW2 veterans. This was in an area of
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by quesera 7mo ago
Well, I've lived in four states in the last 20 years. Anecdotally, the pronunciation popularity has split neatly along statewide-prominent political lines. For my four example states, three were correct/respectful, and one wrong&#
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by quesera 7mo ago
There's no reason for Italy and Iran/Iraq to be pronounced similarly. (Cf Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho?) But FWIW, the EYE-rack thing is because GWB (most prominently, but others before and after) intentionally mispronounced t
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by quesera 7mo ago
This is perhaps the silliest possible response I could imagine to what is intended to be an amusing example and non-illustrative of the more common real-world confusions. Which are real. > I guess your teacher gave you that example, but
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's just an amusing example, not intended to be illustrative. Confusion can be real though, and certainly speed of comprehension is enhanced by proper grammar. > The reason people actually care is only ever to do with in-group sig
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's "ZIP Code™", trademarked by the US Postal Service (this is mostly to prevent others from misusing the name). It is exactly equivalent to a postal code, and most US residents will know both terms, although they will alway

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