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There are parts of your car that you are not legally allowed to remove or disable (for example, the muffler or catalytic converter https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files... ). There are times
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> And the only way to prevent it from becoming a duty is to accept that people own their own mistakes. This tends to be counter to consumer protection laws or data privacy laws. A company that can be held to strict liability for their ac
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Do not make perfect the enemy of the good. There are failings of vetting. That said, for sensitive apps they tend to go through more strict scrutiny of their functionality. Publishing a "Wəlls Fargo" application will likely not
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Tech... a "maybe" yes. However, this isn't entirely a tech problem - it's a social/human one. Not every mechanic has a driver's license. Sure, they may enjoy working on cars and the technology of cars... but
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by shagie 1y ago
The recent article on the WOW signal is "Arecibo Wow! II: Revised Properties of the Wow! Signal from Archival Ohio SETI Data" https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657 by Abel Méndez, Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos, Jorge I.
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https://everything2.com/title/Sir+Sufud+and+the+bear Ages ago, there was a land that was plagued by a terrible bear with a perchance for beating up various small animals that happened to be in the area. This wouldn&#x2
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https://chatgpt.com/share/68a209d3-ef34-8011-8f60-1a256f6038... I'm going to go with "Because it wanted a higher noon." was probably its best one of that set... though I'll also note that while I di
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by shagie 1y ago
You can also patent the shape of a bottle. https://patents.google.com/patent/USD48160S/en (yes, its an old one). These fall into the classification of design patent which covers ornamental non-functional elements
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by shagie 1y ago
It is indeed a typo (I blame a lack of morning coffee). I've been a JetBrains user for quite a while... I first got AppCode and JetBrains with the Mayan end of the world clearance ( https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/
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by shagie 1y ago
As an individual user who has had the all products pack for a long time, this is $3 per year increase ($173 -> $179). ... For organizations with the all products pack, this is $200 per license per year ($779 to $979). That can be a bit
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Mastercard does not have that information. Mastercard doesn't do the billing. The bank does the billing. Mastercard does not know the location where a given card holder is (or for that matter, any demographic information about the ca
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... and if Valve and Itch had blocked content that was illegal in Australia before Collective Shout weaponized the Australian laws, we wouldn't have heard about it beyond it showing up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Mastercard and Visa have rather corse information about the transactions. They've got the credit card number, the merchant name, the time, and the total amount of the transaction. They do not have line item level filtering of a transac
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> Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote Two things work against that. First, it requires a sufficiently high karma to downvote something. Not that threshold is that high, but it
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by shagie 1y ago
And that is what should have been done. Steam and Itch should have blocked content that is illegal in Australia from being seen or sold in Australia. The problem is that they didn't properly identify which content it is. "Does
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... and risk adverse international companies (like Visa and Mastercard) need to follow the laws everywhere despite what various jurisdictions shield them from in those jurisdictions.
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In those cases, what would a law... "that businesses involved in facilitating financial transactions in the United States are considered “common carriers” and must not discriminate against, cancel or disadvantage any customer or
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg... > Some types of pornography (both real and fictitious) are technically illegal in Australia and if classified would be rated RC and therefore banned in
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How would that work with international money laundering regulations? Would that apply to Australian courts?
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They're based out of Australia and so have the Australian porn laws behind them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg... > Some types of pornography (both real and fictitious) are techni
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How would Steam know? And yes, that's a problem that they're dealing with right now. Bellular News : Steam Faces Financial Obliteration: Others Are Already Dead https://youtu.be/AlDkL3DndtM The law being talked a
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That would be a change from preventing illegal transactions. As it stands currently, the risk associated to the company for allowing illegal transactions is what drives their policy since they get brought into lawsuits for allowing monetiza
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There are a relatively finite number of Icelandic names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee > A name not already on the official list of approved names must be submitted to the naming committe
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Yes, Steam should have followed Australian law (it was even part of their pre-existing rules that were being poorly enforced). The Australian group said to Visa and Mastercard "people have taken your merchants to court before, and you
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> But I wouldn't be sure this still works as a useful candidate filter today, given how much coding agents have advanced. Prior to ChatGPT coming out, I gave a take home test to sort roman numerals. What before was a "here&#x27
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An interloper being someone who intrudes or meddles in a situation (inter "between or amid) + loper "to leap or run" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loper ), an extraloper would be someone who dances or
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Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141777 https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html In the sample programs t
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A Pseudorandom Number Sequence Test Program - https://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ Monte Carlo Value for Pi Each successive sequence of six bytes is used as 24 bit X and Y co-ordinates within a square. If the di
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They are illegal in Australia - where Collective Shout is based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...
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Visa and Mastercard have been sued in various jurisdictions for facilitating the monetization of illegal content by some merchant in that jurisdiction before. They've been made party to the defendants and the court refused their &quot

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