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Health care could be more evenly distributed, of course, but the health care that OP is receiving is definitely very high quality. General statistics about the entire population cannot speak to that.

So to summarize: a. you're paying that for health insurance, not for the birth of the child. If you, your wife, your children had any other diseases then those would be covered as well. This is a significant benefit. b. all the systems that subsidize health care for those less well off don't apply because you're wealthy. So you are bearing the full cost of extremely high quality health insurance in a western country.

both scenarios speak to either an incredible impatience, or deliberate incompatibility to tie people to their ecosystem.

I agree with chatgpt here

You presumably also want to go to work and have it not still be dark. You can't have it both ways.

> An LSE study found that DST transition increases people's feeling of being rushed for time, and the number of hours spent on leisure decreases by roughly 10 minutes following the transition and more specifically the spring transition into DST decreases life satisfaction by around 1.44 per cent.

I think this summarizes it. The negative effects are concentrated around the transition. The positive effects are spread throughout the year. You lose 1.44% life satisfaction for a few days, and gain immeasurably more over the course of the year.

DST is just a hack to make the time roughly correspond to when the sun rises, instead of when noon is. It solves the problem that people want their day to start when the sun is up, not before, and not after. The problems it creates are mostly for programmers who can't be bothered to write good software. Well I say tough cookies, you'll have to handle the edge cases so the rest of us have comfortable mornings.

Google play has a dominant market position as well and is presumably next for this sort of ruling

What would you expect them to do in this case in particular?

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919. The comparators available to us (the Epic Games Store, the Microsoft Store and Steam’s lower headline rate) suggest that the competitive rate of commission would be in the range of 12 to 20%. We do think it is reasonable to make some adjustment to that range to accommodate the points made by Apple about its premium brand, the quality of its offering and its established market position. However, we do not think those would be sufficient to displace the upper end of the range and are likely to operate mainly at the lower end, where the offerings are arguably less attractive to users for those reasons.

920. Applying again an approach of “informed guesswork”, on the basis of the evidence before us, we find that the likely range of Apple’s Commission for iOS app distribution services in the counterfactual is between 15% and 20%. For the purposes of quantifying the overcharge (for both the exclusionary abuses and the excessive and unfair pricing abuse) we will use the mid-point of that range, which is 17.5%.

Is autopen a particular sore point in the US for some reason?

I can't imagine that lasted more than 30 seconds after they made a public blog post about how they were doing it.

> even people who (rightly) hate the "curl | bash" combo. You could be running anything.

That's true unless I audit every single line, out of potentially millions, in the source of a program I intend to run. If I'm going to do that, then I could audit the ./configure script as well.

> image-rendering: pixelated;

I suppose this is a bit of humour as well?

>Your assumption seems to be that if no-one physically stops these men, they can and will do what they like, with impunity

That seems like a reliable assumption to me. Your assumptions seems to be that if you make a "rule" concerning who can go into which bathroom based on a hidden characteristic, no one will take it upon themselves to enforce this rule, and thus to make frequently wrong guesses regarding this hidden characteristic. That seems like a poor assumption.

>and that there's no chance of them simply respecting women's boundaries

Different people have different boundaries. Different people have different standards as for who should be sorted into which bathrooms. One person's arbitrary standards cannot dominate everyone else's lives. Instead, rules must be made based on reason and fairness, as I demonstrated above.

Respecting boundaries means not concerning yourself with the genitals of a person merely trying to use the bathroom. You cannot enforce a policy regarding someone's sex without inspecting their genitals. How is that respecting of their boundaries? How does that lead to a person feeling safer in the bathroom?

It is not. Trans people, frequently, look like the opposite sex. Hence there can be no reasonable enforcement of this policy. Cis people, frequently, look like transgender individuals of their own gender. Hence they are liable to receive harassment by any attempt to enforce such a policy. Harassing people, cis and trans, merely trying to use the bathroom in peace, is a far greater imposition than merely existing in the same space as someone else.

OSM is competitive with google maps in most places. Even if a person uses google maps, its inaccurate to say they "rely" on it when they could fail over to osm if google maps went down.

shades of "jews found out that usury wasn't such a great idea after all". please don't blame a entire group for the actions of a few, and especially don't insinuate that this makes them worthy of being genocided.

Since you can't communicate case for all characters, trying to communicate it for some characters while failing to differentiate for others would be a bad decision. It's better to accept that the characters do not represent case at all.

On the other hand, if someone searches "appname apk", they will be able to download it forever, and install it for another year (thanks google!).

Why is that dangerous?

I don't like the idea of launching a whole thread for every concurrent task I want to do. But holy hell is it so much easier than figuring out how tf async works. If I wanted something super performant I wouldn't be using python in the first place.

> An attempt by an open source password manager to provide export of private keys was ruled insecure and should not be supported.

The name of the issue reveals the actual problem: "should never be exported in clear text". If the export was encrypted with a passphrase in a standard format, then there would be no issue. It's specifically doing it in plain text that causes consternation. Of course, in practice it doesn't make much of a difference when users are incapable of choosing secure passwords, let alone passphrases. But requiring exports to be encrypted is the least one can do to maintain a degree of security while still allowing exports.

> For many years already, people lose access to their Google account every day and can never regain it. Google is well known for terminating accounts without stating any reasons. With that comes the loss of access to your data. In this case, you also lose your credentials for third-party websites.

In practice this is frequently already true. Many sites require an email to sign up. Whenever you attempt to log in on a new device, they require you to type in a code sent to your email. Without access to your email, you cannot sign in.

Google can and will do exactly the same thing on android in a year when they implement the functionality.

If the ability to remove apps obligates them to remove apps, then that is a strong argument for them not to have the ability to remove apps.

It also almost certainly doesn't so obligate them. They aren't acting as an intermediary, they are just incidentally signing the app. The app signing certifies in the first place that they checked the documents of the app devs, and in the second place that they haven't decided to remove the app. But removing the app is an action, not an inaction, they can't be compelled to take it. It would be like the record label saying I had to stop a bootlegger I happened to observe while I was out for a walk.

apt install xorg

> and I don't take 'pseudocode' as an excuse

They write the non-pseudo variant later. There, the return value is a pointer and the check is against NULL. Which is fairly standard for C code, albeit not always desirable.

Public wifi near universally implements porn blocks in the first place. I can't imagine there would be much chagrin about promoting that into a law.

> Do you refuse to watch age-restricted films in the cinema because the owner of the cinema might have a record of what you've watched?

I can't imagine that there aren't many people who refrain from watching all sorts of content in public out of privacy concerns.

>If you don't like the requirement to prove your age by presenting some form of ID, then all you need to do is voluntarily refrain from these and any other age-restricted activities.

I certainly don't, and I would definitely oppose this being made into law.

I don't doubt it's not fun, but I also don't think that either you or Mr Metz really give a shit. Rather, you like to bandy about this harassment as proof that your opponents are evil (of course, when it's your opponents being harassed, then that's a sort of divine punishment, and hence also proof that they're evil). If it were any other way, then you wouldn't particularly bring it up in reference to scott, since there isn't much of anything scott can do about other people committing harassment. Furthermore, you might express a degree of sympathy for his efforts to avoid harassment by not having his dox published in the nyt, rather than indignantly expounding on your god given right to publish whatever you feel like.