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Can you explain what sanctions impact swiss citizens?

Since many are asking what a "ban" is in this context, the site has a FAQ: https://pen.org/book-bans/book-bans-frequently-asked-questio...

The gist: Books that were previously available but removed due to pressure from outside (or other teachers)

Does anybody take the World Happiness Report that serious? I think it's a neat and funny thing that probably has some footing in reality, but I never thought of it as hard science.

A similar thing was recently reported for Germany as well. When asked how they believe the average German is doing, most people answered something along "worse than me".

MASS is allowed casing of Maß, but not the preferred casing: https://www.rechtschreibrat.com/DOX/RfdR_Amtliches-Regelwerk... Page 48

Both Maß and Mass are valid spellings for a liter of beer ;) Not to confuse it with Maß, which just means any measurement, of course.

From the Wikipedia article:

> Finnix 0.01 was based on Red Hat Linux 6.0, and was created to help with administration and recovery of other Linux workstations around Finnie's office.[citation needed] The first public release of Finnix was 0.03, and was released in early 2000, based on an updated Red Hat Linux 6.1.

So it seems that it was based on Knoppix later

As I understood it, this _is_ the standard that won. It's not like the EU invented it.

> People will generally follow an optional standard to make their own lives easier

You must be new to the internet /s

A company does not gain anything by sending "better" invoices that follow a standard. Only if they receive standardized invoices, but usually not enough to pay extra for it. The fact that standardized invoices haven't happened yet without legislation should be proof of that

To be clear: The ones who need to follow the standard (companies that create invoices) do not need access to the standard, only some supplier does. And there are a lot of things that the government requires that costs money - you could see it as another tax.

That said, I actually agree with you - it's crazy that we need to pay for a stupid standard document.

> In 1990, both Ritchie and Thompson received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language".

> In 1997, both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language."

> On April 21, 1999, Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998 from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Awards

I think that's also good ;) Ritchie and Thompson also received a Turing Award; not for the C-language, but for UNIX and OS development in general.

Have you ever tried to get a game developer to open source a game? And a Japanese one at that?

Even if they were willing to (they're not) and if they still have the code (they don't), it will contain proprietary code from Nintendo and you'll never get your hands on that (legally)

You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/

> I don't see the point

> Therefore I'm against this

Dude.

Man, I remember a few years ago when I was in a place without good Internet reception, but good enough phone reception. Wanted to send a SMS instead of a WhatsApp message and only noticed hours later that my phone switched to RCS without fallback and my "SMS" didn't go out because of the missing internet connection.

I disabled RCS that day and never enabled it again.

As someone who really struggled with social interactions (and still does at times, just not as bad), this fails already at the first two steps:

> Listen-- really listen --and engage with open ears

How do I understand what is important? People say a lot of stuff, some important parts and some parts that are beside the point. Talking also involves identifying and reacting to the "important" bits, picking up the "wrong" stuff will be very weird. An exaggerated example:

> "We had a really bad traffic accident when we went to Sweden"

The obvious thing to engage with is the accident - but a struggling person might as well ask how they liked Sweden.

> When it's your turn to talk, offer up an anecdote [...]

I really struggled to even notice when it's "my turn" to talk. Either interrupting the other person or awkwardly looking at them until I notice or the other person tries to recover the situation.

> Yes, it is of course in Germany forbidden to kill an invading predatory species - even on your property. This is Germany 2025.

Raccoons can and are hunted in Germany, what are you talking about? The federal laws regarding hunting don't mention them and thus allow states to decide. I haven't checked every states local laws and executive orders, but I'm not aware of any that don't allow hunting raccoons.

On the one hand, I'm happy that something is being done about this, because it's clearly a problem (completely basing this assumption on this one article).

But I'm very annoyed that this needs to be done in the first place. There's a lot of annoying regulation in place that shouldn't have to be there, but I feel like some profit-driven dicks will always find a way to mess things up for everyone

> The 25 is there in the name.

This largely depends on who you're asking? I don't know anyone who wouldn't consider 24 the course correct number of Advent, simply because that's the common number here (we celebrate Christmas on the 24th). So 12 makes perfectly sense, just do every second day.

There are also many groups who don't start on the 1st of December, but on the first Sunday of Advent. And probably many others.

That's a bit overzealous, isn't it?

> Hey, please send the shipment to my customer. No, I can't tell you the address, it's personal data.

Some data sharing will always be necessary. What needs to be banned is the unnecessary sharing, but it's hard to 100% define what counts as necessary

It's very likely that over the years, it found something. But we didn't have anything to compare against, because it was always mutation testing from day one.

Years ago, I used mutation testing in a pretty big Java project. Let me tell you: You don't want so much coverage. It's usually a waste of time and makes changes to existing code very annoying. Keep mutation testing/high coverage for a small selection of _very important_ code, but don't overdo it

Certainly a JSON-based REST API that is not really RESTful just so that people can complain about it

I'm not going to bother fact checking a random comment without any sources, but regarding your second point: do you think "the rest of the world" gets drugs for free?

A man opens a door after the bell rang. Outside is a snail, asking if they can use the bathroom. Annoyed, the man picks up the snail and throws it back to the street. A few weeks later, it rings again - when the man opens the door, the snail asks "what the hell was that just now?"

... That's German humor for you

Switch DRM, running custom code and interacting with RAM is a solved problem on the Switch (1). There are some really impressive mods, like a multiplayer implementation for Super Mario Odyssey

I have my issues with how legislation is set up in the EU, but it's not like the commission can just make its own laws. The commission can only submit proposals, which then have to be approved (or changed) by the council and parliament. (In fact, the commission is the only party that can submit proposals, something that is very weird to me) As such, the commission is not part of the legislative branch, but the executive. The main job of the executive is to enforce the law, e.g. with fines.

In fact, this seems to be pretty similar to Sweden, quoting from [1]:

> Most state administrative authorities (statliga förvaltningsmyndigheter), as opposed to local authorities (kommuner), sorts under the Government, including the Armed Forces, Coast Guard, Customs Service and the police.

It appears that the swedish government can also initiate legislation, just like the commission (although the Riksdag can initiate on their own, something the European parliament cannot).

Also, fwiw: The fines can also be adjusted or cancelled by the court of Justice of the EU

They got banned because they were accused of pretty bad market manipulation (which Jane Street denies of course)

I tried a random PDF that includes an annotation, but the annotation didn't show up. I assume the annotations this supports are no real annotations?