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Mastercard and Visa don't block companies from processing because of morals, they block them because they lose them money. They will happily process your payments for all kinds of shady schemes that are - to them - low risk.
You can absolutely be dismissed without cause in the UK, protections against this only kick in after two years of employment.
OK, but this quote from your essay:
> The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that "cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke cause about 480,000 premature deaths each year in the United States."
...that citation is wrong. It's not from the NCI at all, the NCI cited that figure which came from another paper by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The essay doesn't have accurate citations, the model has regurgitated content and doesn't understand when that content is from a primary source or when it in turn has come from a different citation.
I guarantee you however carefully you are handling your device it is a world apart from a datacenter.
The datacenter is temperature controlled and the air is filtered. The server is locked in the rack and never moves. By comparison, your laptop or your phone go through hell on a daily basis.
Not for decades. Apple sold its stake in ARM when Steve Jobs came back, they needed the money to keep the company going.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution
...has a good summary of how it works in a number of countries.
Debit fees are that low because of the Durbin Amendment, which legislated caps on debit card fees (amongst other things). Credit card fees are where the real money is made, and the meat of the complaint here.
Not really. At a company the size of Amazon teams are often in other buildings, if not other cities or countries entirely. The zoom calls continue unabated.
That's not really Teenage Engineering's primary market, in the same way Rolex's primary market isn't "people who need to tell the time". Both T.E and Rolex products do their jobs really well, but the people buying them are buying more for the aesthetic than the function.
Teenage Engineering are primarily a design boutique, although musicians do use their products their main audience are collectors / audiophiles / graphic designers going through a mid-life crisis.
This is pretty standard. There is almost identical language in the Windows and macOS EULAs, for example.
I worked on Portal and it came down to:
1. Cambridge Analytica. It is difficult to persuade people - and the media - you can be trusted to put a camera in their homes while you’re fighting a massive privacy scandal.
2. A leadership coup resulted in the project moving under Reality Labs, which never really wanted to be in the smart device business in the first place.
There were a bunch of other issues, but these two basically doomed the project from the start, which is a shame as it was well received by those who actually bought it.
The article goes into this in some detail. In particular:
* You have to get the propellant into space. This is going to take a large number of flights (~15) at a pace that has not been done before for a vehicle of that size (a launch every six days)
* You need to launch at pace because otherwise the propellant will boil off, which is another issue - you need to shade or insulate the propellant for a much longer period of time in much harsher conditions
* There is no gravity: whereas on earth the propellant separates relatively cleanly into liquid and gas this isn't the case in space
If this were true you would expect crypto to have taken off in countries with low interchange rates. Europe, for example, has far less of a rewards and points culture for payment, and (compared to the US) much lower interchange.
Crypto never took off as a replacement for credit cards for many reasons - the biggest coins out there are simply too volatile to be usable as a currency, they lack the consumer protections you get paying with a credit card, and they’re simply too complex for an average person to understand.
That’s not true at all for Apple Pay: “Apple Pay doesn’t collect any transaction information that can be tied back to the user. Payment transactions are between the user, the merchant and the card issuer.”[1]
The system is designed such that transactional information goes directly from the bank’s server to your device, and doesn’t pass through Apple’s servers (unless you’re using Apple Card)
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec82e7bc3f8/...
The English courts are permitted to take into account whether assurances for previous extraditions have been complied with:
> When considering the adequacy of an assurance in any particular case, the courts should place appropriate weight on any assurance previously obtained in extradition requests from the same requesting country.
http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2016-0191...
...this is of little comfort to Assange, but it does mean that there is an incentive for the country issuing the assurances to comply with them, otherwise their future extradition requests have a greatly increased chance of being denied.
> "Don't make me think" - Krug
That quote has nothing to do with cybersecurity, it's the title of a book by Steve Krug about web usability.
I am unfortunately old enough to have read that book when it first came out, and it's exclusively around how to design front-end UIs on websites to reduce user complexity. There is no mention of infrastructure or security at all.
You're making a quote around how we should make websites more usable and understandable to users - so they can use them without thinking - into something it isn't.
You are assuming that Spotify is just the consumer facing app, but it's not. It's far more.
You've got all the bits of Spotify you don't see. Like:
* Apps and interfaces for labels to ingest their music
* Reporting and billing so all those labels get paid
* An ad platform to service free-tier users
* Embedded systems. Did you know Spotify has a commercial hardware division to integrate Spotify onto smart speakers and devices?
The surface is huge.
They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 employees.
Legally it's their passport, not yours. A passport is the property of the US government at all times.
This doesn't really work in practice because you can just craft a prompt that fools both.
Yes, I read it, including the bit that said the Irish government told Apple their tax affairs were legal.
Apple paid taxes according to the laws that Ireland had at the time. The issue is not that Apple did not pay taxes according to the law, it’s that the laws themselves were incompatible with Ireland’s other obligations.
It would easily have made $30 million worldwide. Almost certainly domestic. You could question whether it would have made its budget back (70 million) on domestic, but for a family film with existing IP there aren’t really any blockers to clearing 30 million.
> The effects work is nowhere near done etc.
The film is finished, some critics had already seen it.
This is a Medium Wave service, it doesn’t work that way. The signals are reflected by the ionosphere, you can broadcast from thousands of miles away.
Nobody is going to be bombing Cyprus, where the BBC transmit from. The best you could do is jam the signal, but that’s cat-and-mouse at best.
Epic is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because it is beneficial to them. Epic is a multi-billion dollar corporation part owned by a massive conglomerate.
> BS: in reality it's usually one or two guys who actually do the actual work.
Over the last week, Godot had 32 authors pushing 52 commits. Over the last month it had 135 authors. This is not "one or two guys".
> So if Godot devs stop working on it you're stuck with a project with zero support.
Guess what, if a closed-source company decides to stop working on their product you're also stuck, but now you're even more stuck because you don't have access to the source to make your own changes!
It's not even their product, it's just a white labelled version of an existing Japanese toy!