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>Ideally we'd have a functioning Congress that would debate these issues and write carefully thought-out laws to regulate app stores.

Why is it ideal that there are more laws, more regulations...?


The system is currently very broken. Less laws wouldn’t make this situation better. Either update/adapt, or require specific amendments?


Because the world changes, so laws need to change as well. Because capitalism would devour the entire planet without regulation.


I know of so many communities that are banned from reddit and that had to move to other hosts...


The title is not supported by the text in the article.


I saw the same thing, the article is discussing people "being contacted by bots run by companies" is a billion light years away from "15% of content on reddit is corporate trolls"


>After he was rejected for the sales job, the company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,” according to the EEOC.

And that's why companies don't tell you why they didn't choose you.


I have had multiple companies tell me they are looking to hire female or PoC developers during an interview before, I never knew I could get 90k for it!


Believe me, you couldn't.


They probably could, if they actually said that.


That discrimination is often explicitly legal, although one wonders how companies in the United States get away with such things since the US has constitutional protections against institutional racism.


Those were their exact words?


Yep. Only the moronic companies say why you weren't hired or were fired. Most just ghost their former and potential employees.


I've had interviewers ask me if I know anyone exactly like me and with my 30 plus years of experience, but who were five or ten years younger.


If these historians feel so strongly about this maybe they should pay the yearly £4.5m out of pocket?


Running a society costs money. The court system costs money. The alternative is very undesirable.

That £4.5 million per year is a small price for social stability.

In addition the digital option has a likelihood of costing a lot more


Paper records of wills are not going to have any impact on "social stability". The connection is so tenuous that using this line of argument there is almost no expense that the government shouldn't pay for.


Over a 100 years the 4.5mm is 450mm pounds. Less than half a billion.

What do you expect the liability to the state would be for all the wills getting wiped out, or modified, etc. Another way to think about it is, what would a private company charge the UK government to insure all liability costs of digitizing the wills? Especially since there are likely many individuals who are highly motivated to modify the wills database (many would benefit simply from destroying it).

I don't know the answer to that question, and even though I suspect it will be far greater than 4.5mm, the point is that's the correct way to look at this cost, set against all the liabilities and risks digitization opens you up to. And most never seem to consider the costs and risks of moving to a new system when pointing out the cost of the existing system as a reason to move.


Virtually nothing? I can't think of anything you'd likely get out of destroying a 25+ year old will. There are time limits for most claims against the executors.

They are also planning to keep some number of wills, if you kept say everything over a certain value you'd probably cover the cases you're imagining.


The numbers to support political decisions are usually made up


4.5m GBP rounds to zero in this context.

The UK budget is 1.045T of which this represents 0.00043%.


> If these historians feel so strongly about this maybe they should pay the yearly £4.5m out of pocket?

Abolish the police, which will result in far greater savings. Then if you feel strongly that your house shouldn't be broken into, maybe you should pay for costs for private security out of pocket?


Privatizing security? Now you're talking.


No it doesn't. It works for me. Maybe "for some" should be added to the title?


FTFA: "This issue affects enterprise wireless networks but does not affect home wireless/internet usage."

https://status.it.ubc.ca/incidents/jbgq7qslbj21?u=x8npr4065f...


maybe or at least add 'potential'; i think it is a click-baity-title; update a windows font and the reboot from that will cause the wifi connection to drop lol

you are one one of feature releases mentioned i presume?


Yes, I'm on 23H2 with KB5033375 installed and my AX211 card works fine.


Your sample size of 1 out of 1.3 billion windows devices is a bit on the limited side. I think the article I saw said it breaks it for enterprise grade wifi so this may be a factor as well.


>The iPhone camera modules sticks out more each generation to the point that a case is a must.

I don't like that the iPhone without a case is not stable on a table when you tap the touchscreen. Seems like the kind of huge oversight that Apple wouldn't make.


I got one of these magsafe rings - https://www.amazon.co.uk/SYNCWIRE-Magnetic-Double-sided-Comp...

It's both a helper for using the phone with one hand and a "stand" of sorts to keep the phone stable when it's face up on a desk.

I do agree the protrusion is pretty ridiculous. I don't mind as much that mu current 15 Pro has a thicker one than my previous X. They're both more or less equally bad IMO.


The fact that things are better in Europe than in Russia or China does not mean that we can't show concern for the changes that are being imposed in Europe.

I don't know why people keep bringing up Russia or China in every one of these conversations. It's nothing but a strawman fallacy.


Because GP said this:

> They are no better than the Russian and Chinese counterparts after all

Correct, we should be protective of our freedoms and indeed the EU (IMO) is a bit lacking in its speech protections, but no one except China and Russia are served by this meme that US/EU are just as bad as China and Russia.


Because without Russia and China to point a finger at, the arguments are just bad.


Do you have any source for this? Because if I can imagine a side saying "white people bad" it's definitely the West.


Not obvious to me, since the person in the article took money for it. There clearly is an economic transaction thus consent is implied.


This again, the exploitation of someone in a dire situation, would be a crime in many countries.

Here the reference for Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__291.html


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