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So if tips or donations are prohibited, why is there a page on Stripe support detailing rules for donations, one of which is "for a good or service that has been provided?" https:/…

A resignation made under duress is invalid under Canon Law. Benedict was under a death threat and the SWIFT system had been shut down in Vatican City as an extra lever to exert pre…

Francis isn't the Pope: Benedict is.

One of the criticisms I heard recently about YAML is that there's no way to know if you received a full document or just a fragment since there's no grammatical structure for indic…

How about a tool/script/program that converts a Google Takeout mbox file(s) to a SQLite database? I could make use of that ...

The article mentions that while the Apple ARM chips are faster per core, the Intel chips are faster at multi-core operations. How is that possible?

If the Supreme Court gets to redefine the meaning of one word, there's nothing to stop them from redefining any other word -- or all of them. As Cavanaugh pointed out in his dissen…

From the majority opinion: "The parties concede that the term 'sex' in 1964 referred to the biological distinctions between male and female." I am not a lawyer but this sounds to m…

There is a strong legal argument to be made here. If one can simply identify as trans but the law doesn't provide a definition under which this would work, you're opening up ambigu…

The majority opinion and dissents are rich sources of insight as to how the law in question will be applied as to how the decision could affect precedent in the future so I agree t…

How can a service be bother end-to-end encrypted and have what is effectively a wire-tap that allows for services like real-time transcription? Even if we assume the transcription …

When I think of privacy technology I usually think of Signal or Wire or secure messaging apps... the problem with these is that they run on Android or iOS which have security issue…

A lack of MOTIVATED instructors is more accurate. There are more than enough retired HAMs who would love to teach interested students -- they just don't care for digital modes.