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The economics prize is listed on nobelprize.org ("the official website of the Nobel Prize") along with the other Nobel prizes, so I don't think you can justify calling it "unoffici…

Because the plaintiffs are Swiss. Who else should they sue? Similar cases have happened elsewhere, e.g. the Urgenda case in the Netherlands. Pointing to the inaction of other count…

> There is an international court of human rights. There isn't. There is the ICJ, which handles disputes between states, and the ICC, which handles war crimes etc. and definitely i…

Your quote left out "subject to a confidentiality agreement". Streamers are not obliged to make this information public, and I don't expect companies like Amazon to do so since the…

How would you define "movement" without reference to "time"?

> but it keeps not happening The article you're responding to is a dramatic demonstration that it has happened: Amazon's IPs would not be worth $4.5B if we hadn't run out. It requi…

Because nobody has yet bothered to sue them for false advertising, so they continue to get away with it.

The vast majority of C programmers do not use a formally verified C compiler, and most of them wouldn't care about that anyway. From a security perspective, demanding a formally ve…

This is what happens when a new security model is retrofitted onto an existing one. In the original Unix security model, there was no security concern with this (except maybe for c…

Not a very convincing article, since it presents some statistics about the US (e.g. "only 10% of injured Americans ever file a claim for compensation and only 2% file lawsuits") bu…

Looking at the current war in Ukraine, the "martial spirit" seems to be alive and well in Europe.

> with Crimea specifically called out, ironically, the United Kingdom and the United States have to immediately declare war on Russia and open hostilities. It says no such thing (a…

There is no such thing as an inherent right. Rights are a legal construct. They don't grow on trees and are not laws of physics. There are rights that I may believe should be unive…

East Germany did not "collapse" in any sense relevant to a discussion about preppers. It peacefully re-unified with West Germany and was never in anything resembling a state of ana…

The GNU M4 manual has a sizable section acknowledging its precursors: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#History

Or worse than NP-hard: C++ template instantiation and the C preprocessor are Turing complete. (Except that I believe C++ requires some fixed limit on the maximum instantiation dept…

What's the difference between a "photo" and a "photograph"?

The author isn't conflating anything - by saying "national misery" he is making it very clear that he's talking about the US situation.

> People have memories. And sometimes they have false memories. For example, regarding: > 8 Months ago Kamala Harris herself said she would NOT get Trump's Vaccine. What she said w…

According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ , Singapore has a total of 31 coronavirus deaths, one of the lowest per capita death rates in the world. So it seems to have…

I wouldn't be too sure about those GDPR penalties. Dutch universities are also using Proctorio, with the recorded footage being sent to the US: https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-op…

Here is the actual (archived) Euromyths website: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20191004103218/https://... It appears the EC has deleted it since debunking myths in the Briti…

> I note that children are incapable of consenting. That’s what the age of consent means. Completing 18 orbits around the sun does not magically imbue a person with free will and t…

The article does not describe it as a misconception.

How so? It doesn't seem more complex than IPv4.