Republican’s response:

A little bit of Venezuela in my life
A little bit of Greenland by my side
A little bit of Cuba is all I need
A little bit of Canada is what I see
A little bit of Mexico in the sun

Neither interpretation is wrong.

PEMDAS (or whatever you call it) is not a law and makes no mention of implicit multiplication. My Casio calculators rates implicit multiplication higher than explicit multiplication and division by the way.

Here’s another ambiguity:

Is 2½ equal to 1 or 2.5?

Depending on how you enter it, my Casio calculator returns either.

• If you create a normal fraction and then put a number in front (by going left with the arrows) it will result in 1
• Only if you use the dedicated “fraction with number in front” button will it result in 2.5

Fair enough, looks like we communicated past each other to some extent. I took your first comment as arguing this system was more subject to abuse.

I edited my comment to better reflect my original intent.

I mean, everything is subject to abuse. The relevant factor is the likelihood and difficulty of such abuse, isn’t it? And I don’t really see how using the stamped date as an authority reduces either or how not doing so increases either. The way you’d commit abuse changes, sure, but doesn’t make abuse any easier/harder in my opinion, just different.

Bing/DDG have a lot of weird censorship.

“Shapedo” and “Sharkpedo” both work btw.

I still don’t see how stamping immediately could reduce the risk of abuse.

Anyone intent on doing so in a position of power can still do so. Maybe they have a stamp for a future date, maybe they “lose” certain mail, maybe they do not empty any of those election mail boxes the week before an election.

How would it be subject to abuse¹? Deliveries are somewhat predictable, by law 95% of letters must arrive within 3 days, 99% within 4 days. Mail-in ballots “should” be delivered within 2 days.

If it must arrive regardless of circumstances you can generally just send it via fax (except for mail-in ballots of course).

Though this has also lead to some issues. Because the 2025 election was a snap election there was significantly less time for mail-in ballots to be sent. This caused issues for many expats living outside Germany and as a result, at least a couple thousand votes from 200,000 registered expats were probably discarded.

Edit: ¹ any more than a system relying on the date on the postage stamp?

Interesting that this is even relevant in the US.

Here in Germany the only relevant metric is whether a document has arrived at the recipient before any given deadline, from ballots to legal documents. It is considered your responsibility to ensure sending anything sufficiently early.

It’s satire. Satire is meant to be hyperbolic. No comparison of current events with past events can ever be fully accurate.

The message is fairly straightforward. Trump’s peace negotations with Putin are exclusively for splitting Ukraine up between the US and Russia. Not necessarily in the sense of occupation (for the US parts) but in terms of exploiting Ukraine’s resources for the sole benefit of Russia and the US. That’s it.

The connection is two powerful countries splitting up a third one to its detriment. What other well-known historic German event could this be compared with except Molotov-Ribbentrop?

It says Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 2.0

This is the (German) name of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, or to be more precise, the additional protocol specifying the partition of Poland.

What do you mean?

Cars just do that sometimes.

Could it make testing less conclusive? Part of testing is to see whether people actually enjoy the game. And I’d conjecture immersion-breaking placeholder assets could lead to worse testing reviews.

They’re legal tender in Finland because they are legal tender in the EU. I don’t know anything about Finish law but I believe permitting stores to refuse some coins while allowing others could violate some EU directive.

Finland is even forced by the EU to mint 1c and 2c coins (though the amount isn’t specified so they’re just collector’s editions) despite not circulating them.

And Wikipedia says (without citation though):

When paying in cash in Finland, while by law a shopkeeper should accept the coins, usually they will decline, and ask for higher denominations to match the Swedish rounding, even when presented with exact change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_euro_coins

you can’t buy shit with those in Finland

Stores would have to accept them as they’re legal tender even in Finland. Maybe I’ll go annoy your retailers and bring a bag of 1c and 2c pieces if I ever visit and pay some portion of the price with them.

Hell, I’m already somewhat prepared. Just you wait!

The opposite, you have a right to privacy even after being sentenced. Such a registry sounds like it would drastically increase recidivism rates by making you unemployable and unable to form a social life.

Even though this isn’t C, but if we take from the C11 draft §6.8.5 point 6 (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf):

An iteration statement whose controlling expression is not a constant expression, that performs no input/output operations, does not access volatile objects, and performs no synchronization or atomic operations in its body, controlling expression, or (in the case of a for statement) its expression-3, may be assumed by the implementation to terminate

“new Random().nextInt()” might perform I/O though so it could still be defined behavior. Or the compiler does not assume this assumption.

But an aggressive compiler could realize the loop would not terminate if x does not become 10 so x must be 10 because the loop can be assumed to terminate.

Infinite loops are often weird though. They could be seen as undefined behavior and the compiler may do whatever it feels like.

Not sure about the last one though. The other two are trivial to optimize away.

The products are largely illegal to sell in the EU. They regularly fail health standards and safety standards because those are expensive.

That’s why the customer is the importer instead for these apps. You’re allowed to import stuff that is illegal to sell to consumers after all.

Oh, I didn’t consider the “any other” aspect.

Welp, I can still register several distinct legal entities in different EU countries, can’t I? Maybe one could be a “Taking every EUPL work on the internet and relicensing it under LGPL as a service” company. That’s bound to make some money from SaaS companies if it would be this easy to purge the EUPL terms.

Though the “ideology” quote is a bit awful, I’ll give you that. The matrix itself does look fairly neutral though, especially with this part under “Discussion of Linking”:

We made the assumption that, by selecting a Gnu license, licensors follow the FSF position and want to consider that most cases of static linking create a derivative.

I’d also argue the 27 legal systems might not be too relevant since copyright law is generally equal in the different member states. The remaining legal issues (e.g. warranty) are irrelevant for interoperabilith between licenses. Also, most importantly, there are only 24 languages in the EU.

If the official guidelines are recognized by courts as legally binding then I think the EUPL is superior to even the AGPL. Sadly that remains to be seen due to the lack of EUPL projects out there (and the lack of corresponding lawsuits).