A lot of studies regarding penis length are self-reported. So basically subtract an inch from the results and you get a more accurate picture.
It's also why countries that censor genitals in porn report smaller penises than countries where the race of the local population is heavily fetishized wrt. supposed "big dicks". When actually measuring, all those differences become smaller than is statistically relevant.
Taler doesn't offer consumer protection, and the anonymous aspect might sound nice but KYC laws prevent merchants from accepting it (and in a lot of cases, knowing who the customer is is quite helpful from a merchant perspective).
But the real killer to me seems to be this (from the Taler docs):
It is possible for the merchant to refund a contract order, for example if the contract cannot be fulfilled after all. Refunds are only possible after the customer paid and before the exchange has wired the payment to the merchant. Once the funds have been wired, refunds are no longer allowed by the Taler exchange.
This basically means your payment method is dead on conception. Online stores in the EU are required to offer no-questions-asked refunds within 2 weeks. This means a store has to wait 2 weeks at minimum before they get their money (modern payment methods are instant or next-day, 2 weeks is exceptionally long). That's a massive dealbreaker. It also means exchanges can make tons of money by keeping the transferred funds in their account and collecting interest on it.
It also weirdly means that refunds aren't possible once a transfer is settled. That's a weirdly brief window imo.
It's also quite funny to me that Taler claims to be immune to chargeback fraud, when it doesn't offer chargebacks in the first place. Makes it easy, don't it?
I don't really see why a consumer or merchant would necessarily want to use this over other options. Perhaps a restaurant might, or some other store that sells things that are intended to be consumed immediately, or a service provided immediately (like a theme park or cinema). But even then there's other, more widely available options instead.
Wero is in a completely different space, doing primarily ecom payments instead. Taler doesn't do what Wero does any better (or in many cases, at all it seems).
Shift-Del to delete files is usually much faster, though obviously this skips the recycle bin.
I know people like to joke this, but there's plenty of "I use distro X because it works well with Nvidia gpus", "I had to use XYZ to make the drivers for my steering wheel work" and "I use software XYZ which doesn't quite work (fast enough) through Wine/Proton".
Windows entire shtick is that due to its market dominance, companies will make sure their product works with Windows, hence it's a very plug-and-play OS.
Sure, Windows does shit users don't always want or like. But it doesn't generally outright break things these days. And if it does, the instructions online on how to fix it are generally a bit easier to follow than those for Linux.
Linux being a bit harder to set up isn't really Linux' fault. And these days the chance that your distro outright works without tweaks is fairly high. But it's not at the same level as Windows is yet.
I think the point was that "biological sex" is a legal term, not a biological one. Hence the application of the law here, irregardless of what this kid's actual situation is. It's a demonstration of why this law is stupid, and what stupid things a school board has to do to remain compliant.
They're almost certainly not grouping the kid with the girls out of spite, but to avoid being liable for not doing so if someone were to find out this kid is, according to the law, "biologically female". The school has to protect itself from this liability, and thus we get this extreme example of the law being stupid.
The idea that A42(7) is stronger than A5 is not that broadly supported. A42(7)'s wording implies a stronger commitment to "assistence", whereas A5 seems to rely on states militarily retaliating when one of them is attacked, as if they themselves were attacked.
So even if A42(7) implies a greater obligation to assist, the kind of assistence is left nebulous, so there may not be an obligation to militarily assist. With A5, military assistance and the use of armed forces is explicitly mentioned, even if the exact length of the obligation to provide it is less clear.
Regardless, from these debates we have seen that most countries seem to believe that A5 should be used for military defence in case of a military attack, whereas A42(7) can be used for other types of attacks, e.g. terrorist attacks.
Remember there was a pretty big uproar when Greece merely suggested that they could invoke A42(7) against Turkey. So even if in theory you end up concluding that A42(7) is stronger, reality might disagree.
It's not AI. The oldest version of this image is from May 11th 2020, and the first widespread text-to-image model DALL-E came out in January 2021. That makes this image too old to be AI-generated.
It also doesn't show any strange AI defects the early models had, in case you may think it's from a very early proprietary unreleased model or something.
States that governments don't need taxes to finance stuff
Lists reasons why governments really do need to do so and that not doing so is a terrible idea
Refuses to elaborate
Leaves
What did he mean by this?
PayPal passes most billing information to the store where you purchased from. Card info is excluded, but in most cases PCI compliance checks ensure that card info is stored securely (or not at all).
It sounds more like Rashida Jones.
I dislike how the stories end. The buildup is alright, the setting's the same. But then the ending is terrible. The Doctor isn't being clever or smart or witty or whatever, a solution randomly presents itself and that's it.
It's like, great you can move the space station by causing a burst of baby farts, but you have a TARDIS. You can take the babies yourself. You even talked about that with the only adult there! He then was soundly defeated by the Maestro, only for the Beatles to randomly show up and play a random chord? They even had a clever way to defeat the Maestro (the bubble of silence that the sonic could create), and then did nothing with it.
It's just so... Meh. If only they could write the Doctor to be clever again, I'd enjoy it so much more!
Fuck ads, obviously, but I can understand there's confusion here.
If GPC says "do not sell my data", but the user subsequently opts in via the cookie banner (or vice-versa), you have two conflicting signals. There's no clear case law or anything that says what to do. Or what should happen if the same user sends different GPC signals depending on their device or browser.
Although I guess the easiest solution is just "do not sell data if any signal suggests it's not allowed", but that doesn't line advertisers' pockets I guess.