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Jetbrains products also have a fallback license after a year, so you retain perpetual acces to an old version* and I don't think there is much change in the space of git UIs.

* iirc the version that you had one year before your payment lapsed, it applies to discounted versions as well

We should just set fire to cars parked illegally instead.

Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered "compelled speech"

I'm European so I don't quite understand.
Say person A paid person B to say X and had a valid contract. If B didn't say X can person A sue person B to compel performance of contract or just money back/damages?

At least for new games wouldn't it just be an implied part of the purchasing contract, meaning money back at least.

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It's the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren't part of the solution.

How?

Good question. I said should, not could... it would take a constitutional change, [...]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn't allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren't? If yes how would that change?

Inline code in `back ticks`

Multiline code
in 
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triple back tics
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I don't know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

I agree with the sentiment but ...

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It's imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

... or one second back, that's the problem.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

I had quite the opposite experience in the alps, we have hiked within meters cows because the heard was laying and standing on the path. I have never seen very young calves or bulls on the mountains.