unwarlikeExtortion

Hmm...

I'd wager KYC applies either way (anyone placing a bet should be known, not just who ends up winning) and not paying out wins is a clear breach of contract.

So very clearly doubly illegal. First they let any rando gamble, and then they don't pay out wins.

Why not?

End of life care is different from "normal" care. Hell, it's a specialization with its own name: palliative care.

And you know the most likely outcome is the person going through the same torturous ordeal again, switching over to palliative is a reasonable decision grounded in medical ethics.

Had this happened in any other way the police would be called and the perpetrators put in prison, which is improbable in this case for obvious reasons. And this wouldn't be possible in a non-backwards society.

In other news:

Water tebds to be wet. Dehydrating it is hard as well.

Technically in most jurisdictions in the USA you’re supposed to make a reasonable effort to find the owner (eg asking nearby people if they dropped it)

This makes no sense for loose money. There's no reasonable way to ID the owner. Anyone can say it's theirs.

For a wallet, that's a different story. Even without documents you can ask them to describe how it looks and what's inside.

The sudden death stuff sounds pretty wild. I wonder under what explanation regulators just accept 1 in 10000 patients will just randomly die from the drug.

I'd like to hijack your comment for a quick PSA for today's lucky 10000, even though I doubt many of them hang around these parts of the web.

The compatibility issues aren't the alternative's faults. Rather, the cause is Microsoft playing dirty.

Microsoft Office silently breaks compatibility with its own self-made document format (the so-called "Open Office XML"). They made the public standard and switched to it around 2010, and yet they still sometimes just... stray from the standard.

Since most everyone uses MS Office, people's first instinct is to doubt the small player for being bad, underfunded, low quality or whatever else instead of doubting MS for playing dirty. The entire tactic reads like a slightly modified Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Of course he'll hand the cost off to consumers. As if his wedding yacht ring, like everything else he does, wasn't directly financed primarily by his consumer-facing business!

And how do you verify the source of the "yes/no" signal is a valid ID card? How do you know it's used by the person linked to it?

Either the yes/no is trivially faked (so you might as well skip the formality), or the user secretly does get ID'd.

As long as it's profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.

Once it's revenue and they're in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.

The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.

I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.

I would also like the car to be "smart" enough not to beep that it's in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.

And you know what's the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.

I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.

Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.

I'm not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!

I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I've had the opportunity to be in are asinine.

Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone's actively dying on life support.

One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.

Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don't need to pass a practical exam before driving it.

Honestly, as bad as it is, there might be one good effect: apps and software will get less bloated and spec-hungry.

It is like replacing an aggressive cancer with a congenital heart issue though. Both are terrible in their own and unique ways and choosing the worse option isn't all that sensible of an ask.