There are services that will do this for you. Last I checked they were typically in the neighborhood of a couple hundred Euros a year.

Whether or not GDPR applies to a site not in the EU is somewhat subjective. It comes down to whether you envisaged serving people in the EU.

If your site does not need EU visitors it can make some sense to block them. That provides evidence that you did not envisage serving people in the EU, and then you don't have to figure out if you need to be hiring a service in the EU to receive GDPR mail.

This is the general approach that privacy advocates have said should be taken. It is just what I'd expect from a liberal state that has a record of trying to protect privacy but wants to address the issue of how to keep children from sites that are not suitable.

• A receipt when a person comes to our site and purchases something.

• Their license key if what they purchased requires a license key.

• Replies if they send email to customer support.

• If they have purchased an automatically renewing subscription we email a receipt after it renews or a notice that it was declined if the charge does not go through. This is required by the major credit card companies.

• If they have an automatically renewing subscription and they are on a plan other than monthly we send a reminder before it tries to renew. This is required by the major credit card companies and by the consumer protection laws in many jurisdictions.

In 2022 he pardoned ~6500 people with federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana. That didn't actually release anyone from jail because it turned out everyone in jail with a simple possession conviction was also in there for other crimes but for those for whom it was their only drug offense (both currently in prison or not) it wiped it off their record which would restore eligibility for various things that drug offenders are barred from.

Near the end of his term he commuted the sentences of around 2500 non-violent drug offenders.

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The military death rates per 100k military members sent were 390/100k for Canada and 290/100k for the US.

What horrors others have inflicted on Gaza deserves plenty of discussion, but in a thread branch where it is relevant.

Canada would like a word.

  US deaths in WW2: 420k
  US population in 1940: 132000k
  US death rate from WW2: 318/100k

  Canada deaths in WW2: 43k
  Canada population in 1940: 11300k
  Canada death rate from WW2: 380/100k

  US deaths in WW1: 117k
  US population in 1918: 103000k
  US death rate from WW2: 114/100k

  Canada deaths in WW2: 66k
  Canada population in 1918: 8100k
  Canada death rate from WW2: 814/100k

The October 7 attack on the other hand killed 12 Israelis per 100k population, which is a little over an order of magnitude more than the kill rate of the 9/11 attack on the US.

I don't think there is any country on Earth that would not respond to a 9/11 magnitude attack, let alone an attack that is 10x bigger per capita, with overwhelming force if they have the resources.

I believe some MP3 players also had this.

As far as I know none of the top streaming music services support it in their official interfaces. I believe it can be added via third party tools, but it would be nice if the services would build it in.

Band-in-a-Box is a commercial program that has been around since 1990. What it did then was let you specify a chord progression, style, tempo, and instruments and it would make a generate a MIDI track. I think it might have also been able to take a melody and come up with a chord progression for it in a style/genre of your choosing.

The target market was musicians. Instrumentalists used it generate tracks to improvise or solo with for example, and songwriters found it useful to essentially have a full band at their beck and call while composing.

Over the years they added more features, and switched to sounds from recordings of real instruments played by real musicians. They have very good stretching and pitch transposition so you can use these at a range of tempos and keys and they still sound good.

It is still aimed at musicians, and can be overwhelming to others. This I've read is made worse because as it has grown in features and capabilities in the 25+ years it has been available the interface has become kind of disjoint.

It is not something the kind of person who just wants to describe what they want to hear and have a song produced would enjoy. But if an AI could operate it for them, maybe that would work and the result would be something with much better sounding instruments than the AI song makers (and without the risk of including unlicensed copyrighted material).

And doctors are not dietitians.

Doctors in the US receive an average of under 20 hours of training in nutrition over four years of medical school. What little they do receive is often focused on nutrient deficiencies rather than on meal planning for health and chronic disease prevention. Less than 15% of residency programs include anything on nutrition.

To become a registered dietician requires at least a Master's degree in dietetics or nutrition or a related field, and at least 1000 hours of supervised internships.

PS: before any Europeans hold this up as an example of the poor US health care system, doctors in Europe average 24 hours of nutrition training.

That's really no different than age of consent laws. In the majority of US states (33+DC) that age of consent for sex is 16, 17 in 6 states, and 18 in 11 states.

In Europe it is 14 in 14 countries, 15 in 12 countries, 16 in 20 countries, 17 in 2 countries, and 18 in 3 countries.

All of those are somewhat arbitrary. There are many people over 18 who lack whatever maturity age of consent laws are trying to ensure people have before they can consent.

Going the other way there are people who are under the age of consent in most of those countries or states who are mature enough that there would be no harm in letting them consent.

Any particular population wide age of consent in a state or country then cannot simultaneously protect everyone who needs protection and avoid forcing protection on people who do not need it.

It would in theory be possible to make the age of consent an individual thing where you have to be psychologically evaluated and if you pass you get your consent license. (A hybrid approach might also be possible--a high automatic age of consent like 21, with people under that able to apply for a lower age. Probably also combined with "Romeo and Juliet" laws so people under 21 who just want to fool around with people close to their own age can do so without having to be psychologically evaluated first).

I expect that very very few people would be in favor of replacing the one size fits all approach to age of consent with such an individualized system.

They have opened source this [1][2].

This was designed to comply with eIDAS in Europe so that it could be incorporated into the EU Digital Identity wallet.

Current implementations depends on smartphones but it should be possible to make it runs on other devices that have similar cryptographic hardware.

[1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

[2] https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk

My understanding is that Collabora is an online collaborative office suit based on LibreOffice, with commercial support available and managed cloud hosting. It is also available fully open source and supports self-hosting if you don't want their commercial services. Their developers contribute back to LibreOffice.

What I think of when I think of core developers of an office suite are the people developing the word processor itself and the spreadsheet itself and the other core applications.

Did the ejected developers work on those, or did they only work on things built on top of then or other other non-core things? If they were working on the core applications how many non-Collabora people also work on them?