Yes, that is why I mentioned the IAU’s definition was more specific.

Very large? Enough mass to have a round shape.

Dwarf everything nearby? Clear out its orbit by colliding with/capturing/ejecting shit.

I propose a better definition:

Planets are very large objects orbitting a star that dwarf everything nearby

I’m pretty sure this is the intent of the IAU’s definition. It’s just more specific.

Do you mean the asteroids at the Lagrangian points? Every single planet has asteroids there because math/physics dictates those points to be stable. Jupiter has the most at its points because it’s the largest planet.

Same with Neptune cleaning its orbit: It has collided with every single thing in its orbit EXCEPT those that synced their orbits to Neptune. An object that is gravitationally dominated by a single planet should not be a planet under any definition.

Sources because I had to read into your claims and I’m no astrophysicist:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object

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

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.

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.

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.

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Mostly because Apple’s update policy is superior to A LOT of Android companies. OEMs are really slow when patching known vulnerabilities.

Quick study I found when trying to find evidence:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/16-Acar-A-Device-Centric-Analysis-of-Android-Security-Updates.pdf

Example from that study:

Compared to the top three OEMs we examined so far, Google is the one with the most stable support behavior. All of the Pixel devices receive monthly security updates without any delay or missed SPLs [Security Patch Levels]

It’s utterly insane this is noteworthy. Not delaying security updates for KNOWN vulnerabilities should not be exemplary.