Because the legal requirement is to keep those financial records for a maximum of 10 years? I'm sure it depends on jurisdiction, and the type of the document, but financial records generally 10 years in Europe.

Don't worry, if they think they can extract more money out of you, you can be sure they still keep the documents. Case in point my HSBC account which is officially closed since 2014 and they still try to contact me illegally.

What about financial accounts? I need to ping my accounts every X years or the company just keeps the money?

Depends on the jurisdiction. In the US, each state has escheatment[0] laws governing how untouched accounts are retired and how they may be subsequently claimed by their original owner. That process typically happens through a government agency rather than through the original company that held the account. But other parts of the world have other processes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat#Transfer_agents_and_es...

That doesn't seem logically related (though that doesn't mean it legally isn't). If there's a statement from last year saying that the account has x amount of money in it, then that's a document within the 10 year retention even if the last deposit was more than 10 years ago, so there's still a record that the account exists.

Yes? What happens if you don’t ping in 20, 50, 100 years? At some point between 0 and infinity, it’s probably safe to assume you’re not coming back.

You can argue where to draw the line, but arguing that there shouldn’t be a line at all is absurd

The metaphor from the title does not speak to me. Treat bugs like patients. How. By making bugs "feel better and be stronger"? I'm sure they mean "treating bugs like illnesses".

Fair, the codebase might be more accurately described as the patient and the bug is the ailment it's being treated for.

The original idea of the metaphor is that a "github issue" is a patient that enters the hospital, gets "treated" (by being resolved), then leaves the hospital. The metaphor gets mixed up when we start using the word "bug" and "github issue" interchangeably.

Exactly. It's the app that is being treated like a patient.

no, they're not selling you an image, they're selling you "tokens"

You're confusing their arbitrary monopoly money for their product.

The product is the output, not the tokens.

The product is the thing that makes the output. You aren't buying the output.

You get the chance to explain it to the judge.

The court will now have a chance to establish that. Maybe there's a precedent over that, too.

How many mass shooters left diaries, letters, memoirs containing threats? I don't see why you don't see.

Innocent until proven guilty. Every citizen has rights until there is reasonable suspicion, probable cause, etc that they are commiting a crime.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...

If you want to be secure in your papers, maybe don't type them into a giant data collecting machine.

The court is going to have a look at it.

How many of them drank water and/or respired oxygen?

The false positive rate of the test that you suggest is frankly atrocious.

cat face long eyes, an amused cat, the person has some disassociation issues

There are more than 3000 mosquitoes species. I assume the answer is: nothing.

I don't buy oil from Saudi Arabia. I buy gasoline from a local gas station. It doesn't say where the oil came from.

> It’s not sympathy so much with Russia, more of a complete distrust of US-led causes for war.

The ex-DDR folk has nothing to do with this. They literally want a tzar and claim the life was better in DDR (translate: got stuff for free, didn't have to do much).

Europe, and indeed Germany, is so much more than ex-DDR.

There are plenty of ex-DDR folks who think we should just get on with the war and start annihilating everyone from Dresden to Kamchatka, too.

Alas, the challenge for those who want peace is to get those who see only war to sit down and shut up for a while. Germans are actually good at that when they want to be.

Well, Europe East of Berlin wall is only so much. But we talk about Germany here.

> Germans are actually good at that when they want to be.

Yeah, whatever that is. They don't know themselves.

Unlike the ex-DDR folk craving for Russia to take care for them. There's a reason why that part of Germany turns right and votes AfD now. It's a mix of USSR nostalgia and dislike of the Western Germany because they believe they are still mistreated, 35 years on.

There are many in Western Germany who also believe that Germany has been mistreated by its allies and that Germany should disassociate itself with warmongering states - such as the UK and the USA - and instead use its economic muscle to bring peace. It would be a big mistake to limit support of the AfD to the ex-DDR folk. There is a rising anti-NATO sentiment in German youth, also.