Readit NewsThe rules the EU establishes will also apply to the EEA, and in practice will almost certainly also be adopted by the UK, which has tended to take its lead from the EU on such matters since Brexit. So, while pedantically these are not rules for Europe, _for practical purposes_ they likely will be.
The same could be said about every logic puzzle, or other types of puzzles.
People don't do them so actually solve any sort of new problem, or achieve some sort of productivity.
The same reason people don’t jog to get from point A to point B, or to learn how to get around more quickly.
Logic puzzles are exercising parts of our brain that don’t get exercised regularly.
What improvements have been made to make them better? The problem domain seems pretty well defined and even 20 years ago the things that were changing felt like polishing off a few rough edges caused by earlier resource constraints.
I don't want to be dismissive and say "Why make this?" as a implied suggestion that it shouldn't have been made.
Nevertheless, Why make this? I assume there are good reasons for doing this that I am not aware of, what are they?
I dislike Java as much as the next guy, but I believe the true value of tools (and this tool in particular) is in the embedded wisdom and experience of their creators/Terrence Parr. Just generating a functionally equivalent port doesn't add much value.
That said, that's just a first impression, I have no idea what motivated this fork
Emails are not people. You can impersonate a person, but you can't impersonate an email. If I own a company and I issue the email dick.less@privateequity.com but then have to fire him... using this email address to transfer company assets back to someone who can be responsible for them isn't fraud (for that purpose, at least). How is this not the same issue?