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Because the EU could then reject those terms and not having a trade deal would be vastly more damaging to the UK than the EU.


No it can't - it's as bound by Article 50 as the UK is.


Article 50 doesn't require a free trade deal to exist after the Brexit, the "no deal" scenario is what happens if Britain exits without a replacement deal, and it's considered (by both sides) an outcome that's bad for UK.


Article 50 means that no deal happens without unanimity in the EU. The only way that binds the EU is in limiting the ability to make a deal, not obligating them to accept a unilateral UK demand.


So what happens if the EU and UK don't reach an agreement before the article 50 time limit expires? It doesn't make sense that the UK just gets to do what they like, otherwise they wouldn't need to negotiate at all.


As I say in other comments, WTO rules automatically apply - to both sides. The EU is fully bound by its own laws. It cannot unilaterally decide to reject WTO rules.


SendGrid for transactional email, https://myemma.com/ for newsletters (although I don't think Emma do double-opt-in by default).


We've seen problems from time to time with sendgrid and mailgun IPs getting blacklisted. Moved to Postmark, who are super-strict about transactional email only, and we've not had trouble since.

I've been recommending Postmark for transactional email and one of the others for newsletters.


Isn't that actually the opposite of "ironic", then?


How apposite!


There are multiple kinds of irony; I keep forgetting this isn't something well known.


is "wrong" one of those levels


Maybe they're being doubly, super ironic.


Isn't THAT ironic!




That's hilarious. Especially it ending up in your own marketing material. Lmao. Appreciate the link. I'm aware of this kind of issue having done plenty of customer service with disaster caused by misheard or misspelled things. So, I occasionally suggest a title change to some OSS projects that get posted here that might go big. Better to help them avoid the inevitable early on. :)


> Especially it ending up in your own marketing material

EVERYTHING can be marketing materials if you try hard enough :D


Publish too early and you get people assuming that you're a crank because you haven't done the research yet.


I believe the choice was to spend time on adding C99 support, vs spending more time on C++ support. C++ had more people asking for it, so it got priority over C99.


From what I've read it's not a legal issue, it's a "huge amount of money needed to get thorium reactors to where they need to be" issue. Nobody is really interest in putting up that money because current modern reactors are "good enough" - all the problems with nuclear plants tend to come from old, bad ones that are decades behind the state of the art.


We're getting close to this - you can buy graphics cards that plug into a PCI Express port on a laptop, for example. But the hardware's not quite there yet.


Presumably the "real" auth will be at the end of the project, which means it could still fail. This is also the case with kickstarter projects right now - typically a few % of your pledges fail and you can't collect the money from them.


Yeah, we tried this on our product forums and it didn't really help at all. :(


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