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Comment Re:Worse are sites with password constraints (Score 1) 42

a-z, A-Z, 0-9 ONLY (Note: Although this is a Nordic country, this still excludes our normal day-to-day use letters ä, ö and å.

While the restriction to letters and digits only clearly is too strong (any non-control character in ASCII — that is, character codes 32 to 126 — should be allowed, and such characters increase the security of the password), I can totally understand not supporting letters outside the basic ASCII range. For those, there's a non-negligible chance of them getting incorrectly encoded, which causes mysterious password failures despite you having entered the password correctly. Which is especially bad if it happens when setting your password.

Comment Re:The worst thing... (Score 3, Insightful) 575

If the land owner puts forward a set of conditions to allow you to build on that land, and you agree to those conditions, you and the land owner entered a contract. And that contract not only binds you, it also binds the land owner. And if you didn't violate that contract and the contract doesn't specifically allow the land owner to tear down the house even if you didn't violate the contract, the land owner has no right to tear it down.

Comment Re:Bitcoin, Litecoin... what next? (Score 1) 213

Well, the point I was trying to make is that your employer is not required to employ you. So if you make unreasonable demands on payment modalities, the employer can simply not employ you.

But thank you for explaining the term "legal tender"; I indeed didn't understand that correctly, although that was not central to my argument.

Comment Re:Is the pound better than the euro? (Score 1) 213

It's not about "better". But if someone offered me a product for 100 dollars, and someone else offered me the same product for 100 euros, then I'd certainly prefer the 100 dollar offer. And to decide that, I have to know the absolute value of the euro in dollars.

Now it's unlikely that I get a product offered both in euros and dollars, but most probably a product I get offered in bitcoins is also available in euros (I'm in Europe; in the US, you'll likely get it offered in dollars). And if I don't know the absolute value of the bitcoins in euros, I have no idea which of the offers is better. Therefore the absolute value matters for anyone paying in bitcoins.

Why anyone speculating with them needs to know the absolute value should need no explanation.

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