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I have an early/obvious gmail account and get around 3 messages per day from unauthorised signups to legit sites. facebook and google (as recovery account) are the only ones that allow you to de-link your address from an account

https://www.ucas.com/file/292726/download?token=wswAnzge

"In 2019, 21% (31,220) of accepted 18 year old applicants met or exceeded their predicted grades, a decrease of 3 percentage points. In addition, 43.2% of accepted applicants had a difference of three or more A level grades – an increase of 5 percentage points (7,190 applicants more) since 2018."

Teacher predicted grades are almost useless.

Now Scotland has caved to political pressure and wants to inflate grades

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-537...

"However, these grades, taken overall, would represent a significant improvement on previous years - including a jump of 20 percentage points in the pass rate for pupils from the most deprived areas."

"If the results had purely been based on the estimates from teachers, pass rates at grades A-C would have increased by 10.4 percentage points for National 5, by 14 percentage points for Higher and by 13.4 percentage points for Advanced Higher.

These estimated results would have led to a higher annual change than had ever been seen before in Scottish exam results if they had not been moderated by the SQA."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53636296

A really difficult situation when what you have to work from is already inaccurate.

Please remove all metadata and In-app mentions of COVID-19 or its related keywords such as stay home, social distancing, etc.

that is just crazy

As usual they are just using a hammer to crack a nut.

They can't pull this shit with youtube because creators have a direct line to draw attention to it. With developers they know it will go largely unreported

I've not ordered from Amazon for 3+ years now. You can buy the same products at the same price elsewhere or generally always from ebay.

The only real advantage Amazon have is prime (if you pay for it) and simple returns, but you have to deal with a drone if anything goes wrong aside from that. Most other retailers have actual people that can make decisions answering queries

As I read it, they are using their dominance to force sellers to use their logistics service while increasing the price sellers pay for that logistics service with threat of being de-ranked if they don't use it.

All they will say is that buyers prefer amazon logistics and will pull out some user surveys and delivery rate statistics to prove it.

You can't just freely receive donations and not pay any tax. There is definitely an argument that you are donating to ensure future development of the software, essentially quid pro quo.

Edit: Wireguard literally make that case while soliciting donations

We're extremely grateful for all donations, which enable us to continue developing WireGuard as free open source software. We are happy to receive donations from interested companies who would like to see WireGuard development continue and thrive, as well as individual donations from folks who would simply like to say "thanks".