On a typewriter, you'd be able to just adjust the carriage position to make a continuous dash or underline or what have you. Typically I see XXXX over words instead of strike-throughs for typewritten text meanwhile.
Most typefaces make consecutive underlines continuous by default. I've seen leading books on publishing, including iirc the Chicago Manual of Style, say to type two hypens and the typesetter will know to substitute an em-dash.
Of course it couldn't. Messaging was moving very rapidly with new features like stickers, reactions, expiring messages, phone number IDs, SMS fallback, stories, bots...and all of this had to be presented a very integrated and user-friendly package. You simply can't move that fast (or move much at all) with a huge standard like XMPP with 20 different clients that barely change.
Not to mention that in this capitalist society, messaging services are incentivized to grow at all cost because user-base is the best fuel for monetization. Holding onto XMPP federation like Google did in XMPP's final years of relevancy would be suicide; you would be helping your competitors while gaining nothing.
But by that same token, could it be possible for a new standard which incorporates all those features to become viable when the messaging space has stabalised?
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Vermont gas distributors have the highest profit margins in the nation. The gasoline oligopoly here is committed to creating high barriers to entry. This includes buying their competitors just to remove the tanks on premise.
Costco decided they were going to distribute gasoline at its Colchester, VT location. They spent years in court battles with Skip Vallee, owner of R.L. Vallee, Inc., eventually went up to the Vermont Supreme Court, which handed out a decision last year that Costco is permitted to build a gas station.
Then again, considering the number of retailers that categorize sex toys under sexual health and wellness, health being the keyword, is it possible that HIPAA could be relevant? And if not, should it?
> Then again, considering the number of retailers that categorize sex toys under sexual health and wellness, health being the keyword, is it possible that HIPAA could be relevant?
No, because HIPAA covered entities and the information held by them to which the Privacy and Security rules applies are very explicitly defined, and how retailers categorize products is not a factor.
> And if not, should it?
Probably not, though you could probably make a good case that a more general privacy law not focussed on relations between healthcare providers, payers, and patients should exist and apply.
Considering stores like CVS can freely track things like cough and pain medicine (which are indisputably health-related) for marketing and giving-you-endless-coupons purposes, it almost certainly wouldn't be a HIPAA violation.
Crowdsourced moderation, like downvote buttons on certain websites, hasn't worked particularly well. Wikipedia probably has the most appropriate moderation model I've come across. I'd mostly be concerned that annotation could become a stalker tool unless services are vetted for moderation.
Crowdsourced moderation always results in groupthink, without exception. If you don't forcibly specify and ruthlessly enforce the groupthink as something respectful, considerate, reasoned and elevated, then you will get Nazis, and you will turn into Reddit. This is an iron law of the internet.
