The problem is not that ArrayList is insufficiently specialised but that it is too specialised. Anywhere you see ArrayList in a method signature you are entitled to expect an explicit justification for why it isn't an IList.

PayPal (Europe) is registered in Luxembourg. It may be owned by an American company but it is a European one.

I would counter that a news site that allows comments on their posts is also social media under the guidelines that comments ipso facto makes it social media.

That's not a counter because it's arguing against a position that no-one is arguing for. I joined this thread to point out that the first post in it wasn't arguing for it. The distinction is staff content vs user content, not the existence of comments.

On Youtube OTOH, I seldom go to the comments other than a few woodworkers I follow and interact with personally.

My emphasis. And you don't consider that "social"? That's the pattern of use which defines social media.

Social media isn't about poltical trolling - although I don't doubt that for some people that makes up the majority of their experience with it. And a site/app doesn't cease to be social media because you personally choose not to interact with likes, comments, etc: it's about the pattern of use that it's designed to support.

If you can show me that what I wrote is off topic...

The only thing I said was that the "relaxed definition" you were objecting to was absent from and in contradiction with the post you replied to. Questions around what regulations websites should be subjected to are a completely separate issue to questions of how they should be categorised.

That is Your definition of social media. A person posting a video about how he fixed his car - how is that social media? People comment, usually thanking him, sometimes offering criticism, a better way, or even tell him he did it wrong. But the guy doesn't flag their comments, he either ignores them to thanks them.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you're trying to follow Gricean maxims of discourse (and I feel that I'm being very generous there, because most of your comment appears to be about a completely different topic): your definition of social media involves people flagging comments on their posts?

That a person can use the comment section of a YouTube page, sure. But anything that allows replies and comments is social media by that relaxed definition.

No, you've skipped past the part

"You" post videos

The point of YouTube is that all of the content is posted by users, not by an editorial staff. That's what makes it "social media". If YouTube isn't social media, neither are Tik-tok, Instagram, etc.

If you're paying workers 125 USD per hour then you're overpaying them by a factor of 4 in the US, according to a quick Google search, and by more in other countries. A benefits/salary ratio of 1/5 is probably too low, but even so I think you've overestimated the bill by a factor of two.

You seem to be envisioning one- or two-storey houses rather than six-storey blocks of flats. Here in Spain each flat has its own compressor(s) mounted on an outside wall of the flat, not a bunch of tubes going past all the other stories to the roof.

"Communism" means individuals can't own businesses. All businesses belong to "everybody," and the government runs them.

Not originally. Communism means that the workers own the business. Individuals can own businesses, but when they employ other people they have to give those people a share of the business.

He still owns enough shares to have some influence, surely?

It's not that it violates the theory but that it violates the symmetry. And yes, it's long been known that CP-symmetry violation occurs: that's why nowadays the main question in this area is whether CPT-symmetry holds.

What you say is true, but there's also a sense in which the announcement of results does have a bias to the northern hemisphere summer, although for reasons unrelated to one country's budget. In short: it's conference season.

Unless of course you have a spare silver spoon and go to oxbridge.

People repeating that prejudice and discouraging applications are a bigger problem for Oxbridge access than lack of silver spoons.

The Lib Dems should maybe have gone for a confidence and supply arrangement rather than full coalition, but the point of coalition is that both parties have to compromise, and the junior party/-ies have to compromise more. Compare the 2010-2015 parliament to the 2015-2019 one and tell me that the Lib Dems didn't have a moderating effect.

Officer, not agent.

I never would have imagined, ever, that anyone would pay for the things described in the summary.

Some of them might have been legacy purchases. I have the Oxford English/Spanish Dictionary app on my phone: it's a portable offline version of a tool which I also have in physical form (and the book is technically portable but might not fit in all of my backpacks). You might think that there must be good online English/Spanish dictionaries, but when I bought the app for my first Android I had 50MB of 3G data per month in my contract and I kept data turned off 99% of the time.