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Comment by tekchip

5 hours ago

The act of "allowing“ negates the “without your approval“. You see the failure in the logic here I hope.

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dns_snek  3 hours ago

I thought we were having a technical discussion not a linguistic one. Baseline level of technical understanding is expected. s/allowing/enabling/.

allow [intransitive verb]: to make a possibility

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allow

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