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I think the issue is that color blindness is typically the result of a physical abnormality with the rods/cones in the retina. Your claim is essentially akin to saying a black-and-…

There is something to be said about this particular style of argument, as it's akin to the "paradox of tolerance". Ultimately I think the most fair thing is to let both sides attem…

I'm not saying that Firefox on Android has significant market share; rather that Android has significant market share, and those users could be served by switching to Firefox solel…

Firefox on Android supports it without any issue. That would cover a significant enough segment of the population that it might encourage actual change in the industry if people st…

You'd be required to jump through the hoops to get your custom firmware approved by the necessary regulatory bodies, just as Tesla did for theirs. It's not really feasible for a pr…

I live in a not-so-great area of town. There were two murders in the last 6 months. One in my neighborhood, and the other in an adjacent public park. The always-on lighting is a de…

The lights are indeed outdoor, and cover most of my backyard. It's a neighborhood within a major metropolitan area, but the light doesn't bleed beyond my property lines. As for the…

I have a pair of PAR38 LED bulbs from Cree Lighting (2100 lumens) that are rated for 25,000 hours. They're in a flood-light mounted under the eaves of my house. I never got around …

As the saying goes, "past performance is not indicative of future results"

If we consider that roughly 73.6% of Americans are overweight[0], perhaps there would be some benefit if substantially more people started taking GLP-1 medications. [0]: https://ww…

It's 40% of the _starter dose_ (2.5 mg), which is what patients begin taking to get their bodies accustomed to the drug. The "maintenance dose" that patients build up to can be man…

Not all supporters of a given political party agree on everything. They may simply align with the party on the topics that are most important to them, even if they disagree with ot…

Not to mention that these "phone books" also included everyone's address, and married couples were usually listed together.

If they already have your password (i.e. it has been compromised) there is no social engineering taking place. In fact, they're doing the honorable thing and not simply trying the …

What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transc…

The comment is referencing the "Dropbox" comment of lore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Basically, something along the lines of (paraphrasing) 'this can be done today by…

I'm having a hard time reading this as a reasonable suggestion, so I apologize in advance if I'm being closed-minded. Do you not believe that this would lead to further bad outcome…

All the browsers on my machine report my resolution as 1080p despite using 4k. I assume this is because I run at 200% scaling (I believe this is relatively common among anyone usin…

There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code h…

I think you're referring to a similarly named N64 game. This story is about a game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers

The widespread adoption of Chrome was largely driven by word of mouth, people like you and I installing it on our friend's/relative's computers and telling them it was safer/faster…

If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them. Definitely agree about it being cut…

> you cannot avoid all ads (for example, sponsored segments). Look into SponsorBlock, as it allows the community to mark such segments, and your browser will automatically skip the…

I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and they asked me for a tip as soon as I said I was there to pick him up. I replied "Can I see my dog first?" It just shows that there's a…

I fully expect the data to be de-anonymized and then used against people that have familial links to those who have donated their data. "Oh, your great great-great-grandfather had …