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Agree completely. Additionally, there is a massive Chromebook user base (with the default Chrome browser) that basically has a chokehold on the K12 education space. Conjecture: I t…

I would be surprised if Apple does what you suggested, but I do think it's an excellent suggestion, thank you. It just won't be a priority unless some sort of legislation forces th…

While it might be fashionable to hate on Google, the question "What did Google bring to my life" seems really odd. I can't believe I have to say this but search, and more important…

Ah sorry, I misunderstood as well. Makes sense!

I think I know why you are being downvoted, but I just wanted to chime in and say that I get exactly where you are coming from. On certain days, I cannot shake a similar thought fr…

This is great! I liked the "know it when I see it" comment :).

Thank you for taking the time to share this idea with us; it certainly made me think.

In case some of the community members are not fully aware of the background of the comment about mass murder: Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat when there were religious riots…

Thanks for taking the time to pen a thoughtful response. I really appreciate the point about training users to enter login credentials, how it might be risky, and also that this co…

Thank you to the Firefox team, this seems like a really nice release. I am very happy about the "If you don’t have a master password set up for Firefox, Windows and macOS now requi…

I have used both Postico and Tableplus extensively, and if you are sure that you are going to be working with Postgres only, its the better, more Mac-like app. However, both are a …

Thank you for a well reasoned and measured take on this situation. My parents (in their 60s and 70s, living in India) made mention of the callous attitude you refer to as well. Cul…

This is so neat. Like someone else mentioned already, this feature has been very useful for me countless times. In fact, when it doesn't work, I tend to blame the PDF itself :). Th…

I am guessing the same mechanism that allows them to change the url on scroll, would be used to change/reload the ads as well.

I am glad this made it to HN frontpage, otherwise, I might have missed it; and I bet others are on the same page. Anyway, just wanted to say thank you :). This is very good stuff!

I do not know why you are getting the downvotes, but you are correct. The DoT and independent inspectors backed up this scenario. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15125313/it…

Depending on what kind of analytics you want, Fathom is quite nice too. I recently set it up on my servers (about a month ago) and its been working well. It’s open source as well, …

As far as I know, there are no open APIs from Apple that’ll help. However, I think it might be possible to use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ranging as a proxy for distance. Whether t…

"I can imagine a future when many people only have a watch as their personal device but use other larger devices that are shared, instantly personalized by a watch." This is a good…

"I have way less trust for our tech illiterate congress than I do for Facebook." That is a perfectly fine position for you to take. But if you consider that a majority of the citiz…

Completely agreed. Similarly, most cars in Jaguar's current portfolio have good Dynamics.

I like the “unmoor” phrasing. Thank you :). To truly immerse oneself, primarily communicate in a language foreign to one’s country of origin, and eat local foods (no harm in indulg…

True, but in this case the content behind the door is obfuscated. This reveals, or at the very least reiterates, what is behind the door. In some cases, that might result in us dec…

"for 1.3 seconds the system knew an accident was going to happen and failed to act on that knowledge." This is so tragic. Even Volvo's own collision avoidance system would (could?)…

I completely agree. For a while I was wondering whether an MVNO operator like Virgin Mobile (piggybacking on Sprint) that exclusively works with iPhones (a fairly recent change) wa…