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I also wonder if it's a trademark thing -- there are other world cups, but there's only one FIFA capital-W world capital-C cup. Just off the top of my head, the last decade has had…

As a lapsed NY Jets fan, I disagree -- competent ownership and management is required more than good draft picks. To wit: Tom Brady was drafted at 199 overall, but the Jets' last t…

You don't even need custom bindings —- library bindings are a thing, even if they cost significantly more then a typical hard cover binding.

They also either could not or would not write efficient Flash clients on Mac OS or Linux, while the Windows version was fine. I bounced around a lot between the three OSes at that …

In general, managing a single device is always going to be easier than managing multiple -- fewer things to keep charged, fewer updates to run, less stuff to carry, etc.

The first iPhone launched without a carrier subsidy. When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon in 2011, you could either spend $200 and get locked into a 2-year contract, $300 and get …

The Telecommunications Act of 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 It passed with support from both parties in both the House and Senate.

> (And if you’re left-leaning, you can’t pin this mess on the “corporation-friendly” Republican Party because it was Bill Clinton who put his signature on this mess!) I would argue…

And then there was Bill Atkinson. https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

Microsoft moved to a subscription service because they botched the launch of the Xbox One, with users accumulating digital libraries on the PlayStation, and that failure is somethi…

Also, it's something of a pragmatic choice -- Valve did put major effort into native Linux games around 2013, but the effort fell flat for a number of reasons. Proton is them tryin…

I'm shocked that Tops earned #1 -- they did a remodel a few years ago and started taking reservations (and turning people away during busy periods if they didn't have one), and it'…

> Chicken and egg problem, if no-one buys it, no-one will develop any killer apps. Disagree on this. Going back as far as VisiCalc, it's about a device making space for a killer ap…

Costco requires a membership, and they do store credit back at higher tiers. They absolutely know what every member buys.

More to the point: having a monopoly isn't de facto illegal (just look up natural monopolies), it's using the monopoly power in an anti-competitive way that's illegal. Microsoft wa…

The exclusivity deals they struck early on are an albatross that still drags them down. I think the audience would have been much more receptive to deals like Alan Wake 2, where th…

Two organizations that love money (Apple & F1) collaborating to make a ton more money. The tech for in-cockpit capture and presentation of the races themselves was great, but the d…

> They're even wearing fascist style uniforms and all the commercials are so over-the-top The big clue to me is when they visit the recruiter. The man is sitting at a desk and says…

More to the point, now that most productions are using intimacy coordinators, there's a degree of certainty around the consent of R-rated images. There's basically no consent with …

I'm not sure of the immigration status, just an article that called out ~70 transfers from MPD DOC to ICE following incarceration. I'd imagine it's a mix of documented and undocume…

MPD _is_ sharing and coordinating with ICE _when they're supposed to be_. MPD has already transferred ~70 people to ICE for deportation this year alone, after they completed prison…

Not a MN resident, but both the daycare my child attended before starting school and every daycare in my area have a combination of tinted/obscured windows and strict access contro…

I'd believe that. I was in a situation where a bag started smoking _in the security checkpoint_ (it was a camera battery failing), and the TSA agents all abandoned the checkpoint. …

While I do agree with you (and unlike the other reply, I want to acknowledge that this bad-faith kind of thing happened with Louisiana declaring law enforcement a protected class),…

I would argue a season or episode of television is a product, and Apple TV gates them behind a subscription. I used to buy the season passes so I could return to shows later; that'…