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> Apple doesn't have this problem because they don't even make docks they're so problematic There’s a Thunderbolt dock built into every display that they sell

> Rewriting a critical service like this in another language seems way higher risk than making sure all policy checks are flag guarded So like, the requirements are unknown? Or thi…

> If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous Disingenuous? More lik…

What is the check that we need to do for aspiring citizens that wouldn’t interest a lender? Also, making sure the house is sufficient collateral for the loan is a whole bunch of ad…

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655382

More config options means more to test and support, so more cost. The manufacturers who are buying lower end motherboards/chipsets at scale don’t need the feature. And virtually no…

Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it. Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke…

Aka cede de facto authority over international waters to a buncha thugs whose official slogan includes “death to America, death to Israel”. No thanks.

I doubt you even live in New York.

> Isn't your gripe with the Qatari government then rather than the airline? It’s an absolute dictatorship. The government and the airline are the same thing.

Your eyes are close together, is there really a benefit in having two?

Have you heard of email?

Virgin didn't have to be folded into Alaska. Richard Branson famously didn't want it to happen, but couldn't stop it. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/branson-says-alaska-air-was-..…

> In what other industry would the market tolerate such well-understood and severe dangers for users of products for decades? Transportation. Motor vehicles are a huge chunk of the…

Fuck this article. If city council had some nuts, they'd just deny Dolan his permits, and he'd be up shit's creek. All this blather about any eventual resolution needing to make hi…

The station has hundreds of staircases and dozens of entrances. If you commute into it three days a week and haven't found a path that's workable, maybe the train station isn't the…

If your therapist is telling you that you’re entirely justified in being angry at humans being humans, seems like you should find a better therapist.

Imagine how obnoxious it would be if you were detained by a federal agent for totally legal behavior.

The government changed because the nation changed. It's now the richest country in the world, with a population of 330 million people, and spans an entire continent from ocean to o…

This analogy doesn’t make sense to me. This isn’t a bank transfer, it’s a purchase of a digital artifact. Is Apple wrong to ask for 30% of IAPs in Candy Crush? Because this seems p…