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If it's so difficult to report crimes, wouldn't that mean that the crimes that are reported represent the most egregious, since the people who reported them overcame the difficulty…

Your response is logically inconsistent. >Reported crime [...] should not form the basis of a policing strategy. and: >When police cease to act on reports of crime, people have no …

Your perception of your own personal safety is not an objective measure of crime and should not form the basis of a policing strategy. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-new-yo…

The optics are also really, really bad. I recall putting my bags through a scanner and walking through a metal detector when I visited Beijing in 2018. My first thought was “wow, m…

Uber and Lyft shareholders rejoice?

Tracking the ownership of your Chrome extensions sounds exhausting, especially if you're someone who just wants to surf the damn web and are not some kind of super nerd.

https://libro.fm . Every audiobook is DRM-free.

Are the alternative app stores hosted on Apple servers? Serious question.

None of those controls are commonly located on a touch screen, which is the topic of the article.

Wouldn’t it be safer to require all cars to have voice controls? Then the driver doesn’t have to move their hand off the wheel at all.

But more than a pound heavier than the current 13” MacBook Air

People were stuck inside, didn’t have money and sex is free. US has been below replacement rate since 2008, one blip isn’t going to rescue us.

No, COVID-19 is not a type of flu. COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while the flu (influenza) is caused by different types of influenza viruses. Although bot…

Zoning restrictions on dense housing, car focussed sub/urban development, ignoring climate change, rampant low interest spending, and here we are. The middle class has no public in…

It’s the first go-around for the jr devs who went to school during the pandemic :)

When I was in college, the city where my university was located had a requirement that a drinking establishment had to sell food to have a liquor license. This meant that the local…

The post WWII peace structure was based on an agreement between the US and other countries: we pay you money, we patrol the shipping lanes with our navy which is the only one left,…

A war implies there is something at stake. There’s not. Log off. Go outside. Volunteer in your community. Hug your kids. Make love to your partner. And remember these two immutable…

“Culture War” is a dog whistle for any movie that includes women, gays, or blacks. Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account. There is no culture war…

Hm. Doesn’t AI make it easier to crank out any kind of movie?

>They already ate the Japanese manufacturers' lunch. Did they? https://www.statista.com/statistics/243595/vehicle-sales-of-...

The “teachers” in this app are guided meditation helpers. From the title I thought it was like public school teachers.

Facebook started at Harvard, not Stanford.

Zero rating, like when wireless carriers don’t charge for certain bandwidth but do for others.

You’re in luck, then, because the US hasn’t had a coherent foreign policy, or indeed any foreign policy at all, for more than three decades. The American led global alliance brough…