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I occasionally screwed it up even with a GUI, possibly because I was trying to recover something and then got lost. Once I had to abandon the master branch for a year because I did…

I don’t know. My bank offers smartphone accidental damage, theft, liquid damage insurance at about €100/year. AppleCare+ costs the same per year but requires an additional €230 for…

This sounds like it happens a lot everywhere outside large American companies. The reasoning probably goes like “why were you even trying to break in, that’s illegal.”

It depends on how it’s implemented, but mandatory insurance should help lower the premium of everyone. Like OP says, you should only buy insurance if it’s worth it. I never had an …

I’m no expert but AppleCare seems priced highly enough that they cover butterfingers too. I’d expect regular insurances to charge much less for a similar service (except definitely…

I disagree, Vietnamese and Japanese dishes aren’t known for their spices and are bland when compared to Thai food. I’d say some Filipino dishes if anything are too aggressive since…

Eat them in southern Italy. They’re cheaper and you can actually eat more than 5 in a sitting. They vary from 1cm to 2.5cm in size, and you can have a dishful of them. My grandma u…

You used the perfect example. Filipino cuisine is not popular anywhere in the world even if Filipinos emigrate in large numbers. Is it possible that more Chinese people emigrated a…

The hilarious part is that I got this email maybe last week, moving my account to country X. Too bad I lived in country X for 7 months, they didn’t change it then, and now I’ve bee…

Balut is fine if eaten right. Only in Vietnam and Cambodia you can have decent balut with pickled papaya salad and tasty leaves. Or deep fried. Philippines and Thailand like it wit…

I found that to just change the animations to fade instead of scale/pan. The duration is unaffected, it just makes it flatter and uglier. I wonder how fast things would feel if you…

Not exactly. On the Android store you can choose exactly which device to install an application on. For Apple as far as I know the most you can do is buy the app on desktop and, if…

I doubt anyone would need to work anywhere near 20 hours without being connected at all. The vast majority of people work on desks with plugs.

It’s called “I don’t care about cookies” but I think it accepts all of them.

Yes but who knows about that? Flight got cancelled? Send me a text, email, whatever. They have all of my information. Text me a link. The reality is that they don't do that because…

We have the technology! Louis is right about You're flyiinngg! but also flying is normal now, so we always hope that things get better. Rich people don't even fly anymore, they sle…

One could argue that viewers count -driven news are just as democratic, except that people vote by viewing/opening/sharing links instead of clicking an upvote button. Same goes for…

I’m not really familiar with the matter but this year they started requiring immediate reporting from the POS as far as I know. That should tell you how serious they are about rece…

Can confirm. My parents own a restaurant in Italy and if the authorities come it’s a € 2000/3000 fine for sure. For a small seasonal business that’s substantial. For example if you…

It depends, were you hired the previous Thursday?

The guy was diving, so it’s possible he had an oxygen tank. My guess is that in that case you’re even less likely to go through the animal though.

How about my Google account? Is Google an app or my life? Any app could follow into your description, should they have an exception? 1Password doesn't need this? Backblaze? Amazon …

Everything is an app and nothing is an app. I opened my bank account through an app. Is iCloud more important than my bank account? “iCloud is not an app and does not need a delete…

Even by poorest-country standards, a one-time $5 is pretty reasonable. It's basically only a minimal deterrent against unlimited generations of bots. Now compare that to what Apple…

If you have a whole is running in a web worker client-side that’s hardly “static” anymore. A site is static when the page is built beforehand and served from disk — or at most buil…