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You can also activate it by holding the crown button, which I recently discovered happening “on its own” while wearing work gloves.

If 80% of the code is yours, of course you will be able to work with it faster than everyone else. It's easier to write code than read others' code; you already know how it all wor…

It happened, except for the saw. “[The data centers are] hard to get into… [T]he hardware and routers are designed to be difficult to modify even when you have physical access to t…

> FWIW, western media often suggests stuff is 'secret' in china, because they can't read chinese, and all those orientals are awfully mysterious. What English speaking media should…

Aren’t there maps?

What sources suggest the incel condition is genetic? Edit: or even predominately male?

You could also afford to set fire to a stack of $100 bills. That does not mean you find it a sensible thing to do.

Wouldn’t this make all income tax avoidable? One simply needs to spend income received on capital assets (bigger house, fancy cars, yachts, etc).

Otherwise there are folks who would let the toilet run for a year without fixing it.

It’s not that it “stirs up solids,” it’s that a continuous leak causes the pump to cycle on more frequently. Your pump might cycle a few times a day normally; a running toilet coul…

> A company doesn't enjoy free speech rights. Actually, it does according to Citizens United v. FEC.

What tactics? Seems to me the age old skills of recognizing the source’s reputability still stand strong today. Many people just can’t be bothered to do it.

$5/person/day is more than this should require. Feeding America claims to deliver meals at $0.10 each by rescuing food that would've been wasted, and they claim even buying at whol…

I played all the way through on an iPad. Really enjoyed it, thank you! The only issue I had was that clicking links didn't work reliably... sometimes had to tap quite a few times f…

Can anyone positively confirm any OS that handles the scenario described here seamlessly? It seems like a rare use case that, while feasible, is totally unsurprising that it would …

I’d love to see studies: - comparing maintenance and faults to utilities in other areas - comparing likelihood of ignition and resulting damages given an ignition event There are l…

So then when there’s a fire, some locality gets sued into bankruptcy?

Some areas to improve upon: 1) Signs at the rental property are forgeable, esp. for single-family homes. Don't trust them. 2) A good price might be a sign of a scam... or just the …

Not necessarily a diversion, but certainly not the only cause in a proper failure analysis.

In those cases, why not respond by explaining the risks or other considerations that might not be apparent from the code? Frankly if there is real risk that the code is pushed to p…