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I, for one, hope that a driver's license in not an acceptable ID for voting. It certainly is not sufficient to prove citizenship. Perhaps you think we control for that as part of v…

I was responding specifically to a claim that people without a car must be poor and on government support. That was followed by a question about how many adults don't have Driver's…

This is completely separate from voting issues, but I tend to avoid settings where I am treated like a suspect. I certainly don't pay people specifically to treat me like a suspect…

I have no way to count them. But I can give you one off the top of my head. My dad. Incidentally, he owns two cars.

I live in a small U.S. town. There are not 10K people living within 25 miles of my house. While few here would admit to being rich, people who don't live here might see them as pre…

I have an ID. Last time I renewed it I specifically spurned the "Real ID" option. Which supposedly means I can't get on an airplane. I have since been on an airplane. But not one t…

That's an amusing video. Well framed. But as to your idea about life without an ID... I routinely refuse to show my ID to bank tellers, doctor offices, trains, planes, etc. I avoid…

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I wouldn't say that Google is high on my list of trust, either. But TypeScript and VS Code do not jump you into a #2 ranking. Go and Chrome easily trump them for starters. Then you…

I don't think so. See, for example, Wells Fargo. It's hard to imagine an institution that has abused their customers in a more ridiculous way and suffered fewer consequences. Peopl…

Selling a DVD for 0.25USD is hardly snake oil. Perhaps you are confusing him with the official from Microsoft who testified that the discs were equivalent to the 25USD discs sold b…

I very deliberately don't participate in loyalty programs. Every single time I go through a checkout at a local business, they ask me for my loyalty info. Every single time, I decl…

I wrote a very small resolve hook for node that does this. It makes the directory of the initial module / for all imports. Node has made resolver hooks like that dead simple.

I think this is important. In the bad old days, I always developed in Firefox. I made a point of following standards. I despised IE. I still use Firefox as my personal browser, but…

Zuckerberg should invest in a competing startup. Something that can cash in on the anti-Facebook mania of the moment. Give users a cut of the ad revenue specifically generated from…

No. Sorry. They did not cause an accident. It is important that your understand this. Note that I am not sympathetic to the driver of the car. They probably deserve criticism, but …

I think you are making the wrong argument here. A bicyclist should have control of their bike. If there is injury involved, that is on the cyclist. (Dooring is another issue.) But …

I am not anti-gun, but this argument tends to trigger me. What "level of destructive power" do you really need to feed your family? Not much. A single-shot rifle would suffice. I h…

This is written by one person who is one small part of gun culture. There are lots of angles in "gun culture." I live in a place that goes pretty strongly pro-gun. I think that mos…

You could do the same with wireguard, only the conf file would be about 6 lines of text. And you can understand the obvious purpose of each line.

+ 2 weeks sick leave + x hours vacation/year of employment

Then make it super easy to reflash them back to factory. Problem solved. Why are you contorting to find justification for locking?

Speed bumps have proven to be undesirable tools in many situations. For instance, it is often the case that motorists will increase their speed after a speed bump to make up for th…

Nuclear weapons are the reason Russia can invade Ukraine without consequence. And annex Crimea, and attack Georgia. They are the reason that Turkey can shoot down Russian fighters …

I visited a location this week where there were 2-4 houses per mile along country roads. The residents had a choice of ISPs. The house I visited had dialtone from a VOIP service. Y…