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No, when I had a Touch ID iPhone, it would often have trouble reading my fingerprint even if my hands were just still damp from being washed in the sink for a few seconds and not f…

Using Signal to coordinate foreign policy and military actions runs afoul of the Federal Records Act, a duly-enacted law passed by Congress and binding on the executive branch.

Being able to take a few minutes out of the workday here and there to attend to minor home duties (laundry, pets, deliveries, etc.) is a pretty significant extra perk on top of the…

> I guess life is easier when you can arrest your competitors instead of just shooting them Well, with cops it’s “in addition to”, not “instead of”.

Because they had a nice revenue stream running short-hop flights between those cities and didn't want high-speed rail cutting into it. Routes under 300 miles or so are the sweet sp…

You can also get from Providence to South Station in Boston via MBTA commuter rail or Amtrak (and from there, continue to Logan on the Silver Line).

Because that means apartment buildings become illegal? Homeownership is all well and good, but sometimes you really do just need a place to live for a year or two, and having to do…

In many cases, the superfluous nooks and crannies on 5-over-1's are mandated by local zoning rules that call for "façade articulation" on buildings occupying larger amounts of stre…

You can't really go wrong with Marcella Hazan's books. She was an evangelist for traditional Italian recipes and methods in the US starting in the 1970s much the same way Julia Chi…

There are plenty of small-to-medium-sized cities (25K–250K) with sufficiently intact city cores and higher-density corridors where it's still very reasonable to imagine increased c…

A joke, yes, but note that Times New Roman was commissioned and first used by the LONDON Times, not the New York Times.

And indeed the United States Postal Service itself operated a savings bank system from 1911 until 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...

Even if making the connector reversible would have ended up costing too much money, why not at least make it (more clearly) asymmetrical to reduce the guesswork involved in pluggin…