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So what do you actually recommend?

Perhaps the kids that could be soccer superstars stick with basketball until they figure out they aren't tall enough for the NBA, but are too old or just never developed enough int…

This is probably less true than you'd think. Freak athletes are great athletes no matter the sport. There's kind of a soft cap on NFL player height at about 6'5" or 6'6" - hardly a…

> Women's soccer is relatively popular, however. This may be a function of the fact that no other women's team sport is at all popular in the US?

Honestly, I'd debate this. The problem is the "handyperson" may "know" (but not actually) and do what they think they know. When I encounter the same task, I don't know I stop and …

The other trouble is that every handyman thinks they have a great handle on everything but have at least one blind spot where they do really, really stupid stuff.

Self hosting a mailbox is easy - getting email back out is the hard part.

Relatedly, it's a skill that goes with positions that are clung to such that nobody else gets to practice and learn said skill.

I think this varies with the type of film. If it's a film with real fans and excitement is thick, a packed theater is amazing. OTOH, films where the audience isn't engaged, or dare…

My 9 year old got verified as 21+ somehow. He obviously doesn’t have a photo id, so there is no way to verify him as a child. Support refused to help. The whole system is insane.

Did perl5 to perl6 actually happen? I feel like perl mostly fell out of favor along the way.

So much of this - never would have guessed how much code I wouldn't write doing this as a career.

You're complaining about things that were changed years ago.

What's the "somehow" about the mouse? They've supported that for a while now.

At which point if you're short on capacity (but who knows how your demand might shift over a decade) it's not like you need to replace the original batteries to get that 20% back, …

This right here - I have been investigating getting my own contractor license for DIY work on a property I own that must be permitted but city will only issue permits to licensed c…

Yes, let’s solve a tricky problem the hardest way possible.

Is it really "accepting a concession" if the "alternative" is so expensive as to not be an option anyway? This is like telling someone who doesn't like that they have to wait in tr…

The "you can just not agree to it" argument is so bogus. You can only buy good/services that are for sale, and when they all have the same crappy terms, you have to agree to somebo…

Who exactly would you ever ask to find out that the samsung fridge you were looking at was going to get ads in the future? Certainly not the appliance salesman, they don't know sam…

Dental insurance is even worse. My dental insurance has ridiculously low limits, but it gets you access to the "real" negotiated rates rather than whatever silliness "retail price"…

I've been in the hospital more than once for a week at a time. At no point did I ever see the same doctor more than once in a 24 hour period - from that perspective, it seems irrel…

Perhaps if we didn't expect superhuman schedules from doctors, doctors wouldn't command as much of a cost as they do now. From the doctors I know, it seems like most don't get into…

Might be an opportunity to make such a site?

> It just says injunctions should only apply to the actual parties in the case. So every person wronged by the government should sue individually?