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A phone given for repair by a non-technical person can be rooted without their knowledge. The repair person potentially can install malware. We cannot assume the owners of the root…

Taken to the extreme conclusion, governments can potentially charge different tax rates to different individuals based on their inability to sue or inability to fight back. They ma…

215 years of sovereignty Or 215 years of colonialism? Are the displaced people able to vote for UK parliamentary elections? Are they UK citizen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

> That really depends on the carrier. That's the point. Now, suddenly carrier has more powers than they should. Having a standard where consumer is in charge is much more desirable…

For me, keeping the light in the oven on keeps it bit warm. I haven't measured the temperature though. YMMV.

just wait for smart TVs which are Zoom friendly and come with a camera and microphone built-in.

Recently I had a discussion about an SV company with a friend in Texas. I mentioned to him, the company X is going to do great as they hire very good engineers. His question was - …

May be this one : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916434

they are expected to remain in control of the plane, not necessarily they do: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pilots-sleep-as-fl...

Once I went to Stanford to attend Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture. During the talk he wanted to show some search query on google. What he did next was interesting. He typed…

Can you suggest few readings?

Please just re-read your comment replacing Facebook with either your phone service or email service or USPS. What you said applies to all these three. People are complaining becaus…

A big reason of income gap is opportunity gap. We keep widening the opportunity gap by adding 'fast lanes' to people who can afford it, rather than improving the situation for all.…

It is a common case for other iOS device(s) though. iPad in a family is usually shared across family members. I do wish apple add this feature in iOS, for iPads at least.

>The entire point of capitalism is not everyone get's what they want and price how that is decided. You mean protected capitalism - protected by artificial minimum wages put in pla…

Have you ever looked at the possibility where one's family has to move every year or so because landlord decided to increase rent to 'catch up' with market. This is what it looks l…

Not sure if you tried following for input/output multiplexing - * Create 5 panes, one for each server * Ctrl-b :setw synchronize-panes This should synchronize the input to all pane…

Thanks. I do agree better infrastructure will make bike riding safer. In my opinion helmet is to bike what seat belt is to car. In general, I'd agree that people should make their …

I guess you are lucky. I had a fall which could had taken me to ER. It happened when I was relatively new to road bike and tried to enter a drive way like a car. Wheel of my bike t…

There is so much misinformation flying around. Most H1B can change job in 3 months or so. Many do.

So I pay for Cable and I still have to watch endless commercials. Paying for something doesn't guarantee anything.

Well, an extra phrase might be added in the menu where 'Disable Javascript' appears - '(Note: Javascript is not same as Java)'. If users don't know the difference between Diesel an…

And those will be a different set of kids - next generation.

Let's say some policies are changed in EU and pharmaceutical companies make as much or more profit in EU as in US - do you think they will reduce the cost of drugs in US? Perhaps n…