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Comment #17873755
When did the TSA make flying safer and cheaper?
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Comment #17862169
Tell me about the tangible, useful things (like groceries, vehicles, living spaces) these assets/positions have bought for Bitcoin owners.
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Comment #17824224
> And how is Apple's walled app store any better than the alternative of at&t controlled app store? I don't know if you've used an iPhone, but do you really think AT&T's walled gar…
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Comment #17781663
It will for a bit. The people who build UI frameworks in wasm will either make it a priority or they'll add it later. It sucks but this is the way we're heading. I'm not sure web d…
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Comment #17703954
Can your family give you a hug just as you enter the gate to board your plane? Because that's how it was before 9/11 in the States.
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Comment #17689490
If measles is more common now that anti-vax is more popular, that's a problem worth addressing. We had a known, working solution, so yeah, it does seem like child abuse.
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Comment #17689483
Yes. That is one of the correct ways to frame this problem.
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Comment #17689479
> you can easily find books written by MDs arguing that vaccines are unsafe People aren't reading books with bad info, they're reading Facebook posts and random blogs.
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Comment #17666194
> a) is it really accurate that a smart person can't legitimately learn and be sensitive to life experiences from others There's are a lot of subtleties that lived experience can r…
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Comment #17666159
Just occurred to me, as "heat waves" become the norm for longer periods of time, I'm sure there will be people arguing for the cost-savings of not having to cool the school buildin…
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Comment #17626898
> calling it an "imaginary" position is disingenuous at best It was never worthy of engagement anyway, so perhaps stop creating strawpeople with it.
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Comment #17576332
Out of curiosity, what neighborhood/borough do you live in? Is it a middle class area?
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Comment #17576305
I don't know about your neighborhood, but in ours, there are no sidewalks and a bunch of teens drive as fast as they possibly can.
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Comment #17568885
Yeah. I've always been obsessed with music, and what I miss about Best Buy circa 1998 is walking into a sea of CDs with $20 and likely leaving with 2 new CDs. I never understood ho…
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Comment #17555171
The docs say 10.11 for most of the APIs. A few are still (and forever?) iOS only.
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Comment #17555154
One thing that bugs me about this article is that the author chose the largest and most expensive SUVs, not the ones that are actually popular. The smaller and more popular RAV4, R…
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Comment #17518224
Well, now it’s IntelliJ’s responsibility to add TouchBar support or remap those keys. Nonetheless you can just turn the F keys back on.
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Comment #17490916
The southeast US, the region where I grew up, just makes me sad, especially now that I'm living in the northeast. Looks like some places like Nashville and Atlanta actually had den…
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Comment #17490849
The parent is saying Nissan handled segmentation wrong with Infinti.
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Comment #17490773
I'd only refine it to "your caretaker(s) are talking to you, pay attention and answer." A child also can't understand when their impulse to follow impulse is harmful. Someone shoul…
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Comment #17490720
We did the same, and my wish-not-really-a-wish-but-maybe-a-wish is that we talked to her less (insert laughing with sweat emoji here). She was an exceptionally loud baby, just cons…
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Comment #17490255
Maybe this is just Soviet Canada silliness, but when our daughter was tiny we were literally checking out 20 books (small, could be read in 15-20 minutes) once a week, and there di…
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Comment #17479538
They’re not suffering much though. All these comparisons to USB and monochrome are ridiculous.
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Comment #17479535
The UX gains from mono -> color vastly outshine slightly smoother fonts on older external monitors.
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Comment #17465539
You’re taking about intent, we’re talking about the very real consequences of inaction. The difference between apathy and neutrality is irrelevant.