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As the former PM of a competing dating app, I agree.

Is it comically cheap if you don't consider inflation? Because while air travel has undoubtedly gotten less comfortable, in most (if not all?) cases it's also gotten cheaper. With …

Could be a bubble. I'm imminently planning to leave the city for the suburbs (34, newly married)

also, feedback is more granular by several orders of magnitude. In a political democracy we roll up every single issue (including mutually contradictory ones) into a bundle of poli…

Wouldn't that drastically increase the sun exposure on the internal elements and artifacts in the church? Sun damage is noticeable in just a few years, let alone on a time scale of…

Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to

Indeed. The more interesting question would be how many Googlers internally talk of people leaving Google as though they've left a religion vs those who meet it with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

buys 8110 immediately

But this doesn't include the Nokia ones, does it?

Ironically enough, the name “Shanghai” (上海) literally means above ("Shang" 上）the sea ("Hai" 海).

although really from the perspective of battling NIMBYs, the benefit (first-order, anyway) of Shanghai is not that one man can say no, it's that only one man has to say "yes"

I'd go so far as to argue you need to find what comes next after the hand-held smartphone. It could be a smaller, more intimately worn device (think smart glasses, or a smarter wat…

My favorite song on the Pet Shop Boys' 2006 album Fundamental ("Integral") was a protest against Blair's Identity Cards Act "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fea…

peloton (comes from french word for platoon, so, close enough)

I think you're mistaken here. I know countless conservatives on Twitter, and they're real human beings.

As someone who is literally that background (from a moderate Republican family in the suburbs of Philadelphia) I can say the Democrats definitely picked up my vote... Actually no, …

It seemed pretty acrimonious and left scars that haven't healed to this day. I mean, I grant that in the grand scheme of things (and certainly in comparison to how Spain bungled th…

But don't Japanese companies replicate this setup even when they set up factories the USA?

I think you're thinking of Keurig's K-cups (a different and of course wholly incompatible means of coffee capsule thingy)

The British had wanted to continue their period of rule in Hong Kong as the expiration date neared. It was a subject of negotiation between China and the UK in the 1980s. They want…

Not "railing against" to be fair to your original point but this study (FiveThirtyEight thinks it's sound) says millennials value democracy far less than their predecessors. As a %…

wouldn't they be popping corks at Labour HQ? I mean, this isn't really "strong and stable"...

> Nokia tried the "photography first" smartphonecamera - it didn't fly I worked at Nokia at the time. The Lumia 1020 didn't fly because it failed to ship with an OS that was consid…

well, in terms of anecdotal evidence, I live and work abroad and tools like Facebook and WhatsApp make it possible to communicate with my friends and family back home at a cost of …

Their stock price in the last few months would disagree with that assertion. I say this as an unfortunate shareholder.