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This thread was a follow-up to squibonpig's comment about the parental responsibility and the value of giving young people access to things that are dangerous when it's done with p…

> Are you implying one cannot be taught those skills if they have access to games? Nah, I think games can be very valuable, especially communal, in-person games. I don't mind acces…

A few thoughts: - Perhaps we have different ideas of the appropriate age to wean kids off of toys and teach them to use real (and sometimes dangerous) things. Today's discussion is…

Well written, and I agree with you on everything you wrote. That said, "the internet" is a large place, and I think parents would find more clarity thinking of it the way they thin…

Probably using off-the-shelf analytics because rolling your own analytics takes time away from solving the central problems your users are paying you for. No one is _using_ the dat…

hah, thanks. It's a bit more nuanced than that. Let me try again. I completely support Apple's right to publish software that makes it difficult for unapproved software to run on i…

I bought an iphone knowing that Apple has a review process and that I'm limited to apps sold in their store. Similarly, when I had an Android device I knew what I was getting in to…

One thing I've noticed is that our current economic model, which builds in constant inflation, forces buyers and sellers to have this conversation non-stop. Why are prices higher? …

93,000 new homes per year? That's an impressive figure: The second largest city/settlement in Ireland, Belfast, has a population of about 350,000. If these new homes house three pe…

Interesting idea. What are your thoughts on the following questions: - Who decides who gets the valuable land (high rent value) and who gets the land no one wants to use? - What ha…

I live near Detroit, not Hollywood. Most union workers are not movie stars, directors, staring quarterbacks or soccer stars. Most are cops, teachers and automotive workers. Speakin…

I was just reading up on wifi 7 today. It sounds like the spec was designed with WIFI sensing in mind.

> I think there is value though in carriers saying "no, wait, I'll do the lookup when I am ready to deliver!", because then I order something today with a 3-month lead time and if …

I have used Google meet exclusively for a number of years, multiple times a day on the cheapest Internet connection I can buy in my area. It is consistently a better experience the…

I went back recently. Maybe I'm in the wrong circles, but I'm seeing neither of these. I _am_ still seeing lots of recycled content looking for clicks.

Air pressure differentials, to be precise!

Henry Ford did something similar with a beautiful English cottage from the early 1600s. > In 1929, Henry purchased the property for $5,000 and immediately hired a team of local bui…

> basic fiscal responsibility currently exists at odds with the reality most people need to exist within to be content. Thanks for pointing that out. There are expenses that have g…

I disagree with the statement that credit is basically mandatory. The issues you raised may be real, but borrowing money does not solve any of them, it just hides them. My experien…

Under President Johnson, government funding began to incentivize single (predominantly black) mothers not to marry the father of their children. IMO this had disastrous effects on …

Raw milk drinker here. We've been drinking raw milk for some years now. What makes it work is that the milk comes from a farm (which we can visit), which has a small number of cows…

The foundation for healthy interpersonal relationships seems deeply tied into the core values of (some) "restrictive religious ways". "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not en…

Perhaps as opposed to "Firefox got faster in the benchmarks", which do not always correlate to how normal users use the web.

If you split profit equally, you should also split investment and risk equally. Many folks who start a small business owners put their home and other assets on the line to fund the…

Counter opinion: I don't want to host Elasticsearch myself, which is why I pay Elastic to host several clusters. That said, I really don't want to be locked into a single-vendor si…