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That’s 02025 thinking.

There is still the remote possibility of a fumble or tackling the ball away from the defence in those cases. In the underarm bowling incident it was made physically impossible to w…

Grew up in HK. In typhoon season the bamboo scaffolding has a little give and flex that metal scaffolding doesn’t, and you’d be glad for that.

Ih-DEM-po-tent. Also: huh-MODGE-en-us. Like nails on a chalkboard to me when I hear ho-mo-GENE-ee-us.

I go with tupple. There is precedent (see: tuppence).

Or irritate _everyone_ and pronounce it with a soft J. Zhif.

Comparing against the intel era is a bit apples (excuse me) to oranges. Technical generation gaps aside, Apple products hold value well.

Recommend Roald Dahl's "Boy" for a fascinating glimpse.

I have. I was a 0-2 beer/ day drinker, usually when cooking dinner, so hardly problematic. Lots of “empty calories” and a growing tide of evidence though. I reasoned: if it’s easy …

Price anchoring, I suspect. Apparently, people simply won't accept mobile games at "game prices" ($20-60) instead of "mobile prices" ($0-3). I am the opposite, refusing to engage w…

A fee, I suspect, that exists solely to be waived.

I am not an expert so this is just my gut talking, but I suspect that the effect of emissions on the energy that the planet absorbs from the sun dwarfs the heat that our machines p…

We live 20 minutes' walk from our kids' two schools. They walk. The majority of our neighbours do not. I agree, bonkers.

I'm thinking: cross town errands, 40 or 50 miles round-trip, traffic, maybe it's winter and the usual range is cut by a third... plus general headroom to reduce anxiety. ~100 miles…

This seems like the goldilocks zone to me. A day's urban driving comfortably, and fossil fuels for the very occasional long trip.

I never had a problem with the explicit lifecycle methods in class components, and the concept of a functional component effectively being the render method in isolation. To me the…

American translation: graduating with anything other than a 4.0 or a 1.0 is wasted.

I don't know how they did it -- probably a highly sophisticated combination of machine learning and focus groups -- but YouTube will reliably dismiss the video controls brought up …

There's probably a bit of the algorithm that is dutifully noting your long-time, consistent interest in n, and making sure to reward you for your dependability by canonising it eve…

At least they have the precisely correct blue, though. https://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.htm...

Catch-22. You often can't legally search for a job as a tourist. Typically, like the US H1-B, a sponsoring company needs to "prove" that they tried and failed to source the employe…

I’m not knowledgeable about Canadian work visas specifically, but many countries extend them only within the context of specific employment. In other words, he may need to take wha…

As another commenter said, no choice. That's just how it works. Conversely, we're confused why banks in the US are willing to do a 30-year fix in the first place. That's an awfully…

In my experience the concept of a 30-year fixed mortgage is uniquely (or close to it) American. Certainly in NZ anything beyond a two-year fix is rare.