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MagicPropmaker··on Google Calendar Is Down
I'll add that Microsoft Outlook calendar works really well. or $69/year, Microsoft will sell you an Office 365 account, Outlook email and calendar, all their apps on-line, two desktop-installable licenses for their Office Suite, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage. It's a great deal.
MagicPropmaker··on Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
It's good strategy, too. Now the other manufacturers are at a disadvantage because people can claim that the cars are "defective" by having touch screens.

I think a touch screen would be OK if it didn't operate while the car was in Drive, so you can set preferences, etc, with a full keyboard. But you can also do this from a companion app or website, so there's really no need to have it at all.

And I'm really glad to see HUDs come to cars. I wonder why it took so long!

MagicPropmaker··on Show HN: Never-Blink: Blink and Lose. An Online Web Game
Because Elizabeth Holmes never blinked!
MagicPropmaker··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
There's little difference between <toast> and <marquee>.
MagicPropmaker··on You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA
I wish Hacker News didn't use it. It's a PITA logging in! I don't see it when I'm in the U.S. but when I'm overseas...
MagicPropmaker··on The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS
Does it matter why people donated and/or became more aware of the disease?
MagicPropmaker··on Blender Is Free Software
Exactly. The "French Way" thing is an affect that's frequently mocked on other forums, see https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le
MagicPropmaker··on Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
I saw one of those fake Elon Musk posts in my stream and my first thought was "Wow! Is Elon pushing shady blockchain money things now?" It wasn't until a few seconds later that I realized there was no blue-check and it wasn't him....
MagicPropmaker··on Netherlands teen legally euthanized due to ‘unbearable’ pain
This turned out not to be quite true!
MagicPropmaker··on Inventors killed by their own inventions
There's also this Segway incident, though he was a company executive and not an "inventor"

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39377851/ns/world_news-europe/t/se...

MagicPropmaker··on Cat Declawing Is Banned by New York State Lawmakers
Good! I love my cats and their claws.
MagicPropmaker··on Cat Declawing Is Banned by New York State Lawmakers
Do you let your child decide if he should brush his teeth?
MagicPropmaker··on Cat Declawing Is Banned by New York State Lawmakers
Sorry. It is a requirement for a male Jew. No other "method" is acceptable. For non-Jews, there's rarely a reason for it.

Any Jew who doesn't circumcise is operating outside the context of Judaism, and is doing something very non-Jewish.

MagicPropmaker··on An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
I don't like the weaselly passive voice. And it's still not clear if a person who doesn't have the clout on social media can get attention.
MagicPropmaker··on An update on Sunday’s service disruption
Yeah, but this is largely moot now that monitors have "native resolutions" with fixed numbers of pixels.
MagicPropmaker··on New Mac Pro
The color graders here run 10-bit/color HDR monitors that have a wide gamut. Apple doesn't have monitors that support this. (The new one _might_ do the trick; we'll see.) Everyone here doing professional color work is on PCs supplied by Thinkmate. This is standard in Hollywood, too.
MagicPropmaker··on So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebrite Touch”
One could also choose to simply not read this story and go on to another story that's more suited for the reader.

ADHD is one disorder; the need to actively tell people you're not reading something and why is another. ADHD is less anti-social.

MagicPropmaker··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
The point of the rule was to prevent "dynasties."
MagicPropmaker··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
What do you mean by “50% of principle”?
MagicPropmaker··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
The only age requirement that would affect "millennials" is the constitutionally-defined minimum age for the President, which is 35.
MagicPropmaker··on Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study
Is there a solution to this "problem" that doesn't involve taking the hard-earned wealth away from people 55 and older who carefully planned and saved so they can enjoy themselves?
MagicPropmaker··on "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
So unless a person is popular enough to get enough people talking about it on twitter or hacker news, someone whose account is flagged by your bad script is going to lose his business.

That doesn't sound good to me.

MagicPropmaker··on Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
I was very careful not to take on student debt. I personally chose a low-cost college and took as many first and second year required courses at a community college. I would be very angry if I had to bail out people who lived on The Farm, or in an Animal House frathouse for 6 years.
MagicPropmaker··on Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
I also remember the "rule" that a house should cost 2 years salary. And when I graduated college in the early 80s, starting salaries were $25-$30K, and you could get a house for $60K on Long Island.
MagicPropmaker··on Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
Very odd that a product for people who write code doesn't support Windows.
MagicPropmaker··on Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid
Given today's demographics, not being overweight and being _slightly_ toned, already will put you in the top 10%. This doesn't take much. And if you want a little silicone chin implant that can be inserted in a few minutes, it can make most of the difference without all the other corrections that people are getting.

Men who want to look good shouldn't feel ashamed, or be label with "body dysmorphic" unless there's a real issue. Frankly, there's no reason men shouldn't try to look their best, as women have been pressured to for years!

MagicPropmaker··on New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA
We call out smokers for their bad behavior that can harm an unborn child. But we're not allowed to say anything about over eaters.
MagicPropmaker··on New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA
Another likely reason is increase in maternal obesity. See:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maternal-obesity-...

MagicPropmaker··on Assembly Bill No. 168
What problem is the CA legislature trying to fix, and how will they be able to determine if this legislation fixes it?
MagicPropmaker··on Docker is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack
And it's not true that MalwareBytes is "scareware". I'm sure the person saying that is simply some 12-year-old who wants to show the Windows user that he runs Linux and is a "l33t h4x0r" or something and knows better than my (commercial) security software.

MalwareBytes is actually reporting that something on that page is trying to make an outbound connection to port 50685 on ip address 45.33.49.119. I don't know what to make of this, but it smells fishy. It's very odd that this program will make a claim if there isn't something going on. I'm not going to risk visiting that page.

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