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Barbie and typewriters already have nothing to do with each other.

They're not small towns. Suburban homes very often have no commercial activity in close proximity. You have to drive somewhere else to do just about anything.

Small towns haven't historically been built like that.

Duolingo can absolutely get you reading and listening. Which is let's say half the battle.

I think it's too dramatic to say it's a "real problem" with it! Anybody who intends to become fluent in a language is going to need to practice actually speaking and writing.

Google will choose shoddily-generated blogspam of no use to anyone and I will append "reddit" to my query, doubly ruling out small forums.

They do it for the same reason as anything else: to charge different prices in different parts of the world and still stymie the gray market.

There are tatters of bike lanes which makes it hard to assemble a route without going through very uncomfortable traffic situations. Drivers are really, uh, spirited and unpredictable, as well.

So they're not well-used yet, which some are taking as a signal that we should foreclose on the entire idea before it even truly gets started.

San Diego needs to reconsider the design of virtually all of its surface roads. They're designed for 45mph traffic but the signs ask politely, maybe 25mph instead? Which everyone ignores.

Fascinating. Books can qualify as passive consumption but duolingo categorically cannot be!

It's an interesting example because the question is very easy for a person to understand but giving an actual answer would take some time, but you can invert those for an AI.

But at least a human would give a reasonable answer, like "looks like at least thirty miles" or even just "I don't know". Your phone will instead say, oops, I didn't quite get that, try again later ( goodbye chime ). Which is terrible.

This is a conspicuously narrow view on what politics are.

A professional association or licensing board or whatever similar structure, regardless of whether or not it is embedded in government, is textbook political.

That's entirely separate from the issue of whether or not they exercise restraint and engage constructively when their credibility is challenged.

Is the maximum contrast always the most accessible, for all people?

No, it isn't. This is not like a wheelchair ramp.

Are you saying hipsterism can't be very good because it didn't scale?

OLCC has a sanctioned monopoly on distributing hard liquor in the state and they constrain liquor sales more than CA though less than say UT.

Not really a great perspective on casual conversations with friends.

Most doctors don't run a business.

Raw camera data requires an interpretation to be displayed on a monitor at all and usually needs a lot of processing to produce a natural-looking photo on the screen. Demosaicing at the very least but gamma curve correction, color response correction, etc. as well.

First time hearing such a critique of traveling light and not wanting to wait to check and claim bagagge, or pay extra for it.

You can check weapons so no, I don't think a razor is going to be such a big deal.

The pattern is extremely common on CDNs that serve JS.

Overly dramatic. A lot of countries that are still countries have completely rewritten their constitutions a few times over.

It just NEEDS to. You have a feeling about it!

And jewel cases were and are garbage.

Let me rephrase, market growth is not _as_ important as community health and market growth is only desirable insofar as it improves community outcomes.

Market growth for tobacco products is not important, full stop.

I think we need to be less concerned with individual responsibility because it isn't as effective at improving community outcomes and it encourages people to be callous and uncharitable.

Strict individual responsibility had been the rule for cigarette smoking before and it was not successful.

Market growth is not so important.

It's implied that they meant surveillance cameras.

You can have arbitrarily many, so long as the serial lanes are independent of each other. PCIe can have lots, for example. Because they are independent, they won't suffer from clockskew problems that made parallel signaling impractical at high speeds and it's often not required to connect all of the wires (e.g. an x16 card hanging out of an x8 or smaller slot) .

Hmmm...

[citation needed]

I'm a big believer in letting different conveyances enjoy their superpowers. Cars can transport you at 80mph with a cage and climate control, motorcycles can lane split and filter, and bicycles have better environmental awareness (importantly because they are slow and can hear) and are less likely to cause serious injury or property damage so they can ride where cars and motorcycles cannot.

They're not the same and we don't have to give them exactly the same rules. In fact, we never have.

The difference of 1atm between sea level and the void doesn't tend to yield violent explosions and has been survived. It's not remotely going to resemble a diving bell accident or something. A small puncture and large volume will give time to respond before disaster.

Smartphones are general-purpose devices not just in potential but in practice. I think we're beyond pretending that they are just phones.

I don't know, why do you?

There are occasionally breaking changes but most old jars out there will run fine in the latest runtime, so the answer to your question is going to depend on how squirrely your use case is.

Right, but I think the concept of a national ID necessarily has the property of everyone (as close as is feasible) having one because it is required and they should be stable across time. Passports are optional, they expire, and they aren't stable. Not everyone can get an American passport (e.g., non-citizens).

Tax IDs are as close as we've got.