Let's assume ebooks are 20% (I know that's the upper bound you're positing, but let's start with that). If my salary were reduced by 20%, I would definitely say that I was making "much less". Would I say the same if my salary were reduced by, say, 10% rather than 20%? Maybe, maybe not, but I doubt I'd go so far as to say that characterization was simply "not accurate".
I love public transportation and hate driving my own car to and from work. I stopped using public transportation for personal safety reasons. I am not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
I grew up in Boston and I spent tons of time riding the T. Driving in the city and especially parking was a nightmare and the T almost always got me where I wanted to go.
I lived on the front range for 4 years about 10 years ago. I only took the train in Denver a handful of times because driving in the city and especially parking was very easy and convenient.
I'm guessing over time Denver will become a less pleasant place to drive, but it's still decades behind many cities with solid public transportation.
As someone who made a decent career for himself in tech without having been given a four year party immediately after high school, I am having a hard time seeing what I should be objecting to in this development. As far as I know, all of these students are welcome to roast a steer as often as they'd like after college, ideally on their own property.
That list is a synthesis of many different sources, most prominently the english Wikipedia. It is not directly relevant to the question asked by the parent comment.
As it's currently structured, HSA's are usually a part of a health insurance plan with high deductibles. It's not an either/or thing, it's a both/and thing.
I haven't looked into Persona since they shut it down, but is it a protocol or a service? If it was actively developed again, would one be able to use Persona without integrating with any Mozilla service at all or would there always be a Mozilla layer involved?
This is actually "[a] periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C." It turned out to be more interesting than the HN title made it seem.
I know some bits about campaign finance, but I also know that most people I meet in the US care much more about physical security than they do about privacy/civil liberties/etc.. They vote for people who implement nasty policies and they do not make those votes because they have been tricked.
Yes, true. It is also true that sometimes citizens knowingly choose nasty policies and then sleep soundly at night with those policies in place. Like you, I also do not approve of the way the US has changed, but I try to avoid tricking myself into believing that many US citizens feel the same way I do.