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My state has its own iFile system that works pretty flawlessly as a pseudo-wizard but actually a free fillable form. It expects you to file federal taxes first so your 1040 can be used to fill in the details.

kompatibleon How a dangerous stew of air pollution is choking the United States

Considering air doesn't typically follow national borders I think that's a bit shortsighted to say. "Much better" might not mean "better than the US" but just "better than before for Canada", which may or may not say too much at all.

kompatibleon Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?

And at least Moore is planning to work with Scott in order to expand the public transit footprint Baltimore has (such as more than one light rail/metro line each and more BRT)

kompatibleon Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares

Mailbox.org is a great service, good support for custom domains. Also can use Exchange protocol so push notifications for emails (on iPhones at least) are possible

kompatibleon Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high

A home where your may live with a good number of people and no workspace besides your bedroom can be very distracting. And assuming all software engineers are paid MAGMA wages and are higher class workers than others in their company is absolutely incorrect

kompatibleon Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high

There may be a gamut of people replying saying "I don't go to work to socialize" but work is definitely a place to network and find new colleagues and opportunities beyond. Trying to say that any work one does is done without any interaction with your coworkers apart from sparse Slack/Teams messages just isn't true

kompatibleon O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want

Not everyone is comfortable nor necessarily want to use command line tools for a simple process like that

kompatibleon Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

Isn't worrying about someone else's grammatical use of capitalization when the piece is understood anyway a little too pedantic?

kompatibleon Apple hit with EU antitrust charge over its payment technology

Is Hungary's corruption a result of "American democracy failing" or is that homegrown?

kompatibleon Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

Face ID has been upgraded since 2019 and is now a lot faster than the initial iteration. Some people may argue Touch ID will always be faster, but I think actively looking at the phone is quicker than trying to put your finger in the right spot

kompatibleon US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

Time doesn't have an "off"-ness when it is solely the way people measure the time between sunrise and sunset. If the methods used to measure time is changed, it is changed, but not in the consequence of it being "wrong" forevermore.

kompatibleon Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)

In Romance languages, the continent is known as the supercontinent "America", but in Germanic languages (like English) and other languages that borrow from it call them the "Americas" as two continents "North" and "South" America. So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness.

kompatibleon Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)

It seems as though the beginning argument is incorrect - [0] seems to state that nicotine itself is in fact addictive. While there may be pseudo-benefits to both tobacco and nicotine, the overuse does indeed negate said effects as you've mentioned, though.

[0] - https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/health-effects-tobacco-...

kompatibleon Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)

There's no "secondhand" alcohol drinking like there is secondhand smoking - while the effects afterwards (if someone chooses to be irresponsible after becoming inebriated) can be severe, they are mitigated by choosing safer practices such as having a ride, drinking at home, and knowing to limit oneself if they exhibit behavior that is negative toward others. With smoking, this isn't a possibility.