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> So I have to convince thousands (for Windows maybe a million) of people that the thing that irritates me should be removed.

No, you can alternatively pay money for a different tier of license that lets you turn it off.

A dandelion can either be a weed or part of a salad. It's a matter of context.

> You can call it subscription based, you can also call it user lock-in or remote killswitch.

If you stop paying for your gym membership and your access card gets automatically revoked, do you consider that to be some kind of physical instantiation of malware?

> The ever popular hamburger patty on a hot griddle covered in brown gravy.

That's simply a Hamburg steak, which is not Japanese but rather German in origin. The Salisbury steak is a relative of the Hamburg steak, with the additional of fillers such as eggs and breadcrumbs.

Don't a lot of older small craft—such as seaplanes—have radial engines?

Groups like that are a dying breed. Many of them simply fell apart as key individuals quit or drifted away from the scene.

Before newer tools automated the process by tracking motion of a target, folks wouldn't have to adjust them frame by frame per se but would instead annotate the subtitle script with keyframe times and positions. The video player would know to interpolate between those annotations.

Yup. Recently there have been tools that will track selected things for you, but it wasn't too long ago when fansubbers had to manually animate them by annotating keyframes.

Aside from HorribleSubs, these days you can hardly throw a rock without hitting a major streaming service that offers anime. Setting aside whatever free episodes you can get from Crunchyroll et al., Netflix, Amazon, Hulu... the list goes on. And for the majority of people, the services are convenient enough to outweigh whatever video quality advantage that HS or subtitle quality advantage (some) fansub groups offered.

Since it doesn't come in contact with the eye, that doesn't seem to be likely. It could be training the muscles that adjust the curvature of your lens.

> all the other things that Hart mentions, while important, are not easy to measure

Some can be easily measured but would require significantly more regulation/data gathering; for example, calculating on time arrival and how optimal the route chosen was. Others would require publicizing data that some stakeholders might be resistant to reveal, such as the number of vehicle safety infractions they've accumulated in the past 90 days.

> To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished.

When they're ubiquitous they lose a lot of wonder. But furthermore, a lot of these advances are buried/not directly visible to the end-user. Think of a CD player: You use a laser to produce sound from (what apppears to be) a smooth plastic disc.

I bet the concept of the wheel was pretty damn wondrous in the beginning too.

> If 100% of that medium is controlled and censored by two companies

Except you can sideload on Android.

Berlin is in Germany, and Paris is in France. That makes it an international flight.

Orlando is in the US, and San Juan is in the US. That makes it a domestic flight.

> The "contract" between the employee and the employer is that the employee does what the employer asks of them, and in return gets paid for his work. If these employees do not desire to work on projects that Google is getting, then they should terminate the contract and find work elsewhere.

Ah, okay. So if your current employer asked you and your coworkers to do something that was legal but highly unethical, you and every one of your coworkers would be financially secure enough to quit at the drop of a hat? Must be nice.

> often German-built

Credit to the Swedes for repeatedly schooling the USN with their Gotland-class AIP submarines.

Non-nuclear AIP diesel submarines have regularly defeated USN submarines in wargames. The US went nuclear because the subs are out on patrol for months at a time, all around the world. You don't need a nuclear-powered sub to defend your own coastline.

If you go to Settings > Messages, you can filter out messages from unknown senders. However, this only prevents the notifications from showing up; they'll still be in the app under the "Unknown senders" tab.

FWIW, T-Mobile does allow you to block all SMS and MMS.

> Your experience on the old tech stack is irrelevant.

It's cruise control. If you couldn't fry an egg without burning it, forgive me for being a little skeptical when you claim that you can make award-winning souffles after having attended some cooking classes.

...which in turn is about ads.

> I just looked at a few random Amazon losing and I couldn't figure out who I was supposedly buying from.

Then either you weren't trying very hard or you need to put your glasses on. It's in the same place on every listing that has Add to cart/Buy buttons: under those buttons, after the "Secure transaction" link.

At least they had the decency to not offer a 64GB option.

If it's an Amazon Marketplace listing, yes, in the form of a seller review. If it's sold and shipped by Amazon, then no.

The product page is for Acme Widget, and you bought the product from Bob Loblaw Electronics on Amazon Marketplace. The Acme Widget you bought arrives three weeks late and looks like someone put it through a wood chipper. It makes complete sense to leave a seller review, but in what world does it make sense to leave a negative review on the PRODUCT page when they have nothing to do with the seller?