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The fact is, browsers aren't a product, they're a platform feature. Users have zero incentive to ever switch from whatever their OS came bundled with, unless you make a massive advertising push. The fact that Google managed to get people to switch to a non-platform browser at all is a shocking achievement.
In a dense city, there’s often nowhere you can legally stop. Real taxi drivers will often just stop in the middle of the street, or double park temporarily.
IE was awful, and Firefox was…perfectly cromulent. Chrome was so much better than any of the competition.
When Microsoft bundled IE with Windows that was terrible. But Apple bundling Safari and locking out competing browsers? That's just what's best for the customer.
This is fundamentally a problem with urban design, not with in-office work.
Want to go to an online banking site? Then we'll need to make sure your computer is unmodified and contains no unapproved software.
Sign me up! I can't wait to have all my money accidentally zeroed out because the one remaining software engineer introduced a bug in prod.
This can be the case for literally any legal system. It's why checks and balances and an independent judiciary are important.
Even something as simple as detaining a criminal is "carving out an exception to human rights". You're correct that this could be abused, but so can any law. It's possible to mitigate though; that's the entire reason for the concept of an independent judiciary.
Yes. This is what we need; the fact is, many mentally ill individuals need help, but are not capable of realizing that they need help, and will refuse any attempt to offer it. Without the power to detain such an individual against their will, that person will remain on the streets, which is a worse outcome for both that person and also everyone else.
The current behavior of automatically deleting the word results in some strangely constructed article titles as seen here.
Without a desktop app, though, no agency would ever consider posting updates to it; the app means it exists in a weird silo.
Google Maps is loaded with suggested content. What about lunch? Need a haircut? Check out these top rated places!! Would you recommend Google Maps to a friend or colleague?
Apple Maps is like what Google Maps was years ago: a map and a search box.
Congratulations! We prevented a popular service from adopting an open standard! Mission accomplished! Open standards are the worst!
Are there any Godot games out there that are more than just tech demos?
Your proposal is, what exactly? Airdropping crates of machine guns over western China? I'm sure that'll go over great.
> The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!
Just replace socioeconomic system with social network!