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whathaschanged··on Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point
You're talking about imaginary money. Had they only owned the place where they lived, there is no profit or loss that matters.
whathaschanged··on Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures for 3 Years
Willful ignorance, no matter how they try to frame it, is still fraud. They propped up their company to look bigger than it is, repeatedly.
whathaschanged··on How Retailers Use Personalized Prices
Does the money go directly to a charity? Or do they collect it on behalf of a charity and then donate it to said after end of business (or 4-8 weeks)? Electronic transactions are abused far more by companies/corporations compared to kids picking up a water jug of pennies.
whathaschanged··on Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design
And then those people go and throw theor brand new phones right into giant sturdy cases. Maybe it's time to ignore the voices that pretend people want shiny when really that's what the bloggers want to crow about.
whathaschanged··on How super are those pricey 'superfoods'?
The entire superfood craze is about packaging, processing and marketing. Fresh isn't an ingredient, it's subjective.
whathaschanged··on How super are those pricey 'superfoods'?
Coconut water is repackaged waste byproduct that someone figured out how to make money off of. It's classic marketing.
whathaschanged··on New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
Why would a resource department need information from payroll? They aren't the bosses of the employees so it's not like they are making the ultimate hiring decisions.
whathaschanged··on Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography
Expansion does nothing for air bubbles around edges and detail, even with vent holes. Not sure what you are basing that on.
whathaschanged··on US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
California isn't a country, no matter how much their government wishes they were.
whathaschanged··on Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created
And any white man who voted for Trump was labeled a white supremacist and went in the basket. Just like any vocal supporter is labeled a Nazi. It's a joke.
whathaschanged··on Puerto Rico’s Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria
Forcing their government to surrender control and become a state goes against the democratic process. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2095366
whathaschanged··on A Closer Look at the $13B Premium Eyewear Market
No, their business model is based on pretending like they are saving you money when they are just ripping off the customer for marginally less with fancy branding like dollar shave club. Look at Zenni Optical and tell me I'm wrong.
whathaschanged··on EPA photos show what US looked like before pollution regulation
And yet all the third world people flock here by the millions.
whathaschanged··on Blade Runner 2049 brings dead brands into a future without Apple products
The people who can't fathom a future without theit precious iDevices are doomed to suffer the same fate as Blackberry. And no, trying to revive a dead corpse is as terrible an idea as redoing Flatliners.

Apple products belong in, oddly enough, I, Robot. A clean future where everything is sanitized, not something gritty and real like Blade Runner. Rewriting the vibe of their predecessors without acknowledging what made them popular is the reason why so many reboots have failed recently. (Do you get that Paul Feig?)

Thankfully, Blade Runner 2049 doesn't lay on its political lecturing heavy enough to tank an otherwise successful sequel.

whathaschanged··on A Pre-History of Slashdot
Slashdot was awesome right up until the point that they forced the redesign on everybody and drove away all the users that made it great. It would be the equivalent of HN forcing autoplay videos and animated banner ads on each page.

A lesson to reflect upon--monetizing is ok when it doesn't kill your userbase. My ID is under 5000 (cue the older ID replies) and I refuse to give them pageviews now.

whathaschanged··on HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)
We got Al Capone for tax evasion. Sometimes the laws you see as unjust are there for a reason. In California, for instance, a DUI has a part A and B so if they drop one part you always get convicted of the other.
whathaschanged··on Scrolling your website past the iPhone X’s notch
I think they are discussing landscape because there is a tendency to force tablet layouts onto mobile users. That and advertisers want the most real estate for their videos.

Visibility be damned if you have to type anything on one of those sites. Keyboard covering the rest of the screen real estate not consumed by dickbars (sorry, I never heard that but it's such an apt description).

whathaschanged··on White House Looks at Replacing Social Security Numbers
Doesn't a party have to claim damages for there to be fraud? How could your doctor possibly do so in this case?
whathaschanged··on VCs are suing the US for delay of immigration program
I don't ever send money to friends and family in another country. They all do. Which worker benefits this nation more?
whathaschanged··on Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)
Most contraband is not hooped (stored in the butt). It comes from crooked sheriffs and police officers whose union prevents their being searched properly before entering and exiting work.
whathaschanged··on VCs are suing the US for delay of immigration program
If they're creating jobs and then bemoaning the lack of developers and the need to import more foreign talent to fill those roles,then no,they aren't creating jobs.
whathaschanged··on Without Power, Puerto Rico Is Cash Only
I remember credit card payments at retailers and gas stations used to be processed with carbon copies and a sliding box.
whathaschanged··on How a ’50s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail
There have always been methods to skirt laws on these sorts of things. My personal favorite from a conceptual standpoint was the knife, whose sheath dropped away, rather than the blade coming out. https://www.google.com/patents/US4523379
whathaschanged··on How a ’50s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail
It's not a switchblade. That's like calling a handgun a 'rifle with a shorter barrel'. There is a distinction between a switchblade (which opens at the operation of a switch or button), a gravity knife (which opens as you described),and a spring assisted knife (which has a spring but not one strong enough to open the blade on its own).

It's dangerous to mix and match words when describing an item that could or could not get you in a heap of trouble for carrying and or possessing in your particular jurisdiction.

whathaschanged··on Our Approach to Privacy
That has nothing to do with the questions that I posed. Apple being part of PRISM is what I referred to. Not the nature of the program. The intentional lying about it. Why should anybody trust them?

“We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order,” stated Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/technology/is-apple-lying-about-it...

whathaschanged··on Our Approach to Privacy
Apple's approach to privacy also includes being a partner in PRISM, a fact which they chose to vigorously deny as false allegations until it was proven to be true.

Every story about Apple and privacy chooses to omit thus huge piece of info.

Why should anybody trust them now? What has changed to make anybody believe they aren't still lying about privacy?

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