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Conservatives hate it because of the Gamergate nonsense

The game is 20 years old. I think the spoiler warning period has lapsed.

The greatest trick healthcare companies have pulled is convincing Americans that after hours visits for things like high fevers and broken bones isn't basic care.

I'm 40, and my Mom was telling me about how my brother cut his head as a child, and the local small town doctor came in after hours to stitch it up. Different era.

Either. Deeply seated racist beliefs are often honestly held, but that doesn't make them less shameful.

I'm going to be honest, I thought this was going to be about Transformer characters desired by a Deep Learning AI

True, but considering how crowded the Democratic presidential field has become staking out some high-profile positions might be a good idea.

This. Their customers are buying into the brand.

The Chromecast doesn't serve ads. Individual services you run on it might, but I doubt those are being served through Google's DNS server.

You don't have a choice about Facebook. They are collecting data about you right now and affecting the society you live in. At least the government is accountable through elections.

I spent a lot of my 20s playing City of Heroes. I made a lot of good, if virtual, friends there and even met my wife. If you came to my house and looked at all the family pictures hanging on the wall, among the pictures of our kids, wedding, and grandparents you'd find a screenshot of our characters[1] which we refer to as "our first picture together."

[1]http://pharylon.github.io/uploads/fire_and_ice.jpg

But people are dumb.

I think rolling your own datepicker is an important rite of passage. So is learning why you shouldn't use your hand-rolled component in production.

Yeah, I think the issue is there's not a lot of low-hanging fruit anymore. No one hacks together some PHP scripts to create a community website anymore, they just make a Facebook group, or use Discord or whatever.

When I saw the headline, I assumed it was a situation where someone had emailed the wrong address or only tried to contact them via Twitter. But upon reading the article I see this is a high-quality report. She was sounding alarms and emailing all the right people. It's is insane that Apple missed this.

I think at this point, we need Tim Cook to write an apology piece about how they screwed up, how this won't happen again, and who got fired.

Of course! You're free to post anything they approve of.

If the large chain won't adjust, that seems something that would give smaller businesses an advantage, and seems like a positive to my ears.

As for tipping, people don't tend to tip based on quality of service (see Adam Ruins Everything) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vivC7c_1k], and instead tends to be based more on attractiveness and ethnicity. A normal wage is fairer.

I'm not sure that's true. I've lived long enough to see Wal-Mart move into my home town (rural NC, population 5K) and see it obliterate local businesses, in part because it paid it's workers low wages compared to incumbent family businesses that paid employees well.

Nothing concrete, but there probably will be another https://www.space.com/42808-nasa-new-horizons-possible-third...

They say that it's required for ecsmascript modules that neither import nor export (for instance, modules that place things in the global namespace), but I would argue those are mostly shims for a pre-moudule era and they should just be `required()`. Or perhaps they could use some special comment at the top to let Node know it should be treated as a module even though it doesn't look like one.

Otherwise, just work down the `import` tree from index.js and anything that is imported is a escmascript module, everything that is required() isn't. Of course, this is just an armchair quarterback opinion, but I'm curious to know why that approach wouldn't work.

However, FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 30% chance of winning, and in the days before the election was stressing the fact that a Trump win was very possible.

They didn't predict his win, but they did better than anyone else in the mainstream.

That site lists smartphones like the Nexus One. Do they expect Google to support every smartphone forever?

Allo, which is already being abandoned itself, never having gained the traction of Hangouts. Ultimately, it looks like Google is giving up in favor of RCS (the rich SMS protocol).

I don't know much about the Clojure community... but this article says "Open Source Is Not About You." If this is the generic "you," ie the random user that's coming in and complaining about something, then sure.

If this is a veiled criticism at a major contributor to the community, then I think it's disingenuous. If you're trying to foster a community around your OSS project/product (and Cognitect is doing just that) then you take on a set of obligations to that community, especially those who contribute code to it in good faith.

This. I wonder how much it'd cost for them to just add a bit of on-board storage.

How can the API ever be 100% sure it's a user-initiated screenshot?

Considering the tax bill is yet more theft from blue states (you know, the states that actually create most of the wealth) and gifts to red states, this is kind of laughable.

Blue states tend to have higher income or property taxes to pay for the social services they provide. That has always (literally, since income tax was first enacted) been tax-deductible on the Federal level. That deduction was removed as part of the recent tax bill.

The mean pay of a Steel Mill is $49,050. That's a lot better than an Uber driver. It used to be significantly higher.

Your comment is irrelevant. Besides the fact that other companies like Apple wielded their parents against Android, the big difference is Microsoft's patents weren't open source.

The reason Oracle's behavior is so bad, and raises the question of whether Java is really Free Software anymore, is they sued Google over re-implimenting an ostensibly Open Source language.

And if you want to talk Microsoft, the most relevant thing to the discussion is that .Net Core includes explicit language in it's lisence that allows for re-implimenting it, and in fact despite the whole "Microsoft is evil" meme, they never sued Mono, a re-implimentation of their non-Open Source .Net Framework.

Thanks for that thoughtful reply. We've been upfront with our kids too. They understand as well as a 4 and 3 year old can that most Mommies have eggs inside them that grow into babies, but their Mommy got an egg from another lady. :)