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Language Log has posted for many years about singular they, often spotting examples of it in well-edited publications.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27

See also the wikipedia page on singular they, chock full of usage examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Most apps use 3rd-party libraries and servers to show those ads, so they can be blocked at the network connection level (e.g. the hosts file) if you have control over your phone's OS. Having Android helps with that.

The apps need to handle it gracefully because they can't tell whether the ad server is legitimately down or just blocked. I've never had an app work any worse with blocked ads.

It sounds like you're talking about multithreading in general rather than async specifically. If you don't need multithreading then you don't need async... that's not too surprising.

I write an application that previously wasn't using threading to avoid blocking the UI. Certain long-running tasks would freeze the app for some time. It's not a big deal since it's an internal app for my work team, but now that the async syntax and semantics are a bit easier, I've started using them and my app is more responsive.

Async doesn't do anything fundamentally new. If you already implemented multithreading in your application that you're happy with, there's no compelling reason to switch to doing it the async way. But for new development it seems like it should be the default.

The increase in value only came from the new $500m in cash. That cash didn't come from the company's operations and it didn't come from you, so there's no reason to think that your shares would increase (or decrease) in value.

Very impressive -- lots more depth than I expected and the satire stays sharp the whole way through. For a challenge, find your way into the deep web...

Soylent actually competes pretty well on price too! The calories on those recipes range from 140 to 386 per $1 serving. That's $5-14 for 2000 calories, while the new Soylent formula is $12. (Slightly more if you don't subscribe, slightly less if you get the powder formula instead of pre-mixed.)

Plus, the recipe cost assumptions must be pretty generous to get to $1. One of the recipes calls for 1 pound of ground beef and makes 6 servings. The flyer for my local discount grocery has the ground beef at $4.50, but the nicer grocery nearer to me is already over $6 just for the meat, let alone two cans of tomato sauce, some pasta, some carrots, shredded cheese... I'll bet in a real-world test of those recipes, Soylent would beat the average cost.

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