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Text selection on inside a textarea is pretty easy on the iPad and iPhone if you are using the on-screen keyboards. On the iPhone you can use force-touch on the keyboard area and then move the cursor wherever you wish. Force-pressing again starts a selection. On the iPad you use two fingers to drag across the on-screen keyboard and tap with two fingers begin selecting, which doesn‘t really work if you are using a hardware keyboard. So it‘s a mixed bag.

What safety on a Glock? I was of the impression that they had no external safety features.

Feature-size is not really comparable between foundaries.

IIRC Intel 14nm is actually a smaller process than TSMC 10nm because there is no standardized way to determine feature-size.

What you are describing is the way it is for the Saudi proletariat. These people don‘t use Snapchat. The rich do and their lives are completly different from what you describe.

At this point it is pretty clear that, at least on the Mac side, iTunes has no future. The Mac is clearly moving towards an iOS-like setup where there are seperate Apps for Videos, Music, Podcasts, and so on. Now that Apple has discontinued all non-iOS based iPods (so everything except the iPod touch) this raison-d'être has also disappeared.

What remains to be seen is how this plays out on Windows.

I think he simply wants the same rules that apply to McDonalds to also apply to homes.

If McDonalds has their BigMac Meal labeled with CHF 12.50 (the current price in Switzerland IIRC) the cashier won't be able to refuse to sell it to me for that price even if I look particularly hungry and it's 4 O'Clock in the morning (and might thus be ready to pay more than 12.50). At least in Switzerland you are generally obliged to honor your displayed prices.

I have never bought a home (I'm a 23 y/o student), and I don't know if the process in the US would be comparable to the process in CH, but if a home is labeled with a price of say CHF 1'250'000 I expect to be able to walk in there with a bag with 1'250 CHF 1000 bills and pay for the house without additional price haggling. However I can imagine that this is not how it works (apart form the "pay with cash" part, which I know works for sure).

Thank you for posting this.

Yes. These tags are correct and necessary.

Can't see what the fuss is about, other than that NK knows how to use HTML.

It probably means that the iPhone 7 can't output analoge signals via the Lightning port, so thre must be a DAC inside the 3.5-to-lightning adapter.

Thank you for the correction. This is indeed the case.

Are the "Other Bets" still subsidiaries to Google or are they owned directly by XXVI?

They are still subsidiaries of Alphabet. Previously the structure was like this:

    Alphabet
        |
     Google
        |
    Other Bets

Now it will be:

         Alphabet
             |
      ———————————————
      |             |
    Google         XXVI Hldg.
                        |
                   Other Bets

> I'm thrilled that you're embarrassed by the UKs voting system though. If that's the thing weighing on your mind life must be pretty damned good

A nations voting system is one of the most important things in any functioning democracy.

I do not need your empathy. foreign invasion?! Are you proposing «let them die of malaria» as a solution to increased immigration?

I have a similar experiance. German is my mother tongue, but I learned English from an early age at bilingual primary school. I «think» in both as well, but depending on the situation it might also be just one or the other. I have started to observe when I think in one over the other and found it comes down to subject matter. American politics is english only as almost all media I consume on the subject is english. Law (my field of study) is German, since I am studing in German. For other things it seems more random.

Similarly I find that when writing (just for myself and can thus choose the language) I tend to use English very differently and in different situations from German. I also sometimes choose one for stylistic reasons. A manifesto for instance sounds a lot better in German (not that I have writen a manifesto). I also found that for many words the literal translation doesn't always capture the same nuances.

English seems like the more "frivolous" language to german. Maybe thats because german is my second language, but I doubt it. Big words don't seem as big when spoken in English as compared to German.

On my fathers side of the family there are a number of en/de bilingual speakers, so we also speak a wild mix of the two picking and choosing what fits best (or just popped into my head first).

This experiance has made me very interested in learning French as well. I speak it a bit at it's mandatory to learn french in school here, but I am still far from being at the stage where I don't have to mentally translate everything in my head and just think in the language. I am moving to the french speaking part of the country soon for that reason (among others).

> Of course there are people that will microwave their device for fun and demand a replacement

This is known as insurance fraud.

Yes, I habe worked at a company where we would ship a high amount of construction machine spare parts with FedEx, DHL et al. We had a ~90% discount on their regular prices.

Just from my personal experiance in Switzerland I think this is mostly the case, but not always. I have a contactless Visa with a rather low limit that I use for small day to day purchases. I only use it contactless and most of the time I can go over the monthly limit if I only use it contactless. Sometimes if I do this it will still be declined by a shop due to «insufficient funds», so some contactless terminals must be calling home. At this point the Card stops working at any terminal, even the contactless kind. I have to wait for the next month and use it the Chip and Pin way once to make it work again.

That is simply not possible. While it is possible to render a digital scene at 60fps with any arbitrary shutter speed (e.g. 1/48s the default 180° shutter used in 24fps film productions), it is not possible in real life with a real camera. There are only 48 48ths in each second and you will not be able to start a new frame while you are still capturing the one before it. 60fps limits your availible shutterspeeds to a theoretical maximum of 1/60s or faster. At 24fps you are theoretically limited to 1/24s. In practice there will be a delay between frames so oth numbers will be slightly smaller.

Film or video shot at high framerates will necessarily have to be shot at higher shutter speeds than films shot at a lower fps. This has an obvious visual impact on the image.

Because instant > wait a couple hundred ms

simple really

At least here in Switzerland this is definitly a legal business arrangement that you could go to court over. Proving your claims will be more difficult than if you had a written formal agreement, of course.

> Workplace suicides are rare in places like the US and make up approximately 1% of all suicides.

This might be true, but Foxconn employees mostly live at their workplace, so all suicides of Foxconn employees are technically «workplace suicides». That doesn't really tell us a whole lot though.

For me HN seems to be one of the few websites that is usable on 2G.

Yes, I remember that. I had to explain this to my parents so that they would let me use their Creditcard for this purpose.

The main confusion seems to stem from the fact that the 2% goal (agreed upon in 2014, to be met by 2024) is not "money for NATO", but how much eah member state shall spend on their own armies.

NATO is a military alliance, not a seperate army.

For certain films it can be vital that subtitles can be styled in multiple ways.

For example: I recently watched the movie "The Handmaiden" which includes both spoken Korean and Japanese. The language the characters speak in any given situation is relevant to the story. If all the subtitles were the same I would not have noticed this destinction.

Yes, it is very rare as it is highly expensive. These cameras use film sheets with a size of 4x5 or 8x10 inches (depending on how you process the film and scan it the total might be in the hundreds of dollars per image). The image quality however is unmatched by any digital equipment.

Scanning back solutions also exist (basically a scanner that you can attach to the camera) . These cost thousands of dollars each and may take a few minutes per image. You cannot use them for moving subjects. [1]

These factors make cameras like this a very rare sight indeed.

[0] http://www.dannyburk.com/drum_scanning.htm [1] http://www.betterlight.com/products4X5.html

There is a saying that the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.

esp. if you are betring against the ECB

Does it really matter why an infant is not vaccinated in this discussion? Unless we immeduatly vaccinate everyone as soon as they leave the womb (unlikely / impossible) there will always be unvaccinated people.

I am pretty sure the sieve can be written like this in Haskell, which might be a bit short for a research paper:

    sieve :: Integral a => a -> [a]
    sieve l =
        sieve' [2..l] []
      where
        sieve' (p:ns) ps =
        sieve' (filter (\x -> rem x p /= 0) ns) (p : ps)
        sieve' [] ps =
            reverse ps

> Why would you meet up with someone to sell cash for cash?

Forex