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Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.

Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).

Maybe that leveling is itself justice.

If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.

Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.

Owning your own phone outright often solves this rent-to-own upgrade problem.

You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.

It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.

Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.

At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.

Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).

The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.

They basically did, until the underlying browser became incompatible. That was the point: to have a stable API instead of extensions relying on implementation details, which includes multiple processes.

Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.

If you go to another country dressed however you wish, you might be acosted, too. We share our cities.

She is a Democratic hero. There is nothing to cancel in her work which remains.

The Union celebrated General Lee. Maybe we should tear it down, too.

>a cache of pine cones worth $15 a bushel. These woody cones are in steep demand

A bushel, even of lightweight pine cones, is fairly large at eight gallons. For some varieties*, a bushel of pine cones delivers 1.2 pounds of pine nuts per bushel.

$15 per sounds unlike "steep demand" to me, based on my observation of prices of raw pine nuts in areas I've been where they're harvested by locals. But they provide no justification for their idea, or market context. It just leaves me suspicious.

* https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/ref/seedlings/conecoll/determine.h...

Correct. Like I said, he had had no business remarking on their list of associations or dis-associations.

>they saw the list and were left with the suspicion that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.

They aren't wrong. Earnest had no business remarking on students' appearance in or how they express feelings in Theater.

He was larping as an EMT, actually, offering medical help.

When GI Joe was fighting, there were also combat medics doing the same with weapons to defend themselves.

Is that the legal threshold for prohibiting acquisitions in the UK?

That sounds like a feature rather than a bug.

As written, the First Amendment restricts Congress, while the Second restricts at least all parties to the document, both Federal and State levels. Obviously, such plain readings aren't popular.

The Amish vote on how their community moves. People regularly leave. It's the same thing.

>define what value and relevance a license has for such

Government compliance? India is a democracy. Tech may move faster, but that doesn't mean it's right. Voters decide what's right, ultimately.

The Amish are wise in this: wait for the community to approve technology, and only then apply it to their lives. The Government of India doesn't need to be held hostage by cybermancers, they can decide tech usefulness on their own time.

Older versions (https://mises.org/library/three-more-attacks-civilization) of his dishwater article, which seems to be ever-evolving*, included mention of TSP. That was dropped, then topical politics was added.

Some people with hard water still swear by TSP in laundry. Even if it went straight to waterways (I would guess most users return it to their own septic systems, and municipalities do treat waste), agricultural phosphates still dominate, like agricultural use of water compared with residential use.

* Previously, at least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29361893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27237296

Joe Biden called it "hysterical xenophobia and fear mongering [against] science." Pelosi was on the ground in San Fransisco's Chinatown with similar words. Maxine Waters too, though she had been talking that way since 2015, predicting every possible racist act.

The official record is better, though. This bill calls out travel discrimination based on national origin: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2214...

Ringworm is a fungal infection, not a parasite like ivermectin works against.

It failed to apply to populous or notorious Muslim countries like Indonesia or Pakistan, only to those which Obama had previously put on a list. It got a bad name for political reasons, not for the facts of the executive order.

That's sooner than I noticed it in America. Before that, it was long the start of the Christmas shopping season, which guaranteed prices would be higher, but selection was wider.