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Comment · 1 day ago
The issue is that all of those articles have to be maintained. Every so often some insignificant professor has their article edited by a student to say that they were sanctioned by the university for sexual misconduct when they were not. That's just one example, as it's easy to meet notability guidelines as an academic. It's a problematic to have tons of biographies for living people with marginal notability. On the other hand, any random hurricane or rural highway merrits an article because these pages don't lead to the same problems.
Comment · 11 days ago
Any self-respecting Apple user has at least three iPads.
Comment · 23 days ago
...or that's just what they want you to think.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, but that's still like 20 states that don't have strict CPOM laws.
Comment · 1 month ago
Google makes money, I'm not sure Pixel does.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's nice to be the customer, instead of the product.
Comment · 2 months ago
They heavily limit the number of lifetime subscriptions they sell to avoid it becoming a sustainability issue. That product isn't available right now, for example.
Comment · 5 months ago
By the time Apple drops support for the M1 I imagine that Asahi will be fairly mature.
Comment · 6 months ago
Pretty much any decent mass transit system in the world is packed at rush hour. The whole advantage over private vehicles comes from the fact that people take up less space.
Comment · 6 months ago
Courts have held that people have less rights while driving then they do in other settings (such as walking down the street or as a passenger in a vehicle). For example, the doctrine of implied consent allows the government to compel you to submit to a blood alcohol test without a warrant. I wonder if something similar could be applied here.

I certainly support civil liberties, but they need to be balanced against the government's strong interest in preventing the bloodshed that comes from the reckless operation of vehicles.

Comment · 6 months ago
In a scenario where you are losing a significant part of the population to war, it's better that it be men.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am a social worker and SharePoint is unfortunately widely used by nonprofit agencies for storing client records. It's a real shame, but they can't afford anything better.
Comment · 1 year ago
Most of these chromium-based browsers are intended to address privacy concerns. Firefox (mostly) respects your privacy.

There are also sometimes compatibility issues with Firefox because web developers only test on chromium and webkit. Anyone opinionated enough to put up with that is just going to use Firefox.

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