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But she was not obstructing the right of way. Presumably people could move around her. It's not illegal to stand on the sidewalk. It's possible they might try to stretch (IMO bogus) "loitering" laws to get her, but doing so would make their intentions crystal clear.

Is it a lawful order to command a person who is not committing a crime to move from a public sidewalk she has every right to be on?

It's an interesting question: How do you define the line between a 'forum' (which most don't consider addictive or harmful), and 'social media' (where there is growing evidence of addiction and harm)? What are some attributes of social media that are missing on forums?

Opaque ranking algorithms?

Human curation / moderation?

Automated curation / moderation?

Voting / flagging?

Infinite scroll?

Images and/or auto-playing video?

Advertising inline with posts?

Profit motive to get users to do certain things?

I don't know where you draw the line, and what makes Facebook harmful but Hacker News not harmful.

I got a bunch of them but only because I am a super hardcore TNG nerd. Most casual trekkies probably don’t even notice the names of the episodes. It’s still a tough game.

I guarantee the Unhealthy Snack Industry has their top scientists hard at work trying to find some kind of formula to make people on GLP-1 drugs go back to craving the soda and doritos.

Ideally, every API to call a function that provides the developer "dangerous" access to your system, should give the developer a text string argument to explain/justify to the user why it's needed. Then, instead of a confusing "Do you want this app to use Bluetooth?" pop-up with zero context, you let the developer convince the user.

I think the visibility of these dialogs serves as a warning to the user--but they should do a better job directing the user's attention to where the threat is. If the user is getting annoyed at all these pop-ups, he should direct this annoyance at the developer who is (in all likelihood) asking for access to more of the user's computer than he needs.

The fact that there are so many popups should mean apps are reaching for access to your system way beyond what they should be. It shouldn't mean Apple needs to get rid of the pop-ups.

Some people like to live dangerously!

Yea, but I just don't feel like going to a site that doesn't want me as a visitor. F them.

StackOverflow is great if your question is "How would we have done X back in 2012?" Because you can't re-ask or re-answer questions that have had their correct answers change as technology changed. So the sites is stuck back in time when each question was first answered.

I stopped when they killed old.reddit.com for non-logged-in users.

Why wouldn't the IRS accept a tax return created by your own software? How would they even know it was custom software? Ultimately your tax return is just a stack of papers that gets sent to the IRS.

> well there's no statute of limitations on murder at least, so 800 more days

This assumes The Other Side will do anything if they do get into power. My prediction: A milquetoast moderate leads the (D)'s and declares: "In the interest of unity and moving forward, we will not go after anyone in the previous administration. Let us all hold hands and get past this with minimal drama... They have pinkey promised they will never behave this way again when they get to power, and we believe them."

> I am personally dealing with colon cancer, and one of the incredibly annoying things about the awful disease is the number of truly clueless people who use it to advance some culinary agenda they believe in without evidence.

Sorry to hear this, and it's really a shame that whenever health and disease topics show up, every conspiracy theorist comes out from under their rock to try to explain their "theory" to you. Just look at the comment-trainwreck on this HN article. A significant percentage of the comments are "I have a theory that it's [....]" and it's always something mundane, untestable, and vaguely victim-blamey like diet.

100%. Once you get used to an Apple 5K display, the normal and even "high end" gaming monitors just look awful.