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Comment · 4 years ago
Those are all "crises" in different senses of the word.
Comment · 5 years ago
In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I'd wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds/warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.
Comment · 7 years ago
iOS apps like Bear achieve this by building on iCloud storage
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not sure what threat model this supposed "Easy Fix" is intended to address. Struggling families already keep food past supposed expiration date. If manufacturers want people to throw away food, changing the way the label is worded won't fix that. And most people are discarding food because they don't plan and/or buy too many.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Most Americans’ daily routines depend on single-use items and throwaway plastic packaging, much of it flowing into streams and oceans, polluting our ecosystems.

This is unsubstantiated sensational bs. Plastics do end up in landfill or incinerator, but the US does not have waterway pollution problem.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
It's not as much time lost as extra effort spent handling the denominations and counting changes. When I take a taxi in Bangkok, I need to pay cash to the toll booths. Uber just bills them directly to my card.
Comment · 12 years ago
This is so appalling. If your wife is in labor and needs to rush to the hospital, the cab driver ought to charge you outrageously because you're richer than him?
Comment · 12 years ago
Sure. Because reactionary lawmaking is the solution to all problems.
Comment · 13 years ago
No, the floor is unrelated to the energy put into mining. The intrinsic value of Bitcoin is the ability to facilitate financial transactions.

Brinks' entire CIT vehicle business is based upon just a subset of this function, and we can agree their value is not zero.

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