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The comparison to TV/cable is a good one. I don't think people who feel this way would say the same about telephones or the postal service.


AFAIK there are no laws preventing telephone and postal providers from collecting and selling metadata.


It's possible that this situation will cause all the other airlines to try improve their staff and bureaucracy out of fear of being next.


The iMac G4 could be described as half of a globe.


Yeah, good point. I don't think it was a particularly good design. I read somewhere that the philosophy was 'not to do the obvious thing and put the guts of the computer behind a large screen' - which is what they eventually did with the next iMac.

This desire 'not to do the obvious thing' is also behind the Trashintosh. And it's also why I'm worried about the future Mac Pro. The obvious thing would be to revive the cheesegrater case, but Ive and co feel they have to do something 'radical' to justify their salary.


They also argued that the optical drive could not be oriented vertically.

I actually really liked how easy it was to reposition the screen frequently, so that I changed my seating position more often.



In 2010, JA/Wikileaks were Saints of the Left, until they went rogue in 2016 with DNC leaks. I would reconsider my stand if you provided a better example.



I own a 4 year old Nexus 4 that I got for $200. Almost everyone I encounter thinks it's an iPhone initially. Many people (especially the older ones) still think it's an iPhone after I tell them it isn't.


I suspect most of those history questions are answered via Wikipedia. From what I've seen if the snippet isn't using Wikipedia it's not useful and/or accurate.


Now, that you point it out, I think that is the situation. When the answer were not easily verifiable it has been websites I wasn't familiar with.


There used to be a feature on Twitter for viewing other people's feeds[1], but was removed[2].

I made something to replicate that via Twitter Lists[3][4], but it seems like making one for Facebook is much more important.

[1] https://twitter.com/twitter/status/73833309163110400

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12117218

[3] https://otherside.site/

[4] https://gist.github.com/0x263b/7b391a1617fcbbabc57fb1e705884...


This sounds more like gross incompetence than anything


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