No, when I had a Touch ID iPhone, it would often have trouble reading my fingerprint even if my hands were just still damp from being washed in the sink for a few seconds and not fully towel-dried.
Using Signal to coordinate foreign policy and military actions runs afoul of the Federal Records Act, a duly-enacted law passed by Congress and binding on the executive branch.
Being able to take a few minutes out of the workday here and there to attend to minor home duties (laundry, pets, deliveries, etc.) is a pretty significant extra perk on top of the time savings of avoiding the commute.
Because they had a nice revenue stream running short-hop flights between those cities and didn't want high-speed rail cutting into it. Routes under 300 miles or so are the sweet spot for HSR where you can actually save time going from downtown to downtown instead of dealing with the airport rigamarole.
Because that means apartment buildings become illegal?
Homeownership is all well and good, but sometimes you really do just need a place to live for a year or two, and having to do a full-fledged real estate transaction at each end of that period is a lot of friction.
In many cases, the superfluous nooks and crannies on 5-over-1's are mandated by local zoning rules that call for "façade articulation" on buildings occupying larger amounts of street frontage (I suppose to conceal the unthinkable horror of a big building existing in a city).
You can't really go wrong with Marcella Hazan's books. She was an evangelist for traditional Italian recipes and methods in the US starting in the 1970s much the same way Julia Child was with French cuisine. Her marvelously simple tomato/onion/butter sauce is revelatory.
There are plenty of small-to-medium-sized cities (25K–250K) with sufficiently intact city cores and higher-density corridors where it's still very reasonable to imagine increased cycling uptake if the infrastructure were just put in place. It's not about making every person ride a bike on every trip, it's about making more bike trips possible for more people. Obviously someone who lives in Montana five miles from the nearest stoplight isn't going to be using a bike for their primary transportation, but there's a big spectrum in between that and midtown Manhattan.
Even if making the connector reversible would have ended up costing too much money, why not at least make it (more clearly) asymmetrical to reduce the guesswork involved in plugging in the cable? Yes, I know the USB logo is supposed to face up and the seam on the connector is supposed to face down, but those seem like half-measures at best. At least they seem to have figured it out with later iterations of the connectors.