That's a misconception. Prices are not the same across stores.
I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.
I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.
Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.
I regularly use a 10.4 Tiger machine for music and graphic projects and it is a breath of fresh air compared to where MacOS is today. My daily drivers are Mavericks/Mojave/Mojave but recently got an M1 iMac with Monterey. Nothing about Mojave-->Monterey feels like an improvement.
Aside from high-DPI, I'd be pressed to think of a single Mac interface convention or element that is better today than 2005. Many are a lot worse.
I'm extremely careful with my Macbook magsafe charging cables. But in ten years I've had three fray into uselessness.
My current cable has black electrical tape at both the charger block and connector ends. No matter how carefully one loops these things before putting them in a bag, the rubbery material eventually abrades and cracks.
In contrast, I used Powerbooks for 15+ years and never had a single cable go bad.
J.K. Rowling has stated her love of transpeople and her wish to see them be fully accepted members of society. She has differences of opinion about the best political approach to achieving equality.
Because she makes a rational, temperate argument that you do not like, you "wouldn't waste spit on her in hell."
You might find it useful to read articles before indulging your urge to sarcasm: one of the novels discussed is by Joanna Russ (female). Another is by Samuel Delaney (African-American).
Oh, the name of the two-volume series is "American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s". Maybe the specifics of criteria -- "America," "1960s" -- influenced the choices?
The article isn't misleading at all. She is a company executive.
Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scumbag boss cover it up.
Dozens if not hundreds of articles have been written about corruption around patent trolling in the Eastern District of Texas.
You have everything you need to seek those articles out. Asking others to do simple tasks for you indicates a desire to waste their time. It could fairly be interpreted as... trolling.
Here in Los Angeles your typical store has 6-10 varieties of apple, almost all of them painfully similar.
Braeburn, Jazz, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Ambrosia, Jonagold, Envy... these are all the same basic apple: overly sweet, hard/dense, not a lot of taste outside sugar. Envy apples are the yellow version of the same thing. Pink Ladies are marginally better.
If anyone knows an LA area market where I can escape the tyranny of obnoxiously "crisp" sugar bombs in favor of Cortlands, McIntosh, Jonathan, or anything out of the ordinary... do tell.
If the Granny Smith wasn't available I don't know what I'd do.
Ah, so "blockchain" is a Libertarian Trojan horse that will obviate government. Man, "blockchain" can do ANYTHING.
"voluntary smart contracts"... more buzzwords that sound great but mean nothing. What's so smart about contracts that lose hundreds of millions of dollars because someone put a semicolon in the wrong place? I'm not volunteering for that.
Can't wait for the first time the soon-to-be-obsolete government has to "fork" the Social Security "blockchain" because a few $$$BILLION "went missing" when some 25-year-old, third-tier programmer/consultant screwed up the "smart" contract. Oops.
That is an awful lot of words to say "Hey anybody got any ideas how to make 'blockchain' useful to people not interested in bilking cryptocurrency speculators? Sure, we've got homeless on the streets but ALSO $200 million burning a hole in our city's pockets, and saying 'blockchain' is much cooler than 'hunger' or 'poverty' or 'infrastructure.' Ooh look, blockchain!"
Please somebody suggest an even remotely plausible way that "blockchain" could possibly improve "turn-around times for government services."
Mild to moderate inflation is usually considered useful in paying back debt, as the constant dollar value of the debt decreases.
Even with the low inflation we've had over the last 20 years, if you borrowed $1000 in 1997 with 0% interest and wanted to pay it back now, the 1000 "2018 dollars" you'd pay would only be "worth" 655 "1997 dollars".
The real danger is in deflation, which causes the constant dollar value of the debt to grow.
I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.
I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.
Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.