I honestly think desktop notifications in their current form are one of the worst features of the modern web. Sure it's nice to get an email alert but on my experience there's probably a thousand confused old people getting spammed for each person that intentionally enabled it.
What's worse is they look like native OS alerts (on Windows) so when one says "SECURYIRT ALERT!! CALL NOW" it's that much more effective at getting people on the phone with scammers.
Sure, but there are already many many people partially or fully disabled by over resting after an injury. The parent comment was hardly calling for running marathons right after a car accident.
We can debate the merits of various drug pricing schemes but at the end of the day, prices are set by a small group of interested actors who want the prices to be as high as they possibly can without causing a violet revolt. So call it what you will but let's not pretend there's some deeper, more important meaning to be sussed out here.
It should be cheaper. No circling the block looking for parking, no space needed at all for that matter. That alone is worth giving taxis/ubers at least a different pricing structure.
Provide evidence. 2012 is pretty late to have been drinking the techno-utopian koolaid but millions of people, and IMO, maybe half of silicon valley tech workers, took this assumption as ground truth.
This breathless article from 2009 [1] (found in 2 seconds by searching "tech will change the world year:2009") is a good example of what most people thought. You can find blog many posts and articles from the time saying basically the same thing. If you forget, back in 2012 people used to tune into Apple's yearly keynote with bated breath in anticipation of what marvelous innovation Apple would grace us with next. An app to replace your therapists? Uber for dogs? Solve poverty and racism? That was the attitude I remember among my peers (college kids and yes, professors too).
Keep in mind this is not true in the Northeast. It’s very common to have multi million dollar homes within spitting distance of dilapidated buildings worth only land value.
My parent’s house, while nothing special, sold for a couple hundred thousand when they sold in 2019. A few months before hand our neighbor sold theirs for over 2 million.
You have no idea how I LONG for a return to that. I DEEPLY wish every single person would install an ad blocker. If ad supported slop went under that would leave us with just paid and passion projects, and we would be far better off for it.
Yes, almost all US cities have at least a couple grocery stores that stock imported products and have signage in multiple languages. most common is Chinese or general “Asian” but larger cities have more specific stores that specialize further on Korean, Vietnamese, etc.
In the US, Comcast does this on all business copper connections. They call it "Secure Edge". It frequently breaks DNS, VPNs, some voip, torrents (or any P2P connections), and probably other stuff. It's enabled by default on all new accounts and will randomly be at the account level.
It would seem the risk of death from the CPAP is far higher than that of mouth taping. A quick google and I can’t find any injuries or deaths from mouth taping but here we have confirmed hundreds of deaths from faulty CPAP machines