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> If i dont show up to work unexcused, i wont get paid. If i am getting caught attending to a party while called in sick, its a felony But you're talking about not having a real excuse and fak…

> You are not going to [...] get your driver’s license or permit. This stuck out the most to me. How did we end up in a situation where this is something school districts have any authority over?

Does this make it impossible to have a "break glass" account?

In the GrapheneOS post a few days ago, it came up that Fairphones are quite insecure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

Why is that a bad thing? Wouldn't we be better off with all of them being PWA's?

I wish Apple and Google would make rules to the effect of "if your app's entire functionality could be done in a regular website or PWA, then you can't put a native app on our stores&qu…

The EV charging issue aside, backing into parking spaces is safer. It's totally unjust that places ban it just so that lazy parking enforcers will never have to walk to the other side of a car to…

Metal detectors can detect nonferrous metals too.

If you're obfuscating code or writing anti-debugging logic, you are the bad guy. Stop trying to control other people's computers.

Intentional destruction of perfectly-good unsold merchandise in the name of brand exclusivity.

> most MRI scanner magnets cannot be turned off like that. For the few that can, it's going to cost >$50,000 just to refill the liquid helium, not to mention the real and opportunity costs …

While that's indeed a bug, for it to be a security vulnerability, wouldn't there also have to be a security boundary involved? Specifically, mapName is always either "w1000b.png" o…

> Your end users expect brand-consistent dashboards that match the host app down to the smallest pixel. Is that really true? Aren't most end users now used to, e.g., YouTube and Twitter iframe…

Which of the things in your list can LIDAR provide a replacement for?

> My understanding is that it computes the time simply as (estimated_end_time - start_time), and it determines the estimated_end_time as whenever you would reach your destination, which accounts fo…

Are Waymos unsafe too? Didn't they also have them at first?

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde... …

But when people complain public transit is unsafe, they don't mean that it's dirty (even though that's usually also true). They specifically mean they're worried about being the vi…

Whoops, it turns out Google was showing me the L and not the Metra, because the Metra's headways are so far apart today that you'd get there sooner by taking the much-slower L than you would…

I'm immediately suspicious of any chain that links "denser environments" to "less congestion", since everywhere I've ever been, the densest environments have the most con…

Huh? You said it was a guaranteed 30 minutes. I went to verify that for myself and am pointing out the discrepancy I saw.

> It says 42 minutes via subway because you have to walk to the station and wait a few minutes for the next subway. Google doesn't seem to count the time of waiting for the next subway train. …

Google Maps says Evanston to Chicago by transit right now takes 1 hour and 24 minutes.

46 minutes is a lot more than 20 minutes, and "up to 2hr" is doing a lot of work since Google says "typically 1-2 hr". And isn't London the city that instituted the ridiculous…