Pizzagate got "buried" because it was fictional nonsense invented by insane people. I'm not really sure how an armed confrontation constitutes burying it, but nonetheless...

Because professors require that students use Times New Roman. If people could use whatever font they wanted, they'd just set it in Georgia or something.

We're not talking about people who can just go home and use their desktop. They don't have that either. They're stuck trying to do research and write papers on a smartphone (that's probably under-powered and running old software).

They certainly had access to the tools available at the time. It's not like they were stuck there with an abacus, a quill, and candlelight.

The simple fact is that if you don't have a laptop or at least an iPad or something, you're at a serious disadvantage. Doing research on a phone is possible, yes, but it's a gigantic pain in the ass. Yes, you can write a paper on your smartphone, but it'll be frustrating and take longer. It's a shame that some people's attainment will be hobbled not by their motivation or ability, but by their lack of money to afford technology.

Fortunately there are super-cheap Chromebooks and such now that will get the job done.

Have you actually used Windows? You've been able to roll back updates, restore files, etc. for who knows how many versions - so many that I can't remember a time when you couldn't.

They were shocked? Must not have listened to or read the Q1 earnings call.

"In terms of our overall 2018 revenue outlook, we continue to anticipate revenue growth rates will decelerate on a constant currency basis throughout the year."

And one of the questions asked included this tidbit: "Growth in MAUs in rest of world was up about 11%; I think last year, it was up almost double that, 19% or so. Anything changed there that maybe could explain the slowdown?"

Q1 Earnings Transcript: https://seekingalpha.com/artic...

There's a difference between being misled and not bothering to pay attention.

Can you tell me how I can get my company to accept and follow policies that were only discussed via instant messages and never actually typed up into a formal document? "We had a video chat about it" isn't going to fly when the auditors come knocking. "Oh we skyped and concluded that there was no bias in the model, but we have no documentation" seems unlikely to be a satisfactory answer.

Your idiotic suggestion doesn't really scale past a handful of people.

Far better to be ignorant and have people die needlessly than to suffer the horror of a government-provided collection of medical best practices.

The private sector isn't magic. Hand this to the private sector and you'll wind up with something that's just drug pimping.

Actually the article makes clear that this source is particularly good because it makes a serious effort to vet articles and weed out the ones that are just pushing a company's agenda.

The administration really has no good argument for getting rid of it. The budget problem is entirely self-inflicted. Claims that it is politicized aren't particularly convincing considering that people who wound up in the Trump administration are the ones who tried to politicize it in the first place.

Who's apologizing? Microsoft has made it clear from when this was first announced that the feature might not ever make it in to a release version.

It's a very nice idea, but executing it well is non-trivial. Executing it poorly is easy, but who wants that?

It's almost like implementing a feature that works with every customization anyone's done the title bar in the last 25 years is a wee bit more difficult than shitposting on the internet.

It's more complicated than that. They have to fund pensions for current employees based on life expectancy. They have to estimate liabilities over a 75 year period, and that does include people who don't currently work there. So USPS has a a future liability that does include people who aren't even born yet, but they're not required to actually come up with the money yet.

Agreed. It's a useless number.

So the App Store now has marginally less garbage in it (imperceptibly so) and the play store got 1.5M new pieces of shit. So what?

Whoever wrote it has clearly been exposed to too many clickbait headlines on Facebook.

I feel like this would've been in the news if it were true. Got a link? Or are you taking the credit card purchase ban and claiming it's about deposits, when it's clearly not?