Ability to moderate

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Yes, or as my server friend commented on after a late night shift:

A fairly large lady comes in with a friend after a night at the bar. She orders the double-decker cheeseburger, poutined fries with gravy, and a side of apple pie. Then she asks for a "diet coke" and comments "I'm trying to lose weight"

I wonder about the filesystem patents when most big Android vendors have now killed off the use of SD cards in phones.
There's no need at all to use FAT unless you've for media that is going between phones and PC's. When transferring by wifi or USB/app, the FS doesn't matter

Doesn't make as much sense on Slashdot. Steam is a service that offers a catalogue of games, including some free ones.
Slashdot basically offers one product that's free/ad-supported, and the ability to post is directly tied to that service (not necessarily so the ability to chat/voice-chat in the games).

However, I could see somebody coming who offers a third-party service web-presence validation service. $5 for a validated account, which then could be used to login to others such as Slashdot etc via OpenID or something similar. I would actually be willing to pay for that if it could get past the initial growth hurdles.

If you're know they're in, wouldn't it be better to turn the "breach" into a honeypot?
Let them into a secured system which looks useful, but in reality feeds them bad data.

If sales of EV's etc are going down, perhaps the SMART people can pick them up at a lower price-point...

However, it's also gone beyond the original intended purpose (killing weeds), and is used as a desiccant. To make wheat easier to harvest, it is soaked in glyphosate to speed the drying process pre-harvest.
That's convenient for the farmers, but there are a lot of studies showing links between celiac'ism etc and glyphosate overuse. Notably, a lot of people with gluten intolerance seem to be able to eat wheat-products in Europe (where the roundup/glyphosate use is often banned), but get sick when eating it in the US.

My understanding is that caffeine and other stuff in coffee beans is intended to keep away predators (insects etc).
I've been collecting coffee grounds as adding them to my garden as
a) They add minerals which plants love (phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, magnesium)
b) For tomatoes, they help keep the tomato bugs away

I don't think you replied to the comment you think you were replying to...

Examples of things that couldn't care less: streaming large assets that are decompressed in realtime, like audio or video files. Loading a word processing document. Downloading a game patch. Encoding a DVD. Playing RAM-resident video games.

Yes, any one of those things. However, if you're downloading a game patch while playing a game and maybe playing some music in the background, at the same time as perhaps download a few torrents or copying files, whatever... SSD's kick ass.

Why? Because singularly those things aren't IO-bound, but once you start doing 2+ things that require semi-hefty disk access then on an HDD you're going to have a lot of thrashing and speed goes out the window.

"How many 62 year olds do you know who ... diagnose their own problems before going to the doctor"

A lot, unless you mean "correctly" and without being a huge PITA ;-)

Generally evolution isn't going to go on a per-decade rate, especially for humans that live for 50-100 years. That's something that happens over generations. It's hard to measure in the long-term because the standards of measure have also changed.

There's also the upbringing factor: development is not only genetics, it's tied to health and nutrition. Your average "poor" person might not have a great outlook in that regard due to malnutrition etc.

I'd say that "anyone can make it big" but "most people won't" and "being wealthy helps improve the odds a lot"

history is rife with examples of men with questionable looks and stunning women

How many of those had average income?

Complaining "Your service sucks, your employees are rude, and etc etc" isn't going to be a big deal. If they want to publish somebody saying they suck go ahead

Saying to an employee (to paraphrase) "you're an ugly, fat uneducated idiot with no usefulness as a human being blah blah and I'm going to use my power to RUIN you" is not so open to interpretation. I've gotten ticked off at people in stores, but I don't resort to personal attacks because I'm not an asshole.