I dunno, man. When I scroll down, I get all the vertical real estate back. I think that counts for a lot when compared against page-length side menus.

Cool, looks good! Thank you! The styles are a bit wonky right now, the article summary is mostly hidden behind the video itself in Chrome, but I'm guessing that'll get hashed out along with everything else. (or maybe my browser is just using a cached css file, who knows)

I pretty much always avoid the video articles because they autoplay, you can't pause ads (don't care about skipping), and I think they're also missing volume and mute.

Business can't plan or talk to customers or have any strategy whatsoever without at least some estimate...that's just the real world. If devs don't give estimates, managers have to make estimates. If managers don't make estimates, business makes estimates. You want devs to do the estimating.

Searching is the killer app of e-readers (or just PDFs) to me. Even if I have a physical book, which is sometimes easier to reference, I like having a PDF that I can search in. Fiction, nonfiction, reference manual...doesn't matter, still want search.

You're close. You don't have a legal right to receive their service, but they do have a legal obligation to provide the service, because they are a common carrier. In exchange for legal considerations that the government grants them, they agree to certain terms of the government's...like "serve everyone".

But yeah, they also have some severe restrictions on what they're not allowed to carry, and they err way on the side of caution. If you told them "this is a block of lead, and I plan to melt it for bullets", they may well refuse, and by some legal interpretations they might *have* to.

Irradiation isn't 100% at inactivating C.Botulinum. Neither is heat pasteurization (to the level that your honey is still, well, honey). There's no guaranteed safe way of making honey edible for infants.

Guys, the honey-botulism thing is like eggs-salmonella. Not every egg has salmonella, and if you eat the clean ones raw, you'll be fine. Not all honey has C.Botulinum spores (which cause it), but if you give some that is contaminated to a young child, they will be badly affected because their gut bacteria hasn't had time to develop--it's a matter of growth, not resistance through exposure. You played the odds and won. Most kids that eat honey will be fine and most batches aren't contaminated. Some of them will get a bad batch and will be less fortunate.

Your assertion certainly isn't true for everyone. Yeah, some habits will change--people who _only_ download because it's a free and easy way to kill time will replace it with some other free and easy activity. That's a huge majority of pirates. But there's still a large number of people who pirate i.e. specific tv shows because they are interested in that particular show, and pirating is the easiest way to do it right now. Take away pirating and they still want their show--hell, some of them are already spending money because they decided that streaming from a storefront is more convenient than hunting torrents. Enough of those pirates have disposable income they're willing to spend that yes, it will make a difference in overall sales (if actually enforced).

used to work in the digital video industry...does that make me a corporate shill? There's still massive holes in the business model but it's not all bad, especially when streaming products are sold _as rentals_ so there's no "but I don't really own it" argument.

If you're controlling something, it should at least be a POST.

stodgy
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adjective, stodgier, stodgiest.
1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
3. stocky; thick-set.
4. old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
5. dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.

And watch my rent go up, or watch the landlord sell the place out from under me, or get foreclosed on, or decide to move in themselves? No thanks. I'm also paying a premium for stability. Yes it's dependent on keeping a stable job, but it really cuts down on the number of things that could force me to move. Peace of mind is invaluable.

There are some regions where property tax hikes can really screw you over in that situation, but I guess in that case your house would be worth enough that you can sell it and downsize.

I don't see my home as an investment. I'm buying the ability to knock down walls and move power outlets if I want to at a premium. Installing central air was expensive, but in my climate it's not very common. Somewhere down the line, I can install a hot tub in the back yard, again very expensively. I won't be able to get my investment back when I sell it...but it's worth it for me personally as an owner.

Even comments about C++ have memory leaks.