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Comment Re:Their Revocation Statement Breaks Their Own CoC (Score 1) 800

Moderators, how is the parent post trolling? It makes no value judgements about the Stack Exchange CoC itself and is using no inflammatory text, but what it points out is pretty cut & dry:

  1. Monica Cellio expressed a preference against using plural pronouns for singular entities.
  2. Per the SE CoC, pronoun preferences are to be honored.
  3. The SE statement referred to Monica Cellio with "they/their", against Monica Cellio's expressed preference.
  4. Therefore the SE statement violates the SE CoC.

Comment Re:Their Revocation Statement Breaks Their Own CoC (Score 1) 800

Sure, but this CoC has nothing to do with what's valid according to the dictionary -- it's instead stating that an individual's personal choices of pronouns must be used when a preference has been communicated. Here it's pretty clear that the plural form wasn't wanted, even if it is okay per the dictionary. I'm not making any claims about whether the CoC is good or bad, just that SE's own official statement violated it in this particular case.

Comment Their Revocation Statement Breaks Their Own CoC (Score 0, Troll) 800

Notice how in "On Friday, we revoked privileges for one Stack Exchange moderator when they refused to abide by our Code of Conduct (CoC) after being asked to change their behavior multiple times. The disagreement stemmed from an interpretation of a certain policy, but our CoC is not up for debate." the official statement breaks the CoC itself by referring to Monica Cellio using a plural pronoun in spite of the fact that the whole disagreement was over Monica's choice not to use plural pronouns for singular entities.

Comment Not a Complete Offering Yet (Score 2) 55

So on the surface Amazon Prime finally got something that Netflix, Hulu, etc. has already had for quite awhile now. Unfortunately it's not that simple. The Amazon Prime app isn't up to the same standards (yet) as versions on other systems. So far it lacks the ability to limit search to free offerings, and it lacks badging for items to let viewers know which are free and which aren't. The user experience is thus searching for something, and then clicking into each match to see whether or not it's free. A jaded person might think that this is deliberate to get an extra .01% to purchase non-free titles at the expense of everyone else's user experience. The current version also lacks the ability to download now and watch later.

At the same time they were releasing these new versions they were also announcing that they were cutting support for older versions that run on some Blu-ray players. These versions they're cutting support for don't have the broken search facilities that the new ones do. As the hardware / software are pretty static on these devices, and they're clearly still being used it's also questionable why Amazon would be killing support on them.

Comment Roy Walford Already Discovered This (Score 4, Informative) 174

Research was already done on this back in the '80s and '90s by Roy Walford, one of the Biosphere 2 crew. In fact at one point he put the entire crew on such a diet because of shortages, and they all saw the same signs of health improvement as shown in this new study. The only difference I see here is that it's finally being expanded to a larger test group and getting the proper recognition it deserves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Audio Port is circa 1877! (Score 1) 296

It's hard to argue it's the thickest item when the iPhone 6 has to have a bump for the camera but has no bump for the audio port. It's also still the only way to hook up to many audio devices that exist outside the realm of phones and computers and which tend to have much longer lifespans and so aren't prone for immediate update to proprietary Apple ports. Things like cars, audio equipment, DJ setups, etc. In Android land IIRC at least one phone manufacturer has shifted back. Sure, it'll eventually go away (and I'm not going to be one to mourn it when it's time), but it does not yet have an adequate replacement.

Comment Audio Port, Too (Score 1) 296

There are also some who aren't upgrading due to the lack of an audio port on all the new models. The iPhone 6 and 6s models still work fine, and "upgrading" to refurbished ones is preferable for many to switching to something that'll require a handful of extra clunky connectors just to interface with one's car.

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