...than the delivery apps. Before Seamless and Grubhub and all the others, there was virtually nothing I couldn't get delivered if I wanted it, and delivery was almost always free (I live in New York City; I can't say if this is true elsewhere). Now, we get pretty much the same thing, except:
the restaurant pays a fee
the customer pays a fee
the delivery driver gets paid next to nothing and gets no benefits
the delivery driver endangers those around them in a frantic effort to get in as many deliveries as possible

Municipalities should pass laws preventing the delivery apps from operating within their borders.

Not so much. I don't know if this is still true, but in the earlier days of the delivery apps, the delivery service would add a restaurant's menu to their website without the restaurant's consent. The restaurant wouldn't know about it until they started getting orders from the app. At that point, not filling the orders would turn into a public relations nightmare, so they were kind of stuck. Most restaurant owners I've spoken to about this detest the delivery apps, but the way people order food has changed enough that they have little choice.

...describe something as "biased", what they really mean is "they're telling everyone about all the stupid, evil things we're doing."

...the end of the end for the VGA port. It's probably been easily ten years since I've seen one on a laptop.

"Technology has allowed actors to make ridiculous amounts of money doing work once and then getting a cut of sales forever"

It's called "royalties". What does technology have to do with it? It's a practice that's been around since the most sophisticated piece of accounting technology was the pencil.

Not so much. The only thing that's being infringed up is his right to be a pain in the a$$. If he wished to silence his phone, he would have been welcome to continue to say whatever he wanted.

...the whole Nissan Computer story from 30 years back. A man named Uzi Nissan registered the domain nissan.com for his computer business. He then spent pretty much the rest of his life defending his right to the domain against Nissan Motors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Government and traditional media are not arbiters of truth. The only arbiter of truth is the universe. If a statement can be verified by observing the universe, it's true. Else, it's false.

That's pretty much the end of the story.

The great thing about C as a language to learn programming is that it doesn't protect you from your mistakes. Making a mistake, seeing how it impacts the execution of the code and figuring out how to fix it is a great learning experience.

And Assembly Language. Understanding how a computer works at the level of the instruction set is invaluable.

...when they're calling something "iconic" and you can remember when it was brand new.

...Arthur Andersen when you need them?

I can't think of anything that would increase the lifespan of an iPhone than making the battery consumer-replaceable. I'm not likely to want to spend ~$90 to replace the battery in a four year old phone that's otherwise perfectly serviceable. But I'd definitely spend $25 to purchase a new battery that I could pop in myself.

...someone who calls me uses one of these, they get blocked.

Problem solved.

We need a law that prohibits counties (or other entities) that ban alternative energy projects from importing power from outside their borders.