See, this is the problem with you Yes/No people.

Look, it's fairly easy to cut your carbon emissions in half, without radical change. You're just to lazy to accept change.

For example, the future is presented as: We Must All Ride Bikes.

But, to cut carbon emissions from cars in half, it's fairly easy. In a typical family, have one plug-in electric car, charged from green solar/wind/hydro, used for commuting. And have a combo of bike plus transit for the kids. This way, fewer fat kids, you save tons of money, and it's the way we used to live just a few decades ago.

Easy peasy. You can replace inefficient applicances with efficient ones, LEDs are now 94 percent cheaper than they were in 2010 and way brighter than old incandescents. You CUT YOUR ELECTRIC BILL.

Easy.

Stop whining, grandpa. Adapt. The world doesn't care what your excuses are.

There are public resources. It isn't as grand and nice as those available to those who can pay for coverage, but they exist.

A Kia that I own with a Trump sticker in Baltimore got vandalized to the tune of $2500 in July. I appreciated the new paintjob, since I have a $100 comp deductible, but the person did it to be a criminal douchebag.

My yard sign has been ripped up 3 times in a Baltimore suburb. I have had dog shit dumped on my lawn 4 or 5 times. Eventually I installed cameras and caught the motherfuckers, who got fined and harassed by the cops, but it was fundamentally a waste of money to deal with the scumbag local Democrats.

Recurrent theme around here, and a number of the houses in the neighborhood have pulled up their signs to avoid the bullshit. Isn't changing how they are voting, though.

So yeah, about those Trump supporters...?

People who aren't interested in thinking need the metaphysical window dressing.

Believe it or not, that's a paraphrased Hitler quote, but that doesn't make it wrong.

I don't fault you for your beliefs, but I don't agree with them. I think that once the bioelectricity stops flowing, we cease to be. Anything else would be supernatural. However much I would like to talk to my father again, I don't think it's going to happen. It's not an emotionally satisfying viewpoint, but it is the logical conclusion of my other beliefs.

One of the first things we learn in medical science is that if you are treating the symptoms, but not the cause, you have not treated the patient.

The same applies to pollution.

We need to fix the underlying source process. Band-aids will only put off the cold hard fact that you are not addressing the cause, which is the pollution caused by the use of coal and other fossil fuels.

Can you use ion scrubbers or water scrubbers on the existing plants as you replace them with other energy sources?

Sure.

But it won't deal with the cold hard explosion of coal plants.

Co-generation can cut the growth factor of those.

But they need to be replaced. Period.

I can't believe there's a person so pathetic that they think that sitting on the computer in your house every waking moment is healthy. Seek help now.

I still come across Flash from time to time, mostly for live streaming video. DASH works, but it's still a young standard, and a lot of people haven't switched over.

The fascism is in the people who scapegoat third parties

You pick one scab, and apparently it festers for moths...

How fucking old are you that your healing factor hasn't kicked in?

Start walking. Volunteer for something that you can get to. Jobs, friends, and women will come. Sitting on the internet, nothing at all.

With respect, I don't think any of that's true, but it's one of these great assertions of utter donkeyballs that, if thought about, actually leads to the truth.

Wanting a more rugged phone with a decent battery life has nothing to do with "nostalgia", and battery life is actually one of the top complaints amongst smartphone users. So why doesn't the market support that?

Well, because the market is not the same as "most smartphone buyers". Most smartphone buyers do not spend $600 on a f---ing smartphone. Most smartphone buyers spend under $200 on a device with the biggest screen they can find, and then $10 on a "case" that makes it three times as thick.

Who doesn't do this? The people who pay $600 for a phone.

What's so special about $600 phones? Is it the innards? (No) Is it the screen? Uhm.... kinda, but you're looking at a screen that probably cost Apple or Samsung a cool extra $20 to incorporate. Better camera? Ditto.

No, what's special about a $600 phone, which cost maybe $50 more to build than the $60 BLU R1 HD in my pocket, is that has a very pleasing to the eye design.

That is it. That's the difference between a very good $150 phone, and a top of the line Galaxy.

This is why, more than likely, that under $200 phone will actually be more useful than the $600 iGalaxy. It may well have on bezel buttons, resulting in a less awkward UI. It may have a removable battery, or an SD card slot, or both. It may well have dual SIM support.

It may even have a battery that lasts more than eight hours before spluttering out.

The majority of smartphone users want better batteries, features, robustness, and we really don't care about how slim it is. But the majority of smartphone users are barely profitable, with tiny single digit percentage margins. So they literally don't care about us: they care about that minority that's willing to pay $600 for a phone with a build cost of well under $200.

And that minority is the group that wants paper thin phones.

As an ex-Brit, I can say we both agree on that.

Wouldn't it be nice if Clinton turns out to be a pleasant surprise? She certainly can't be a disappointment.

It doesn't make it awkward at all. The external batteries are easily pocketable, and a short bit of cable isn't a problem. I have a MiFi with a battery you can swap, but I've never swapped the battery - it's easier and simpler just to plug it into an external battery when the charge gets low.

There's no right to privacy for disease. That's a dumb argument prima facie.

It's horses for courses.

AMOLED screens tend to suffer from burn-in. A load of Ingress players with AMOLED phones have the image of the Ingress user interface permanently faintly visible on their screen where it's become burned in.

Go through your text, and everywhere where it says "password" change it to say "passphrase."

The password-setting step, where you have the user initialize their password, should also say "don't re-use the same passphrase that you use somewhere else." Just say it. (If users want to ignore it, fine. You can't help people who don't want to be helped.)

This doesn't fix all the problems, but it fixes the most, in the smallest amount of time/effort. One of your interns can do all this in a single morning.

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After that, make sure you're hashing, but use something already invented for this job rather than trying to figure it out yourself. (This might not be a job for an intern, though I bet it could, at some places.)

Congratulations, your site is now better than the other 99.9%. We'll revisit and update these decisions in a century or two, when you're considered to be better than only about 90%.