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by alex43578 1y ago
Not to nitpick, but just because it's the example you gave: Wi-Fi settings in the control center are the same as they have been for years (or easier, as I don't remember the dropdown menu in the earliest versions). The UX paradigm
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by alex43578 1y ago
What really has been added in terms of endless menus? Control Center was like 2013, Widgets were like 2014. Today, 90% of things are still controlled via the settings app, except for a few app-specific settings that are controlled via the s
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by alex43578 1y ago
Why try and force a smartphone onto someone who doesn't need it? It's like trying to get someone to use Excel when they just need to add two numbers.
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by alex43578 1y ago
"Lots of users would gladly pay way more than $30/year have an ad-free experience"? Outside of ads embedded in Google Maps, a free and simple install of Ublock Origin essentially eliminates ads in Search, YouTube, etc. I&#x27
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by alex43578 1y ago
Drones can reach much more than 1000ft, but in the US are not allowed to - 400ft flight ceiling. Ironically, one exception is flying within 400ft of a structure, as you can then go up to the top of the structure and 400ft above that point.
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by alex43578 1y ago
If your argument against immigration regulation and enforcement boils down to “we’ve only been doing it for 120 years”, that’s got some pretty rough consequences for welfare, civil rights on the basis of race, and even the income tax, right
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by alex43578 1y ago
It is a core tenant for criminal trials, not the civil proceedings of immigration. Instead, lower standards, including probable cause for detainment, or a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for the immigration proceedings is
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by alex43578 1y ago
Excepting “sovereign citizens”, most Americans comply when asked to show ID on a traffic stop, their passport at customs, a drivers license when renting a car, or even ID when swiping a credit card at Walmart. Do you think all Americans are
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by alex43578 1y ago
If ICE has probable cause to believe you are an alien and don’t have the necessary documents, you could be detained or arrested. If ICE doesn’t have probable cause to believe you’re an alien, you’re free to go. Things could be different bas
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by alex43578 1y ago
Under expedited removal, an established legal process, these undocumented immigrants are being deported, and are free to pursue their asylum claim in the meantime. It’s disingenuous to argue that they have any more right to be here than a
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by alex43578 1y ago
And you are protected. These are not unreasonable searches.
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by alex43578 1y ago
The purpose of deporting them is the same as punishing any other crime: to disincentivize committing it. Immigration is arguably even more important to enforce in this manner because of the clear-cut legal alternative.
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by alex43578 1y ago
Surprise, you’re already tracked in a dozen harmless ways that enable modern life: drivers license, Social Security number, birth certificate, etc; even before you get into quasi-public records like credit reporting, bank accounts, and insu
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by alex43578 1y ago
Equating not wearing a mask with assaulting federal agents, damaging federal property, or being part of an unlawful assembly doing the former is quite a stretch. Be realistic about why the groups in LA are getting tear-gassed or pepperball’
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by alex43578 1y ago
Surely you recognize the same “representative government forms the core American value” you laud is both the mechanism by which the current administration was elected, as well as the same mechanism that passed the immigration laws that are
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by alex43578 1y ago
It's definitely not free. Someone is paying for it: the government, the taxpayer, etc. On a person by person basis, you can call it free because that individual doesn't pay, but that's just because they're making their n
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by alex43578 1y ago
I get $9K can be a hit, but is the expectation that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care is just free? Let's say that $9K OOP max is for a significant health event - like a badly broken leg. In the NHS,
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by alex43578 1y ago
I don’t disagree that secondary issues don’t exist, but I also don’t think they’re unique to the American system. I’d think that there’s stress inherent to Canada or Britain’s system, with months-long waits, for instance. The cost thing has
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by alex43578 1y ago
Yes. Costs can vary dramatically based on what we're calling emergency care, however. Some people go to an emergency room for flu-like symptoms, others are brought in with major trauma from a car crash. Understandably those can result
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by alex43578 1y ago
So doesn't that then leave Medicare/Medicaid/ACA Exchange plans with their significant subsidies? To anchor the ACA discussion, a calculator is showing someone making $26K at McDonald's would be paying $23 a month in pre
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by alex43578 1y ago
That's something I've never understood around so many of these discussions, particularly post-ACA. I get there are some gaps around the out of pocket maximum, but if you have healthcare, even a serious medical event shouldn't
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by alex43578 1y ago
So this thought experiment isn't just that "everyone decides dollars are worthless" but also that the state is dissolved, along with all the property rights and the govt's monopoly on violence? That's more like sayi
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by alex43578 1y ago
What is the college experience in this context? Networking? The library and research efforts? Socialization? Parties? Frats? Sports teams? On the "academic" side, I don't see how the college experience would work for a trade
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by alex43578 1y ago
I disagree. The changes a school would need to make to the school, the curriculum, and the faculty to switch from teaching accounting or gender studies to welding or HVAC would mean you'd be pasting an expensive University of Misc Stat
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by alex43578 1y ago
To the point about dollars, there very much is something the government can do about it: taxes. If the government requires taxes to be paid in dollars, that sets a "floor" on the value of a dollar as a medium of exchange - for mos