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I’m sure you correctly guessed that I’m American

My mother-in-law works an office job and is easily able to do her job from home with no impact on productivity. She also has had a heart transplant so is immunocompromised. Recently her bosses have started pushing her to come back 100% to work even though she has a note from a doctor saying she shouldn't be going into the office.

You probably shouldn't be uploading sensitive pdfs regardless.

The reason this stuff is acceptable is we just shrug it off as "normal politics". Politicians should not take advantage of emergencies by tacking wish list items on to bills that address the emergency.

In theory, it's only for things that can "cause harm to national security"

The word "de-orbited" used in the article seems to not be the normal use of the word. Normally if you de-orbit a satellite, you lower its orbit until it either burns up in the atmosphere or hits the Earth. Satellites in GEO don't de-orbit in this way because it would need too much extra fuel. Instead, when GEO satellites are decommissioned, they raise their orbit into what is known as the graveyard orbit.

From the HN guidelines: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Money is important to people.

I think once we have self-driving cars that are able to coordinate with each other, it will improve traffic significantly.

My most recent Google search is "reddit brushing teeth at work"

But it's still 50 million...

Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to type this comment?

This is why I switched to a Kindle. I can comfortably hold it in either hand without having to pry the pages open.

What about a feature to read just the headlines of articles, since that seems to be what most people do.

Reading comprehension is difficult when there's missing punctuation. For example, "Let's eat grandma" versus "Let's eat, grandma".

You're able to send voice messages to other people that have an Alexa. Basically like voicemail.

Yeah, a profanity filter sure is a sophisticated algorithm.

Just don't read the Youtube comments.

I wonder if it would be able to tell if it was talking to another Duplex bot and instead of speaking in English, it would communicate more efficiently.

It's not 7 days from when you last connect it to a computer. It's 7 days since the phone was last unlocked.

Wouldn't that make it easier for someone that has access to hashed passwords in the case of a database leak? They would just have to submit the username and the hashed password (which they now have).