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Re:Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:03PM (#23750764)
Not true. Deaths only lag cases by 5-10 days. For example, in Italy daily new cases peaked on March 21st and daily deaths peaked on March 27th.
> develop a compelling personality

Hah, I love how you slipped this in right next to buying new clothes. Developing a compelling personality is not trivial. In fact, most people go their entire lives with developing a compelling personality. Might as well tell guys they just need to grow a little taller.

For me, the biggest feature is the lack of ads. Well except for the job postings, which I strongly suspect are unlabeled ads.
Negotiate for what, a larger share of Uber's losses? You can't negotiate for more money with a company that loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
It's already automated. That's the whole point of surge pricing: to raise prices when they need more drivers and lower prices when there are too many drivers.

If these drivers actually think striking is going to do anything, they have no understanding of economics.

You're ignoring by the far biggest downside to state-sponsored healthcare: society now has a strong incentive to ban risky behaviors. If I'm paying for Joe Schmoe's healthcare, why should he be able to give himself liver disease by drinking alcohol or tear his ACL skiing? I don't ski or drink alcohol, so it's no skin off my bone if we ban alcohol and skiing.

If you're a minority in a society with universal healthcare, you will have to constantly fight for your rights. The second the rest of society decides your diet or your hobbies are too dangerous, they'll be pushing to ban you from partaking in them.

Also for #2, most democrats seem to support giving healthcare to illegals so I don't know why you act like that's a myth. And for #1, it's true for tens of millions of people that they will pay more in universal healthcare than they do currently. This is inherently true of all socialism (make no mistake, universal healthcare is socialist healthcare). If somebody is getting something for free, the money to pay for it is coming out of somebody's else pocket.

Re:Types Are Moving to the Right on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:52PM (#19410224)
I'm not convinced. The article found one situation where it makes more sense for the type to be on the right, but in most situations it makes more sense for the type to be on the left. The reason being that it reads more naturally. It's the difference between saying "Golfer Tiger Woods adopted a cat" and "Tiger Woods, golfer, adopted a cat." Nobody speaks the latter.
Re:“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java” on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:21PM (#19348244)
Nobody writes Delphi so it would be difficult for the client to maintain their software if their relationship with the original author ever ended.