despite plenty of people hoping that Google would use the technology to make a super compact Android TV dongle that could turn any TV into a smart TV.

Why would the Dems agree to this? All this seems to do is keep the government running just long enough for Trump to be able to blame the Dems in the House the next time a shutdown is looming.

I think you’re taking the advice too literally. Size shouldn’t be the only factor, otherwise everyone’s best house be several hours away from the city in some rural field where the land is cheap. But, all else being approximately equal, you’re a lot less likely to need to go house hunting again in the near future if…

Both of my children had a phase at ~7-8 month where they stopped sleeping through the night and, after rocking them back to sleep, would start crying again the second we set them back in bed until we held them and rocked them some more. Eventually, after getting doctor recommendations because we were going insane…

If the costs are a huge anchor on your finances for 30 years, it’s not a house you can afford. In the mean time, no one has ever complained about having too much space in their house, but plenty of people have had a hard time finding a place to put all their stuff 5 years down the line. 

No. This is not correct. If 80% of population is in cities, you have a 80% solution right in front of you.

Well, this will be a convenient stop-gap until you rebuild the vast majority of the US to be dense enough that public mass transit is viable. 

Did he actually pledge to refuse fossil fuel executives money? Or did he pledge to refuse corporate donations? I’m genuinely curious, because don’t remember him specifically pledging to refuse money from fossil fuel executives. I thought he was refusing all corporate money and funding his campaign with grassroots…

“I only hire the best people” - Trump

This still seems overly complicated and not particularly more fair than the current system. It still caps the amount of compensation student-athletes can receive at way below what the best are worth to schools. The easiest way to improve the system is the Olympic model, which I’ve seen posted by Andy Staples.…

Wasn’t “Let’s civilize the savages” the reasoning the British used to build their empire hundreds of years ago? We’re going back to that?

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Yeah, I was initially worried when I got a Pixel 2, even though I already had bluetooth headphones. But now any time I use wired headphones I get annoyed at being tethered to something and figuring out what to do with the cord. And keeping them charged is a non-issue in my real life use. 

Apple doesn’t really care about user privacy. It just became a useful marketing point once it became clear they were hopelessly behind Google on machine learning and never going to catch up. 

Because what Apple really wants is lots of money. “Google is the best” just becomes the talking point once Google ponies up the most money. There would have been a different talking point if Microsoft had offered more for Bing. 

Wait, does honorary dad think that getting up at 9AM on the weekend is getting up early? If he really wants to be an honorary dad, that’s gotta be at least a couple hours earlier. I’m think it’s physically impossible for me to sleep in until 9AM any more because it’s been years since my kids let me sleep past 7. 

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As for the future of abortion rights, Collins argued that Kavanaugh promised her that he would respect Roe v. Wade as settled precedent.

It’sa web site on the internet - if the traditional news sites die other web sites will pop up to replace them. And the new ones will probably look a lot more like The Athletic than the monstrosities that are your average newspaper web site. And that will be great.

I’m skeptical of the long-term sustainability of The Athletic, but I can’t understand why anyone (besides competitors getting raided for writers) would want it to fail. As more and more sports sites resort to clickbait articles on pages deluged with ads, I would think normal people would want a site that focuses on…