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New comment by coin in "I love my dumb watches"

coin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:34:15 +0000

Interesting, I’m the opposite. My phone is always easily accessible, whereas the watch is under my long sleeve shirt which is under a couple layers of coats, so it’s more of a hassle to make it available to tap.

New comment by coin in "The 49MB web page"

coin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:51:24 +0000

And https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ loads blinding fast

New comment by coin in "The 49MB web page"

coin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:31:23 +0000

Stepping back, it's pretty ridiculous that I need to download executable code, often bloated, solely to view read-only content. Just render the thing on the backend and send it to the client.

New comment by coin in "Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king"

coin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:13:59 +0000

Please don’t edit the title

New comment by coin in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

coin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:09:00 +0000

Please don't edit the title

New comment by coin in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

coin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:28:06 +0000

Sounds like B.S.

Anyone not eligible for a SSN can get a TIN and pay taxes to the IRS.

* https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identificat... * https://www.nilc.org/resources/itinfaq/

And all those payments has contributed trillions of dollars https://www.cato.org/blog/cato-study-immigrants-reduced-defi...

New comment by coin in "NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston"

coin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:34:15 +0000

Article makes no mention of “crash”. Please don’t make sensationalized edits of the title.

New comment by coin in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

coin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:43:35 +0000

Michigan in the 90s had a similar rule. Customer gets 10x the overcharge (up to $5 max). I can guarantee you they fixed the price immediately.

Where I live there’s no such rule I can tell you no one is correcting the price when I point out that I got overcharged (they usually shrug with “it does that sometimes”).

New comment by coin in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

coin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:15:36 +0000

> a right which can't be taken away

It's not licensed until it is. Cars and airplanes were once unlicensed.

New comment by coin in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

coin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:55:01 +0000

https://www.gps.gov/selective-availability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...

New comment by coin in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

coin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:29:26 +0000

Those words in the Constitution are just words. They can be interpreted away by the Supreme Court.

New comment by coin in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

coin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:28:11 +0000

> The odds of a change in the constitution are pretty low

The constitution need not change, the Supreme Court can just change their interpretation of it

New comment by coin in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

coin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:20:38 +0000

> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here.

Many people’s rights are being violated recently while enforcing immigration law

New comment by coin in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

coin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:47:31 +0000

> This is the paranoia I don't get. These are not things that are going to happen in the US

Many brown looking citizens carry their passport so as to not be excessively detained by ICE.

New comment by coin in "GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020"

coin — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:10:26 +0000

Yes this trend is rewriting the title is annoying. I wish there were a way to downvote posts.

New comment by coin in "Why Nigeria accepted GMOs"

coin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:58:23 +0000

The data doesn’t support your claim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#G...

New comment by coin in "Why Nigeria accepted GMOs"

coin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:54:59 +0000

> read about farmer suicides in India related to this topic

The data doesn’t support this claim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#G...

New comment by coin in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

coin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:32:17 +0000

> So I “built”1 usbi, a script to check your USB connections.

So it’s not a built-in command as the titles eluded

New comment by coin in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

coin — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:00:42 +0000

Mac costs more but are easier to support from an IT perspective, at least that's what many say.

New comment by coin in "Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones"

coin — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:18:20 +0000

It’s still limited by the local government’s willingness to pursue and prosecute these types of crimes