I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.

I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.

Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.

Aside from high-DPI, I'd be pressed to think of a single Mac interface convention or element that is better today than 2005. Many are a lot worse.

My current cable has black electrical tape at both the charger block and connector ends. No matter how carefully one loops these things before putting them in a bag, the rubbery material eventually abrades and cracks.

In contrast, I used Powerbooks for 15+ years and never had a single cable go bad.

Because she makes a rational, temperate argument that you do not like, you "wouldn't waste spit on her in hell."

Which of you is the more hateful?

The ease of use is so much higher than recent MacOS versions it's not even funny.

Apple was early in supporting the standard. Windows, Android, others have followed. More to come.

When venting one's spleen, it's best to be at least a tiny bit correct.

Oh, the name of the two-volume series is "American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s". Maybe the specifics of criteria -- "America," "1960s" -- influenced the choices?

Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scumbag boss cover it up.

You have everything you need to seek those articles out. Asking others to do simple tasks for you indicates a desire to waste their time. It could fairly be interpreted as... trolling.

Braeburn, Jazz, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Ambrosia, Jonagold, Envy... these are all the same basic apple: overly sweet, hard/dense, not a lot of taste outside sugar. Envy apples are the yellow version of the same thing. Pink Ladies are marginally better.

If anyone knows an LA area market where I can escape the tyranny of obnoxiously "crisp" sugar bombs in favor of Cortlands, McIntosh, Jonathan, or anything out of the ordinary... do tell.

If the Granny Smith wasn't available I don't know what I'd do.

I can't find them in Los Angeles.

Source: Father worked in car industry. All of my neighbors, too. Pretty much everyone I knew and then, eventually, me... albeit tangentially.

US security agencies have been clear that Russian intelligence interfered in our election to support Trump.

Putin admitted just two weeks ago that he wanted Trump to win.

Generalized unrest was one goal. Electing Trump, however difficult that might have seemed, was another.

"voluntary smart contracts"... more buzzwords that sound great but mean nothing. What's so smart about contracts that lose hundreds of millions of dollars because someone put a semicolon in the wrong place? I'm not volunteering for that.

Can't wait for the first time the soon-to-be-obsolete government has to "fork" the Social Security "blockchain" because a few $$$BILLION "went missing" when some 25-year-old, third-tier programmer/consultant screwed up the "smart" contract. Oops.

Please somebody suggest an even remotely plausible way that "blockchain" could possibly improve "turn-around times for government services."

Even with the low inflation we've had over the last 20 years, if you borrowed $1000 in 1997 with 0% interest and wanted to pay it back now, the 1000 "2018 dollars" you'd pay would only be "worth" 655 "1997 dollars".

The real danger is in deflation, which causes the constant dollar value of the debt to grow.