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Pascalxx said:

I would love this rumor to be true. I have been looking for a more privacy-focussed alternative to Google Search, but the quality of search results on DuckDuckGo doesn’t quite cut it for me.

I have DuckDuckGo setup as my default "Home" browser screen and will always give it first crack at finding what I need to find. Then, if I'm not happy with the results I may do a Google search to back it up but DuckDuckGo is usually pretty good.

SpamSandwich said:

Malls are dead and all it took was a global overreaction to COVID to destroy everything. I now know personally several people who’ve died from COVID, but even I recognize the number of people seriously affected range around >2% of a population. Not worth crippling economies and destroying lives for so few people.

I recall a time not too long ago when we underwent a major upheaval in our society when just 3,000 people died.

Regardless, I said quite a few months ago that we should expect people to play the "overreaction" card, especially should the "overreaction" prevent a large number of deaths. It's really a no-win scenario. Prevent a lot of people from dying, and the resulting numbers "prove" we overreacted.

BTW, 2% of the US population is 7 million people. Are you seriously suggesting they're all expendable? Or does it just happen that most of the deaths are in classes of people you believe to be expendable?

I know people are waiting to see what kind of numbers this machine puts out, but in a recent interview with John Gruber Apple’s Craig Federighi wanted to stress that the Developer Transition Kit that was released this week should not be compared to any future consumer product.

“Even that DTK hardware, which is running on an existing iPad chip that we don’t intend to put in a Mac in the future, it’s just there for the transition, the Mac runs awfully nice on that system.”

“It’s not a basis on which to judge future Macs, of course, but it gives you a sense of what our silicon team can do when they’re not even trying,” Federighi continued. “And they’re going to be trying.”

According to Profiling Violent Crimes, 4th Edition, the term "rape kit" can also be used to describe the bag of tools and implements to be used in the crime. The headline usage, though somewhat confusing, is correct.

sirozha said:

So, I don't think there's quite as much interest in the iPhone this time around as it was in 2017...

The thing is that these days you're encouraged to reserve a specific pickup time to get your new phone and/or watch. 

As such, you arrive at your 9-to-9:30 appointment time to get your phone. Doesn't do much good to arrive early and it makes sales judgements by checking the length of the line pretty much irrelevant. It's not like the old days where you stood in lines a couple of hundred of people long to try to get the model you wanted...