Police accountability is just the tip of the iceberg, though. A huge issue is the fact that a lot of minority history isn’t taught properly in US schools, and important events that define race relations are completely ignored. Using the term “master” to describe Git branches, for example, is just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.

I can understand that there are some edge cases where master/slave should still be correct as it is accurate, but for every other case, it’s still better to use a term that is culturally aware and technically relevant, even if it’s a small difference that’s part of a larger cultural shift.

The US may not have invented it, but there are still people in the US who are affected by it today.

Americans care about slavery for the same reason that Germans care about Nazis.

Duality of man

The best feature is that it auto-downloads recommended videos, but I hate how finnicky it is, and I hate how it’s capped at 1080p.

And now YouTube thinks you hate that video, so your recommendations are less relevant unless you’re willing to do the survey every time.

Watch time affects your recommendations, so this isn’t a great solution

PCP is an incredibly common term in the US.

Something being accessible usually means that the results have a lower low-end and higher high-end, no? In the context of music, it would mean that there are bigger heaps of trash with a few hidden gems

If they have your records, then you can request a freeze in a variety of ways. Online is just the easiest way to manage all that.

Selling to Datadog isn’t a guarantee. The most important detail is that they’re exploring a sale, and other companies are probably going to be interested.

Partially owned gives room for the product to stay alive. It being fully owned by Google makes it subject to being killed.

What if JetBrains bought it though

Kamala is a cooler name

I pay $30 per doctor’s visit and $40 if the visit is for a specialist. I also pay $0 for a yearly checkup and $0 for telehealth. For any hospital visits, I pay 20% of whatever the actual bill is after a $300 copay (basically a down payment), which came out to a total of $600 when I went to the ER. Lastly, my prescription drugs are capped at $10 per month for generics and $150 for some brand-name drugs.

I use a ton of healthcare and the costs have been super manageable, but affordability is going to vary wildly between people. A ton of insurance plans don’t start working until you hit an out-of-pocket minimum of several thousand dollars, and others work like mine except with way higher copays.

Lastly, insurance often doesn’t cover certain drugs or procedures. As someone with really good insurance with good customer service, it’s still an issue every so often, and the solution is either to find an alternative, try to find a manufacturer’s coupon and pay up, or suck it up and move on. There are insurance companies that use shady tactics to get them out of paying for certain expensive drugs that they’re supposed to cover.

Long-distance calls being equivalent to local calls has been an incredibly good change.

That’s close to 2!

All that buying another soda maker does is create more waste. If you don’t want to support Sodastream, then buy some of the high-quality accessories from 3rd parties.

The company is based in Israel and makes a lot of their products there. That being said, they’re owned by PepsiCo, an American company.

It is a little clickbaity, but the new device isn’t the same as Chromecast.

The first thing that comes to mind is credit card point redemptions. Right now, the best information on getting stuff like free first class flights are on communities like FlyerTalk. If that info was super accessible, those opportunities wouldn’t be available in the first place, and travel companies would be far less generous with rewards programs.