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JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. They are completely different languages and environments.

I found this a bit confusing, but I think the core of this is really that Waffle House staff don't get a choice on whether or not they buy a meal during their shift. Is that right?

I kind of got that gist from the article, but nothing super clear. It said that employees pay for the meal whether they eat it or not, which if you ordered food and didn't eat it, that's kinda on you. I think it should be saying that they are charged for the meal whether they ordered it or not, if that's what is happening.

Abortion rights are based on the bodily autonomy of the woman, not the status of the fetus.

Even a fully grown adult cannot use another person's body without consent.

Do they pay for these plates and IDs with cash, or with a coupon from their secret government trust?

It's still a side pursuit. I have a full time job as a software engineer. I do sell the kites I make on occasion, but I have no intention of making it a proper source of income.

Kite flyer, kite maker.

I've been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.

About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.

I can't really imagine my life without kites involved.

A checkbox is for a form that requires clicking a submit button to apply the change.

A toggle switch should apply the change automatically and immediately without a separate save or submit button.

It's hard to make time for sex when you are learning how to fly a kite from its tail. The man is defying basic physics right there.

Yes, you can blame Israelis. There is no excuse for genocide.

Anyone who codenses candidates down to a "score" or a "number is doing it wrong.

"Zillow was found to be price fixing", you say this as if there was some legal investigation. There wasnt. There were a bunch of salty realtors cherry picking data and confusing correlation for causation. The fact of the matter is, Zillow overpaid and underpaid for houses, and eventually lost millions of dollars during COVID era market swings, recognized the risk of the business and shut it down after only 3 years.

The ibuyer business was intended to take on all of the burden of buying and selling houses to make it easier for consumers to move.

"That’s what one real-estate agent claims in a video that went viral on the social-media platform TikTok"

Hardly a compelling source.

" he’s suggesting that companies such as Zillow are using the data they glean from people’s perusal of home listings on their sites to make decisions about which houses to buy as iBuyers."

Based on what exactly? Zillow used publicly available information about houses, just like everyone else does. Zillow traffic patterns had nothing to do with it and really wouldn't even be useful for that. Buying decisions were based on home value and forecasted ability to resell, not derived interest based on page views.

"Gotcher later argues that the company will buy 30 homes at one price, and then purchase a 31st home at a higher price. “What that just did is create a new comp,”"

False. Zillow literally excluded houses that it bought from its comps to avoid that bias. I know because I wrote that code.