Wow, this is just an EPS conduit away from being a Star Trek engineering script. Be sure to calibrate the GPU-IOV Module properly and perform a level 3 diagnostic on the scheduling hypervisor, or you're liable to end up with an AMD GIM full of warp plasma.

I think the difference here is that the "users who have private android phones"... Have private android phones! They use them for more than just work functions, so they're more used to them in general. I'd also guess that many of the people who are issued Apple work phones also have personal Android phones. That's actually kind of a detriment. I use Apple phones all the time, and Android and I are *not* friends. There are a lot of differences between the two brands and it takes me forever to figure out how to do things on Android when I have to use one. I expect the opposite is also true, if someone regularly uses Android then the Apple is a foreign land.

I don't think it's a case of either UI being objectively better than the other, I think it's a case of familiarity. The people who have private Android phones are used to them. The people who have work-issued Apple phones are not, and may even have to unlearn the Android way of operating.

(Tangentially, of course most users just stare at you when you tell them to factory reset before returning the phone. How many people have *ever* done a factory reset on their phone? For average users, at best they'll have done it once when they sold a used phone. For something done that infrequently you've got to give them explicit step-by-step instructions with 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, explaining what each one is. Or better yet, just make it IT's first step when decomissioning a phone. Sure, it's better if the user wipes their data off first, but it's a lot easier than just expecting them to remember to do it.)

More to the point, I'd say that Git is more infamous than Linux.

Look, it's a great tool... IF AND ONLY IF you have the same problem Linus had when he wrote it - that of a project the size of the Linux kernel with developers spread across the globe. It's a brilliant solution to that very specific problem. However, if you don't have that particular problem (and the vast majority of projects don't) it's an unwieldy Swiss-Army chainsaw that's only popular because that's what Linux uses (so it must be good!) and Github is free.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the mere existence of Github proves that people don't use git the way it was intended. Git's claim to fame is that it's a distributed system. Github, on the other hand, is a very central point. If you're going to use it as a centralized system you should probably be using a centralized VCS tool like svn. Quod erat demonstrandum.

you need to set them down and explain to them what cryptocurrency is and how to spot scams involving it

"Mom, Dad, here's how to spot a cryptocurrency scam: If it involves cryptocurrency, it's a scam." Feel free to use this lesson with your own parents.

(The pedants and fanboys will quickly jump on the "It's not *all* a scam!" defense. To a first-order approximation yes, it is, especially if you're someone who needs to be told what cryptocurrency is in the first place.)

I just want to know where they got their "90% accuracy" figure from. I expect it's the same part of the anatomy that food exits.

If I had to guess, I'd say that this whole marketing campaign, including photos of the founders, is the result of prompting an AI with "make me a viral marketing campaign".

"All they can do is remote wipe it." I can't emphasize this enough, but that's exactly the part I have a problem with. I'm not about to give them that much control over my phone. I don't want them to wipe the whole damn thing if I'm fired, laid off, quit, or the IT guy gets drunk and does it for the lulz. If the really want me to have their stuff at all times, they can jolly well give me a corporate phone to put it on.

In the case of a brain-dead person we do require either an advance directive from the patient indicating their wishes, or consent of the next-of-kin. Without either of those people without brain function can be (and have been) left on life support for years. As for an aborted fetus, there are a hell of a lot of people who argue (wrongly, in my humble opinion, but my opinion is irrelevant here) that it's murder and the doctors should be charged with such.

I'm just saying, the situation is nowhere near as cut-and-dried as you think. "The body never had a consciousness so there's clearly no problem here." People get weird over body parts. There's not going to be a clear consensus of whether it's right or wrong to do this. You think it's obviously okay. Others think it's obviously bad. Still others will argue that it's unethical to even grow individual human organs in isolation without anything like a body or brain anywhere near them. (I don't even pretend to understand that argument, but I'm sure it will contain the words "God" and "Bible".)

it's morally equivalent to using a legally dead, brain dead person's body parts which we already do

Only if the body's former occupant or their next-of-kin have agreed to do so. A body purpose-grown for harvesting would be unable to consent and would technically have no next-of-kin. The only sure bet is that the lawyers would make serious bank in the ensuing legal battles.

If he saw in MLB baseball that the Yankees beat the Jaguars 45-3, everything looked fine to him. They were just numbers and names to him. Now lets see how many/.ers know what's wrong with that.

Ooh! I know! It's that in baseball, a touchdown is worth 5 points. The only way to score 3 points would be to get a hat trick followed by a mulligan, and that's only possible with college rules not major league.

Also, sometimes "is available" trumps "is ideal". I'm also the kind of guy who over-analyzes purchases and tries to find the best feature set, or the best bang for the buck. But sometimes the most important criterion is, "Can I get it this week?"

And because I'm self-aware enough to know that I often freeze up over-analyzing a purchase I'll sometimes make a conscious choice not to. "It's just a dishwasher. I don't *have* to do a deep dive into it, any name-brand unit in my price range is going to have roughly the same feature set, efficiency, etc. They all wash dishes. Just go get one already!" I wouldn't expect "washing dishes" (or even just a subset of that, like "rinse only") to be a feature locked behind a network connection.