This discussion has been rehashed over and over again, but you're wrong on the facts of this case.
The owner claimed that he would bake any cake, but the evidence shows he refused before they discussed any styling or even what the cake was. He would sell them cupcakes or prebaked items, but wouldn't bake any cake, arguing it was compelled speech. The problem is that in the absence of asking for a cake which specifically mentions gay people, the owner's line of argumentation works equally well for refusing to cook a burger for black people at a diner. By being a business owner in a community, you give up certain civil liberties because you have increased power to infringe upon the civil rights of others.
Your analogies all fail because they consider situations where the customer asks the seller for a different, non-standard product. But that didn't happen; they were refused before any products were discussed.
It went really well for him for about 30 years, and then he started to decline into depression. I don't think it was directly related to being retired.
He built a barbecue out of cinder blocks, then rebuilt it out of bricks. He learned to knot in order to make hammocks. He took up painting with acrylics -- I wouldn't say he ever became good at it, but he liked it and that's the point. The same for charcoal -- but he didn't like the mess, so he dropped it quickly.
He took up teaching advanced math to the local elementary school kids. He taught himself programming in BASIC and wrote math games and text adventures about our neighborhood.
He watched a lot of movies, read a lot of books, and kept the house on a schedule. He went from being an adequate cook to a reasonably good one.
He built relationships with the neighbors and went for a walk twice a day when the weather was adequate.
To be more generous, I'd suggest an evolutionary explanation. In the days long ago, before shoes were a thing, having healthy feet would be pretty highly correlated with survivability, and thus spreading one's genes. So perhaps it's simply the consequence of very discerning ancestors.
> Resizing and watermarking images on the fly using caller-specific details, such as the user who requested the object.
Now we need to either do rescale directly after storing or need to use another service (on EC2) to do the resize. With Object Lamda, we could do it on-the-fly as the user calls the image. This is operational a lot easier.
Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary
battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology is is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:
[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.
[x] it will be too expensive for users.
[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.
[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.
[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.
[x] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.
[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.
[ ] its charge rate is too slow.
[ ] its materials are too toxic.
[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.
[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.
[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.
[x] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.
I think it is important for folks to recognize how hard this must have been and how many heated verbal battles were exchanged inside of MIT over this. Thank You. And thank Aaron, always a champion in spreading the world's knowledge to the most people possible. We should empower everyone as much as we can with the bits we have available.
Also an MIT alum, and in July I was considering the bayesian priors of the situation:
Roll a dice representing all the possible bat-human interaction sites in the world.
How often do you get a result so incredibly close to one of the few sites in the world that intentionally collects these things?
I have worked in clean room environments for years. Everyone eventually has an off day (lack of sleep, usually) where you experience a near miss... (glad I don’t work in bio).
I've used Netguard off F-Droid before, it's really nice when you turn on the filter: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md.