Book Reader, also on F-Droid, is a great fork of FBReader.

>She had been in living in hiding, most recently in Bradford, N.H., in the mansion where she was arrested, prosecutors said. They said it was located on a 156-acre property that was acquired in an all-cash purchase in December by a limited liability company that concealed the buyer’s identity.

>After her arrest, a private security guard who worked on the property told the F.B.I. that Ms. Maxwell’s brother had hired former British military members to protect her in New Hampshire, the prosecutors said in their filing Monday.

>The guard told the agents that he was given a credit card in the same name as the L.L.C. to make purchases on Ms. Maxwell’s behalf, and said that Ms. Maxwell did not leave the property at all during his time there, according to prosecutors.

I'd imagine the prosecutors were referring to these details. Like you said, I think the author of the article just laid it out in a misleading way.

>I've fired people for having less wherewithal than to ask a question like this.

Can you explain what this sentence means?

>Also, it's WAY easier to counterfeit a coin than a bill.

I think that depends. Some countries do integrate security features in coins.

The important question isn't whether it's easier, it's whether it's more cost effective. It's probably easier to counterfeit a USD penny than a USD $20 bill, but it would be less economical to do so.

There's the Toonie though, $5 in coins is just 3 coins.

You should be putting punctuation inside the quote when it ends a sentence.

Single quotes, not double quotes, should be used in your comment since you are not completely and directly quoting your source.

You should not be capitalising the first letter of a quote when it occurs after the beginning of a sentence.

These are just some of the grammatical errors you've made in two paragraphs. I've probably made some too. It's pointless to discuss these things outside academic contexts as long as the text can still be understood.

Those are typographic eccentricities, to be pedant :)

And they're not even that uncommon on the Internet and amongst tech people. (See the Jargon file[1], for example.)

But I get your point: pedantry is often needless, and sometimes even lacks proper justification (see taejo's comment). But it's difficult to stop seeing errors when you see them, so I would forgive the parent for being that Hacker News guy.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html

No, it's English grammar. (EDIT: Actually it's not. See, there are mistakes everywhere. It's not typographic either though.)

There's nothing to forgive. My comment was instruction on being a better reader/listener.

Focus on the things people are saying and not nitpicking their delivery and you will absorb more information.

> Focus on the things people are saying and not nitpicking their delivery and you will absorb more information.

I agree. Form is not so important.

It's something poor students/learners do. You spend all your time looking for minor errors in instruction or text so you can 'win' while missing the actual lesson or overarching idea. I am definitely not innocent of this as a former high school dropout lol. Cheers.

I gratefully accept the information of your post, but I don't think it manages to make the intended point. Notice how many times you used the word "should", which was never a consideration in my post.

We could talk about should. As a starting point, it would seem to me most useful to preserve meaningful distinctions which convey information, and otherwise make language as fluid and relaxed as possible. But I'm not expert.

That’s not grammar, it’s style and convention. And the convention is not the same across all english-speaking countries. Parent comment’s punctuation is “correct” by British standards, for example.

I've become the very thing I sought to destroy.

> You should be putting punctuation inside the quote when it ends a sentence.

It is commonplace to put punctuation outside the quotation marks when the punctuation itself is not being quoted.

You're missing the point.

I was taught in elementary school (in the US) that punctuation inside the quotes is correct usage in the UK. It was good of them to note when we were so young that the rules we were being taught were not universal and that we shouldn't freak out if we encounter a text using different rules.

Yeah that first paragraph would have been better spent giving an overview of the information that was laid out after.

'I have found a problem. The problem has this negative impact. Brief description of problem.'

Be serious if you want to be taken seriously, especially in your initial communication with an unknown third-party.

Have you considered creating an option to generate the closest all-nature route (not factoring in walking distance to the running route which you could use as a warm-up)?

Very neat app.

Nice idea - consider it added to the potential todo list for the future. Thanks!

> Humans can’t process multiple audio streams simultaneously.

I'm not sure this is true. I think our comprehension drops when we do, but we regularly process background noise and speech at the same time, same for people interjecting over others with simple things like 'excuse me' or similar.

I may be misunderstanding or stretching your point but it's interesting to think about.

I also immediately jumped to surveillance tech when I read it though I can think of other areas it would be useful. Home assistants like they mention in the article would be a great use case, not for multiple inputs at the same time, but to isolate the speaker addressing the home assistant.

> There has to be a business model to bring them back.

Like others have said they've come back somewhat in urban areas as 'barcades,' at least until Covid-19. These kinds of businesses will be struggling for many years to come if they manage to survive at all.