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> they'd have pushed for replacement of XUL APIs in WebExtensions in a non-blocking way

Which "they" did, and are. Some APIs are more amenable to such replacement than others. For example, APIs that allow you to modify any part of the browser UI in an arbitrary way are not so amenable _and_ have the problem of breaking any time the internal structure of the UI changes. Which has, in the past, prevented improvements to the internal structure of the UI...

It's really easy to see only one side of this (the downside of extensions breaking, or the upside of not having your implementation severely constrained by extensions that keep depending on internal details they shouldn't depend on). But there are in fact people who've thought long and hard about both sides of this.
Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
That's a smart move:)
Probably depends on the language. Frameworks are great on the front end though, because Angular/Vue are basically just easy ways to interact with the GUI. It's much less convenient without a framework.
This needs some way of voting posts down/flagging. Too many "Send nudes" and other inappropriate messages.
More insurance claims for water damage? When the washer/dryer set is owned by the renter than the renter's insurance will cover damages, vs the property owner.

Also, a lot of landlords will rent out washer/dryer sets to tenants for another monthly fee if they don't have their own to hook up.
> One thing we know for a fact is, if you owned bitcoins prior to the fork, you will get the same amount of SegWit and Cash varieties.

So am I dumb for not having bought some Bitcoins prior to the split, and getting free "money"?
That's normal. Bitcoin ABC is rejecting the non-BCC blocks once the median time is after 12:20 UTC. So BTC blocks after 478558 are rejected.

Now the BCC miners are actually working on producing the first BCC-only block, which will be block 478559 on the BCC chain and will be different from block 478559 on the BTC chain, hence effectively splitting the chain.

Since BCC has only a tiny fraction of BTC's hash rate (around 1% by most estimates, although it's pretty hard to evaluate) it will take a while for this block to be found. Probably hours, maybe even days.

Eventually the difficulty on the BCC chain will adjust, so even if the hash rate remains low the "blockrate" should steadily increase within the next few weeks. Also since BCC blocks can be 8 times as big they can fit more transactions in a single block, somewhat mitigating the effect.
I realize you're making a snarky political point, but, "Refugees are bad for a country's culture but we should still let them in if they exist" is a perfectly consistent position. It's trading off prevention of something unwanted but not an evil (cultural dilution) in order to prevent an actual evil (death of the refugees).

"We should let refugees in, but we should avoid creating refugees" is also a consistent moral position, and perhaps a more obvious one.

(Also, as an American citizen, the fact that we're not absorbing a significant fraction of the refugees in Europe when we have the resources to do so is absolutely unconscionable. I now feel like every time I was taught "never again" in grade school, it was just virtue signaling and we're actually totally fine with it happening again.)
You can't buy anything useful with Bitcoins. Most Venezuelans trade their bolivars for US dollars or other stable foreign fiat currency on the black market to escape inflation.
https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ covers having images, among a few other tweaks on the motherfuckingwebsite and bettermotherfuckingwebsite formula.
The civil liberties in the UK are a big joke. It's like they are in a race with China on who will have the biggest censorship and on the control of their citizen's internet activities.
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Proposal author here – I'm posting this here to try and solicit some feedback on the idea.

Is there demand for a project like this? Is the design sane? Any suggestions? Feedback is very welcome indeed.

Additionally, the concerns[1] and choices[2] pages currently contain a number of open questions.

[1] http://lightbus.org/en/latest/concerns.html

[2] http://lightbus.org/en/latest/implementation/choices.html
Average lifespan isn't a particularly useful measurement for those who have survived infancy due to extremely high infant mortality rates in the past.

Individual life expectancy changes each year of your life based on how many years you have already survived. (See: actuarial life tables)
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And while I know we are an endangered species, I have to say their support for Windows 10 mobile is top notch. I find their app is better than Whatsapp.

Too bad the network effect is a thing, and also their approach to crypto might put you off.
Whoever in GoogleX approved this investment wasn't aware of Carnot cycle efficiency...

Using electricity to create hot and cold reservoirs, then using the thermal difference to make electricity again cannot ever exceed ~40% efficiency. There are existing fully developed technologies which exceed that by far!

Where do I sign up to receive lots of money to try out a fanciful idea which goes against the basic laws of physics?
http://killedbypolice.net/ provides the numbers for the US (it's up to 714 this year - 23 more than last year by this date).

Last year the US police killed 1162 persons, so that's a rate of 0.36 per 100k inhabitants.
The perspective that it's all a status game is legitimate in its own way, but not the only way to view things. I find there's a useful distinction to draw betwen trying to influence people's perceptions directly versus trying to do something valuable and trusting people to perceive it for themselves, and find the latter a lot more fun than the former.
I don't think they accept bitcoins at the Venezuelan black market
I would not be surprised if there were other, non-technical issues during such an interview. I know many people who are supposed to be smart, but they consider the basics beneath them and refuse to do anything by hand in the presence of people that might be subordinate in another context.
I hate Maduro as much as any sane person should but these particular people were rallying the people and the army to do a coup. I'm not sure how well that would sit in a country like the US. You can do that under the flag of free speech?

Even more cynical there are still people in the Mercosur that back Maduro even now. I can imagine left leaning people would align with a socialist government initially but still after all this happened? Let me put your names on the list of people to never trust with a democracy again.
This is not self hosted, open source, nor free.
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I would say socialism but I'd get downvoted into oblivion and be told that "it wasn't a real socialism". Oh wait...
Good grief. No, I do not advocate hiring a female - or anyone - on any single set of criteria. I don't think Uber - or anyone - should only consider or be committed to hiring women. To do so would be both unethical, sub-optimal and illegal. That is as clear as I can be on that subject.

However, I do think they should make an increased effort to find qualified female candidates for the CEO position and put them through same selection process as male candidates. And I do think that all things being equal, women candidates will have a leg-up on male candidates in the one particular performance domain of redressing the female-hostile culture Travis and the leadership team created because on balance women will have more understanding of the issues facing the female workforce.

However, 1) that isn't the only performance domain, and 2) the selection process may very well reveal that one or more of the male candidates has better insight into the issue, more personal experience creating the kind of culture change needed, or both. That's why the selection process exist.

> Isn't this akin to saying that the US Department of Education should hire an Asian leader because the US is bad at math and science, and Asians have been shown to be generally better at math and science?

No, it's not, and that doesn't seem to me to be a good-faith analogy on your part at all.
In 2014, estimated murders in US is about 14,249. Estimated people killed by police is 1111 according to one site. So a 7-8% increase.

Washington Post has a neat interactive page I came across. The most shocking thing is the unashamed misandry when it comes to police killings. This year, only 25 women were killed versus 556 men. That's rather ... disproportional.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

http://www.killedbypolice.net/kbp2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
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I vote Goofy.
> Hm, if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions? Isn't that just new web APIs with tweaked security parameters?

The main difference is that the user installs an extension, which possibly modifies the behavior of the browser for all websites. A traditional web API only takes effect if the page that the user visits makes use of that API.
What? Ever used an Android device? Tap to wake is super useful and makes perfect sense if no physical home button.
Chronic underinvestment in the people and equipment needed to get that oil out. It's not a simple "just dig until you find oil".

There's also the government taking over private companies and running them poorly(surprise). Which leads to less investment and production which leads to less tax revenue, and the downward spiral keeps picking up speed.
> Does anyone else have the impression the most of the advantages OP lauds Delphy/ObjectPascal for are also present in Go

Just kind of, because sadly Go still has a lot to catch up with Object Pascal features and compiler toolchain.
This reminds me of my earlier experiences walking around LA. My natural instinct looking at the state of disarray in some of the streets was that I was on the wrong side of town, because where I come from (Granada, Spain) that's what you notice when you venture into the slummy areas. In LA, however, you need to readjust your gauge, as this was a fairly safe area, just not well taken care of.
I love the bitcoin concept, but it's clear most of their fans don't understand much about how the real world works

How do you propose they trade Bolivars for BTC? Do you think VNZL mines enough to have a local market? See the restrictions on foreign currency purchases in VNZL (and what is effectively two exchange rates)

How do you propose the bitcoins are subsequently used? For buying basic items (like toilet paper, which gets smuggled from Brazil)

Airlines can't repatriate their earnings from VNZL. Oh I know, they should buy bitcoin! /s

But I assure you most of the well offs already have their earnings safely in a Miami bank account.
Being able to implement off the top of one's head is a skill that fades as soon as one is no longer required to do so.

Requiring it as a criterion of hiring is, essentially, a back-door way of saying "we only hire people fresh out of college", since they're the ones who've recently been having to do this stuff on exams and have it fresh in their minds.
Be sure not to equate refugees with migrants.
Oil prices dropped from $100 a barrel to $40, their economy relies almost solely on oil exports. There's some amount that is explained by corruption and poor investments over the past decade, but primarily it's the oil price.
There are better alternatives than just lithium batteries - for example liquid batteries by company with a weird name - RedFlow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OHstY_kKUY.

Edit: I also wonder how balanced heat and cold is in such system? One side effect could be cooling solar cells to improve efficiency of them. I had an idea few months back - why solar cells don't come with antifreeze that could be used to warm up your hot water in house?
Have you actually looked at the article I linked to? At present, the US currently produces 10% of li-ion batteries worldwide, while China produces 55%. For 2021, US production is estimated to grow to about 17% while China grows to 66%. Chinese production grows faster than US production.

The point I'm trying to make: Tesla doesn't seem to have a big advantage with Gigafactory, as there is plenty of worlwide production capacity other car companies could buy from. And that third party capacity grows faster.
I submit the invoice you give me to my tax authority. Depending on where in the world you are, governments do check this stuff (and share it between themselves ).

I would urge you NOT to do this. Setting an invoicable entity shouldn't be hard - I'm in India and it's not hard here, and we are fairly at the bottom of the Ease of Doing Business listings .

Sidekiq Pro uses Plasso - I'm sure there are tons of alternatives where I don't have to email you for an invoice
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In my view, that doesn't go far enough. One officer is suspended and two others are on administrative duty. This is for planting drugs on at least one individual, with 34 cases connected to these officers being dismissed. Think of how those lives would have been affected had this footage not surfaced.

Officers, regardless of how many witnesses there are or how much footage there is, get away with so much that it's ridiculous.

We see this in so many different facets of life: police cars crashing into others while driving without a siren on and then blaming the crash on the victim (https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/zidek-cpd-police-cycli... this also happened to my uncle); civil forfeiture, which I consider to be blatant robbery; near-literal executions, both witnessed and caught on video, of people, pets, children, etc. during traffic stops or raids; trigger-happy police officers shooting randomly at people, and facing no consequences for this (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd-... and now this case where they're planting drugs to get someone arrested. You have to ask, how many times have officers done this and gotten away with it? Of the 2.2+ MILLION people in prison/jail, how many are there for false reasons?

My opinion is that the public holds police officers to such a high esteem that the police are basically able to get away with whatever they want. That whole image of "they're protecting us and putting their lives on the line" needs to go away so we can finally start prosecuting these criminals.

I understand that there are a lot of good people on the police force, but enough's enough. Start jailing police officers. No more "administrative duty," no more suspensions.
From TFA:

The cancellation means there are just two new nuclear units being built in the country — both in Georgia —
while more than a dozen older nuclear plants are being retired in the face of low natural gas prices.

So what is going to happen when gas prices skyrocket?
Nice idea.

For a summary, this is an energy storage project, where the energy is stored in tanks of high and low temperature fluids. Temperature differentials can be generated by heat pumps, and can be converted back into useful energy by heat engines.

However, the theoretical maximum energy efficiency of this unit, assuming no heat losses from the tanks, will probably be poor compared to LiIon or pumped storage (of the gravity type), simply due to the fact that heat engines are strictly limited in efficiency to the Carnot efficiency (and are usually much less efficient than that).

Depending on the temperatures involved, I'd be surprised if it can return as much as half the energy that is put into it.

Also, conflation of energy and power in the article.
Yeah, agree with that! Personally, I cannot understand how some people hate significant whitespace in languages. You should be adding whitespace anyway so the braces are redundant and missing out braces is a massive source of super annoying and unhelpful syntax errors where you can be hunting around for ages for the mistake. Incorrect indentation is easy to spot and easy to correct in a few keystrokes in comparison.
"...I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills."

That's reason enough to write about what you're learning. Patio11 talks about this a lot - it's important that people learning new things write about what they're learning _as they learn it_ because they'll encounter things that only someone new to that domain will encounter in that particular way.

There's a lot of value in writing about the issue you had setting up your dev environment or getting your "Hello world" app to work because other people will encounter those things too.

And just writing about something will help reinforce what you're learning so you'll learn faster and forget less.
Constant low grade civil war and dictators has been the offhand history of south america for a very long time, sadly. Definitely predates drug cartels and US influence.

See Darwin: http://imgur.com/Q68r0uD

From: http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=image&...

I only raise this because there is a common and lazy supposition to Venezuela's state of affairs that goes something like, "It must be drug cartels or the US that caused all the problems, fundamentally." The country's problems are probably nuanced, deeper, and older.
> (Also, as an American citizen, the fact that we're not absorbing a significant fraction of the refugees in Europe when we have the resources to do so is absolutely unconscionable. I now feel like every time I was taught "never again" in grade school, it was just virtue signaling and we're actually totally fine with it happening again.)

And are instrumental in making it happen again.
I gave up on the Slack desktop client after regularly finding it using 3GB of RAM for no obvious reason. Switched to the browser client but found it buggier and needed to be refreshed periodically due to becoming so slow that there was a noticeable delay on keypresses. Now I'm using Slack via XMPP using Pidgin and things are much, much better.
I think the strongest argument for an American audience who is unfamiliar with technology is that encryption should be included under second amendment rights.

"Guns don't hurt people, people hurt people", "blaming the manufacturer for the actions of the operator", "even if we ban them, bad guys will still use them", etc.

If the right to bear arms is defined as the right to protection against totalitarian government I would think that encryption falls into that bucket.

Maybe we should get the NRA involved in this argument...
There's no reason why this is outrageously unfair. An external consultant is only held to an advisory standard because they are external - they are not party to the detailed nuances that management may have inadvertently or deliberately concealed.
Use the term "third world" with your clients and they may wish to no longer be your clients. It's pretty outdated and almost never used in a professional context any longer. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/01/04/37268443...
I do mostly what's called "systems programming" and did embedded

Sure. And what's most crucial to do in those fields is not necessarily what's most crucial to do in other fields. 99% of interview horror stories are basically someone saying "I decided this is an important thing based on my narrow perspective, and anyone who doesn't know it as well as I do will be dismissed as completely incapable".
That effect decreases further out in the gravity well.
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It has definitely partial garbage collection support, for some data types (COM based objects, strings, arrays).
Looks like it is using https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagpi
Is it cheating or gaming the system if the vast majority of QUALIFIED engineers would not pass an interview without preparation? Reviewing these cheat sheets every couple of years is essentially part of the job.
> You can do that under the flag of free speech?

Not legally, but the Declaration of Independence states that it's the right thing to do sometimes.

Disclaimer: I'm not informed or invested enough to have an opinion in this case, at least not yet.
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From the abstract: "The implementation has been accepted into the mainline kernel distribution, making it available for deployment on billions of devices running Linux today."
Police killings are hardly equivalent to gang and cartel killings.

Gangs murder people out of cold blood.

The overwhelming majority of police killings involve people who present an immediate danger to the innocent and are violent, dangerous criminals.
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You can get your own (or group's) chat ID with @get_id_bot, if you don't want to just get it yourself via `getUpdates`.
It's called resource curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Non-standard transactions aren't usually included by miners, but as far as I understand Bitcoin miners are still free to include those transactions if they want to. Wouldn't this mean that a malicious miner would be able to replay transactions from Bitcoin to bcash?
Often with MLMs you have to buy the product yourself first and then sell it. So people end up buying $1000 worth of energy drinks they can never sell, because their "employers" fed them so much bullshit about it being easy money. I would call that a scam
For those of us who didn't know. Context [0] [1]

Personally, not sure how I feel about this, I'll continue to remove startcom from FF if it's still included.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994478
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new...
Why? Both beliefs are held against current scientific consensus and have only a few supporting studies, while vast majority of studies support the contrary.

You could argue that technically "climate change scepticism" only means you don't know, but in practice climate change sceptics argue for political actions (or inaction) basing on their (lack of) beliefs.

Similarly I can be anti-vacc without claiming "vaccines cause autism". just claiming "I'm not sure what they cause, so just to be sure don't do it".
Public pools are generally fine. They usually have a small fee to use, so they aren't truly public in the same sense as the local playground. In my area, most pools are county or town operated, with a discount rate for residents and a higher rate for non-residents. Usually, $5-$10/visit for non-residents, which also buys access to the locker room/showers and any gym equipment.

I imagine the public baths in Japan are similar. So, there is an entry fee that funds a small staff to keep the bathhouse in good repair.

Edit - as an aside, I visited Iceland in January. The public baths/pools were amazing. The entry fees were minimal (a few euro, a bit less than entry to a pool in the US). Facilities were all clean and well maintained. But, it's also part of their culture. Like bath-houses in some nations, people go to the pools to hang out and socialize in the evening.
It's a wonder that any of these services enjoy success when IRC exists.
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IFTTT can do this for you without programming work. Requires your phone because texting requires money.
Seems like it could be the other way around- legal/social action against a company as a strategy for shorting.

Of course, they (the allegedly misled class) deserved to at least get a trial and a ruling, which at that scale require money and press coverage. But Ackman turned it into spectacle, which probably is what motivated Carl Icahn to btchslap his short.