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As soon as I posted the above comment I started getting down votes so let me go into detail to hopefully stave off any negativity in what I think is a very important topic. Sorry, I know its not the done thing to talk about down-voting here :)

(1) Note that this article is _explicitly_ about changing the dollar-backed oil trading arrangements we have had up until now and even has the phrase “new world order” in the title.

(2) Another article[0] on the front page at the moment discusses the economic implications of the current rising inequality with “How do those who have less than nothing keep giving to the rich? Simple: they go deeper into debt, deeper into negative wealth. But how can that be sustained over a long time? Debts don’t need to be paid off, but they do need to be serviced.” The answer is historically speaking is with revolution.

Put (1) and (2) together and you do have a bit of a situation you must admit, no? Is it the phrase 'American Empire' that is being objected to? Fair enough, that's a bit of rhetoric on my part but American Imperialism[1] has got its own (rather long) Wikipedia page.

Disagree all you want but tell me why you disagree rather than thumbing that down button :)

[0] https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2017/08/14/wealth-redistribu...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism

edit: explaining the motivation for posting a follow-up
It's not an economic issue, it's a human nature. Just most of the people lack morals, no matter what country. Sad, but true.
I bet you don't have mobile internet enabled.
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From a link on your sheet, I found that Tab Mix Plus multi-row tabs has over 700k users! This is the killer feature for me and Firefox and I won't be upgrading without it.
AWS S3 storage, as mentioned previously in this thread, are a real treasure trove of leaks and breaches. I have been scanning them as part of a project and regularly have to reach out to businesses to tell them they're leaking information publicly.

You name it, I've probably come across it - lots are for hosting static content of websites which is pretty common, but there are also website and database backups, user uploaded content (from a sensitive 'dating' website), development and staging environments with sensitive internal information, a sea of CVs etc.

The hardest part is trying to responsibly disclose this stuff to the businesses - trying to find a security contact is often impossible, leaving it up to info@ or support@ emails.

And obviously AWS aren't the only cloud storage provider out there... there is more to be found with the other providers.
> bikes require a credit card to access

Many people don't have credit cards (though my information on that is years old; perhaps it's changed?). Doesn't that policy limit access for the people who might need the bikes most?
To add a data point:

I cycle to work daily (22km) and have cycled pretty much all my life since. Sustaining 40km/h for longer periods is unrealistic if 1.) your terrain is not completely flat; 2.) there is wind; 3.) you do not want to get to your destination soaked with sweat; 4.) you have to carry some luggage like a laptop; or 5.) you cannot use a touring bike because of the terrain.

I sometimes cycle with a GPS and have Pedelecs (limited to 25km/h for electrical support in Germany) as a reference point. The vast majority of cyclers that I encounter cycle less than 25km/h under normal conditions [1]. Probably somewhere between 20 and 25. If there is strong wind or uphill, it's definitely less than that.
After the article, I was presented with an ad to create a profile on Facebook.
Humorously (at least to me) Safari has a at least a couple of standout non-native UI quirks.

One is the location of the red/yellow/green titlebar buttons. Like FF, Safari eschews a traditional titlebar and puts those buttons level with the main browser chrome. (IMHO I think this is a good trade-off to make for a browser; I'm not complaining)

Two is Safari's scrolling behavior. It seems to use its own scrolling behavior, separate from the standard scrolling behavior provided by MacOS. I've tried a few apps that modify system-wide scrolling behavior, and they work everywhere but Safari. They make Safari's scrolling insanely twitchy, with a single click of the mousewheel causing Safari to scroll 10x or 100x faster than anything else on the system.
In my case, the critical extension for me is Tab Mix plus (770k users) for multi-row tabs. It's really hard to use a browser without this feature because I've been using it for so long.

The real question is for me is how many users haven't moved onto Chrome -- which is obviously faster and more stable -- because of 1 or 2 add-ons.
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What's the best way to test if my account is deleted?

Every month or so I'll get a handful of emails from Facebook saying it looks like I'm trying to log in and asks if I need help with that. Either they're trying to get me to re-join in a very pathetic way, or someone else is trying to sign up using my email address, causing Facebook to think they want to re-activate my account.
Thank you, good summarization of the unfortunate drama around Mozilla.

What ever is going on in their management, they give a shit about the Firefox and Thunderbird community. The last 5 years they did so many stupid things. It's time to close Mozilla corp and turn it back to a real open source community project. It's time to fork, like Firefox forked of Mozilla Suite. I have no faith that Mozilla going anywhere, in a few months we will read a post mortem of how the managed to loose 30% world wide browser market share in 2 years.
Last one to try to circumvent the petrodollar was Ghadaffi. It seems China now takes the opportunity of the current political climate to try it themselves.

(Petrodollar principle is explained well by Adam Curtis' documentary "Bitter Lake")
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I wish at some point someone would explain to me why people are willing pay more than, say, $2 for a cup of joe. Regularly. I mean, perhaps during a job interview or at a point where it really matters, like making a business agreement while on the road. But at those points you're buying coffee "just to prove that you can", no other reason. Same reason I tax deduct the clothes I wear on such occasions.
The point you make about protectionism is a very good one. But it doesn't tell the whole story.

Isn't it interesting that in books about the economic development of the "first world" you never read about imperial politics? It boils down to how looting of other peoples resources and selling/keeping these people as slaves is the key reason for the riches in the "first world" (particularly its western part). And how protectionism came after (or in parallel, in later phases) to protect the looted. And how the West still does the looting of other peoples resources today and (thanks to that) keeps and grows its riches. And how the only thing that has changed is that it doesn't do the slave trade anymore, but how it still uses and profits greatly from the slave labour.

Maybe someone can recommend a book on this.
The architectures replicate the data across globally-distributed data centers. You're going to need a lot of nukes... ;)
I haven't owned a bicycle since I have been able to drive a car, so my estimation may be wildly inaccurate. I grew up in a distant suburban/rural area in the Seattle region, where the nearest stores are 15 minutes away at 45mph.

These are mostly 2-lane country roads, with 6 foot drainage ditches on the sides on the roads instead of sidewalks, and sometimes even large delivery semi trucks drive these. You'd have to be crazy to ride a bicycle on such a hostile road. I did so twice and my mother refused to let me bicycle to work, insisting I use my father's car.
I'm not being sarcastic - I genuinely don't understand why people value being able to tweak such trivial things and why they want to spend their precious time and effort doing it.

I think building support for a choice about something like tab placement is a waste of time and code - I don't understand why people can't adapt to one way or the other and then we all benefit from simpler code with fewer bugs.

I don't think we need to decide if top or side tabs are better, because I can't see how it matters much. Just pick one, hard code it, and everyone get on with the things that matter.
The industrial revolution was a consequence of free market capitalism.
This is all true. I don't disagree with you.

But. (There's always a but.) I'm not disputing that the US isn't a great economic powerhouse. What I'm getting at is, at what cost.

If the middle-class gets gutted and relative and absolute poverty keeps increasing then we're not really creating a just society, are we? In one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest nation ever if we still haven't figured out how to protect the most vulnerable among us then we've a bit of a problem. As some have suggested, maybe basic income is a solution? But to others you may as well have suggested that that dude Stalin may have made a nice omelette even though he broke a few eggs.

And outside the US, what the untenable situation where two countries (neither of which are the US) have to trade oil in dollars. For just how long do you think that arrangement will last? It could be, and has been, argued that some part of the might of the US comes from having its currency as the world currency and part of that is dollar-denominated trade. Cease that and the landscape alters. China knows that. Others know that.
No, it is going to break after every minor update. Most legacy extensions already don't work anymore in Firefox Nightly, even if you tell it to load them [0], simply because Mozilla has very much already used their new freedom to throw out tons of legacy code [1] and to refactor what's left.

The Mozilla-supplied legacy extensions continue to function, because Mozilla is updating them as they make changes to the internals of Firefox. So, I imagine maintaining such a legacy extension is now as much work as it is to just directly contribute and maintain the feature in Firefox's codebase.

[0]: "extensions.legacy.enabled" in about:config. This won't be shipped in Stable, though, and will likely be taken out from Firefox Nightly soon or with the release of Firefox 57.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347507
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How is this a best seller when it's not available?
You got me thinking. Can a human language like English be defined with an AST? If so, are there examples? If not, why not? I suspect the answer might be, "yes, it's called [this thing I've heard of a thousand times but never considered it to be a language compiler]"
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I always favor native over non-native, but the FF's non-native bits are tasteful enough for me not to care. Do I wish FF used native tabs on macOS? Sure, but FF's tabs are functional enough and visually innocuous enough for me to simply not really care.

And, wow does FF57 "feel" fast. Not sure if it's because I have Stylo enabled, or what, but the UI feels faster now. I'm not sure if I've felt that way about any other FF release. And I have used them all.
Do you mean during WW2 when US industry massively helped the USSR? That was under Stalin.
It is not just at the focal point but

multilayered lenses can be destroyed as the expand and contract and heat is emminated from the join and also

Any lense with coatings to correct for chromatic abberation, the coatings get destroyed on the surface of the lenses just by being pointed at the sun.
Can someone explain where the gif image on slide 69 comes from?
The paper is available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08842.pdf
OK, we've removed "permanently" from the title above.
There was a gratis bicycle plan in Amsterdam in 1965 ('witte fietsenplan'):

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/26/story-cities-...

Interestingly enough 'The free white bikes were quickly removed by the police, who were hostile to Provo’s anarchist initiatives. '

Also, apparently, they had a small-scale electric car-sharing system in 1974.
It's blatantly a form of snob-elitism that hides behind claims that it's about protecting culture (whose culture?).

The same people that say Instagram is destroying culture or makes them ill, look down upon the daily living habits of 'average' people: TV viewing habits, tabloid-style reading (which today is BoredPanda & 22words type sites), Kardashian-ism, celebrity fascination, all the way on to food preferences and beliefs.

That snobbery is as old as human history no doubt.
You're welcome! It's a 'little' feature with a surprisingly large impact.
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Minsky's 'society of mind' is actually not far from modern techniques, where deep neural nets have multiple distinct parts that solve different parts of the problem using each others' outputs. (Not to mention explicitly multi-part methods like actor-critic).
I also believe there is no such thing as not having an Facebook or Google account. They create it for you by creating your tracked profile. The only thing that happens when you create an account is that they can give the profile a name.
Hm, interesting. Thanks for sharing. I was confused by the concept of an ICO because looking at Bitcoin, it's been dolling out new coins on a regular basis via. mining (slowing over time), and people weren't buying them.

Does this mean that some "coins" have 100% of their inventory known at the beginning and instead of people guessing correct hashes, they have to simply buy them from a central authority?
Thank you very much for this. It is very good!

May I suggest a feature: Clickable tags. That way one could find all related articles you've found.
I agree Bluetooth is convenient, no doubts. But I think the adoption of wireless should be driving the ditching of wired interfaces, not the vice versa. Otherwise, a lot of people feel being forced to use something, that is just supposed to be better.
Thanks for the extra info. Is your email foo@sstave.com ? Who was the student, do you remember? The Scientology thing is bonkers.
What is most disturbing about these incidents is that while they have been variously labeled "a sonic attack" or "potentially the by product of a surveillance system", nothing I have seen has proposed anything like a mechanism of injury let alone what type of device could surreptitiously visit this kind of insult on a human subject without any awareness on the subjects part that they are being exposed to some source of energy powerful enough to damage their ears and cause mild TBI.

An old surgeon friend used to talk about the kinematics of trauma, and how trauma was caused by excessive amounts of energy being taken on by a patient. Sometimes it's mechanical energy, it might be an exothermic reaction but in this instance the energy not detectable, as of yet by humans.

We'll be talking about this one for a while.
US industrial agriculture kept the USSR afloat in the 70s as it was unable to feed itself. Kansas was dubbed "the breadbasket of the Soviet Union". The historical threat of famine ended in the US around 1800 and was an early dividend of free market agriculture.
I read someplace that political power is constant. If you withdraw, then the power doesn't go away - it remains for others to seize. Perhaps it's the law of conservation of political power.

For example, it happened in Iraq when the U.S. eliminated the people holding power, Hussein and the Baathists, and didn't have realistic plans for anyone to seize it. Iran, Shiite religious authorities, and Sunni insurgents all jumped for it. The mess still hasn't been resolved.

It's happening on a much larger, more significant scale globally as the U.S. withdraws. Others aren't sitting still; they are coming in and seizing the power for themselves. It is very hard won and the most valuable thing in the world; who would walk away from it?
One ad driven website making a business out of trying to get you off another.

Wonder what the internet would be like if there was an easier way to make money than ads.
It's not a dumb question at all. It is THE question. The real answer is probably the IIoT is just SCADA-over-IP. But noone will ever get rich giving an honest answer.
The antithetical of capitalism isn't a world with no capital.
The distinction between capitalism and competing ideologies is in who "owns" the capital and how it is directed.
What I really want to know: how to permanently delete your entire presense of Google.

You can't. Google reserves the right to retain/use your data indefinitely:

The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).

Source: https://www.google.com/policies/terms/
Has it never been sold yet? If not, I'd guess probably lots of clicks on "Email me when available"... genuine or artificial.

400+ questions could factor in also.
That’s because it’s not for verification; It’s a status symbol.

Also, this is just speculation, but if saying certain things could get you unverified, and being unverified would lower your ranking some places and hurt your value, a website could censor what they deem “hate” speech simply with the threat of unverification. You can’t really cry censorship over a little icon.
Adding support for customisation has a cost - more code, more things to test. If people just used defaults we could have simpler code, shipped more quickly, with fewer bugs.
Yes. It's called shadow profile, they know your name from your friends address book.
They could even offer negative pricing for bikes that are out of place.
There's a massive, critical distinction in most cases.

Government money is public tax payer money that is forcibly taken from the people's income to provide government services.

Facebook's money is private shareholder money, most of which is derived from voluntary business transactions from advertisers.

There's an entirely different responsibility between the two instances. If you're going to forcibly take money from people's incomes to deliver government services, your responsibility to do right by those tax payers is drastically greater in my opinion.
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The two compilers differ because I stopped applying non-essential modifications to t.c as soon as it was good enough to bootstrap t.t. There are also some edges cases that t.c does not catch. I think it's best to not use it for anything but bootstrapping!

Let me know about that misbehaving NetBSD program when you find out what caused it -- or even if you don't!
It's missing functionality because the old API allowed deep, deep hooks into FF's internals.

Per Mozilla, aside from security problems and other nightmares, these deep hooks allowed developers to write plugins that were incompatible with a multiprocess browser architecture where each tab/window can have its own sandbox and remain responsive even if other tabs go down.

And that is one of the killer features that has caused FF to bleed massive amounts of user share to Chrome in the last decade: Chrome almost always "felt fast" in situations where FF ground to an embarassing halt because something was happening in another tab/window that was causing the entire browser to become unresponsive.

I don't know what precisely is missing from the new WebExtensions API but I have to imagine that Mozilla will work to expand its capabilities as much as possible over time...
The battery of my four year old Nexus 4 can certainly still manage nearly a day.
can a data center be shrunk down to the size of a consumer product within the next 50 years?

will we all own one and store massive amounts of information for purely selfish or inane reasons?

yes/yes - ai comes out of that.

no/no - we hit computing plateaus and ai becomes dm (decision maker), and we all own a pdm.
I sold eth on 390 ( top was 391), bought again at 370. Thought it was going to dip < 300. It only reached 320 or so
'Incapable' the way humans from the 1800s were 'incapable' of building heavier-than-air flying machines? Every human invention in history was 'impossible' until we pulled it off.
As long as Google does business in Europe, Google's license is subject to law: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...

While it's not a complete deletion, it's a step in that direction.
I predict they will come to the conclusion that they backed the wrong horse with Flow over TypeScript; v7 will be written in Scala or Scala.js .

There is the odd sense of randomness to the choices in all these CLI upgrades. Can't quite put my finger on it. It brings to mind the saga of Wasabi.
Should we just apply directly through the listing? Or would you prefer us to send you it to your email?
Bluetooth headphones surpassed wired headphones in sales early last year.

It’s fundamentally not essential anymore for many - even possibly most - users of new devices, especially when the other port can duplicate the functionality through the same DAC.

I know it’s a big change but honestly Bluetooth audio has got so much better - the newer more advanced codecs are basically CD quality sounds - and most decent new BT headphones are pretty high quality.
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> Default settings are usually NO public read, and it actually takes more work to make stuff publicly readable on S3 than to just leave it as private.

While true, and a very sensible default, this misses one crucial point.

Setting granular permissions for an S3 bucket is hideously difficult. Want to limit access to a whitelisted set of users or origins? Write a bucket policy. This is where the UI completely fails.

0: The policies can become awfully difficult to understand even for straightforward use cases.

1: You can have policies with sensible rule sets, but the S3 UI doesn't allow to pick-and-attach any of them.

2: The "permissions" tab has a very convenient and extremely dangerous option as the top item: "allow access for any logged in user"

I'll let the last one sink in. It's not "any logged in user in MY organisation", it's really "ANY logged in AWS user". Putting the bucket essentially world-readable by accident is far too easy.
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It is. Wireless sells more than wired. Has done for over 1.5 years at this point (early 2016)
I'm curious about the right to ask others to delete an email thread where multiple parties are involved.

Is one individual entitled to the record of interactions and memories formed by 2 individuals?
"Just most of the people lack morals"

Society wouldn't exist if that were the case, most problems are caused by a minority.
I enable mobile data when needed, i.e. when out of Wifi-reach. I also use the phone as wireless access point on those occasions when the - rather spotty - ADSL connection has given the ghost.
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Almost all services are now about $0.07USD/hour, or less and, even better, free on the weekends.

Having just come back from living in Shanghai for some time, nothing makes it more convenient than not having to think about the price.
Lived in France for some time, and bike sharing works fairly well. From time to time I've seen vandalized/bad condition/abandoned bikes, but never at the scale described in this article. You authorize something to the tune of 150€ charged from your credit card if bike is not returned on time, which eliminates extreme carelessness. So this is clearly a problem with implementation and said startups, not the sharing economy. There are people who behave like that everywhere.