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It looks like the date is displayed in the US format mm/dd/yyyy which is, of course, most unnatural to all other countries. Is this customizeable, or is it automatically adjusted depending on the language preferences in the browser? If it's the latter, it's not cool - my preferred language for the browser is English, but I hate the US date display format with passion.

EDIT: oh I see, automatically adjusted, but not configurable. Bad choice it is, then.

EDIT2: I mean, there are so many more better and easy solutions to that problem. You could display a date with a month name in the selected language - "Oct 1, 2017" - or start with a year "2017-10-01" which would be instantly recognizable by anyone regardless of the country.
> I think many of the UBI supporters know

A supposition. Fine. Opinion is ok although supporting evidence would be nice.

> UBI is fundamentally about ratcheting up redistribution, not ensuring that people's necessities are met

Declaration of fact without supporting evidence. An argument based on an unsupported opinion.
Ok, I was using a simple tax calculator, I thought it already accounted for standard and personal deductions, but I guess not.
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The main problem with it is that we cannot afford UBI. Back of the envelope calculations say we would go bankrupt within a year giving out just 500 PLN/month/person. Which is way not enough to live on. A serious amount would be 4x that.
(Which would amount to about 100 billion PLN or 16 billion Euro or similar USD. Not counting overhead. Essentially eating a sizable chunk of GDP. Some ways to cut it would be free public housing and transport - where? How much?)

Even 500+ as currently implemented is too expensive. It is essentially financed by debt right now. And currently Poland is somewhere around 60% debt.

I suspect even USA cannot afford it long term given the state of debt. They had trouble even with public healthcare.
It's popular because technical superiority isn't why people use software.

For example, Spotify eats 100% CPU if I leave it open for 24 hours yet I don't think I've met someone in the last year that doesn't have Spotify running on their computer.
Likewise, I try to completely avoid Google as much as possible now too. When I have some free time I'm going to finish moving off of GMail to most likely Fastmail. Ditto for using DDG too.
The product is adequate, because people are paying for it. It could be better, hence the feature requests.

The most important thing I always want to know is how they found me — unfortunately, for all of them it was via a search for a specific phrase. That doesn't help me at all: I am prominently featured for that search phrase.

No viral potential, this is a niche B2B product.
Once, when climbing a 7-pitch route in Switzerland, the party below us involuntarily removed a loose block (mostly held in place by vegetation), maybe 30x30x50cm. We had noticed that it was loose and it had a sling fixed next to it as a replacement hold but apparently they didn’t realise. Thankfully nobody was standing below. Super scary though.
Here's another serious and level-headed look at Dr. Lustig's claims. He's an alarmist, and we don't need those.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
Thanks for getting back to my comment. Reading back my comment I might have been a bit harsh, I am sorry about that. The level of detail in the compression and caching bits were very detailed, thanks for that.

What I was most interested in technically is the part about 'Prioritize visible content'. You talk about "loading third party scripts later, and generally keeping the above-the-fold content small and fast". From this I make out that you do not load images below the fold, etc. I was wondering what you do technically to make this happen. Also, how would you load fonts after the first paint, etc. Also, from what I remember, when you inline your CSS you make caching the CSS separately from the HTML impossible. What would you do when you want to have a quick first paint, but also want to leverage having CSS in its own file?
As is customary in these discussions, the "Long Tailpipe" falacy has been raised again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe

http://www.casteyanqui.com/ev/longtailpipe/

Mr Musk's criticism of it is in here
https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... Section starting "Power Plant Emissions aka “The Long Tailpipe”"
Adding date picker to platform after it lived through the peak of world-wide application development is big news itself.
Err no Citrine's ABC of chairman ship mentions this and its custom and practice for major changes to require a super majority every company has some types of motion that require 2/3 or 75% to pass.
Unfortunately the problem wasn’t just spam in the inbox it was also non-spam in the spambox
Only in the sense that people won't be taught to use sane date formats. I don't see any issue with allowing someone who wishes to use the weird format to have their way.

Edit: If you downvote it, be nice enough to let me know what you disagree with.
Maybe something along the lines of Vortexbox [1] in a VM?

[1]

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vortexbox
Thank you — this is fantastic advice. BTW, I am in the (1) stage right now (slow and most things don't work).
>>The UBI in fact artificially increases the velocity, by redistribution of money at many points in economy to everybody, forcing another redistribution from everybody to production.

Increasing the velocity of money without increasing production just leads to devaluation:

MV = PY

Where M is money supply, V is velocity of money, P is nominal prices, and Y is the real value of production

So P = MV/Y. Increasing M or V increases P.

You don't get more stuff just by moving money around faster. And production will decrease with higher welfare spending, so you'll have less per capita GDP/consumption/quality-of-life.

Producers receive less per hour worked because now a portion of their production has to be given to other parties who are not contributing production in exchange. Imagine if all the non producers got zero dollars. Now the money the producers earn could be traded for goods other producers are producing, letting the producers consume more goods.

Production is not an unlimited resource that can just be increased by increasing some party's consumption level. Increasing one group's consumption through income redistribution comes at the expense of lower consumption for another group.
Except Safari iirc :(
I have a set of scripts that work on my local network, as well as arbitrary useful commands.

E.g. I can control the volume of the radio via a simple ssh command that turns the media center volume down. Termux has an additional extension that lets you map arbitrary scripts to a button / widget on the android home screen.
I tried hacker's keyboard but didn't find it as good as the keyboard built in JuiceSSH. All the special keys important during a ssh session like Ctrl, Tab, arrow keys are very conveniently placed. I am yet to find a soft keyboard that good.
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I think you are using the word "platform" when you mean "user interface". User interfaces can be changed to suit the task at hand - e.g. MS Word vs Doom.
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Does this answer?

http://www.johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Olivetti/D18/D18.htm

> Addition and subtraction operate in adding-machine fashion, with numbers being printed as they are entered into the register. C is a correction key which clears the whole of the current entry. The Total (T) key prints the result and clears the register; Sub-total (S) prints the contents and leaves the register unchanged. To encourage the habit of always pressing Total before starting a calculation, the D18 is made to power up with the error lamp lit, so that Total must be pressed before the machine can be used.

> Multiplication and division can be entered algebraically using the colour-coded legends printed on the keytops. For example, to multiply 2 by 3, use the white legends and press 2 X 3 =. For operators familiar with the "reverse Polish" entry of the earlier machines, using the moulded legends to the right of the keys will produce the same key sequence and the same result: 2 Enter 3 X . (There is only a single key switch under the Mult/Div/Enter button).

the manual doesn't seem to mention it: http://www.curtamania.com/curta/database/brand/olivetti/Oliv...
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At least on macOS it seems not to be automatically adjusted. It still displays me the illogical mm/dd/yyyy format, despite my Firefox having 'Finnish' on top in language settings.

Ideally the application should read the system regional setting and use that. For example, my macOS uses English as language and Finnish as region. (I've no idea if the system provides an API for reading regional settings, though.)
To horrendously butcher a quote: "He who claims the unemployed should not be lazy but find jobs usually has none to offer nor knows where one can be found."
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Can I create script which snaps a photo let's say every minute? Basically, is camera available through terminal?
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"Master of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘People are losing their minds. That is what we need to wake up to’" is the full title.

> Corps of Cadet Recruits train in transcendental meditation to prevent PTSD by providing coping tools before exposure to combat or stressful situations.

A rather conflicting/disturbing stock photo caption included with The Guardian article which I assume has no connection with Jon Kabat-Zinn.
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> For one thing, JS has no unstructured control-flow. So your compilation process involves breaking down ifs, loops and so on into branches, then… trying to messily reconstruct them.

An omission which, incidentally, is also intentionally present in WebAssembly. There are supposedly good reasons for it, but I still find it really disappointing.

see also: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/796
But under Polish communism, did you get more money for working, and was that money useful? UBI is just a basic minimum, it isn't likely to satisfy most people like a minimum wage job at McDs isn't.
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> Let’s never forget the horrors of a disassembled Europe ...

Quite the opposite, let's never forget the horrors of attempted unification of desperate nationalities of Europe under large reichs, socialist utopias, or just the good 'ol imperial expansion.

> It’s just funny how the modern nationalist and xenofobe believe they’re “super cool and progressive”.

Something tells me people voting for these issues, didn't really care about being looking "super cool" but had other, slightly more nuanced concerns.

Also, if the goal is to convince any of them to abandon their positions, mocking them and calling them "xenophobes" will have the exact opposite effect.
two popup in less than 5 seconds after I opened the link.
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We're giving 500 PLN a month to 3 800 000 people right now. If we scaled that to full population it would be 50 PLN.

6 times that (so - 300 PLN) isn't that big a stretch (especially that you get like half of that back in taxes from increased consumption).

It's doable for a few years. Especially, if you cut some other social costs (but then it has to be more than 300 PLN per month).
UBI without a basic safety net for health care is a non-starter. It's not a substitute for a welfare state. Without it you are on an ever escalating probability curve towards destabilization.

As for people not "being productive" with their UBI...I hate to break to everyone but the vast majority of people involved in corporate America are not productive at all. There is more make work and duplication and accountability avoidance built-in to corporate life to protect people's income than people involved in valley startups could possibly understand.

Because the stakes are so high around unemployment, accountability becomes a very dangerous proposition. Projects are designed to put potentially career ending actions on consultants or outside parties that assume that responsibility as part of implementation contracts. It's crazy.

If there was a UBI and social safety net that allowed people to pursue interests and not force them to take jobs that they dislike and cling to for dear life...everyone will be better, and I promise the people motivated to perform will still be performing, they just won't have people in the way that don't want to be there.

It will also stop hiding the cost of getting high performance employees. People won't have to take employment to survive.
People who don’t give a fcuk about controllers and patterns outnumber traditional folks heavily, so there is no place to look for understanding of it today. Just wait and someday you’ll hear about Element Group Management or whatever classic weathered MVC would be called then. Don’t miss that year though, check regularily.
Most people advocating UBI want just enough to keep people out of poverty. People will still want additional money for luxuries, so money will retain most of its value and capitalism will function as normal.
I don't see eggs in there. Got an opinion on those?
Do you have the Learner's Syndrome?
I'm on Fx 56.0.1, but I already enabled the date/time functionality in about:config (key: dom.forms.datetime).

I think you can enable the time picker by toggling dom.forms.datetime.timepicker on. It's on for me, but it isn't the default.
And a lot of the push back was NIH because boing bailed on its SST it would be interesting to find out who bankrolled the anti concord activits.

And Boom is a US company :-)
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Priorities I guess...
I think the more accurate term is nobody wants to pay for maintenance, they just want new crap.
Hopefully it will stop people implementing their own date/time pickers which only allow changing that date/time by clicking up/down arrows. In particular the Munich transport website (mvg.de) is guilty of this and I absolutely hate it with a passion.
This comment gets closest to the heart of things. Such costs can only be imposed by the state, but the state has limited power/desire to do so.
What is still missing is a good interface. Not this sticks with buttons, something that allows comfortable control and feels like a keyboard without requiring constant tension to hold.

It should be like a glove, with the fingertips as selector and the other fingersegments as keys. Thumb to tip is a-e, thumb to indexfinger segments up is systemkeys (sorted by need to avoid difficult to reach segments as being quertyfied.
Thumb to third indexfinger segment (with indexfinger pointed) is click at a object.

The Palm could work as a sort of gesture-touchpad, for more complicated (cross-hand) keycombos.

How to implement? Well as a prototype- take a latex glove, glue short range rfid chips to the segments and rfid readers to the fingertips.

The rest is history as they say.
I think they mean by using a single generic type for everything, like you'd see in an interpreter for an untyped language. It's pretty easy, but it's also very slow...
I don't think rent prices would be such a problem if UBI was introduced. Right now a lot of people are essentially forced to live in big cities because they can't find a job elsewhere and they need the money desperately. This drives up rent prices in the cities.

If you give everyone just enough money to survive, it will encourage people to move back to the suburbs where rent is cheaper. They might have a hard time finding a job there initially but they may have the opportunity to start their own small businesses instead - This would be a boost to suburban economies.

Regarding the argument about some people wasting their UBI. I think that's fine. We're not looking for equality so much as we're looking for fairness. If someone gambles away their UBI every month, at least that money will be put into circulation and provide work to other people who are not wasteful.

UBI is about giving people breathing space to make decisions in their lives instead of being forced to follow the line of breadcrumbs that corporations have left behind.
You profoundly misunderstand the situation in the soviet economies - money became worthless not because money was easy to get, it was not as the salaries were very small, but because of poor central planning (and good central planning is impossible, since you cannot see the future) resulted in shortages of everything. At an extreme example, my grandfather could buy a new car every quarter with the salary he received as high ranking military officer stationed abroad, but the line for the car was 3-5 years long, even for well connected individuals. What good is your money then?

The UBI society does not have that problem as no one is capping production because they view a particular good as a capitalist symbol or something.
we could also use the resources on mars or the moon more sparingly, making dome bases would provide that.

we could also bore into those tunnels and put caps on the hole afterward, have some of those channel light into those tunnels too.
I use Termux a lot too, because the Nokia N900 spoiled me and taught me to use Terminal on phone at all times.

Instead of Android + Termux, one can also look at Sailfish OS. You get all that functionality by default. There's also PostMarket OS [1], which should support at least some Android phones

[1] https://postmarketos.org
Small nit from article - "You don’t build a nuclear power plant (or even a dam) without a plan for what to do if it goes critical."

Reactors going critical is a good thing.

From wikipedia: When a reactor's neutron population remains steady from one generation to the next (creating as many new neutrons as are lost), the fission chain reaction is self-sustaining and the reactor's condition is referred to as "critical".
Reposted from a few days ago... incredibly relevant to this post.

I urge you to stop believing in recycling.

Here's some things to think about:

The "packaging" industry, is in fact a nice way of saying the "garbage manufacturing" industry.

At least in Australia, the "recycling industry" is owned by the "packaging industry". Hmmm.. why is that? It put it to you that the garbage manufacturing industry has in fact worked out how to "own" the environmental movement by pushing "recycling" as the "balance" to the spewing forth of garbage from the packaging industry. The packaging industry must be laughing so hard at how easily it has owned the environmental movement.
Have you ever wondered if all that packaging you put in your recycle bin gets recycled? It's a question worth thinking about.

I have come to believe that recycling, which environmentalists embrace deeply as a core value, is in fact just a smokescreen that allows everyone to feel OK about the garbage manufacturing industry creating an unending quantity of plastics that have made their way into every nook and cranny of our ecosystem.

Please, stop believing in recycling.... if you recycle, then you do not question the unbelievable, and unrecyclable, quantity of plastic packaging that you consume.
One you stop believing in recycling, you start to ask the question, "why the heck do we permit the packaging industry to create this unstoppable flow of garbage"
Seems to me that world MUST eventually move to a solution which is a set of standardised containers for all products, which are durable, washable, have a refund value attached, and may have paper corporate brand stuck on them after being washed.

Another strategy worth bringing forward is the idea of "garbage brands"..... showing off all those precious brands but in their true context... as garbage in our creeks, rivers and oceans, drains and footpaths. Once brands start to become associated with garbage, they might rethinkg whether they want their names and logos on the digusting mess destroying our environment.

Please, stop believing in recycling and the smokescreen will clear and you will start to ask questions about the packaging industry and our community/commercial system that supports it.
Asbestos, tobacco, sugary foods, packaging - all industries that have fooled us into believing things that are wrong but served their own ends. The packaging industry has fooled us into thinking that it is OK because recycling exists.
Yes. https://termux.com/add-on-api.html#termux-camera-photo
All four of those.
finally not only in chrome (and apparently opera)
Adding it all up: what determines the cost of a data breach?
the rocket looked silly too, but it turns out that's how we'll do it.

elon musk may we bald with a goatee too by then.
That's an awful shame. I can't really see myself using this when authoring websites as long as it has that behaviour. If I am authoring a Norwegian web site, the date format must be Norwegian, regardless of the user's preferred locale.
Having seen the Smalltalk environment leads me to conclude that modern IDEs aren't integrated at all. It's a scam.
now if only someone had boring technology and rocket technology to go with it.
They're called flaps and slats.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/flap.html
In the German localization it's correctly displayed as 'dd.mm.yyyy'. Other formats are possible but not yet enabled for every language, it seems.
It's almost as if too much of any one thing is bad for you.

It's interesting that science is just figuring this out. And I say this as someone who has doctor parents.
HFCS has roughly the same fructose:glucose ratio as table sugar, honey and other sugars that are claimed to be less unhealthy.

HFCS alarmism is just that: Alarmism.

The problem is not the composition of HFCS, it's that we in the western world are adding a hell of a lot more sugar to everything compared to 40-50 years ago.
The remote controller is just radio, not Bluetooth. But inside the board there is also a Bluetooth module that connects just to a smartphone app. Data remains in the app.
You can then decide to upload it to a web service in case you want to see the data on an interactive map or you want to share it.
Anyway, it's just riding data, it's not associated with any of your personal information.
UBI makes sense only if you’re able to ignore pretty much every economic theory except communism.

One particular issue I have is the fiat nature of money: it’s meant to be printed to promote economic growth but it will usually reduce purchasing power. This is similar to the effect of dilution on stock.

The article talked about price inflation bit the real issue with UBI is we finally remove any economic value that may be equated to money - it just becomes a piece of paper and it will likely lose value until it has none left.
> Debian on a chrome book

Easier said than done, Chromebooks aren't "computers" in the sense that you could easily or natively install Windows/Linux.

ChromeBooks run ChromeOS and often don't even have a BIOS, thus to shoehorn a different OS requires installing SeaBIOS when it isn't present.

They're more like an appliance, though GalliumOS[0] works on (most?) x86 Chromebooks.

[0]: https://galliumos.org
> which environmentalists embrace deeply as a core value

Environmentalists say "reduce, re-use, recycle" - recycling is the last, worst, option in this phrase. Reducing the stuff you buy being the first, best, option.
Hergé was just a man ahead of his time.
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It won't, sites will just swell up to 10MB of CSS.
Money became worthless because you got more money than goods.

The reasons for that are many, and irrelevant here - I do think UBI will have similar problem, because you give away money not covered by additional production.