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FF57 still consumes more memory than Chrome? For the same tabs? Or are you maybe experiencing some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation — opening more tabs because they mostly "feel" lighter-weight?
That's not a counterpoint but a confirmation of the first part of the original argument. You just listed two examples of such apps that fail to influence America despite being huge in other countries.

To make a counterpoint you need to find something popular in USA with no uptake outside of it or something that influenced USA but came from outside.
The study clearly takes an extreme view point. I agree with your criticisms, and mostly it seems fairly poor science.

I can see some benefit of looking for the extreme though, it's looking for a theoretical optimum.

I'd have thought they could do studies of land use in India for the most extreme possible switch.
I've been using Nightly for about 2 months for personal browsing, and have recently switched to using it for my web development job using containers, and it's been great.

Biggest feature I'd like to see is a keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab in a particular container, as opposed to Cmd+T opening an uncontained tab.

The Developer Tools still have a ways to go before they beat the performance of Chrome (large source files lag), but it's perfectly usable and getting better all the time.

All in all, I've been very happy with my switch, especially when Quantum landed in Nightly: a noticeable increase in speed and snappiness!
Holgas shoot 6x4.5 though, half that, and Dianas are 4x4, even less. And 35mm is really 24x36, closer to 8.6cm^2.
Check out Containers - it goes a long way towards solving this problem. I also used to rely heavily on Chrome profiles

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
Yes, the data goes over an Azure relay, but we are investigating using a peer-to-peer communication for sharing as well.

We don't transfer all keyboard and mouse inputs. Instead, we communicate the data behind each collaboration activity (e.g. opening and editing source files, initiating debug sessions, stepping through code, etc.). We only transfer what is needed during the collaboration session.
Switched to Firefox on Macbook Pro.

It feels faster, but my two main complaints:

1. While using the touchpad to go 'back', a page on Safari will show you the page you're going back to. Chrome will at least offer an arrow animation backwards. Firefox offers no such thing, often leaving me confused as to whether it's registered. A couple times so far it has instead scrolled me up the page a bit.

2. I have nothing else open, yet certain actions (i.e. scrolling through Zillow pictures earlier) will result in it sporadically using so much memory that my computer's fans are audibly loud and the computer gets quite hot.

Nonetheless, I still would narrowly recommend it, though some of that is likely to do with wanting to support Mozilla.
Your habitat won't float as well once I transport some asteroid-mined calcium and magnesium to Jupiter, turn it all into hydrides, package it with transition-metallic catalysts (Co, Ni, Fe, Ru), and shoot it into Venus.

MgH2 -> Mg + H2 (thermolysis @ 287 degC)
CO2 + H2 --Fe-> CO + H2O (water-gas shift)
CO + H2 --Fe-> C + H2O (Bosch)
CO2 + 4 H2 --Ni-> CH4 + 2 H2O (Sabatier)
2n+1 H2 + n CO --metal--> CnH(2n+2) + n H2O (Fischer-Tropsch)
2 Mg + CO2 -> 2 MgO + C
CaH2 + 2 H2O -> Ca(OH)2 + 2 H2
Ca(OH)2 + CO2 -> CaCO3 + H2O
Digital currency trading firm Genesis Global Trading found bitcoin tends to recover dramatically from large drops. The last four times bitcoin has fallen more than 20 percent this year, it has gained an average 28 percent in the two weeks following, and an average 61.5 percent in the four weeks following, the analysis showed.

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed to find out why
True, but it's more likely they're guilty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#cite_note-5
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Or even create a self-fulfilling prophecy. What if someone is listed as "may leave" when they have no intent to do so. If the employer then starts freezing the employee out, that could lead the the employee eventually leaving, even if they didn't originally want to.
> you've still are earning more money in liquidity during the transaction.

So? How does that benefit us in any way? We don't need to sell to have liquidity. We have a HELOC so we can turn our equity into cash on demand.

> your conflating transactional costs (expenses, fees, etc) with wealth

No, I'm not. I'm just saying that transactional costs decrease your wealth, which is simply a fact.

> The cost isn't prohibitive, it's the negative impact on your wealth

What exactly is the difference between "cost" and "negative impact on your wealth"? Those two seem like the same thing to me.
I believe, dust collection is prohibitively costly. And if one's using Bitcoin any actively, they'll end up generating a lot of dust, I think.

At the current BTC/USD rates, I have a few dollars worth of dust. However, it's spread over 17 inputs, so it's basically unspendable. It would require ~3.1KB transaction so even at 30sat/byte the fees would be, like, 0.00093 BTC ($6.5 at $7K/BTC).

For poorer countries even $2-5 could be a well significant amount. One can probably have a meal for that money.
This right here is what is so frustrating about the general engagement with blockchains in the last half decade. On one hand, I am knowledgeable about the subject domain and witnessed businesses offering some ludicrous compensation for working on blockchains for them, but to be informed is to know how misguided all these people are about why blockchains are useful, and talking to peers who did get involved in some of these projects (especially circa 2013 ones) companies spent a lot on a fad and just as quickly ended the experiment because blockchains are not magic money machines.

They are only beneficial to establish a trustless data store. That is the only function they serve. If you don't need trustless consensus, you don't need or want a blockchain. If you are a state actor or some major corporation, you trust yourself already, and you don't need trustless data stores, and at corporate scale any interaction with other entities that might validly use trustless data (like money tracked between banks) has the entities involved capable of influencing force of law to maintain systemic trust.

That is why Zimbabwe citizens value it, and why a Fortune 500 or European state power doesn't need one.
The term "sweat shop" is certainly provocative and, to be fair, evokes subtext that isn't applicable to this debate. For instance, in most cases, sweat shops are illegal and famous for abusing their employees (i.e. forced labor).

I think an assembly line (as pictured in the post) is a much better comparison. Assembly lines are legal and popular, their goal is to lower costs for the company as much as possible. In most cases, the comfort of the employee isn't a big consideration as the goal is to lower costs. They are noisy and they aren't great work environments. I do not want to work on an assembly line.

The open floor plan office, in my opinion, is very similar to an assembly line. Employees are in close proximity to one another and lack personal space or any kind of privacy. If you need to make a call, you need to leave your desk and go into the hall, bathroom, etc. Unlike the cubes of the past (which were not well loved) there's no place to put pictures of loved ones or to safely store reference material (manuals not available online, etc.) They are noisy and, as has been pointed out, they are harmful to the employees physical and mental well being. I do not want to work in an open floorplan office.

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One of my coworkers in London is from Zimbabwe and she was telling us some of the problems her family had trying to run a farm.
2010 macbook, Chrome user. Things are generally slow, but felt like they got a bit snappier after the High Sierra upgrade. I tried FF57 but for me it feels a bit slower than Chrome on this older device.
I never stopped using Firefox, but for years was only using it for an isolated development environment.

But I've been using Firefox 57 for a few month, and it's great. I still use Chrome, but I'm probably spending equal time in both now.
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A few things:

1) While I pay an accountant to file my taxes, the biggest benefit I get is (a) knowing/understanding the tax law; and (b) most importantly knowing what deductions and/or credits are available to me and my business.

2) In my opinion, if you have a basic business there is no real reason to pay a monthly bookkeeping company. Pay an accountant to get you set up on Quickbooks (or some other online accounting software) initially, and have them teach you how to enter income and expenses.

3) Software such as Quickbooks makes automating taxes pretty straightforward once setup correctly, especially for a simple business.

Where tax filings get complicated is knowing what forms need to be filed when. Once you start mixing state and local taxes into the mix it can be a little overwhelming at first.

The problem with automating all of this is that the tax laws change so much keeping up across all the states and cities would be a challenge. Next, you would possibly have to work with governments to be able to e-file in bulk.

For me personally, I already pay an accountant that handles these filings and more for me. I would be hesitant to pay another service, especially an unproven one, when it comes to taxes.
Yes, the two questions are in fact quite orthogonal.

- Should data truly intended to be public be scrapable by HiQ (or anyone)? The answer has to be yes.

- Should you be able to use "public" data to seek out essentially private information behind the user's back (like what HiQ is doing)? The answer has to be no.

On this latter question, there is a notion of continuous consent and discoverability. There should be a feedback trail all the way back to the original provider of data (the user) about who is accessing the data and for what purpose, even if (or especially because) it is public; and this fact should be made known to the accessor.

There has to be a semblance of symmetry in how a public exchange of information should take place. Both the provider and the accessor should be in the open if it is truly public. Then the user can take actions to affirmatively provide continuous consent or withdraw.
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I’m using Container Tabs to work with 3 different Twitter accounts in the same browser window. A killer feature!
Next time you're forced to deal with JavaScript, try out TypeScript. It's a subjective subject, but it's pretty fun to use and it compiles down to JavaScript. There are a lot of tools around this ecosystem, but as for anything experience helps.
Of course, most people who borrow 80+% can't _really_ afford the risk of an adjustable-rate mortgage, but they think they can because rates are always low and will never go back up ;)
They're just red dwarf stars. Red Dwarf stars are stellar radio sources that continuously emit episodes of Red Dwarf. Those too are unsuitable for long term habitation.
All it would take for 1Password to decrypt our entire vault is for 1Password to push out a software update that simply made it so that the client app uploaded the keys to 1Password's servers after the user typed it in. Without 1Password releasing their source code, end users would have no idea if such an update ever took place. We just have to trust 1Password as a company. Well, if we already trust 1Password as a company, what's the point of even using encryption? Might as well just store it in plain text in a database on your servers and trust that your employees won't look at them!

Without open source auditing of all clients and md5 checksums of compiled binaries, security is nothing more than an illusion.
I hear you but since I've been using yarn to lock all package versions I haven't had any issues.

https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/yarn-lock/

JS development without yarn is complete madness.
This may be possible, but I don’t see it happen at scale with current technology (and maybe never). If you want to charge a battery in a minute that then lasts for 10+ hours, you have to charge it 600+ times as hard as you discharge it.

Assume (conservatively) a 60kWh battery pack. Fully charging that in an hour takes 60kW of power. Doing it in a minute takes 3600kW, or 3.6MW. You would need 30 Tesla superchargers to provide that. That seems doable, but is it economically viable?
>I feel like there's an inherent contradiction there, and the right thing to do isn't to "lean into" the contradiction, but rather to resolve it in the other direction. That is: we probably need to change what is legal for private individuals to do, if we want to effect change in what is legal for automation to do.

It can't be solved this way, because somethings can not be made illegal or if they can, they cannot be enforced at the individual doing it manually level.

Some individual can always sit at a street corner and read the license plates of the cars that pass. How one can make that illegal?

But systematically mass-collecting such data could easily be made illegal.

>After all, at its most basic, we've got "automation" like Mechanical Turk, or people who you can hire to stand in a line for you to buy a new iPhone.

That still has costs and limitations -- so it's nowhere near any competition for automation.

I'd say making their automated version illegal is a good starting point.
For VS Code there's sockscode, it's a little bare, but works well!
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After doing a tiny bit of reading, it seems in early minicomputer days bit-slice processors weren't an exotic technology at the time.

I wonder why people didn't combine 16 chips to create 64-bit processors. Or did they?
I switched to Firefox Nightly about a month ago and have made it back into Chromium less and less.
Bitcoin will conquer weaker currencies first. How could it happen any other way?

Even if you're not convinced until you see it conquer USD, you should still expect to see what we're seeing now[0]... weaker currencies falling before strong ones as BTC adoption follows along an S-curve of adoption.

[0] http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/
These things are great. There was a little kid playing on one at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, where they've got a couple networked together - he had no trouble operating it.

That place is worth a visit if you have a chance - they've got working machines going back to the 50s that you can play around with.
Doom 3 inadvertently did this for me one time. It loads data from pak/zip files and does a checksum verification. Which is how I discovered a defective RAM stick I'd used in a new system build.
I don’t think you can really blame 3 conservative politicians for the home price boom in most western countries over the past 20 years! They weren’t even in power for a major part of the boom in the UK (Labour were in power from 1997-2010).

The most recent part of the increase has come from the slashing of interest rates to rock bottom following the global financial crisis and quantative easing, neither of which is the responsibility of the government.
Escaping radiation? Scenery? Proximity to lots of other people? There's a good chance that the barrier of a gravity well is going to go the way of the barrier of mountainous terrain.

Also, exchanging the fixed geography of land for the fluid geography of fluid might result in changes to the underlying nature of society. In hunter gatherer days, dissenters could simply walk to a different part of the environment. Farmer's fields and defensive walls anchored people to particular pieces of land. If everyone lived in mobile floating habitats, everyone would be free to move. This is quite likely to change the nature of government.

You also get this in a Dyson Swarm, but there's a matter of scale. A minimum viable space colony is likely to be larger and more expensive than a minimum viable floating Venusian compound.
This looks good. Will evaluate it today. Thanks
I am. Really enjoying it!
Of course. Symptoms: gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, mental slowness/fuzziness (I was always saying "sorry, I'm really out of it today"). Symptoms could last anywhere from 12-48 hours, and usually the onset of the symptoms was around 4-8 hours.
The biggest problem is when you combine intrusive massive surveillance with a ultra-powerful entity that can be capricious, malicious, and often abuses and punishes its underlings.

I am not so worried about that as I am about the cost. Consider: You could always get the dirt on someone if you were willing to drop a few grand on a private dick. That created a bit of friction - you had to really want to get at that person. But what if you can get all the dirt you could ever use for just $1, or some trivial cost? Someone so inclined could go on a fishing expedition on a whim. Your HR department could routinely do everyone in the company, and every supplier and customer, because why not? That's the way this will be weaponized.
Exaggeratedly credited so. While the works of some scholars in the Moslem world did contribute to the preliminary path towards the European Renaissance, their contribution was neither essential nor crucial. Byzantine monks and scholars regularly traveled and taught in Europe over the entire duration of the Eastern Roman Empire. For example, one of the first archbishops of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus (602-690), was a Greek educated in Byzantium.

The rediscovery and veneration of Ancient Greek philosophy and science was not caused by a new-found ability to read Ancient Greek texts -- but by a new inclination to respect reason, which had last reigned in full glory during Ancient Greece.

Reference: "The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, and Latin Scholars who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance"
1958.. The more you dig into th history of nutrition the more you realise there was two parallel tracts. The one that won public opinion (low fat/high carb) has pretty much contributed to an epidemic. Recommend the book “the big fat surprise” by Nina Teicholz on the topic.
You're spot on in pointing that out. There is one problem with that however.

The Federal Reserve system is directly supported by the economic output of the entire US and the taxing power of the US Government (it's further supported by the vast global demand for dollars and the dollar as the global reserve currency; that global reserve status can be further ensured by the US military). For example, if US budget deficits get too great, requiring support in the form of QE by the Fed, which then causes the dollar's value to drop, the US Congress can increase taxes to lower or eliminate the budget deficit. A healthy US economy is critical to supporting the Fed's abilities as it pertains to the USD. All of the Fed's actions and all of the things the Fed can buy, are directly linked to the US economy.

You can certainly print incredibly vast quantities of fiat - that won't help you at all if your economy is toast, if people don't fundamentally believe in what backs the currency, just ask Venezuela or Zimbabwe. When the Fed debases the dollar, what they're doing is taxing the wealth & economic output of the US economy, not solely manufacturing value out of nothing, they're spliting off value from an existing economy (and to a lesser extent global economic value from eg dollars & commodities held overseas).

Absolutely nothing like that exists for Bitcoin.
Ok, that's pretty cool. Thanks - had a quick scan of the page but didn't see that.
Thank you, I'm glad someone noticed that.
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I definitely admit it's a simplification that won't fit every scenario. It just turns out to be pretty apt for my web experience personally.

Maybe another way to put it is that I don't mind enabling and loading JS for a site where interactivity is clearly core functionality, but if it's essentially serving text, then a JS-heavy design feels like it's working against the user, not for the user.
I really think the lesson is one of competition. Without it, we'd never have the V2, and even if we did have the V2 we would still never have had the Saturn rockets. The Russians would never have developed the RD-180, and so SpaceX and BO would never exist.
Yea, firefox has profiles as well. Containers are different and apply your browsing context based on the tab. Super useful, you can also configure sites to open in a certain container.

I do wish I could just pin an entire window to a container, but overall the flexibility is worth it. (I abhor having more than one window open per app at a time.)
I’m saying I can hardly support a regime by virtue of not caring about politics.

A new born child doesn’t understand and can’t care about politics. Would you say this child supports the ruling party? Never mind whether politics affects the child or vice versa.
Are you equating a firearm registration system with a fascist database of a minority religion?
> it's quite technical and requires a lot of knowledge about node and HTML/CSS

HTML/CSS are already something with massive widespread know-how and insane numbers of online resources. That's a huge deal. This takes every web developer and makes them a cross-platform desktop app developer with no additional learning.