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There's no question that breaking backwards compatibility is eventually necessary. That doesn't mean Mozilla did a good job of handling this transition. They absolutely screwed a lot of their existing users, and without good reason. They have had no overlap between support for WebExtensions and XUL extensions. They've been marking XUL extensions as "Legacy" for months but prohibiting you from installing a WebExtension on anything prior to FF 57, forcing everyone to deal with jarring changes to all of their extensions at the same time.
> Some people say to switch to AMD processors, but that is not really a solution now. Ryzen is touted to be open, but that is not truly the case, there are still closed parts.

Can anyone elaborate please. How does AMD compare to Intel's problems with ME?
The licenses tradesmen carry also tend to be paired with some sort of insurance or bond to back up the fitness of their work. Were it my plumber's license and liability coverage, for example, I'd be hesitate to approve a sweated pipe weld just from video footage. And the market for cheap sonar/magnetic gadgetry or whatever for laypersons to inspect the welds on bathroom plumbing probably just isn't there.
There's a workaround, use mobile Safari.
Supply shortage of workers, plain and simple.

A. Takes time for new workers to be adequately trained.

B. Takes even longer to get people that have been raised to look down on the trades to change their worldview and all of a sudden consider working with their hands, no matter how much money is involved.
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> Why should Granny have to pay more on her internet connection to subsidize your Netflix addiction?

You've got it backwards. Granny and can I both pay per byte. We can even pay surge pricing based on congestion.

The question is this: why should I have to pay more for bytes from Netflix than Granny pays for bytes from Ravelry?
Garbage article with garbage headline.

One person expresses his political opinion.

Unworthy of HN.
You may vote one way and I will vote my way.

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the outcome".

I see no moral hazard in coercing people

and that's the problem. Coercion is inherently immoral as it denies agency, which is the very essence of humanity. Agency / self-control is the fundamental difference between being a human being, and being a piece of property.
There was an article on techdirt which outlined the aftermath of killing NN in Portugal. The ISP started splitting net into several packages.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNGlrABUIAAr9RO.jpg:large
Same guy who said the Hillary Clinton is the candidate of the war machine [1], and spent the entire election attacking her.

The headline is clickbait and not supported by the article, besides repeating an opinion. A more appropriate headline would be "guy who has a lot of negative things to say says something negative".

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-...
Hiding the tab bar to replace it with a full custom implementation, instead of modifying the stock tab bar? That might be reasonable, if APIs are sufficient to fully reimplement all features of stock, with no corners cut. If it's just "done, tab bar hidden, here is a sidebar for you to play in, have fun", then it would be full-on "the emperor's new extension API".
Low specificity and low sensitivity regarding whether drugs were ingested. This is not the same as measuring capability to work safely.
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Or worse the businesses decide to open shop abroad the jobs disappear from the local market
Good lord, this is just so.. _wrong_. What in the world gave you this idea?
You may be right, but I so dream of a serious competitor to air travel in the US. Flying is so expensive, inconsistent, uncomfortable, and stressful.

I've experienced missed connections/cancellations on roughly 1/3 of my flights over the last 5 years, only a handful of which were due to weather. Maintenance/software problems and operation bottlenecks accounted for the rest.

I hope some will look at this as an alternative to air travel because we desperately need it.
>It would raise taxes for nearly 50% of the US

Given 45% of Americans don't pay federal income tax, I am extremely skeptical of this claim.

https://nypost.com/2016/02/24/45-percent-of-americans-pay-no...

Are you suggesting that a tax cut is actually going to raise taxes for all but 5% of Americans?
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> "politically motivated and the title is intentionally written to incite outrage"

I'm getting the feeling that a title with 'wag{} war' is a good indication that is about to happen.
Someone posted an Ask HN the other day asking "What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?"

Mesh networking was mine. I really really wish this would happen.
Likely because they want to implement the minimum necessary HID spec (or, in a nicer tone, the HID spec with the most compatibility), which would be the one supported by the BIOS.
The problem with lobbying is that the people who can directly make money off their proposals have much bigger incentives to spend money on it than people who don't. So the telecoms will always have more money for it than consumers. Same for the medical system. Pharmaceutical have a lot more incentive to spend than people who want to save money.
Late, and very incomplete, despite the best efforts of the extension's author. It'll be months at a minimum before the missing features are restored.
I allready pay for bandwidth.
I'd imagine that it might be easier to directly patch the existing .exe rather than try to build it from source written in 2000 or earlier.
The sandbox model limits the ability of the user to interact with the contents loaded into the browser from a remote source. This is required for a robust implementation of DRM and a robust implementation of DRM is a goal for Mozilla.

The sandbox model necessary for DRM is what limits the power of web extensions. DRM priority is why the sandbox model cannot be turned off by the user. Making Netflix in Chrome low risk for Netflix is why the user is no longer allowed to control their browser.

The sales pitch for Quantum is that it is faster for media consumption. The developer pitch is that it is easier to write extensions for consuming content.
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How do you convince yourself that one of the(if not the) biggest government in the world forces a company's hand by force is not to blame, but the company who is the victim of such force is actually at fault.

Its an honest question.
That's why I specifically called out futures trading. From [1]:

> In the financial markets, options and futures are examples of zero-sum games, excluding transaction costs. For every person who gains on a contract, there is a counter-party who loses.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zero-sumgame.asp
Is keeping a rotting, black box binary responsible ?

Is introducing a whole new set of bugs responsible? After seventeen years, if there are any skeletons left they're going to be hard to find. And I'll betcha there's an individual (at a minimum) at Microsoft sitting there right now beating the hell out of that component with all manner of fuzzing and stack manipulation trying to tease out anything else that might have been missed.

Or we can rewrite it and hope we caught all of those weird edge cases, as well as replicated any bugs that downstream components might have come to rely upon. In the mean time, make sure not to introduce any new bugs or pull in any dependencies that might have new bugs. And make sure to test it on every version of Office for the last seventeen years. We still have those tests for Office 2000, right?
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True. Access (services) vs. censorship, you want to avoid the monopolies from restricting new access providers, but also don't want access providers from censoring the access.

The right wants isp/telcos to be able to bundle and offer more speeds/services. Assuming it won't censor.

The left assumes isp/telcos will offer services/bundles (tiers) but will censor its services/bundles. (Like it did with netflix.)

As most places have a monopolistic type access (or worse, no access) thats the primary cause for concern. Nobody loves their cableco. If we had a plethora of choices for internet access, that would be the cure for censorship.

But we don't. We are stuck at fighting censorship due to lack of access.
"Keeping track of which cell tower your phone is closest to is fundamental to cellular technology"

But breadcrumbing it and phoning home to the phone vendor/advertising company?
Yah, if you thought changing privacy settings in $big_company software would really be honored, I have a bridge to sell you.
Just so they can change again with the next administration?
> Consumers do not give a flying f!ck about this fight

I couldn't disagree more. Sure, I don't care whether Netflix or Verizon wins, but I care deeply that there isn't a situation that raises the cost of competing against Netflix/Prime/Hulu to the point where it's impossible to enter the market. Netflix should be hard to compete against because they have better content, not because they have better access to internet subscribers.
You can also restore the New Tab behavior you liked pre-Quantum by clicking on the gear in the top right-hand corner.
Looking past the financing question, all (major) telecommunications networks are built via eminent domain, and as such must necessarily serve the public good.
Upvote -- the sarcasm comes through when this is put into context.
Heck, they won't even quote you for Houston-Dallas. This is an improvement: they used to show a ridiculous two-day route connecting through San Antonio.

Amtrak in Texas (and most of the rest of the country outside the NW corridor) is set up as a cross-country sightseeing/nostalgia tour service. Sunset Limited (New Orleans to LA) runs three times a week. It's not meant for actual, you know, transportation. Really, they ought to fully embrace that and operate more like a cruise ship with day stops for sightseeing. An American version of a Rhine cruise.

Probably this is because they can't compete on either price or time with busses, planes, or cars. I think there's many city pairs in the country where center-to-center rail service at a price and speed between bus and air would work well, but I doubt that can be achieved on the freight rail network.
I read and watch a lot of CNBC. Just found the page "GOP plan will ultimately raise taxes on 50% of Americans: Tax Policy". The caveat is by 2027 50% of Americans.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/11/21/gop-plan-will-ultimate...
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Why the continuous personal jabs instead of just explaining something or contributing to the conversation in a positive manner?
"Sorry, someone cracked my password." Then kick the idiot off your wifi, just like you would deal with a bad house guest.
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I think the real problem is the world's richest are waging war on the upper middle class. They don't care about the poor, the poor don't have the cash to pay the bills and welfare is a rounding error expense.

The upper middle class has the dough to make up for the all the short fall created by the loop holes and off shore tax havens.

In short, the upper middle class should stop serving the rich and start undermining them.

</rant>
This is one of the biggest issues I have with it.
I close my browser (and all tabs, windows, and any instances of the same process) very frequently, and immediately after I'm done actively interacting with the page.

My point is, I highly doubt my browser usage pattern reflects the way the median user browses the web, and yet even my careful usage wasn't enough to keep Google from correlating enough data about my browsing's attributes (IP, sites visited, location info, logged-in geo-IP), and then expose that cross-bleed in my face.
Hence the growing disdain for globalization. It's a race to the bottom to see what country will provide the lowest wages and quality of life for its workers.
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I work IT in Springfield, MO. Most lower level positions here have been outsourced or centralized to a tech hub of the country, so to get an "entry level" position requires a four year degree plus a year or two of experience. IT contracting jobs also just pay $10-12/hr here.

> Or maybe you're just in a rural area?

It's rural compared to the big coastal cities, but is still the third biggest city in my state. IMO, it shouldn't just be giant cities that experience economic growth, it should be everyone. The fact that this hasn't been the case in my area leaves me and many in my area bitter about the state of the economy.

Relocation isn't an option. My family lives here, my wife's family lives here, she has a career started here, and we can't afford the massive amount of instability that a move to a high COL area would bring.

Feel free to ask more questions. The more that rich people hear from folks like me, the more they'll understand the current political climate.
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Why would posting about a product that was publicly available and advertised by a company be a conspiracy?
Not exactly sure what you mean by "detecting bias" - but we use statistical modelling on the reviewer history to infer whether a product contains too many incentivised/spammy/fishy reviews. If we do detect any fishy behavior, we warn the user about it.
From that wiki page:

> Some of the key goals of WebExtensions are that it’s not about changing the Firefox UI in the way we used to in legacy add-ons. There’s clear limitations we need to set. However there’s so much interest around tabs and tab groups.

So tab mix plus gets its APIs because people yelled hard enough, but vimperator won't?
Its called Regulatory Capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Are there performance numbers for this, on e.g. resnet-50?
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Just making sure I understand your argument. Is the following hypothetical in line with your thinking?

The important difference was if you agree with the administrations goals when they abuse power.

So if Obama spies on all American's private conversations, only to stop only totally evil child pornographers... that's ok.

But if future President Jeb Bush spies on all American's private conversations, in order to find Russian spies and retaliate against their countries interference in our election... that would be wrong.
I don't disagree that it's a depressing waste of existence to spend one's life keeping track of stuff. Especially if it's not even your stuff. But we've only had the computing power to take a load off us humans for a decade or two. And plus everyone needs a job (pointless or not) or the unemployment statistics start to freak people out. It's sort of the hand we've been dealt, the whole "let's work hard now for a better future we'll never see" thing.

I think the situation will improve dramatically when some of these crypto projects begin to mature. From what I can tell, blockchains are the opposite of lightweight, and personally I'm not holding my breath for one to become useful for anything besides profit anytime soon. I think something like IOTA is a better candidate to be useful (a fee-less directed acyclic graph, not a blockchain). It's more like a new communications protocol that will allow machines to conduct their own transactions with each other. The team's goal is to make it useful first, and if it's profitable too well that's great. Maybe I'm just not that creative anymore, but I can't see a production-quality future for blockchains, and would agree that giant PNW datacenters doing nothing but proof-of-work is a massive waste of resources.

That said, these are mostly just research projects hoping they have one of the big ideas that will win.
somehow I doubt that..it did not happen in these years...1991,1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996...notice that there is in fact a pattern...what will happen is that high speed bandwidth content might find other routes to our consumption
> ﻿﻿And that feels much more stable and architecturally stable as something to build on for the future. I'm prepared to give them a few releases to build on that and make it both fast and extensible.

This should also enable them to keep the extensions that use supported apis working between releases much easier. I remember the early days of firefox where any update meant that some random subset of your extensions would break because they were doing something to the UI that the devs didn't expect.
I can try.
Suspension of judgment: say a provocative crime has been committed and a news outlet reports on a suspect. - You should be emotionally prepared that new information could arise which explains even if not forgiving the actions of the suspect. e.g. A parent kidnapping their own child, and then it turns out that the other parent was abusing the child.

For taking stuff to the Xtreme, taxes is an approachable subject. Say if you have 100% tax rate, you might be looking at communism, but you might also look at a pirate ship where the captain divvies up the booty.
Another example would be the mental exercise of trying to figure out that maximum possible current through a conductor. Even superconductors suffer from magnetic pinching, but if you have ever seen a plasma globe at a science fair you might discover the magnetohydrodynamic phenomena of Alfven waves. - The taxes example is more direct than these about current, but I'd argue the physics discoveries are more interesting.

I very often see dogmatic beliefs in science. The mistake of 'taking the map for the terrain' is common. People will for example pick a favorite interpretation of quantum mechanics and then with complete conviction deny that effects predicted by other interpretations are worth looking for, because their interpretation excludes it. - Why try to travel around the globe? You will fall off the edge!
Figuring out that someone is making this mistake can be frustrating and time-consuming.

Counter-example takes the most creativity, and can be constructed to be too impenetrable. Recently I argued that if the cost of healthcare in the US would best represent the optimum quality, then countries with just as good service and universal healthcare too would be bankrupt.

For paradoxes, you can apparently find a very long list on Wikipedia. I don't remember ever having gone out specifically looking for paradoxes. I have encountered them during sessions of deep pondering as apparent contradictions where I expected none, so to me they are nameless.

Hope this helps! I might turn these two posts into an article... :o)
I guess the major issue I have with "value based pricing" is when a project is still evolving and most people would would traditionally have a better short-term option via a non-open tool. This would drive any funding opportunities from FLOSS work which may be significantly more beneficial in a more long term view. This might be just the behavior to expect, however.

Per the discussion on funding models, my favorite source for background is the research work which the (mostly dormant) snowdrift.coop project has done:

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi... and https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/history/software give you an idea on the other funding options out there which focus on spreading the cost across the users (similar to how many users were intended to make a bounty in bountysource grow). Each one has its own pitfalls.
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And? How does that matter? What's dangerous in them collecting my location information?

I actually have location history in google maps turned on deliberately. You can't imagine how often it helped me to know where I was exactly, one and a half year ago, at a precise time. (That's how I managed to get a copy of my nexus 5x's warranty papers after it died on me)

I don't really care about them collecting info about where I go, because it's actually useful for me. I probably would care if they were a small company with no record, but I do know that the worst Google can do is to target ads based on where I am.

I deeply hate ads, I prefer to pay, and I actually often pay the "no-ads" premium if it's available, but if I do get ads, I prefer them to be as personalized as they can possibly be, because this way they are at least mildly useful sometimes.
Is there an extension for 57+ that shows bookmarks in a tab?

I dislike all the window-based bookmarks, downloads, etc UI ("Library"). You have a world-class extensible customizable graphical user interface system right here in the middle of the browser, use it.
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And even with ARM (I'm not familiar with RISC-V), you're likely going to have binary blobs for critical drivers.
> The problem is that ISP shills that make these decisions don't care about public opposition

But they do care most about making money from the public and no one has convinced me that filtering internet packages by website makes any technical, marketing, or business model sense at all.

This has proven to be incredibly unpopular idea with the public for over a decade as well, whenever it has come up in the press. It wouldn't take much market research to see it's a terrible idea.

Plus the huge technical challenge of filtering at the ISP level... this would be a huge boon for encryption and VPNs as well.

No American ISP for the ~20yr timeframe before the FTC regulation was passed a few years ago had ever offered such an arrangement. Not to mention no ISP in any other country has offered anything close to that either. Plenty of American ISPs have said they have zero intention of doing it either.

This would be a boon to any ISP who DIDN'T do this. Competition, the technical hurdles, and obvious lack of business sense, etc has always been an adequate counter-balance to this idea.

So I'm a bit confused why this is generating so much FUD over such a highly hypothetical and hand wavy scenario... as if the only thing stopping them from doing it was this three year old FTC regulation.
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Or more likely they charge Netflix, Hulu etc exorbitant rates to peer with them or even carry their traffic.

This means Netflix has less money for content investment which helps their competition i.e. the same ISPs.
> And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar.

You have to understand that this is a pretty unusual concern. Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV, making vertical space very precious but leaving plenty of excess horizontal space that cannot be effectively used by the majority of web pages that only use a single column of text.
Curious if anyone knows how the kernel is tested?
Should get you to 720p.
It's not sarcasm, it's an honest conditional statement.