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>>Mozilla's biggest screw up IMO was failing to disclose properly what was going on.

That was not the only issue

1. Failure to Disclose it before distribution

2. Failure to Properly name or provide any support context to the Add In.

3. Using the "Studies" System designed to improve the technology and advance the web browser for this Adware "Easter egg" not really an Easter egg addin

4. Failure to Publicly Comment about it until a full 72 hours after concerns were raised

5. Deleting and Hiding Bug Reports about the Addin in Bugzilla

6. Failure to adequately respond, apologize, or explain why and how the Studies system was used to distribute this Adware, There blog post so far is woefully inadequate.

7. Failure to disclose what steps are being taken immediately to ensure the Studies system is not abused in this manner in the future

Should I go on? There were many many many failures here, which are compounded by the many other failures Mozilla has had over the last few years.
> At one point in my life, a person showing up wearing a suit was a big warning (e.g. government worker)

If you really want to freak people out, wear business casual, put on a BRAND NEW clean high-visibility safety vest and fresh, clean hard hat without any stickers and show up to a major high-rise construction site with a clipboard and DSLR camera. Have done this a few times (planning fiber construction/riser paths).
"Fantasy is just as good as reality when it comes to T-Rex coloration".

Then let's go for plaid and gingham dinosaurs, like the pink elephants on parade!

It doesn't need to match reality, it needs to aid suspension of disbelief. If color choices make the audience say, "That looks so fake", it hurts the storytelling.
> WOW. Conspiracy was real the whole time!

No, because this is a new feature as of the iPhone 6. The conspiracy way predates that.
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Based on autopsy studies about one third of people who die from flu-related causes expire because the virus overwhelms the immune system; another third die from the immune response to secondary bacterial infections, usually in the lungs; and the remaining third perish due to the failure of one or more other organs.
> without wash trades to pump up its value, what good is bitcoin for??

Can you please explain in clear terms how a wash trade pushes up the value of bitcoin?

I can see it increasing the volume but not the value.
Can't really compare lotto tickets to loot boxes. Even the most invested player knows it's just digital items they win.

Winning the lottery can change the course of life in a dramatic way, thus making the extreme low odds justifiable for lotto players.
Man, this is 2002 all over again with everyone treating IE6 as if it were the standard.
it's absolutely my bad -- when you have been doing this for 4 years, and a team works incredibly hard to do a trade that makes a lot of sense, seeing comments like i've seen here on this thread just straight up hurts. and again, i simply cannot share certain pieces of information. i would literally go to jail, so it's frustrating to see the stuff that is posted about us (and I'm a YC alum on top of that)
You and I may be compliant. The point is, most people won't.
I hope they will do the same with their cars. When the tires get old, just slow down the car to keep it safe. Having a light come up that tells me my car needs maintenance is so old school.
Somehow I am reminded of the lyrics "You spin me right round, right round, baby."

The spin, I feel, is that somehow being able to replace one's batteries is bad. Whereas having an iPhone with degraded performance and an expensive-to-replace battery is good.

You "bought a spare because you could" and "now it sits, waiting for you to recycle it", thus creating waste, but one can argue that anyone buying stuff they don't need creates waste, and that being able to replace one's phone battery isn't about saving the environment but saving one's hard-earned money.
Hey all, happy to answer your questions about Kubeflow on Ubuntu and our Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK).

(I work for Canonical)
Yeah, this is a real problem that I’ve had with devices in the past and as someone who doesn’t buy the hot new phone every year, I appreciate that Apple is taking steps to keep my 5S happy. That’s a commitment to long-term support that I would not expect from the average Android phone vendor.
No, it's a fact, and a very simple one.

The economy is very intertwined, with the banks at the centre.

If they start to go down - everything starts to do down.

It's as factual as saying if you choke and engine of oxygen, that it will stop burning.

It's simple cause and effect.

Yes - we understand very well the long-long term moral dilemma of 'too big to fail' - this is a well known issue.

And as I mentioned it was 'viciously unfair' - by the way - when the Fed absorbed those mortgages, they were saving millions of American homeowners as well.

A 'market correction' would have implied massive foreclosure across the US.

The 'winners' of the bailout were Banks AND those who owned homes. ALL American home values were propped up.

the 'losers' of the action were non-property owners.

'The more debt' people were carrying, specifically, 'mortgage debt' - the 'more free money' got from the Feds actions.
Mac laptops actually used to work in a similar way, however I'm not sure if that is still the case.

If you had a dead battery (or no battery), your CPU frequency would be limited because the AC adapter could not supply enough power on it's own

The link is dead, but it was documented on Apple's support site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2332
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That isn't correct. Try the new mobile Firefox.

Buying Pocket signalled that if you can take the right Mozillan to lunch, you can get an early exit. That did not solve the problem.

It's still impossible to remove Pocket.
Hangouts calls didn't work for me today on FF. Possibly fixed on beta channel?

This would really help me switch.
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There's a difference between behavior and speech, though it can become a fuzzy line (is a large donation behavior or speech?).

One thing some of the comments have touched on is the notion of "beyond the pale" - a term that somewhat ironically (for this discussion) refers to occurrences outside the bounds of British law. There are opinions that fall outside the standards of decency, and this can, legitimately, make organizations reluctant to work with some people.

Many issue positions, over time, can go from widely accepted, to controversial, to widely discredited, to beyond the pale, essentially and uncontroversially indecent. If this is the case, it's almost certain that we're going through this process right now. Unfortunately, there is also a strong political tendency to scold and smear and be as uncharitable as possible to the other side. In aggregate, people get accused of being on the "wrong side of history" at least twice as often as they actually are, since these accusations go in both directions on virtually every controversial topic.
>There is no way someone's skin color, in isolation, can impact me.

That is empirically false, and one's skin color is never in isolation so its irrelevant. Everyone is subject to unconscious implicit bias (not just racial). http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40124781
Come now, Zuckerberg doesn't even need public office. He's more powerful where he is now than he could ever be in an elected position. Just based on the information in the article, he could offer technical embeds to campaigns he likes and ignore the ones he doesn't, or provide them with a much smaller degree of assistance, with no one the wiser. I don't think there's a single person in the world with as much potential to impact elections and policy choices as Zuckerberg today.
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It wouldn't. It would obviously increase the lifespan of it.

The spinsters are deliberately confusing "lifespan" with "resale value".
I miss them too, though less than I did in the period between when people started locking down Wi-Fi and when mobile data became cheap.

Anyway, this is just yet another example of computing getting worse the more money there is to be made in it from mainstream use.
It is replaceable (by Apple, authorized and unauthorized third parties). User replaceable batteries could increase waste by being less reliable overall. I know every TV remote I've owned with a battery door eventually ends up with a rubber band around it, and I think that's pretty much a universal experience.

Also we've had this debate for years already when Apple went to unibody Macbooks. The reliability and battery life only increased because of the better structural integrity and increased room for battery cells.
> Within a community, individuals should only be judged based on their contributions and value within that community.

I would add that for contributions outside of the community, they should be judged if they relate to that community.

For instance, if a a security expert, goes out to conferences telling people to use MFA, but privately tells people not to use it because it is "too complicated" that person would rightly be judged by the community. (Note: I mean they regularly make that reccomendation privately, not a one-off because they don't want to tell their grandparent to use MFA).

> The Mozilla CEO fired for his personal donation in opposition to gay marriage. (Again, completely irrelevant to his relationship with the Mozilla project).

This is complicated for roles like CEO, they don't have a specific _technical_ role. Their role is the define the vision and direction of the company. I believe that part of the CEO job to define the values and mores for the organization, if this is wrong, let me know as that is kind of fundamental to my point.

In that case, wouldn't it be right that that a CEO is fired for their values? Their values and what they want is the reason a CEO was hired at an organization. If the CEO's personal values do not match the values for the organization, it's a bad fit and they should part ways.
> Mild inflation is useful on the macro scale

I know this is mainstream economics but if you're an engineer you should ask "What is mild inflation? Where is the limit? What are the forces that equilibrate mild inflation" I know the theory behind it but it just doesn't make sense. Have you ever thought about why tech hardware thrives, yet we have heavy deflation? Should we put price controls there? Do you realize that whenever a big problem is solved (via the wheel, factories, cars, ...) the stuff deflates heavily? There are other theories out there that make much more sense than what is mainstream.

> Further more, on a currency level, devaluing your currency makes your exports cheaper.

Same here, following your advice everyone should devalue his currency, trying to outcompete other devaluing currencies. So how can we explain that Germany with its strong mark was such an economic power given the absence of mild inflation and currency devaluation?

Finally and again, you think that printing a piece of paper (money) solves a problem? So we get "something for nothing"?

If you want to know an alternative (and IMO much more consistent) view, read "Economics in One Lesson" by H. Hazlitt. Yes, the one that is 60 years old.
And enabling the "studies" thing without my permission, which they did.
I decided to give Firefox Developer Edition a try a few weeks ago. Been pretty happy with it, with no plans to switch back.
Chrome is the de facto standard at this time and all of the irrelevant, hyperbolic nitpicking and dubious conjecture isn't going to change that.

But here's a thought: WebKit and Chromium (and Blink) are open source, so maybe don't worry about it?

Furthermore, if all browsers don't work the same then that's a problem for developers. If we can't have that - I'd rather see just one browser engine in use by the majority like what we have now with WebKit. It makes my life easier.

Don't we have more important things to worry about than competition between web browser apps?
Someone posted answer recommending the OpenEMR project, but now I can't see it anymore. Maybe they decided to delete it for some reason? Anyway, I think the project's aims are commendable:

OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. ONC certified with international usage, OpenEMR's goal is a superior alternative to its proprietary counterparts. With passionate volunteers and contributors dedicated to guarding OpenEMR's status as a free, open source software solution for medical practices with a commitment to openness, kindness and cooperation.

http://open-emr.org/
Advice from a longer-time user: browse your instance's federated timeline and follow lots (way more than you would on Twitter!) of interesting people from there. You'll soon start seeing the stuff they promote and finding new users to follow.

Non-users: the federated timeline is basically the union of all users followed by anybody on your instance. If I follow {a,b,c} and you follow {b,c,d}, the federated timeline will have all toots from {a,b,c,d}. This timeline is also what gives instances their "feel". If you're on an instance with a lot of geeks, they'll probably follow a lot of other geeks, and the federated timeline will have lots of geekness. Same for s/geek/cat lover/ or witch or activist.
What about flow-based programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming)? How would you argue (or not argue) that differs from microservices? When would you advocate for a monolith first vs building one tool that does one thing and does it well and then pipes its output into another tool?
Yea but I also like getting paid more and adding a feature to something like React or Node would pretty much put you in the upper echelon of JS developers most companies will hire.

Also if you're switching to new frameworks and languages, doing open source will open up your career opportunities.
Shadowing can be useful if you want to make sure the "old" variable is never referenced again in the same scope.

The reason why this idiom feels "weird" is that the loop construct of the language really ought to automatically make a fresh instance of the loop counter for each trip through the loop.
A large part of it is certainly my personal preferences. And even if Material were itself good, completely disregarding the UI pattern the rest of the phone follows in your apps to implement your own is still going to be jarring.

But I always come back to Material's "Up" button when asked for an example: https://material.io/guidelines/patterns/navigation.html#navi...
Neuroevolution is nothing new. I don't know why people think this is something big/innovative.
Let's get real here, they did this to reduce battery related warranty claims.
Wool (Silo series)

https://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-Kindle-Motion-Silo-ebook...
I never said anything about not spending it. Clearly though if you bring money over to USD, it's quite visible and taxable. To be honest, I don't know what your point is.

If I make 50k/y and buy a 2.5m house with cash, the gov is going to ask me where it came from too. What's this have to do with my comment questioning the governments ability to track anonymous coins?

Anonymous coins _(if working properly)_ are effectively the same as cash. So the same concepts and limitations apply regarding the governments taxation on it. No?
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>>"[..] the situation in Russia, and lots of people getting the information from government channels [..]"
> It's not only people getting the information from government.

Getting the majority of information through government media is widely known as not necessary to having the populace think exactly how the government wants it to. In fact, an independent/private media can be more pro government than a government stated media, extremely well known paradox.

Look no further than the united states and make a very simple exercice: pick a random media of just any political stance, pick a random foreign policy or national security topic and count the number of times you dont see gospel of the state department.
Growth has been completely gamed already. Just look at most startups.
This is key. It's one thing to have creative staff that lean left, it's another for the injection of political propaganda to be the product itself. In that case, there's incentive for ever increasing amounts of propaganda (until it becomes so omnipresent that there's no marginal benefit to the buyer to having more of it, which would be pretty dystopian).
You can replace it an an Apple Store for $79.
Had the battery in my iPhone SE replaced about an hour ago to test this out

Geekbench 4 benchmark before
https://twitter.com/invisiblea/status/943439761066397696

And after
https://twitter.com/invisiblea/status/943891561661812736
It's just another nail in the coffin. OS upgrades requiring more CPU usage, the lack of repair-ability, dying batteries, and now this CPU tweak.

It's pretty obvious what apple is doing. We need a law to make them stop or at least one which requires them to declare in obvious language about the things that reduce the functioning of their devices over time.
This seems to be inaccurate. The twins could choose to simply sell the private key in a private transaction. Assuming they didn't create one wallet with 50,000 bitcoin, they could even sell portions. This gets them paid AND puts the onus for moving the coins to a new address on the new owner. They could exit in 5 minutes if another billionaire wanted their coins bad enough.
I guess that means all Samsung phones ("not sure which ones") are inferior to Apple phones, hm? ;)
Yeah. Yet, sites like Seamless glitch horribly in Firefox, and their tech support answers "try it in Chrome". Very annoying.
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China enacted a law in May which requires games selling loot boxes to reveal the odds.[1] This new Apple policy will help their compliance. I don’t recall a “do you have loot boxes with unpublished odds” check box anywhere in my iOS app information, so it seems that Apple needed to do something to filter offenders from appearing in the Chinese app store.

[1] https://zhugeex.com/2016/12/chinas-new-online-gaming-regulat...
did you upgrade from a version prior to 10.2? apparently that was when this was implemented
When you will end up with monopoly it will become a problem. No one says chrome should be regulated, but for one I would like developers to test their applications in other browsers, at least Firefox and Edge.
A lot easier said than done. Plus not even sure if Apple cares to catch up. But Google is also running so fast and now putting SDC on the road collecting more data it is hard to see Apple ever catching up.
scifi: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/columbus-day/

nonfic: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/data-science-from-scratch/

fiction: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/everyone-burns/

Here is my full list: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/
It's really exactly like email, though. If you're currently user@gmail.com but you want to switch to user@outlook.com, you'll have to notify all your contacts to start using your new address. At least in Mastodon you can update your @user@instance-a profile to say that you've now moved to @user@instance-b so that your followers know where to find you.
Can't resize windows yet, but nice start! I look forward to cluttering up my monitor with intermediate folders leading to various leaves. :)
> Why? This answer is most common one and always puzzled me.

If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

I used to contribute to an OSS project and there were a lot of times where the devs and users had differing opinions on how a feature should work.
this. Most of us encounter problems i.e. bugs, software we wish existed but doesn't - and then solve them through programming. We'd like to see the solutions get out and help other people too if they care to be helped, but I don't think that's a major motivating factor for many of us (not me at least).

Maybe I'm a grumpy old man at this point, but this whole post just felt to me like a distasteful marketing ploy which goes against the whole sentiment of open source IMHO, which is to solve problems share your solutions and let everyone do what they want with it - not to try to get X followers or foster the biggest community around a new slideshow plugin you just built.
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>>I’ve found a lot of people are quite naively idealistic around browser development.

So it is naive to hold a Non-Profit to their foundational mission statement and goal? Their Manfeisto?

Mozilla is not, or rather used to not be, just a For-Profit Software firm making a browser. They were a Non-Profit Foundation started to advance ideological and philosophical ideas, namely Open Web Standards and Access for all.

It seems like you are perfectly find with Losing the Mozilla Foundation, and replacing it with Mozilla Corporation the software developers that make a commercial browser.

Maybe FireFox 60 should just go closed source and charge $40 a download
I'm not inventing anything.

And why would it be outdated if it works, and we (US) aren't using it.
I think you misunderstood me. The Pocket integration in Firefox does literally nothing (not even a single network request) if you don't actively try to use it. So by "remove Pocket" or "disable Pocket" all you really mean is "hide the icon" because there really is no difference.
That reminds me of Novint (who made the Falcon haptic interface) inventing haptic copyright licenses and then buying exclusive rights from game companies for ~$40,000 each. http://www.hawkassociates.com/clients/press/full_news.cfm?cl...
yes, this is the part that bugs me.

they solved the privacy concern in a very awkward manner (via acquisition) but not the user choice concern. it is impossible to believe that pocket is so integrated into the codebase that it cannot live as a removable addon. it was an addonafter all. fwiw, firefox sync should also be a removable addon.

i am fine with mozilla installing these as removable addons at major version upgrades. i am not fine with silently side-loading and permanent non-removable integration. i need my tools to be secure, reliable and predictable.
I'm well aware of implicit bias, and making a totally orthogonal statement.

I'm specifically talking about how another person's skin color would affect me, not how I might change my behavior of them based on their skin color. Their skin color does not affect me. Their skin color might affect how I treat them, and my skin color might affect how they treat me, but their skin color does not affect me.
I don't really see a problem here. Facebook is providing training/guidance to customers on how to use it's software platform. Every other advertising platform allows political organizations, so why should Facebook be any different.
Inflammation seems to be at fault for a whole host of huge medical problems.

The problem is that this is not illuminating. It's like saying that the reason your car blew a rod is because it had no oil in it.

Okay, cool, but why didn't it have oil?

Inflammation is the body's first step in "repairing" a problem. Often times, like with cancer, the body fucks up the repair. So inflammation "causes" so many disorders, but what causes the inflammation?

Saying inflammation causes anything is seemingly clickbait at this point.
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Standards don't matter, interoperability and openness are what matter. Standards are a means to that, but it's perfectly ok for one vendor to add features and do experiments, that is how progress is made, deviation/extension, adoption, analysis, and finally after all of that standardization. A standard without vendors pushing the limits is the hallmark of a dead technology.