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Admittedly, I'm only 30 so I was an angsty teen who blindly opposed it and everything the Bush administration did. I've only recently been starting to rebuild some faith in government (what a time to do so).

> US disregarded that and still decided to invade. No one had a single doubt that this was about oil.

I remember that being what everyone cried in opposition to the war with Iraq but I never understood it. How did oil factor into the war?
A warhead can be as small as a hundred kilograms. An ICBM weights several tens of tons. I think this is a non issue.
I've never actually seen one, I deny all of them, because I've never thought to myself, that they could possibly be useful.

To me,
They are an annoyance.
I become suspicious of any site wanting me to accept them.

I would disable this feature globally if I could (or cared enough to figure out how.)
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Yes, one silly mistake would not be so bad. But they also ramped up their telemetry and also installed cliqz.

Three strikes... and I'm using Safari, because this seems to be the least bad right now. Pretty lame from Mozilla.

Edit: forgot about Pocket.
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The news feed is terrible. On Facebook or on Twitter. I don't like unfollowing people, but I have on occasion unfollowed people that post too often. For some reason, Facebook thinks I need to see all of these posts, and drowns out other stuff in my news feed. I've missed congratulating friends on getting married, having a kid, getting a degree or sending my condolences on the death of a loved one. It's terrible, that these people who post less often, but post only the bigger things in their lives get drowned out by Facebook's algorithms. I'd infact want it the other way around. The folks who post often should simply be treated as fillers.

Finally there's the bugs in facebook that randomly causes my feed to refresh. And on these refreshes, I'm shown an entirely new/different feed. Maybe Facebook thought they showed me a post, but the bug and auto page refreshes caused me to miss that certain post.
I allow them for a very small and selective number of sites that I mostly trust. For me this is a pretty high bar. I have three sites whitelisted right now.

Conditions to be whitelisted:

1) I have been using your site for years.

2) Your site has timely important information in my specific field of interest.

3) Your site doesn't engage in monetization practices that lead to a poor user experience (ads that pop over or otherwise interrupt the articles, self-playing audio, self-resizing ads, begging for account creation, etc.)

4) Of all the existing sites on this topic, yours needs to be the best one (proven with many years track record).

Has your site been around for many years?

99.99% of the time I would deny them and consider even the request to be a rude annoyance. If your site is not in the top 1% of long-established quality sites, you shouldn't even request the permission imho.
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To be fair, this was part of a hint in a scavenger hunt, so being opaque is pretty much required in that context.

Did it actually display an ad? I didn't see anything such on my Firefox.
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The issue with NK, as with virtually all international issues as regards our country, is the zeal those who run the country have for global military empire - US(NATO) global hegemony. China (understandably) does not want, and will not allow US troops to mass on their border. As long as South Korea remains a client state of the US(NATO) with tens of thousands of US troops, multiple bases, missiles, bombers, ships, and anti-missile batteries stationed there, the Chinese will do everything in their power to support the survival of North Korean regime as a buffer, no matter how insane or dangerous NK is described as being (or actually is). For the Chinese, it is far more dangerous to have US(NATO) forces, that(unlike North Korea) have proven their willingness to invade and topple governments resistant to their policy of global hegemony.

The simple truth is that we decimated Korea, a country on the other side of the world, with horrific bombings, an invasion and subsequent occupation that has lasted for over half a century (and which continues to this very day). The bifurcation of the Koreas was (and remains) the direct result of our military adventures. Our "ally" South Korea was a military dictatorship until well into the 1980s. Unfortunately not 1 in 100 Americans could find Korea on a map, let alone describe the history of our involvement there. Consequently, its very easy to paint the North Koreans as some sort of unhinged bunch of lunatics that simply "hate us for our freedoms" rather than for atrocities we actually committed. This lack of understanding and ignorance of history is what allows the "bipartisan" war party of Democrats and Republicans in Congress to paint opponents of war and advocates of peace as "Russian propagandists".

We stand on the edge of what could very well be a civilization-ending war (in more than one place) while most Americans nod dully, with glazed over eyes, uncritically accepting government propaganda as gospel. In the not-so-recent past I was chided by the owner of HN for quoting Goebbels to describe the tactics of our government and the ignorance of our people, but silence is complicity. The North Korea situation (like the "Russia conspiracy") once again demands its recitation:

Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship…

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
This is a great answer, thanks!
I'm currently working on a programming language (Lily. See this name on github), and this is really helpful. I've been thinking about adding debugging support, and this will help a lot toward doing that.
Maybe it was a physics professor.
If the only idea you have for non-fragmented is Facebook, ok, but I can imagine many other things that are useful, far better than Facebook and nothing like it.
How did it break user trust? I mean, I see that some people are unhappy, and I can't say that this stuff was thoroughly thought out, but this was an add-on whose only effect on user's computer was... nothing, by design, unless you opted-in.
Well that explains why i found their initial show ad off putting, and likely why i have found the valley "way" less and less appealing. Activism of that sort rarely bring anything more than hot air and bad blood.
You can do better than that. Please don't post like this to HN.
Only slightly worse. Technically, kernel will sometimes swap out live executable code unless you set swappiness to 0.
This makes performance completely unpredictable under load.

Kernel does not "expect" things, the defaults are just heuristics not failing to malloc past amount of ram you have.
This causes all of the mentioned behaviour.
Apps allocating too big RSS for instance, deferring GC and heap compaction too late causing kernel to unload executable code.

And once you really run out of RAM, even on fast SSD swap will kill any performance. Unless you're using only hugepages.
It is pretty outrageous to have one's computer and information be at the mercy of every software developer out there who thinks it's their divine right to collect information about you and how you use their product, to force install software on your computer and generally treat you - the customer - with contempt.

So yes, people will be outraged.

We're sick of being taken advantage of by dishonest companies and individuals because the US privacy laws are a complete joke.
But to "just" outlast the wave, you actually need a sound business plan with margins that can survive an industry crisis. Most players are not even close to that and are living at the mercy of their investors.
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I fully understand and empathize with the reaction that has happened and now that Mozilla (my employer) has a statement apologizing and committing to a public post-mortem (which I fully support) to the folks who are raising issues with the timing and sequence of events leading up to the response itself since Friday (I won't comment on the incident itself, since that's the job of the post-mortem) I wanted to mention one thing that may help add some human perspective:

Mozilla is a distributed organization and was on the last day of its in-person, week-long, bi-yearly all-hands meeting in Austin on Friday when this started. At the time, and through large parts of Saturday, many Mozillians were in last-minute meetings, airports, in the air, or on the road, and were all concluding a week's worth of meetings where everyone was getting face time with collaborators and hashing out in person what we're doing for the next 6 months.

I was not involved, but you can imagine that when trying to decide what to do in response to something like this that many people need to coordinate. So it was a bit of a perfect storm of having tired humans, many of whom were in and out of internet access, etc.

edit: I fully understand the frustrated replies -- as I mentioned I personally feel that the reaction by the community to what happened was justified -- I wrote this not to comment on what happened (as noted in the post, Mozilla has publicly committed to a post-mortem) but wanted to provide this info about this unfolding when a lot of people were traveling, etc. I was happy and thankful to see this posted today and our rollback of the add-on over the weekend and hope that the follow-ups planned help us learn and move forward in a way that the community supports.
Outside of the man thing, and it was promptly fixed when found to interfere with usage, those things are passive things that one have to know the source for to pick up on.

This "extension" would be actively modifying pages based on triggers, behavior more akin to malware.
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Is there a possibility this could fall afoul of antitrust laws or be deemed monopolistic behaviour? What are the legal considerations here?
> You can begin to notice symptoms of DKA in as little as 24 hours, and high acuity incidents can happen with a matter of days to a week or so.

Interesting. Can they really develop in a single day starting from a "normal" BG level, without a longer period of elevated BG beforehand?

I guess I should have also been more precise in my comment. I was mostly referring to the severe form where actual coma can occur. Still, I'm surprised it can develop in only a couple of days.

Thanks. I definitely appreciate the correction.
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Please verify sources before spreading this information, this is uncorroborated tweet by one person, who is supposedly posting an email his co-worker got.

The message is filled with grammatical errors, and list "trillian" as an app generator.

Lastly, it says early 2019 not 2018.
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Weird, I haven't been to those places

Most places (bars), they fill a standard measure and pour that onto the glass, which fill it up to the aforementioned 1/4th of the glass

Or they give you a standard small wine bottle
1. NK has boats
2. Boats sail across oceans
3. Bombs fit on boats
Ethical software development needs to be taught in schools, because the level of discourse here is dismaying.

It is NOT ok to force install marketing/advertising content on somebody's conputer. Not ok, can you understand that?

It does not matter if the content is open source, who developed it or where or how it was announced.

And in this matter they HAVE to be perfect. It's not hard. Someone should sign off on features and block any silly marketing or advertising stunts. Not rocket science.
Silicon Valley should welcome the scrutiny
For those outside the US, like me:

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44oz ≈ 1301mL

64oz ≈ 1893mL

128oz ≈ 3785mL

In America, are these labelled as multiple servings? Even a 500mL bottle of cola in Europe is labelled as two 250mL servings.
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Sooo... they build an mpd client?

cool, it's ages I toyed with ncmpc and QMPDClient
Firefox/Mozilla claims to be pro Net Neutrality, yet they pull this stunt running a promotion for a Comcast owned TV show, one of the biggest anti-NN lobbyists.
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Hmmm... I like your point but disagree a bit. The obituary thing, is something from the past, from a time where advertisement was not that pervasive. Also, it's not much used anymore (at least in my country). So I'd say the obituary in newspaper is not quite comparable to FB. FB is based on advertisement and on social information commercial exploitation. So I'd consider an obituary on FB to be more of a problem than on newspaper.

But, I suppose that if I die today, someone will post something on facebook (statistically, at least one of the person I know should use it for that; although I totally condemn FB (FB, not the social network thing))
Same here. At least (to me) it feels a bit more natural. I also eat an apple at half past ten, forcing myself to peel and cut the fruit and try to think about things unrelated to the current task.
And the FOSS world seems to have attracted a megaton of this myopia in recent years it seems. Victim of its own success?
Is that perhaps a standard proxy autoconfig setup that just happens to be distributed by a domain named for the configuration format (rather than a malicious proxy exploiting tld fallback)?
> 1) Demonstrated that Mozilla has the ability to silently push addons without any kind of notification to the user that their browser behavior has been patched.

Wait, did someone assume that Mozilla didn't have this ability? How did people think that they got security updates?

> 2) Demonstrated (allegedly) that there are privacy and security related preferences in Firefox that are reverting themselves to less-safe defaults without user interaction, aka Microsoft preferences.

If that's the case, it's a bug. Bugs happen. Regardless, doesn't seem happen

> 3) Demonstrated Mozilla's marketing department lacks the good sense to respect these capabilities for the loaded gun they are

Fair enough, to some extent.

> It's not about what they did, it's about what they could do. Mozilla doesn't need these tools, and these tools are dangerous. Why did they make them? Why shouldn't we ask Mozilla to remove them?

Wait, what? Why does Mozilla have tools to distribute code? Because Mozilla uses it regularly to fix issues. This has been the case since Firefox 1.0, I assume.

Why does Mozilla have tools that handles and/or updates and/or forgets preferences? Because preferences can't be handled anywhere else, since they are preferences for Mozilla tools. I haven't heard of preferences being force-changed until now, with the exception of fighting malware and switching stuff from experimental to mainstream. But, yeah, bugs happen.

Why does Mozilla have a marketing department? I assume that's not a real question.
For me it's a natural extension of my antiphishing/antiscam/antiadvertising responses. If a web site pops up a thing demanding access to a resource (credentials/credulity/attention) the response is automatically no.
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In its defense, git terminology is stupid. It took me way too long to reason out what the fuck a pull request meant. To your starting developer it seems to indicate the opposite of what it does.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War#Economic

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/the-wars-that-really-are...

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I read it as "nobody paid Mozilla". Did you understand something else?
Normally, yes. But in my case only between jobs when I can deal with the possible down time. Lessons learned and all that.
This is a longstanding issue with Telegram, and deceptive advertising that a lot of people have an issue with. They use client-server encryption sure, but unlike Signal or WhatsApp, they do not employ end-to-end encryption by default; you must enable it for two person chats, and it is not available for group chats. Unless something has changed, you get full chat history when you log in from a new device or are invited to a pre-existing group, meaning that the chat history is stored on their servers, and if not in plain text it can be unencrypted for new group members or devices.
The US and UK currently control 35% of the oil reserves in Iraq, and US/UK companies made huge amounts of money rebuilding the infrastructure destroyed in both wars.
Good read. I used to blog very regularly years ago, but since the end of Google Reader and the growing popularity of Facebook and Twitter, I’ve been blogging less and less. Always wanted to pick it up again.

Anyway, this caught my attention:

> Since starting a normal job (haha) it’s gotten harder to write on Sunday evenings, since that’s when the work email starts

Don’t do this to yourself.
Even if they can’t hit continental US soil per se there are US bases in South Korea and Japan with many civilian residents.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/brenda...

Eich did everything he could to conceal that his libertarian image was a facade and in fact he was a social authoritarian.

Once it came out he was actively using his money on political campaigns designed to try and further empower and justify the state to decide what relationships between consenting adults was forbidden, he had a rather hard time being taken seriously in this area.

I'm not sure why someone who's actively and monetarily supported politicians saying homosexuals should have to register in a special registry parallel to the sex offender registry is being taken seriously in the privacy arena. Privacy is not something that can be decomposed as an asset to purchase. Every person who doesn't have it leaks information about the people they interact with, and that undermines privacy for everyone.
In the end they are both symptoms of a tone deaf management that think that their world view is the majority world view...
Hate to be grammar police, but 3x it’s -> its. Can read over it once, but the third time becomes annoying.
Could you elaborate about FEOL and BEOL?

Do those correspond to the most base layers of structure creation and modification on a chip and then the larger structured interconnect layers that get added later respectively?
And second, I can often see how much energy it would take to get good at the new thing, and knowing that I won't be able to put in that energy, it's better to not start in the first place.
I just don't think you see the net neutrality debate from the stance of someone that had shit internet for 10 years and could nothing about it because there were zero local competitors. And this is the norm nowadays, more than 50% of Americans have a single option for high speed home internet. DoJ enforcement is directly related to to introduction of net neutrality law. They couldn't get ISP's to compete effectively anymore.

Considering 4g just muddies the waters because there's no way we'll ever be able to provide the data allocations needed to make a realistic competitor. There's a good reason wireless has data-caps, it's all about limited spectrum. 4G/5G/wireless is, at this point and for the near future, a classic straw-man argument.

I was a lifelong moderate small-government republican until we elected the orange clown, and I still see telecom monopolies as a defiance of antitrust. Internet service is just as important and power or water hookups these days. It's a government utility and natural monopoly. The fact that we don't treat it that way is disturbing.
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Transistor counts are still climbing. These used to be more strongly correlated with performance, but these days it's different.

GPUs have seen exceptional gains generation to generation, ARM is absolutely on fire, and AMD just dropped a bomb with their Epyc server chips. Don't think it's dead yet. It just had a hangover from Intel getting drunk on success with the Core series of chips.
Meaning that someone in management didn't think to reconsider but instead doubled down on the established path.

Frankly that ship is out hunting some kind of white whale, and it is best people get out before it is too late.
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That's not my experience. Though the ones I know use primarily the Messenger, which is harder to distort.
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> The current ad-tech ecosystem is a complete disaster, and Eich's vision for replacing it is, I think, genius.

Eich's SALE of positioning his company as a gateway to all online advertising while spinning this as "pro-privacy" is indeed genius.

His actual vision of the product and the positioning of Brave as a controlling arbiter over all ads (and thus, as a central collection and monitoring point for data around ad consumption) is quite dystopian.

Nothing about logging our ad views to a publicly inspectable blockchain is in the interests of privacy. All it does is offer Eich's company an opportunity to make yet another skeezy ad platform with a new series of buzzwords. It will not be more difficult to game than any other browser, but it will sound impressive and current and gain ad buys.

And I submit that the inevitability of the ad network is itself a questionable notion when a more direct service economy is not only historically how things were done. That model faded as broadcast technology outpaced other IT, but as other IT caught up we've been seeing a return to direct-to-customer service models and these are outperforming ad models in some media markets.

It is not inherently a "blockchain" idea to sell off your time as ads in order to pay for your browser, and other folks are at least pretending to align their business model with user interests while building an information and attention economy (e.g., Steem)
It's irrelevant whether spyware is open source or it uses anonymisation techniques.

Installed without explicit consent + collecting data = spyware.