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Firefox bypasses right-click blocking when you press shift.

What it doesn't bypass is websites placing transparent things on top of what you wish to right-click on (for example images on Twitter). For that I use Stylus to add CSS and move things away.
I know but I still think the points 1 and 2 are pretty much the same for both countries.
I see your point. However, many things work in small countries like Switzerland where the population is more homogeneous and highly educated wouldn't work in large countries like the US with a more diverse population. Moreover, the tax rate is also quite different. Public transit like trains require tax money. However, car buying is more individual's decision. Unfortunately, raising taxes is quite unpopular in the US.
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Ukraine region not available any more: while "ua-uk" URL parameter is still mentioned on search params page[1], it's not working. I didn't get the answers on DDG forum (now closed in favor of reddit), neither on /r/duckduckgo. I suspect this could be connected somehow to Yandex block. Anyway, currently can't use DDG for local search, sad :(

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/params
Hi, sorry you haven't noticed any improvements. We've been chipping away at performance for the last 6 months and have made some pretty noticeable improvements in various areas of the application.

For example, the average response time of an issue page has come down from 2.5s to 750ms over the last 6 months.

We still have a lot to do, but we're getting there.
> To an American this is repulsive.

Did you know that all american investment banks do this?

You read "finnish bank" does X. You immediately assume that the key bit is "finnish", when it really is "bank". I submit that says a lot about how much you know about the world out there.
Were you writing functions/procedures under the implicit assumption that they would be executed under a single threaded context? Because Rust does not allow this assumption without using "unsafe". I've run into this before, and it can be a bit irritating, but if there's even a small chance you'll later want to execute the code in a multithreaded context, it will more than pay for the inconvenience. And if you're sure you won't, then you can just throw the data into an UnsafeCell and call it a day.
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You should actually go to China, go to Taiwan too to compare, and talk to people who had to leave and were granted refuge status in Canada. You might have a more nuanced understanding than “American
fud”.

Normally fud isn’t well documented:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
Compared to Scaleway, Scaleway gives you two vCPUs (not one) and 50GB storage (not 20GB) for their entry level cloud server, at around 3€/month.

URL: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

The problem with Scaleway is that they are working at capacity and are almost always out of stock.

They are expanding now (and are hiring!), https://blog.online.net/2017/11/13/scaleway-enters-a-new-gro...

The big difference between Hetzner and all the rest of the cloud servers, is that they start with 2GB RAM for their entry level packages.
Not really. You have to find a way to make the math real to your students or else it becomes just another exercise of "what set of words do I need to say in order to make the teacher happy". At least in my experience, most learning seems to be either incidental OR some sort of vestigial residue of the social component of making the system happy.
Raise your noses high, wrinkling in disgust on the users, who are unable to follow the unrealistic standards of safety measures and rules. All i demanded from them was to hop throgh a firey hoop- and they couldnt even do that!

Its a great way to stay out of responsibility as a security consultant or admin. Always trust for the users to poke the biggest hole, so you have something to point to when the water floats the ship.
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If you look at how Communist China treats minority populations as a blueprint, it's not encouraging.
His latest book, Dark State, has quite a bit of scary speculation on this as well. There's a depiction of a SWAT raid in it that's a fun read until you realize it's only a few years off from potential reality.
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radical!
Besides the Ubuntu updates I also installed the microcode update to the bios of my motherboard. What's the difference between the two?
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I use Gmail for most things. I also use ProtonMail, and I want to migrate things to there because I do care about my privacy but it seems to be too much hassle and I don't have enough time.
If I remember the article I read correctly, all restaurants must be within either 350 or 500 miles of a INO distribution center, and they only serve something like 50 per center (this from an article talking about them finally coming to Colorado with a distribution center and the first location down in the Springs, though Denver/Boulder have to be soon to follow).
> charge a wealthy person more since they can afford it. With GO franchise i could charge $20 for milk to the teacher pensioner backed by my tax dollars

You think teachers are wealthy? Dude,... get some experience with reality instead of believing b.s. you read online.
Amazon wants to be part of every financial transaction you make, and they realize that not everything can be done online.
If you don't need to raise capital, why go public at all?

I also think that Amazon is a really bad example. Not only are they growing at a phenomenal rate, but they have been profitable for a few years. The markets would not have tolerated their unprofitability if there wasn't also a pretty clear direction for becoming a profitable business.

Of course, the financial press does a terrible job of explaining these things.
>Anyone know what's up with that?

Volume.
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One interesting question about this is that of strategy. How will Amazon use this to strengthen it's power?

One possibility is of course building convenience stores. but the task is immense - there are 150K conevinence stores in the US, more globally. and they have only a limited window until competitors copy the tech.

So they will probably want to get the maximum strategic benefits in that time window.

And while licensing money is nice, that's not the best asset convenience stores has got. Their best asset is their location and their space. If Amazon get access to some of that, they could build a distribution network, maybe for grocery pickups, maybe at a global scale, and at a very fast growth rate.

And somewhere along this process, i suspect Amazon could convince or get enough power so that convenience store owners will partner with them, for example on selling Amazon private label.
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Problem A:

1) Install App on chrome

2) Do a search using the browser's address bar

3) A dialog with the text "is this the search engine you expected" appears.

4) Click the button to revert to previous settings.

5) App is now uninstalled.

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Problem B:

1) Install App on chrome

2) Go to chrome://settings/

3) Scroll to "Search engine used in the address bar"

4) Unable to change the settings as Chrome says "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is controlling this setting".

5) Click "Disable" in the hope that the app will still be installed but with a different default search engine.

6) Entire app is disabled.
OP said they have a kid. A place to stop on long trips, where the kid will be happy to get a kid's meal and go play at the play center, and let the parent(s) have a break to eat in quiet isolation? Totally worth crappy food on occasion.
That's a good history and makes a lot of sense. Thanks for being active in the community and for everything that DDG does!
Absolutely! Socialism, however, has its caveats and would destroy our current expectations of an economy.

We should instead be teaching the populace to abandon self, and be providing every single individual with sufficient means of survival for absolutely free: clean housing, nutritious food, purified water, and abundant electricity.

The extras can then be earned by performing extra civil duties.

"There is no such thing as a free lunch" ... as long as individuals are attached to their greed.
Yeah you'll want hypergraphs (or even better simplicial complexes) in general but you can make sense of manifolds as discrete objects. In fact I'm fairly sure you can triangulate any (smooth?) manifold.

The tangent space can be defined in terms of derivations, as soon as you define what a smooth function on the 'discrete' manifold should look like (you may have to define the derivative at a face, rather than a vertex, or have the function take values on faces rather than vertices).
It makes sense that the company wishes to avoid insider trading, but it doesn't make sense that the company is telling its employees to not commit a criminal offense. It should be obvious, and the disincentives by the company is nothing compared to huge fines and time in jail.
I'm so glad you put that 
 at the end. I definitely see them jumping to make those inroads. It's not hard to self operate this stuff now that distributed computing is cheaper (eg. $50 raspi 2018 = 10+ $2000 boxes 1998). How was Google built, lots of commodity hardware you say? Why can't a neighborhood watch-like group operate a p2p network of RasPis located in homes of volunteers, using enough replication and a signing policy with YubiKeys or something, and operating guides and maintenance kits? Self-promotion, I started working on something like this in Nov.

This morning I awoke to a map of my block covered in blue saying a warning had started 20 minutes ago, in a Facebook post from a foodie. I like to think those friendly warning sirens that blare at noon would tell me something, to begin with. Then those loud alerts that go to my phone no matter how many times I disable the setting. Then maybe text blast, granted I don't know all the ones I should be on. I just had a needless bpm added to my heart rate.

All notifications are disabled on my mobile except calls; much as people depend on them I won't let myself. Two days of disaster and everyone's battery is dead, along with ability to search the web for life skills and claim to have invented fire. Tangent, but for the doubters, I inspect routes before I drive and know my way around blind after just a few thousand miles in the city over 4 years (typical commuter is 10k/yr+). And literally nobody of consequence has complained about responding to things a few times per day in batches (around lunch, late afternoon/5).

People think I'm too intense, actually I think they're just addicts with no attention span. So one can see why I don't want to turn on Notifs for an advertising network in case there's something urgent. Oh hey, false alarm, buy some stuff and surrender some power... [just click here :D]
I was going for a clean presentation of a concept (and a gentle nudge in the direction of FP) in the article.

You raise important issues.

I would say, when you can, rewrite your code so you don't have to worry about such things.

Roll back everything under your control in the event of an error, and if there are side effects beyond your control isolate them at the end of the composition.

If two functions return the same exception, you can always wrap one of them so it returns a different one.

If a function needs it's own stand alone exception handling, do it in there.

If it really is necessary to know one could introduce some sort of monadic error handling that wraps up the results of all the functions including their place in the composition.

But really I would try to rewrite my code so that I wouldn't have to do that.
Thanks, glad you've noticed the improvements. We've still got more to do, but it's been an important part of every release for a while now.
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What a world we live in...
The answer I suppose is almost always found on stackoverflow.com anyway, so why not go to SO search directly? Because SO search isn't up to it of course.

Why don't they improve their search system? I think they're really leaving money on the table, or maybe it's a job for a third-party SO search app for a fellow HNer (not that there aren't already enough SO scrapers showing up in searches).
The checkout free experience doesn't magically exempt them from price display laws.

Here a store has to display prices for a high percentage of the items on the shelves and if there is a discrepancy at the register the displayed price is the decider.

It'd also be perfectly possible to implement different prices with a traditional barcode scanner. Just have a button on the register (or say, give a discount if the person signs up for a store card...).
Telling facts is not "another set of propaganda", so we can start with that part first. Then we can go to the points which are more opinion-based and present multiple sides. The first part alone should be enough to ease many fears.

That aside: It isn't undemocratic to not do a ballot. In a parliamentary democracy parliaments can decide most things themselves (even all, depending on the country). That's what they get elected for in the first place.
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Call the cops the next time the restaurant tries to do this. The City manager has made them aware of the situation.
Btw. is our current system of farm subsidizing that different?

Subsidiaries by and large are paid from money collected through taxation. Anyone's level of taxation is ~based~ should be based on the personal income.

So we actually have this, somehow, today. Without the need for every shop to actually know about the customers wealth level.
you could tweet it to him at @cstross as he's a prolific twitterer.
Huh interesting to know (as someone who thinks Five Guys makes the 2nd best fries I've ever had, first being a place local to Denver + Colorado Springs)
Modern blast chillers make amazing frozen products. It's a pretty impressive thing: a significant amount of the quality of the product is stored in the frozen product. It depends tremendously on how fast you chill, how thoroughly, etc.
What is the purpose of this project? Is it just art? I can not help but think how much good could have been done with the money.
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We had to soft-launch early in Firefox because of the change in Firefox 57 of how extensions work, though were still getting out the kinks and preparing it for the rest of the platforms.
Do lifted objects exert a force back on the hardware producing the sounds?

What happens if we aim these downwards and put a board on top? :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZdMOMUgXE
Sure, problems with individual machines happen. But in my experience, it's almost always banks of machines that are closed due to staff limitations.
I'm not saying that we're going to be writing genetic Perl scripts. I'm saying that the basics of looking at genetically-based organisms as a type of programming/engineering is inevitable.

You may not have an "if" statement, but you have genetic segments than can cause the synthesis of a protein when present. You may not have goto statements, but you have stop codons that end the processing of the creation of a protein.

Read up on the genetic engineering solutions already being created regarding how payloads are created in bacteria, how they're delivered to target cells, how the payloads are activated, etc. These are step-by-step processes with conditional behaviors, loop-like replication of processes, spawning of processes, subroutine-like embedded processes, etc.

Genetic programming will be similar to computer programming in ways. It will be different in ways. But the arc of progression of how we start off with huge barriers to entry and little understanding to where we eventually manipulate genetics cheaply and trivially are inevitable.
It's not just employers that are enforcing constraints about what you can do with your own money; the government also does this.
Like how in the US you can't invest in a startup via crowdfunding unless you have a high net worth (which is a requirement for becoming a certified investor).
The government is basically saying; you're not rich, therefore you're an idiot and so you shouldn't be trusted to make your own financial decisions.
Unity has WebGL export, and people do use that.
How "limited" is that window? Let them copy it.
>If we're going to have a superpower, I would love a China that respects freedom in that role. They would be better at it than the US. But current China is not that China.

Where I disagree is that as a superpower China has been benign. They might have their territorial issues with their neighbors (like every other country, much more an ancient one in a much changed region), but they don't impose their (internal) non-freedom or whatever on the rest of the world with any kind of crusades.

>The one big problem, though, is that China does not believe in freedom. At all. Censorship, no free press, no freedoms of opinion, expression, religion, etc. And they see nothing wrong with that.

That's for themselves to fix/decide, as it is a matter of internal politics. Heck, their majority of their people might very well be fine with it, as they have a totally different political tradition than democracy, going back to taoism and on. Are there dissenters? Sure, but the kind of Chinese people westerners tend to fraternize with are exactly those that would adopt various western values or want some regime change, but that doesn't mean they represent anywhere near a majority -- it's a selection bias.
It's per usual. Looks like Ben's strategy is to publish empty bait articles in his free blog, agitate the net, and than collect all that knowledge and give it to his subscribers. Smart strategy, but ,meh.
This is a classic case of attributing the results of stupidity to malice. Insurance companies are heavily regulated and subject to massive fines and public embarrassment for things like deliberately preventing the insured from filing claims. And this sort of petty detail in the UI, being directed from C-level executive management? It doesn't pass the smell test. They're managers, not supervillains.

No, this is just garden-variety incompetence. This is the result of incredibly complex specs being implemented by teams of dozens or hundreds, including offshore work and highly distributed teams. The kind of evil plots suggested here would be passing through not just executives, but architects, product owners, scrum masters, lead engineers, and the delightfully unpredictable hands of the cheapest programmers money can buy. Dozens of opportunities for sabotage of something so overtly evil.

I've worked in insurance IT quite a bit. They're just not smart enough to do this.
IMO the main purpose of web design has always been to signal that the site is a "legitimate" entity, ie. run by people with sufficient clout to pay professional designers to keep up to date with the latest fashions. Users like those signals, and will say things like "lol, 2011 called and it wants your site back" if you don't play the game.
Of course they would. Modern toryism needs voters of all classes to believe they act in their interests, in a way they never needed to when only male landowners were allowed to vote. What hasn't changed is that they still actually only represent rich landowners interests, whereas now they have to lie to the wider electorate. The "Hang them and flog them" herrenmoral is never far away. Or indeed shoot them (the Troubles), or let them burn (cf. Grenfell Tower)
Or people like me who don't go shopping in convenience stores at Saturday are weird. I only do it under duress if I forgot something the other day, because I know the line will be so damn long.
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So like blacks?
Reminds me of recompose's withState higher-order component.
https://github.com/acdlite/recompose#lift-state-into-functio...
It's quite common for a single staff member to manage 10–12 self checkouts in Australia. This will improve given time for the general population to warm to the SCO process combined with improvements in the machines themselves.
It's tiresome to read articles like this that just accept these loss-leader vanity projects as real, impending culture shifts. This is a clever convenience store built to test and more importantly showcase Amazon's ideas for automation and machine learning. But it's not a grocery store, and it's not yet anything close to a scalable business. The idea the author floats that this type of place could ever be open with no staff present is ludicrous.

To get a bit more specific, this Recode article has actual pictures from inside:
https://www.recode.net/2018/1/21/16913984/what-does-photos-a...

The store has a bunch of ready-to-eat and semi-prepared bundles that hit a very narrow niche in the grocery market. There are a few pre-packaged name-brand products, but everything is arranged in a highly regimented manner, and the store is very small. It's revealing to note what's missing: any fresh produce whatsoever.

What I'd rather see from these articles is a bit more of a critical eye on the claims. Does the company actually think they could leave the store open with no employees present? Do they even have a reasonable premise that fewer cashiers even means fewer employees? (Someone needs to be there to help people who don't have the app, or to watch that no one jumps the turnstiles, or to keep the place clean, or to restock the shelves.)

And what about the software itself? Do the cameras keep track of the inventory correctly? What if a customer puts a product back down in the wrong place? How much awareness does the software actually have? Is it tracking your phone or you? Does it attempt to deal with scams (can you bring an empty boxed meal kit into the store, replace a new one from the shelf with the empty, and then walk out)?

Maybe these aren't big concerns for this single store, but they are huge concerns if you want to scale this to compete with 7-11 or Pret a Manger, both of which, I will note, have more fresh fruit available for sale.

Now, I don't think Amazon is really thinking that sort of thing is imminent, or that they are actually going to make money from this store. This is a vanity experiment, nothing more. They are getting lots of free advertising from a credulous press, and that's plenty sufficient for them.
Which could easily be due to a kind of Stockholm syndrome
Surely Google could develop this in less than 5 years - and that's not enough time to own all the stores in the world.
One privacy essential is a built-in vpn/proxy like Opera has done with its browser, this makes it slightly harder for some fingerprinting ad trackers to follow a user around.
I'm working on websocket MUD based on MajorMUD in Elixir. There are quite a few people actively building new mud engines in modern languages in 2018. There's even a community with a slack org / newsletter etc at https://mudcoders.com/
Its hit or miss, from experience, in English.

I use them heavily for their cheap object storage + backups.

But even for cheap, dumb storage situations they sometimes give "interesting" responses to support questions.

To be fair, I contact them maybe 3 to 4 times a year (always related to hardware / network down issues). So, my experience may not be representative.