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> How many more "super private browsing mode" Firefox users will there be? Potentially hundreds of millions of daily users.

Tor has hundreds of millions of daily users?
I love the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic:

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Eliminated my wrist pain and the little USB dongle means the battery lasts for ever. I think I change batteries once or twice a year under really heavy use.
There actually are initiatives using hawks (鷹).
The investment bankers created the mess & more(same?) investment bankers picked up the crumbs & now plan on making upwards of 400% markups on over-priced properties. This is the exact reason why Glass-Steagal was instituted, to keep investment & commercial bankers seperate. They've robbed the world's wealth twice now & are currently still going strong. Wage slaves be damned, perhaps they can get 60 year mortgages to afford housing, right?
If you click through it actually tells you all the things it provides which you wouldn't get with a vanilla img tag.
I don't know of any 2nd amendment advocate who suggests bearing arms against the government as an ideal first option.

If you want to see it in action in another scenario, go look up The Bundy Ranch Standoff.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
Anecdotal but I have walked through security and boarded US flights with much much larger amounts of cash without a single issue, no declaration, no paperwork. Not a single person bat an eye. I wonder if there is more to this story. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in court. I'm sure the USG will make a mockery of itself.
I understand and agree with these facts. And as a society we can choose to either increase the cost of the negative externality (like the vehicle emissions), or decrease the cost of the positive externality (emission-free vehicles). However, in this case, the "apartment" example is a transfer of wealth from people who have access to chargers (homes, apartments which chargers, workplaces with chargers) to people who don't have such access. Sure, HN has a San Francisco bias in its readership, but some places apartment owners compete for tenants. And to differentiate themselves, they'll add chargers.
Don’t you think Facebook looks tired?
This will get appealed. Putting false material info in the public sphere in itself lends to punitive damages as a class even if compensatory damages are more nuanced. I dont recall anything like this in the Madoff ponzi.
There is a common saying: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."

Emphasis on Please use in that order. I can't believe this needs to be emphasized, but killing people should be a last resort. I'm glad these "2nd Amendment advocates" aren't as trigger happy as you seem to suggest they be. I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that shooting people before nonviolent options are exhausted is depraved.
Did they get rid of the hydrogen station scheme, or is that still in the bill?
Have all legal and peaceful means of resolving this been exhausted? Does not seem so.
Also, how deep did the Theranos lies go? This could be RICO which is it's own animal.
That's Steve Ballmer. He had the reverse-Midas touch, but he's gone now.
this quote seems rather poor for this particular case, since, nitrogen fixation is more than "just a gene", it's a symbiotic relationship with an invasive bacterium that has its own agenda.

However, in general the concept of drift causing loss is solid; guinea pigs and humans have both independently lost the ability to create their own vitamin c. It's possible that some rather successful member of the species for some other reason (stronger, smarter, or just sexier) happened to have the vitamin c gene loss, and the need for vitamin c just wasn't pressing enough to overcome the other appeal.
OK, I get it, the US being a superpower is under a microscope and every imperfection is called out so other countries can look down their nose at it. That's fine.

But what are you talking about? What could the US learn from Canada on asset forfeiture? Canada does it too! How to do it better?

And as a Canadian, saying the gov't run their is better is purely laughable.
EVgo has CHAdeMO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAdeMO) chargers which are direct DC, not AC converted to DC before input to battery so much higher charge rates. Superchargers are also direct DC.
In January I tweeted [1] a small thread about how the newer daily uploaders, especially vloggers do have a problem that they are creating for themselves. Spectacle over story. I've studied many of the top vloggers from YouTube rewind and without exception they play the similar part of exaggerated acts to sell the mundane.

Contrast this to Casey Neistat or purge gamers who started their narratives to bring about what's unique about them.

There's hardly a facade on any of it. I qualified what I meant by acting in my tweets. In the case of purge, it's Kevin being Kevin. He'll read patch notes for 7 hours and doesn't give a toot about what the watch count could be for that. He's active on twitch but without any mad acts and crazy tricks for the fans. His unique sauce is just being super analytical. So he does just that with no crazy voice or "YouTube face".

Either one of Casey or purge could be on the verge of needing a break. But they've been doing this a lot longer than any of the new stars and still seem very comfortable being themselves.

This is not to shit on the current Gen of daily content creators. I'm just worried a lot of them are not going to deeply understand why they are actually getting burnt out. They are doing excessive amounts of work where the primary requirement is to shed your self. There is very little difference between what they do and ye Joe average 28 year old working daily at a software engineering job that pays well but forces the worker to wake up with existential dread each morning.

Realising this might mean that some of these content creators might have a reckoning where they realise that long term they have nothing innately unique to offer the world of YouTube. I'm worried none of them will come to that conclusion simply because their brains are going to be fighting back saying "but this is what I always wanted".

We are all capable of getting what we think we want to do wrong. No shame in that. Just be willing to save yourself.

1: https://twitter.com/kiriappeee/status/953547948754862080?s=1...
For what it is worth, it is often used on mobile and works pretty well there, I guess it is the same on web.

The only downside I can think of :

- you really need to sit down with your animators and explain to them which effects they can use and which ones they need to avoid. Some manipulations will allocate a bitmap at each frame, it ends up very choppy

- some lottie json can take a while to read. In some cases we just handed up coding the animation by hand because it was not that complicated and better than to have to wait 1 or 2 seconds for it to load. It does not sounds that long, but it makes a big difference between immediately starting when your screen opens and starting with an empty screen then an animation blinks in.
That one was really sad. Sunrise was an excellent product. I'm actually tempted to recreate it myself. I'm sure it would be possible to commercialise something like that.
You are being down voted but I see some truth in what you say. I wouldn't go as far as to say its a mental illness but there definitely seems some narcissism in wanting to be a youtube star.
nice idea. is there a laptpp that detaches the screen so you can do the same I wonder
It's called having unpopular opinions.

That you're conventional enough to never stand out of the herd says more about you than anything else.
Not quite, but I am suggesting if a rental property facilitates vehicle ownership in the form of parking/garage space, it should include EV charging capabilities to facilitate widespread adoption.

Are you saying that since there's an agenda to reduce vehicle ownership altogether we shouldn't reduce barriers to EV ownership? That will only result in more ICE vehicle ownership, which is an absolute disaster from a climate change environmental crisis mode perspective.

A significant factor with vehicles is they have a long servicable lifetime. Every year we drag on with people buying ICE vehicles instead of EVs is followed by decades of those additional ICE vehicles burning fossil fuels.

Do you think we can achieve accessible alternative transportation solutions sooner than we can get hookups installed in all the already electrified rentals for EVs already available on the market? I don't think so.
This didn't come from the legislature. Approved by the CPUC yesterday morning. No H2 as part of this. You can watch it here: http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc/voting_meeting/201805312...
A thousand times this. I'm not saying the UK is some shining beacon of how to run a country but I do think overall our governmental systems are pretty sensible. I think being sensible might be a stereotypical English trait, but it's true.

For example you have to comply with the spirit of a law, not the exact text. Also our QC's are pretty level headed and the same goes for our police force. Nobody is overly nitpicky about things, and when they are it's sensible. At least in my experience, YMMV.

US could learn a lot if they looked outward, but I don't think that's in their nature.
After doing something similar for about two years, really the only thing that seems to work is co-working and office rental options. Airbnbs just aren't set up to be worked out of. Most of the places that tag themselves as including an office / laptop station in actuality don't. I had the best luck with airbnbs that were actual homes people rented out, those sometimes included a nice work space. No company or person doing the vacation rental thing cares about that amenity.

Tried shipping things, with customs taking so long in some countries it didn't work out at all.

It seemed most feasible to create an ergonomic standup work space, then you just need an external keyboard and mouse and something to stand your laptop on.
Most alcoholics don't want help. Doesn't mean they don't need it.
Well, I did email @support yesterday and also checked my spam folder, just in case. Still nothing.
> The more power you give to the government, the less power the citizenry has.

Sure. So what's the solution in this particular case? Should we go full corporate and privatize border control and customs? The government has a monopoly on violence and law enforcement. Do you think privatizing this outside of government is a good idea? Do you really think this power would be less abused?

Don't pick a bad example to dismiss the whole idea of government. At least in theory people can vote out the government, or specific laws/regulations* but they can't vote out money.

*) Before dismissing my point, that only works in democracy, not oligarchy, which we have in the US. And if you're wondering how we've reached oligarchy, I may be simplifying things but it has a lot to do with the 'big government is bad' idea which has been floated around within the last century by the people hoarding most money.
That's a 99% party-line vote. You could kick most of 'em out and those seats would just be filled with another republican who would have voted the same way.

If you want to see movement on this issue, then you need to communicate your views with your representatives.
I saw one happening on a PC in a conference room two weeks ago at the very moment a talk should begin. Nobody could do anything with the pc until the update was over. Great user experience.
Human nature being what it is, people who have power want to keep that power and hopefully expand it. That includes the gov't.
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That's like saying IBM could come back as a monopoly. It won't happen even if they want it to.
Agreed. Buying Nokia of all things stinks of Ballmer. I was listening to an interview where he seemingly took responsibility for the whole stuff up. Not sure how much weight that holds
Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. Take it to an extreme... if this can be done to anyone for no reason like you suggest - e.g. "he looks guilty, so I'll search/forfeit whatever funds I find" - then that's a major breakdown.

Assuming you are correct- and I don't know - then even if that is the case, there has to be a way to get the money back however arduous or red-tape it may be, and eventually claim damages for the administrative cost of recovery.

We're not a banana republic... yet (I hope). If they did it to him in Albania, then I wouldn't be nearly surprised or possibly at all. I've encountered corrupt border patrol officials I had to bribe to get out of a mess.. and it was in one of the Balkan countries, I won't name which.
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Dnsmasq has different modes if you give it multiple upstream resolvers. By default it only queries the fastest one, which it determines by every now and then sending a query to all the servers and picking the one that replies first. You can tell it to always query all servers, or always query them in the order specified.
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If the charging station (or network) refuses to again swap a battery that they have recently swapped into your car, why would anyone use it?

I get that switching in $10,000 of hardware is kind of a big thing, but the question is like asking about how can I be sure every station has real gasoline (which hey, with ethanol, they don't!).
No, using Whatsapp is a more efficient solution.
You mean like arresting people when they say something the gov't doesn't like? [1] I'll take a pass, thank you.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-...
And the use of air conditioning is what causes the annual peak (which is what the transmission and distribution systems are built to serve). Is it unfair for people who don't have air conditioning (or live in more temperate areas) to pay a premium so that others can have air conditioning?

This is why California is moving to Time of Use rates (TOU) in late 2019/2020 (depending how they push off the date due to IT challenges).
Well said.

I guess the problem is that not enough people know that civil forfeiture is a thing yet.

I'm just blown away that such a thing could ever be written into law. I think it's a pretty clear-as-day violation of our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
Here, I pulled my docs for ya:

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They basically created their own git protocol + virtual filesystem, optimized for asset patches inside large compressed binary files. I wish they'd open source it.
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> We finally force mobile phone manufacturers to use USB standard,

You can thank the European Commission for that one.
It (presumably) started with the assumption that you already know what a determinant is and does, then it described how to calculate it, commutativity properties etc... but never the geometrical interpretation, which would have helped greatly.

Imagine somebody describes a triangle to you by telling you all the mathematical properties of triangles (angle sums, pythagorean theorem, all the trig functions), but never saying it's a polygon with three edges.
> Sure it’s bad now,

That's the thing though: it's not bad now!. Not by any historical standard, at least.

For most of our history and prehistory, right up to the past 70 years, stupid warfare has been the rule. Petty tribal disputes, armed insurrections, ethnic cleansing and suppression and random gang violence were absolutely routine for almost everyone even as recently as our great grandparent's lifetimes. Virtually everyone saw violence like this at some point. Now, in most of the world (no, not all of it, but yes: most), pretty much no one does.

And that's important. What we've been doing is working. Don't rock the boat.
As I stated in the opening of my post, the government is capable of good and exists for a reason. Regulations can be good. But people should recognize how much power the government has and see issues like civil asset forefeiture as an example of what can go wrong. I’m not saying the government cannot work. I’m saying that when it doesn’t work, the result can have an overwhelming negative impact, so we should be skeptical of government solutions.
They undoubtedly did a bad job, but I think that Skype has a lot going against it from external factors anyway.

Everyone I know is using FaceTime or Facebook Messenger. The only time I hear Skype anymore is people using it for podcasts. Obvious anecdata but it seems reasonable that services with better device integration (FaceTime) or social graph access (Facebook) would do better in the long run.
Go live in the USA, and you'll see the multiple ways it's more broken than Canada. Many other friends who have moved over from other developed countries collaborate the experience.

I'm in the bay area, maybe it's just a special kind of broken that you don't see in other places in the USA, but things like flint, michigan also exist in the USA.
The poster you're replying to is basically correct about how civil asset forfeiture works in the US. If you search, there are plenty of articles about similar cases.
What your gear requirements? Minimums. Laptop? Monitor? Printer? Desktop?
There's a drive I've been doing since I was a kid. Back then with fewer passing lanes and kids in the car, it always took about 6 hours. As passing lanes got added, it got so the trip was about 5 hours with careful stops. Recently speed limits got bumped up 5 MPH along the route and now it's an easy 5 hours.

The hour sure matters to me, I hate being in the "travel" part of a trip like that.
You get to enjoy yourself at concerts, and society apparently prefers tall men. Appreciate what you do have in life, thats what I try to do (as someone closer to the other end of the scale by western standards at least).
I used to aim people at "PJM 101"[1], which is PJM's tutorial on how the power grid really works. But they put it behind a login for a while. I asked them why. Now, it's out from behind the login.

But now it's in Adobe Captivate, which is apparently what Adobe has convinced some former Flash users to use. Doesn't work in Firefox and tries to get me to install Chrome. Useful info, though. Explains clearly what a power grid does every day.

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The US economy suddenly looks like it's unstoppable
Ah, didn't realize it wasn't a top-level readme. For the lazy:

> I need React component to asynchronously load images, which will adapt based on network, which will allow a user to control, which image to load.
Slightly OT: BoJack Horseman hits the nail right on the head in so many aspects regarding human nature, social interactions, mental health etc. The characters are so deeply human in many capacities. The series manages to talk about some heavy topics in a comedic setting while not making it seem silly. Highly recommendable!
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There is exceptions though, since this data is required. They just need to delete it, if they no longer have a reason to keep it.
I do live in the US. And you know what? I think there is plenty the US has to offer that Canada doesn't. That's why I'm here.
How is DirectX a lock-in? Vulcan/OpenGL are available. Using Outlook/ActiveSync is no more a lock-in than depending on GSuite (or ANY business productivity suite), and I fail to remotely even understand how exFAT is a problem. Weak arguments.
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Hasn't it been proven that there must be areas of math that can never be connected to other areas of math? Saying it's part of science, or the natural world, seems like saying all math is part of one great whole. That's something that's been passé since 1931 or so, I thought.