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I want to know everything, it’s just a matter of prioritization.
I'm specifically talking about extensions that strive to be free and accessible for everyone.

A great example for how Mozilla is deprioritizing contributions for extension developers is the new design of Firefox Add-ons. The contribution button was pushed down below the fold. Previously it was at a very prominent place next to the install button, and several modes for requesting contributions before or after installation have been deprecated.

Yes, adding a donation button to your extension is a possibility, but it would send a whole different signal if Mozilla would encourage users to support developers, from a unified and trusted user interface, and experiment with better ways to ensure that users are aware of support options for their favourite extensions.

Mozilla directly supporting extensions which they consider to be of great value could also be explored.
Honestly, chat at an organization only seems to replace phone calls, and only partially. Which is not a bad thing, but I'm not sure it's even a good idea to try to replace email.
Isn't that obvious? Those who do serious C++ development typically need a good build system.
My favourite has to be Quebec's "depanneur", or "dep" for short. It's one of those Francophone words that is also pervasive in Montreal english... like "terrace" for patio.
"Not living next to a junk yard" is protecting a property right in any way property rights are recognized. There are such things as nuisances, but they generally require concrete harms of a type recognized at common law. (Stuff like health and safety, not aesthetics.)

Zoning is not a part of property rights. Zoning was something invented in the early 20th century, because property law wasn't sufficient to enact the kind of racist controls people wanted.
Might be worth mentioning somewhere near the schedules; I only saw one 4-7 PST (so 7-10 EST) full stack part time course in the upcoming courses list after checking all of the current upcoming schedules. Every other upcoming part-time course currently listed is 6-9 PST. It would be easier to come away from that thinking this is really only for West Coast students.
Look at the wings.

Somebody finally did it, a low swept wing connected to a high forward-swept wing. In this case the connection isn't quite at the tips, with the forward-swept wing being smaller, so it isn't quite the same as a rhombic closed wing. The forward-swept wing is a little bit like part of a tail.

This was more expected on aircraft with highly variable center of gravity, such as passenger and cargo planes. It's seen on some concept plane sketches from Boeing. Putting these wings on a drone is a little odd. We can wonder if there are internal bays that sometimes contain reconfigurable heavy things, such as surveillance equipment or bombs.

The choice may be just to experiment with the concept. Perhaps it helps with short takeoff.
> The marketing team had more than 1,200...

I fully admit that I'm not in marketing, so there are surely nuances I don't know. But that scale of marketing department is orders of magnitude above any other place I have worked, with the possible exception of IBM in the 90s. Just maybe... this was a reasonable move.
Namespacing in Kotlin
Even then, unless they are coupled with a comprehensive psychological evaluation that could identify sociopathy, they could not be considered a useful tool (generously assuming that they have any truth-discerning usefulness to begin with).
For any number of N, it's far easier to get N positive verifications by trusted peers for a crook (which can buy or fake them) than for a honest small developer.
They’re trading cash to build their moat (keeping out competitors, investing in self-driving). From what I can tell, at least.
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They still do. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gir_National_Park.
The law has a rich articulation of what things are "harms." Almost nothing modern zoning codes address would qualify as a harm. (That is to say, absent the zoning code, it's not something you could sue someone over.)
One of the attractions of Hypercard was that a "stack" (document) was entirely self-contained; and would always behave exactly the same on any machine where HC could run.

Notably, would run without any need for servers (or, worse, the subscription-and-lock-in "services" ubiquitous today -- arguably the 1980s "computer revolution" was strangled in the cradle, and we've gone most of the way back to 1970s-style time-sharing now: how many phone apps etc. will run usefully without a net connection? The "smartphone" is essentially a small "glass TTY", rather than personal computer in the '80s sense.)

I've run HC stacks written 30+ years ago. How many current-day "web app" documents will be readable as-found 30 years from now? For that matter, I've paid for iOS apps that would no longer execute after half a year (on account of Apple's "API changes", or in some cases -- author's "call home" server fell down and did not get up, etc.) Permanence (in the most basic "I paid for this and it ought to be usable for so long as any compatible iron remains functional" sense) is no longer part of the software commercial culture, and one is likely to be laughed at for merely raising the question.
None of these things are actually true.

Zoning laws are defaults. By default, you have to provide a certain amount of parking, or are only allowed to put up one additional unit, without additional planning authority. That's an important phrase. If you start building a bunch of houses on your land, you may overload available transportation, utility, and public service capacity. That is why you must first go to a planning commission.

You know what happens 90% of the time when someone with a hundred thousand sqft lot wants to add another house? You fill out some paperwork requesting a zoning variance and get your answer in a few weeks.
They have to offer significant promotions and sell their rides below the rates of other taxi companies, in order to obtain market share.

They've been doing this to grab market share for the last decade. Undercutting competition is not a profitable business.
In fact more housing will always be luxury. In 30 years it will be old and affordable, but only if the rich who buy new all the time move on which they will only do if they are allowed to build something new that is more luxurious.
Is that what "safer" means? Fewer people died?

Nuclear reactors have the (demonstrated) potential to make a large swath of earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. "Air pollution" doesn't.

I hope we do build more nuclear. But I think you're understating the risks. And no, I'm not convinced by the "modern designs can't fail" argument. No system is immune to human stupidity (or human maliciousness).
Its partially because they are in a war of attrition.
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You literally cannot profitably transport people at the prices they're offering. Uber is just one big bet that the price point of transportation will fall significantly with the advent of self driving and they'll be there to make the money off that margin.
Indeed, they are, in a broad sense, practically the same animal. If they were fossils, they probably wouldn’t be distinguished from one another.
Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
According to anecdotes I've seen online (so take this with a massive grain of salt), some videos showing how to use tools like drill presses and CNC machines have been demonetized due to youtube's policy against educational gunsmithing videos (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en)
If, and only if, you want to leverage the value of your land by selling or borrowing against it. If you don't want to (or don't need to) do either of these, loosening the zoning restrictions would only make your location less valuable (industry/dense housing moving into a formerly townhome exclusive neighborhood) to you.

Money is not the only value land has.
Most Uber rides are priced below cost to try and drive growth. Or at least, that was the original story they told. Lately it seems more like “Uber rides are priced below cost, because if we price them any higher users will flee to a different ride-hailing service, because we have no lock-in or switching costs”. Uber’s entire business model is selling dollar bills for 90 cents and it’s all going to come apart shortly.
That's one of the stupidiest thing that has ever been done. Just because people can't design safe (enough) nuclear reactor in the 70s, it means that it's politically expedient to shut off all nuclear power station inside a country.
Because most of the US does not have this problem. The Colorado River basin does, but it's worth noting that California's allocation is very high relative to the portion of the drainage basin within the state, and most of the state's allocation (>88%) is pumped out of the basin.

Top users of California's allocation of Colorado River water are [1]:

- the Irrigation Districts of the Imperial Valley (~61%) and its northwest extension the Coachella Valley (~8%);

- the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (~20%) [2];

- the Palo Verde Irrigation District (~8%). The Palo Verde Irrigation District is inside the Colorado River basin.

[1] https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/4200Rpts/DecreeRpt/2018... [2] http://www.mwdh2o.com/AboutYourWater/Sources%20Of%20Supply/P...
That would be a good argument if using only the approved channels protected users, but a lot of extensions have malware that sell user data, including ones in stores. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-browser-extensions-you-us...
I've lived in a place with a significant number of Section 8 renters, and I would definitely have supported measures to require people in the area to be wealthier. No, wealthier people are not better people — but at the very least they have more to lose if, for example, they pass out drunk in one's front yard or burn down one's building.

And yes, of course, poor folks deserve to have homes to. But there was a period of several years where it was a nightmare to live where I was. The police were constantly present, one couldn't walk up to one's own front door without being accosted. It was terrible.
YouTube's special sauce is Google's treasury. I'm not convinced that free video hosting is something that is both profitable and scalable running on ad revenue alone, or at least, I believe that any new competitor would run out of runway before achieving a good enough margin to beat out operating costs.
HK still represents a Chinese world where the CPC and Xi do not have absolute rule. It represents a Chinese world that has or had some democracy where the people could petition government for redress of grievances and where people can choose their own representatives. This cannot be permitted. They cannot have the Chinese people of mainland China think they have the freedom to have any public redress of grievances with the CPC.

So we will likely see this violently crushed, because this is all about perception. As the protests continue, there's a greater and greater likelyhood CPC propaganda can no longer distort the truth. So CPC must put it down. And since HK is no longer as financially relevant and the UK is astoundingly weak by comparison to 50 years ago, we will likely see Basic Law die.
> It seems to me that they have a lot of physical growth, so what is happening to their finances?

This is the story of just about every Valley startup. Seemingly greater losses the larger the userbase grows. When asking how this is possible, everyone will answer "you just don't understand, this is a good thing."
Uber's business model has the same problem as Groupon's, which is that they don't really have economies of scale. Every market requires a new team of people to run promotions to attract drivers and customers and match supply with demand.
Likely? Depends how the kernel mediates access to the detachable CPU facility.

Hot plug CPU has been around forever, as well as Apple's GCD.

Access to the pluggable CPU/RAM complex doesn't have to be transparent and irrecoverable on error.
I wonder if there's a predatory pricing case there
How many people have submitted claims so far?
The other thing to remember is that media cartels don't want you to remember that Fair Use is a thing, so they try as hard as possible to make sure no automated system has a provision for it and to argue that there's no good standard to follow so you can only use it if you're willing to pay for lawyers and court time.

But in YouTube's case it is kind of moot since the system isn't designed with fair use in mind and is not technically copyright claims. It's entirely up to YouTube to decide what they do, and their default and only position is to side with the media companies with the expensive law firms over their actual content creators.
Found this too... quite funny.
People used to have relatively shorter lifespans. The planet used to have much fewer people. Cities were less dense. Etc...
There's nothing that sets them apart from competitors so it's a race to the bottom. If you're a rider you're always going to go to who has the best price and if you're a driver you're going to go to who pays you the most. If they ever hope to be profitable they need to cut labor costs or have a distinguishing factor.
It'll certainly be interesting to see where the appeal goes.

I need to read the opinion, but my initial inclination is that the judge should have let it go to trial.
The response to that has always been, people will pay the Apple premium because to them it's worth it, for the camera, for iMessage, for ease of use, etc.

Why can't the same principle apply here, but with respect to user-toggle-able hardware switches and replaceable batteries?
Doesn't mind at all, just hold until we built the next generation power station and send it all. Thanks for the free shipping by the way.
Youtube I'm not sure about, but Twitch is pretty controversial about selectively enforcing their TOS with regards to big streamers. Youtube has become more corporate-focused lately so I don't know how much they depend on let's say the top 10% of creators vs TV/Sports networks, but striking might work.
This is not a limit on transactions, it is threshold beyond which additional bookkeeping needs to be done. Five-dollar deposit: only bookkeeping as is needed to satisfy the bank and yourself that the $5 will be available to yourself in the future. Five million dollar deposit: extra bookkeeping, and if it's in stacks of twenties, warn the branch manager a few days in advance due to the physical requirements for handling all those twenties.

If the new AU bill would say, "Don't deposit 5 million AUD in physical cash" then that's a problem. If it would say, "Don't deposit 20 AUD in physical cash then that's an absurd problem (IMHO).

In the USA the bank branch manager has to achieve some level of non-surprise that the transaction is taking place (Know your customer) but it seems like that wouldn't necessarily block a transaction.

I know people whose cautious banking habits are still influenced by the banking problems of the 1930's. I think this constrains the politically possible banking changes in the USA, maybe. Does such caution have any impact in Australia?
I’m the last person who is going to defend the security architecture of browser plugins.

But, when Google tried to implement an ad blocking architecture that wouldn’t allow third parties access to your browsing history similar to that of Safari, geeks were up in arms.
Until another state passes a law saying you need to follow their regulations regardless of whether you have a building in the state as long as you're operating there.
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PlayCanvas: Fast and lightweight WebGL game engine
Indeed, but that just means RISC-V designers have pursued the "less instructions" goal for its own sake. Having less instructions is not inherently beneficial. It can actually be detrimental: common operations require more instructions.

https://gist.github.com/erincandescent/8a10eeeea1918ee4f9d99...
One thing that isn't clear to me. The phone clearly supports GPS in terms of hardware, but does it actually do anything with it? It won't have access to Google or Apple navigation, and that is certainly something I use my current phone's GPS for.
MFW I've been suicidal for 4 years (since I was 24)...
Thank you, and yes we're definitely missing many different types of xenophobia, it's a complex issue. Border protectionism seems to be on the rise now given the political situation and probably the most common today. So hopefully it'll be interesting to use.
Those 500,000 views wouldn't have had ads shown on them. Some solutions might be:
1. Being able to automatically unpublish the video if it's de-monitized.
2. Have a monitoring service available that can fight copyright claims in real-time.
3. Don't upload at night and then go to sleep. :)
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"Curb Market" anyone?
Read quality book reviews. I would especially recommend the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, but there are dozens of long-form journals of this kind.

Most newspapers also have book review sections, as do many academic journals.

Presumably if you're interested in someone or something, you can also simply peruse the internet to see what's out there, i.e. you can start with your interests rather than with what's popular or well-advertised.
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People like comparing Uber to, say, Amazon. The major difference is that Amazon benefitted from economies of scale - they spent a lot of time in the red building infrastructure and logistics, but now they reap the benefits by having very good infrastructure and logistics, which only get more efficient the more things they sell.

Uber's main expense is the driver. The vehicles pretty much always stay the same size so they don't actually benefit from economies of scale. And drivers (and customers) are fickle; most drivers and customers have more than one app on their phone. If Uber hikes prices or slashes driver compensation people will just leave. Uber has a growth story if you believe that AVs are just around the corner, but that's a pretty big if.

Uber mostly made it to the IPO with the help of Softbank, one of if not its largest shareholders. Softbank had a $100B Vision Fund. With that kind of money you could be unprofitable for a while and still be a going concern.
The "marketing manager" role at Uber is an operations role and part of a local operations teams. Your main job is not "brand marketing" but attracting new drivers and managing local incentive spend.

They've most likely (wisely) decided to centralize those decisions, so not a huge surprise.

FWIW, the operations teams (small, local, non-technical teams stationed random cities around the world) built Uber into what it is today. Scaling/automating those jobs was always an inevitable.
That seems like an even more questionable tool for deciding what to read than a best-seller list. Those guys are renowned for starting tech companies that made lots of money, not for their outstanding taste in books.
Not entirely a joke, but: Emacs Lisp (elisp) is "evergreen" and likely always relevant.

More seriously, the huge ML functional language family may still be worth exploring, even if you really like/prefer the homoiconicity of Lisp/Scheme. For instance, F# can be very production friendly at a lot of companies (it's .NET-based and [mostly] well supported by Microsoft themselves and the .NET Foundation), especially those with an investment in C#. .NET Core even has some nice cross-platform stories today. You miss out on Lisp/Scheme's homoiconic macros, but you still benefit from a lot of the functional-programming first mindset.

Also, don't discount Common Lisp for not feeling "modern" enough. There are a few CL distributions worth checking out, some with robust modern enough package management. Definitely CL is a old ecosystem with a lot of old growth forests, but that is a path to some structural stability too.
Hongkong is more well known than Xinjiang
They do make profit on each ride, but not when you account for administrative overhead (which is huge because of their ridiculous headcount).
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Why not just << and >> then?
As far as my user experience is concerned, yes, you're wrong, and that's okay - you're working from opinion & I'm speaking from personal experience only. I've had no security breaches of my PC since I switched to Pale Moon. I've also had an overall better experience than with any multi-process software of any kind. I understand your concern, but all I can say is, try it out. Keep it sandboxed (as you should with all port-accessing software tbh) if you don't trust it. If you have cause for a genuine security complaint, then say so. But please do recognize the target audience for PM before asking about introducing the latest tech widget or WebDRM.
By sticking to the classics and letting time act as your filter.
Something very similar happened to Origin Code Academy in San Diego. I believe their situation is that one of the state bodies told them they would be exempt from a certain type of tax. Once they registered and were approved, they were then asked to pay their back taxes which they of course didn't have saved up.
I'd argue that when we're talking about people's livelihood and where they sleep, it's quite expected that that definition won't be enough.
What China WANTED was a press hit like this, making them look big and important on the world stage. There was no need for surveillance here at all. They knew exactly what that cruiser was doing, the whole point of that naval mission was, after all, to say "Hey China! These waters aren't yours! Look at our giant cruiser sailing around with impunity!".
Google has designed a system where a power dynamic where the copyright owner largely gets the ultimate say because of a combination of artificial "intelligence" algorithms, the ability to perform bulk claims, and googles indifference. To insert a human element in terms of an appeals process or deciding which claims have merit, etc, has nothing to do with reviewing every single minute of content that is uploaded on YouTube.
Same here. I think once again we've been lumped in with the Australians.
In my experience, the only people who get offended at good-natured "political incorrectness" are people who have a social or political agenda that political correctness is part of.
I would agree with this article, as an electrical engineering student.

All solutions to problems have design constraints, and all solutions are limited. All actions have consequences.

The "move fast and break things" mentality is asking for trouble, certainly. Even acting as prudently as possible, serious issues will arise.
I guess it’s like learning to hold your breath. The first time I tried it was at university, next to monument overlooking Aberystwyth. I focused on the grass ~5-20m away, and on my eye movements, and learned to resist their (I guess autonomous) movement.

When I managed to stop the saccading, the grass disappeared from my awareness except where the wind was rippling through it. I tried again more recently, with a closer target and no wind, and found a different effect (I have no idea why): https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/06/18/vision/
I've been on both sides of the fence in this one, and agree with both arguments. Perhaps FF could add (if it doesn't have it already) an about:config setting that allows reloads, perhaps from a specific folder(s).
Are any of these business models transparent? I think a lot of it runs on pure faith.

If I spend $10,000 on an ad, is there a way to prove that I got $10,000 worth of advertising and not $8,000?

If I am a content creator and my content generated $500 in total revenue of which I have a share, is there a way to prove that it generated $500 and not $1,000?