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> Apple, Google, and the people developing the modern Web platform have all failed utterly at preventing them.

Safari has a preference for "allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" (you can also set it on a per-site basis.) iOS is scrupulous about requiring permission for notifications and allows you to configure their annoyingness (plus current iOS asks you if you still want notifications for particularly busy senders.)

> Truth be told it has never been a priority

I mean, it seems to be a priority for Apple in Safari and iOS.
This is a lie you have been told to prevent women getting medically necessary surgery. Probably told by the same people who tell lies about the abortion process.

There are lots of situations in which normal birth is unsafe for the baby - breech birth, cord strangulation, etc. There are also lots of situations where it is unsafe for the mother. It leaves a visible scar and requires a long recovery period.
It's all about the experience. Same as all early Apple "i" products... the same tech was already out there, Apple just polished it way better than everybody else.
I wondered when we'd get someone saying "but do we even want to prevent the avoidable suffering and death of children?"
I recall the pleasure of riding a slow, long school bus meandering around the city for 3 hours a day for 4 school years because there were "too many whites/Asians" at a school on the same block where I lived. Gotta love bureaucratically-proscribed "equality of outcome" policies foisting inequity of treatment externalities onto individuals based on their race. Definitely not racism, because racism can't happen to white males due to the celebration of the hierarchy of victimhood, right?
It won't work, as when it comes time to pay for the cleanup the parent company will go 'bust', and like a phoenix a new company will rise from the ashes with the same owners.
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Reminds me of https://getbitbar.com to 'Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar'
I'm kinda shure I do it visually :)

But yea, get's more difficult with 73. But even there I might determine "visually" that cutting across a row of carrots halfs each of them. So the 2 in 73*2 ist still determined without words.
As she notes in the thread, the original author appears to be here: https://notallwugs.tumblr.com/post/93075748270/two-scientist...
> My office requires 2fa login.

Do they use TOTP? That can be done with a browser extension as well.

> My bank used a smart phone for 2fa, no text or card reader options available.

That sounds rather exceptional, which bank is this? I know one of the twelve or so Dutch banks does this (Bunq, a newcomer), but if any of the larger ones would drop non-smartphone authentication it would run into political trouble.
I answer myself, iNTS is Salmonella, pretty lethal in Africa and increasing
Agree a hundred percent! If I could get sleep/hibernate to work reliably, I would switch over to Lubuntu in an instant.
That isn't maintained any more, the last commit was more than a year ago. It's stuck at version 1.16.
It seems the user created this because they thought that Postman required too many resources as an Electron app.

I'm not sure why they didn't just use a commandline tool (e.g. httpie [1]) that would work with any API, rather than just those with permissive CORS headers.

[1]: https://httpie.org/
Regulation proposal: all video data and derivatives (face recognition) of public areas must be publicly available. Sort of GPL-like. The resulting effects will force people to rethink and reevaluate current policies.
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> What's the end goal? Amass more wealth? Build a legacy?

Grass is always greener...
What about energy storage systems to balance the load during off-peak hours? Shouldn't we invest in developing these kind of batteries (not only Li-Ion or related technologies) to support the baseload?

Even if it's inefficient we have, globally, enough capacity for wind, solar, waves, hydro, etc., to power our current needs multiple times without having to deal with construction of nuclear power plants that are always delayed and overrun forecasted costs, be it because of regulations (which I think are REALLY important for safety, very few complain that aviation is too regulated, I'd put nuclear reactors a step above that) or just because it is difficult to build an efficient and safe design.

As safe as it is even a single accident has huge implications and is much more disastrous than almost any other form of energy production.

I'm saying this as someone who always supported nuclear, I just believe that we might be on an inflection point where it might not be so relevant if our renewables technology continue to accelerate its progress as it's been during the past decade.
> much easier and cost-effective to gain full knowledge of the graph data in a centralized system

At least right now, that's not true. It's harder to automatically scrape Facebook than a random decentralised system - mainly because decentralised systems need to have the data sharing built in to work. Sharing the data in a structured way is the central idea behind them.

> We can decide to block these requests if they are used against us.

You're not going to be able to block this access from gov only. If known networks become blocked, new gateways can be obtained for less money than is worth mentioning.

> When policies change, data (and information) can flow to places where these policies have no effect.

Again, if you're interested in anything resembling a social network, you'll need to share your data with a lot of people. Unless you want to keep it all private - you can do the same thing on FB currently, and border control will not have access to it.
> Look up "managed population".

Do you have concrete sites you would like us to see? If so, please link them.

This general trope of "just google a term I'm throwing out there" is a hallmark of conspiracy theorists. Please don't be one of them.
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perhaps a link might be an idea?
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> but for anything with public content, I would pick something far, far away.

Yeah, Article 13 really messed stuff up here.

But as for the privacy, I don't consider "give me your login and password" a digital policy.
>What if I told you that, if you look at the data, nuclear is the safest form of energy known to humanity

Because so much money is spent on safety. I feel like you are almost saying the safety budget is unnecessary.

Nuclear power is safe because of, not despite, the many millions poured into safety.
I would appreciate a list of requirements. Does it only work on mac? What kind of terminals can be used?
Why is energy density necessary for cheap batteries? Economies of scale can result in far greater cost reductions than are possible simply by reducing the amount of needed materials for a given capacity.
The bigger problem is that time anxiety often comes together with self-doubt so you spend a lot of time doubting your choices and ideas and then bump right into time anxiety
Probably the only thing you can do about it is do something that feels right for you no matter when
I don't know, hongkongers seem to prefer freedom.
I don't really get why people need to use async methods (regardless if they are promises or something else) when in fact they are implementing a blocking workflow where one method call needs the results of a preceding method call. It would be much easier to just use synchronized/blocking functions because then you get the desired behaviour for free and need not jump through hoops like promises chaining.

I get that there are APIs that are only available in an async fashion these days and I was forced to bolt on an blocking workflow on an async API myself and didn't particularly enjoy it.
Very similar to bullshit we hear at companies as well.

"We can't talk about why we fired XYZ because we value his privacy."

Meanwhile XYZ is himself going around telling everyone who will listen about how he was screwed over.
It's more like reliable messaging (say TCP over IP) as opposed to best-effort messaging (where no guarantee of delivery exists). Best-effort messaging better describes a solution to the two generals problem.
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GDPR can be overridden by any law that deems data access necessary for government officers to do their job. When those laws are overturned by the courts, it's not on the basis of GDPR or similar laws, it's usually because they violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which has a constitution-like status due to the Treaty of Lisbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_...
Does fasting bring about any significant changes at the cellular level?
The relevance is that at browser scale, it's the browser that drives adoption, not the other way around. Removing RSS support from the browser makes people use it less. Mozilla understands this, otherwise they wouldn't promote Pocket to browser core.
So we’ve gone from the idea that air travel wasn’t critical infrastructure, with Bali as the example, to essentially saying “but what if the world was completely different from the way it actually is”. Does that mean you agree that it is critical infrastructure?

> Air travel is far too cheap, everything else follows from that.

This is another outrageous claim. All aviation accounts for about 2% of global emissions.

The people commenting in this thread have chosen tourism, presumably because they think it’s the most frivolous source of aviation emissions. But even this is obviously critical to global economies. On top of that, the proposed solution amounts to complete economic isolationism. An idea I’m honestly surprised to see promoted on HN.

Suggesting that the world could possibly completely different from the way it actually is, and that the foundations of the global economy aren’t necessary isn’t suggesting a solution. It’s just utopian navel gazing.
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Not when I drove in that way about four years ago, it wasn’t, but it’s entirely possible it has changed in the interim.
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I recently went from a DIY NAS (Linux PC with lots of HDDs shared on my LAN) to a Synology and am now absolutely in love with it.

All my devices now back themselves up to the NAS overnight. Cameras dump direct into the NAS via a card reader plugged into it. Family can all browse the family photo library from their phones or any device they want or cast slideshows to the TVs. Download torrents with my phone, saving directly to the NAS, then immediately watch it on my TV transcoded in real-time with automatic pulling of subtitles and metadata. I want to marry it.

Sure I’d prefer if all this was open source etc, but I played with FreeNas and various other packages and they don’t even come close in usability or ease of administration.
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You don't need to have the city completely under water to make it effectively uninhabitable. It's sufficient if it floods regularly during storms. Global sea levels are expected to rise 0.5-1m at just 2° of warming. We're on an emissions trajectory that will cause much more severe warming.

We don't have to completely stop global air travel, but we have to make it significantly more expensive. The price to suck all the carbon out of the atmosphere again is not trivial. Long distance tourism will suffer from this.
How do they ensure that this modem (Gemalto PLS8 3G/4G) is truly respectful of your freedom?
The demonstrators in Hong Kong are very aware of this technology. I hope the masks and the umbrellas they use are effective but I doubt it
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Based on the quote I tracked it down to this paper: "Determination of heavy metal contents in some organic certified dried nuts".
I can only access the abstract, couldn't find it on sci-hub. The study is focused on organic nuts though, it's not specifically an organic vs non-organic.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determina...
This is the less economically violent way. The earlier we take action the cheaper it is going to be in the long term.
> but someone has to have some self reflection that it is harmful.

I emphatically reject that notion, both from the perspective that that regulations and regulatory enforcement are intrinsically harmful, and from the perspective that self reflection of enforcers demoralizes them. Quite the contrary, people self deceive themselves all the time. No one ever the bad guy in their own story.

Sure. Maybe someone sometime gets fails to rationalize their actions for a while, and quit, but they are by far the exception, because if they weren't you'd have high turn over and an inability to recruit replacements. Then, even under those circumstances you'd eventually end up with self selected, self perpetuating group. That's just survivorship.
What would be the benefit of this?

I always liked microformats, but unlike RSS, they are truly dead. There never were many End-User Applications that utilized them. I hoped for a long time, browser would integrate features like automatic address or event detection, but it never materialized. And since Firefox won't even mention RSS feeds these days, I am not sure what microformats gets us at this point.
Looks like a ritual to protect against nasal demons.
I'm not sure what modern peroxide rockets use, but the steam generator in the V2 used sodium or potassium permanganate.
"When you want to influence the world around you, make sure that your action is causally connected to whatever you want to influence."

How can we know when an action is causally connected to an effect? Western philosophy since David Hume has struggled to find a solution to this problem. The 'problem of causality' is that it is extremely difficult to establish cause and effect with any degree of certainty. All we have is correlation. Modern thinkers (e.g. Judea Pearl) are still grappling with this problem today.

Pearl's fascinating talk on this subject at PyData 2018 is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPV1OSEpHw
Break the company into one business unit per employee.
1. Updates are done through settings.

2. Advertising is communication about a product or service. A product is not advertising in itself, logic doesn't work like that.

It's also worth differentiating what one gets: free, quality apps with a decent privacy policy vs. pay to win games in Windows.

You're trying a too hard to excuse customer-hostile behavior and it's embarrassing.
Ads are always a problem because they're manipulative communication.

Forcing ads through the OS os is also very aggressive and rude, because there's no way to turn them off.
Saikō no hanbai-ryoku ga kidzutai yokusei no min

最高の販売

力が気付たい

抑制の民

>Marketing at its best

>Want capabilities to be noticed

>Keeps population in check

I apologise for the poor japanese, my attempt at a haiku
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You say that "Nuclear PR people have been hiding under rocks", but that is not my picture of the fission industry.

You mention Onkalo. AFAIK, that uses the same solution as the proposed Swedish nuclear waste storage. Copper canisters embedded in bentonite clay.

Experts NOT employed by the nuclear fission industry tend to disagree with the industry experts:
https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-plans-first-ultimate-storage-si...

Also, this SKB company in cahoots with SSM (the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority) had suppressed an internal report made by independent experts saying the same thing (article in Swedish, but with English quotes from the report): http://www.mkg.se/ssm-rapport-avslojar-att-skb-dolt-problem-...

This report about the report only came to light because of a lawsuit by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.

The whole tale is a bit more complicated and sordid (for the Radiation Safety Authority), but I can't find an article in English for you: http://www.sverigesnatur.org/aktuellt/stralsakerhetsmyndighe...

It should also be mentioned that the European radiation limits from nuclear waste storage are much more stringent than in the US. EPA's limit defined for the (fiasco-laden) Yucca Mountain storage for the first 10,000 years is 10 times higher, and then for the remainder, up to 1,000,000 years, 250 times higher, but maybe that's moot since it looks like Yucca Mountain is a dead end.
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“I have seen two similar “company-specific” languages in my relatively short career”

Seen them? Hell, I write them.

“The commonality to any language used primarily in a single industry is that it is dead on arrival. As soon as the original maintainer is gone the language freezes.”

There’s absolutely nothing magical about a domain-specific language; it’s just one more business tool for solving a specific set of business problems. If a proven DSL fails to outlive its original creators, that’s a failure in business continuity and product lifecycle management; a common business failing across all types of business apps, not just DSLs. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the kinds of implacably progress-hostile C-grade managers and self-serving code monkeys whose only skill is in dragging everything down to their own level of incompetence and killing it with apathy.

One place I worked, I built them a DSL-based system that was 10 years ahead of anything their competitors had, and yet I could not for the life of me get them to hire another dev to ensure project continuity. Unsurprisingly, when I finally quit due to burnout, they failed to replace me, effectively writing off a $200K investment and squandering who knows how many $Millions in sales opportunities without a though. (Back-of-an-envelope: this tech could cut their manual production costs by 20-80%.)

But like I say, this is not a DSL-specific failing. That place also had a major enterprise CRUD webapp as their prestige product; a massive ball of mud that they were unable to maintain due to bad lifecycle management and rapid developer turnover. And that product had a team of 20 on it compared to my “team” of one, so you can imagine the amount of investment already sunk into that. Last I heard they had finally given up trying to develop it any further and were attempting to build a completely new <del>ball of mud</del> webapp to replace it; no prizes for guessing how that was working out.

There’s a common theme here, which has less to do with the kind of company-specific application than to the company’s own attitudes towards it. Which is why we have TheDailyWTF.com, although the same sorts of fuckups can apply to all types of product in all types of business (and regularly do).
I'm fine with proprietary spice blends. At worst, it doesn't taste the way I want. But with encryption, "proprietary" means "untested", and that's a really bad idea.
Which platform did you move to?
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Sometimes it's hard to identify a broken chain on the spot and a lot of marketing tricks are based on that. Highly recommend you to read Freakonomics if you haven't yet.

Also this article mentions two observations of Richard Feynmann and I just can't stop admiring the curiosity and wit of the man. His biography totally inspired me and made me laugh a lot
> Quite right, but they still need enough buyers to stay in business, which looking how things in FOSS hardware and software business go, that isn't a guarantee.

The problem rather is that many FOSS advocates are not willing to pay a multiple of the money (i.e. they do not put their money where their mouth is). If FOSS advocates were a very financially lucrative clientel, companies would care a lot more for them.
Maybe the developers are from Morocco?

(I have no idea, but I've never seen bad association with an upright pentagram)
When I hear some Americans about their banks, I'm not sure "banking grade" will leave a positive impression there.
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One of the things I have started to feel as I read their recent design posts is that the phone will ship but be described as in a basic dev state and not ready for consumer use.

I have written and seen written several posts on twitter at purism that have consistently been replied to as recently as last week saying that pre-orders are still on track to ship before end of Q3.

It makes me feel like the hardware is ready and built and they are working through software management issues like power management before a launch date.
I would say the victim hierarchy social policy engineers throw anyone/group under the bus who does better than average because they hurt the "victims."

Also, for example, if I were a black male, I would insist on being measured by the same standards and criteria as anyone else out of fundamental pride. Separating people based on non-performance factors is a slippery slope that doesn't do students' self-confidence or capabilities gained from hard-work any favors. If black males were falling behind in test scores because of socioeconomic factors, address the factors with more preparation, nutrition, study support, etc., not watering-down the tests or grading standards based on identity politicking.
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I figured they already knew since they're watching all social media and communications anyways. In addition, foreign adversaries also hide messages in seemingly random but innocuous comments on forums and blogs made to look like real user communication but makes no sense to anyone but their intended target.
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If you want the rights then you get to follow the laws of the country too, regardless of where you are.

Additionally pay taxes and all the great things Americans get to pay for.

You act as if preserving America is a bad thing.
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How? If you are stuck in one of the countries where more than 90% of citizens use WhatsApp, your choices are not to use WhatsApp, or to get an Android or IOS smartphone.

So you decide for the former.
I will remember that for the next time someone calls something "military grade".

"So you've got armed guards ready to shoot anyone who messed with it?"
> As a first step, browsers should make extensions more powerful again.

First, do note that hooking JS into everything also means a considerably less efficient browser. Extensibility has an overhead, extensibility in JS a much greater one.

Second, I don't see reason why something like this would ever be an extension, and not just default browser behavior. Are you viewing the page? Then it doesn't get to run unless you specifically allow it.

OR, make noscript the default state. There are very few websites that doesn't actually work just fine, and much faster without javascript enabled.
> ice cube who has been heated from -100°C to -5°C and still doesn't melt, but at this point it would take very little energy to thaw

Unobviously a poor metaphor.

energy to heat 1kg from -100°C to -5°C: 200kJ

energy to melt 1kg from -5°C (as ice) to 0°C (as water): 345kJ

Water has lots of extremely non-linear behaviours!!!