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Fuck the unsubscribe button. I never subscribed in the first place.

It’s one disgusting thing when people hide signup behind email confirmation without clearly marked opt-in spam confirmation. It’s another when I get home from a professional event and I have a dozen new “subscriptions” and people “just reaching out” or “following up on our prior conversation” to a single-purpose email address I gave to one place and used a fake name and fake company name.

Email marketing can get fucked.
Adjusting Jira to author's liking would, at least in some points, make Jira even more complicated and bloated.

I guess the more clients, the more feature requests. One will see a feature as a bloat, other will consider it a must have to do their job.
One turbine itself may be intermittent, but a constellation of turbines together ought to have a smoother output graph that’s pretty predictable.
Unfortunately not something that's within the power of the Scottish Government to enact, as it is a "reserved" matter - a legal power not devolved to the Scottish executive.

There is a strong desire for "shooting galleries" in Scotland (safe spaces to take drugs where help and clean needles are available) but the UK government and the Scottish government have very different policies on drugs.
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The power drain issue was only on OS X, and about to be fixed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857892
The way adblocks like UBo works isn't by injecting stuff in the DOM. Instead, they look at requests going out, and can ask the browser to "fail" it. It can do that based on custom logic - a piece of javascript code runs for every requests.

UBO also has the facility to delete/hide arbitrary nodes from the DOM in order to hide ads that might come bundled with the page.

None of those functionalities can really be used maliciously. At best you can break websites by denying them the ability to load stuff. The problem is that both functionality are bundled with other privacy-invading things (like injecting or reading). But that's of no fault of UBO, it's just the way Safari and Chrome decided to set the permission granularity.

You could have a secure, restrictive API without blocking the best features of UBO. Google chose not to because it's potentially damaging their business model, and Apple probably chose not to out of simplicity.
Sadly, despite the downvoting and "I am! And so is my wife!" replies, you're essentially statistically correct. The number of "firefox for android" users (and I'm one of them) is just a yawn and an ironic smile between Google execs in any "shall we allow plugins on Chrome for Android to compete with Firefox" discussion if indeed it ever even gets mentioned.
"The day ublock origin doesn't work on chrome..."

The manifest v3 proposal takes chrome down to roughly the same level as Safari for ad blocking plugins. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...

So, that day isn't far off. It was supposed to be in canary last month, I haven't checked.
They value your privacy the same way a mugger values your wallet. They'll often even offer you a degraded experience if you don't consent.
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and ICE is likely using Kubernetes, too ;)
For many years now, I have used vacation time to work at an academic summer camp for 11 and 12 year olds. Almost all of the kids have phones, but some years there's one (I don't think there's ever been more than one) who does not.

A couple of the children without phones have been very proud of the fact they don't have phones. They'll readily tell you they don't need one and don't want one.

Now, I have no clue if these children were in truth allowed phones by their parents, or how they would react if actually offered one. But they certainly seemed to be doing fine.

So, yes, I found the story plenty believable.

P.S. If it sounds like a crappy situation where only one kid is left without a phone, I don't disagree, but it's mostly out of my control. As I said, some children are completely fine with it, but I had one this past summer who was not.
I'd love to see a European competitor in this market but I see that they have a budget of roughly €160 million. Intel spends something like $13 billion per year.

That seems like an insurmountable disparity.
> who has had little or no influence over the current situation.

Stallman had no control over being misquoted.

He also didn't say "I'm sorry that you feel that way" - He specifically mentions he was misquoted, leaving no doubt that he is not apologizing for the cause of the offense - People were offended by the misquotes, not the original statements.
If an author of a free software believes that it is against his own morals to indirectly assist some organization that they see as immoral then, yes, they have the freedom to stop working on that software as there is no obligation on their part to continue doing so.
That should be bigger news. But as usual, quiet settlement and marginalized victims. 20,000 victims and a 300 million payout.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-i...
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I can't speak to the work's accuracy (I think their PCAs are basically just the 2-3 most common facial variations seen in the wild), it was contoversial when published, but just given the facial similarity of identical twins raised in different environments, one imagines this should be very possible. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/29/1711125114
What do you mean? Fancy symbols in code look rather APL-ish than Haskell-ish. IIRC, while Haskell lets you use variety of Unicode symbols both as function names and operators, they are not very popular amongst Haskellers.
na, thats just being a virtue signaling asshole.
That logo is the cutest part of the ordinary linux distro page that sparked my interest.
Actually this summer my country had to temporarily switch off around 3GW of coal power due to the heatwaves, so no - coal is not as reliable as it's presented by some.
If I understand your question correctly, then you are looking for ways to hold yourself accountable when doing work for which you are the main stakeholder. Does this mean a side project outside of what you do for a living or does this mean when working solo at your job? If it's the former, then you have at least two options: see the work through or quit and find something that excites you enough to follow the task through to fruition. If it's something that that you are working on solo for your paying job, then perhaps consider keeping to a schedule, asking colleagues that you respect to review your work, and to taking some time at the end of the day to identify why working by yourself produces the observed results. Does some rational (or irrational) belief lead to a dip in quality and goals?
Moral of the story: do not do business with Google because you can’t tell when some random employee of theirs will decide to pull the plug on you. Or maybe you’re just collateral damage in their country’s internal political squabbles. Either way you have no recourse, because Google.
This is true. Being on a third-world country, the internet for the people here is the social media.
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Jeremy Rifkin discusses how economic growth is tied to energy efficiency and that it changes depending on fuel source. His theory is we have already hit peak efficiency for fossil fuels which is why developed economies can't grow any quicker. You can find out more by watching his talk on Vice's YouTube [0]. Well worth a watch if you haven't already.

[0] https://youtu.be/QX3M8Ka9vUA
You get downvoted because you are wrong. Renewables are fine for base load - if we redesign the power grid.

"The intermittency of other sources such as wind and solar photovoltaic can be addressed by interconnecting power plants which are widely geographically distributed, and by coupling them with peak-load plants such as gas turbines fueled by biofuels or natural gas which can quickly be switched on to fill in gaps of low wind or solar production. Numerous regional and global case studies – some incorporating modeling to demonstrate their feasibility – have provided plausible plans to meet 100% of energy demand with renewable sources."

https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374

"Together, a mix different types of renewable energy sources can
replace a conventional generating system and can be just as reliable."

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d72a/56d60694fcf7275f237d24...
When the iPhone came out is was supposed to be simpler to use then all the basic phones that came before it, I'm not sure that's still the case anymore.
> strength is taken to be the alcoholic strength by volume as indicated by the mark or label

This phrasing frustrates me quite a bit. I assume they're referring to "% concentration of ethanol by volume", but they chose to express it in this obtuse "units" and "strength" nomenclature. (Or is this referring to the "proof" as the strength in their formula? Is that metric used in Scotland?)
I meant:
When creating an endpoint, a component, a feature, or a data structure, I treat them like protocol.
Protocols enable other components to do more things while being robust and efficient. It must be, to certain degree, extensible and forward compatible. With that mindset, you're likely going to avoid more trouble in the future, while indirectly enforcing open-closed principle in every level.
That looks awesome. It's definitely something to look into. For the time being we don't have the resources to set something like that up, but it's good to know for the future, thanks!
I think we can all agree that, whatever your politics, working for ICE is abhorrent and deserves punishment.
Coal makes a great base load plant

Less than 2% of the UK's energy comes from coal, it's already dead.
> What I care about is that economy and money will be broken for a while which will make people move away from the Dollar.

Why though?
Misleading:

> JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday.

Officials here seems to refer to unnamed tribal “officials.” The US and Afghan defense ministry officials cited a few paragraphs before that did not say anything about civilian casualties.
"Oh wait"

Nobody needs to wait on the internet - you can just go right ahead and type!

"there's EBay..."

You're saying that for a business to be successful on the internet they need to get their money from buying and selling goods on eBay instead of running adverts? Or that they'll sell adverts on eBay? I'm puzzled.
GDPR wants 0 tracking without explicit, informed consent. That's the key thing in this regulation: informed consent. Dealing with people fairly.

> EU wants advertising to go back to the popup / animated gifs & flash / interstitial era to maximize clickthroughs in the off-chance one of them is actually interested in your ads.

Not true, unfortunately. EU wants the ads to not track people without their explicit, informed consent. GDPR isn't an anti-advertising law, it's a data protection law (says so literally in the name).

> That's regression

No. That's remission.
This was true during an intermediate period where all browsers were more-or-less equivalent. It wasn't true before then, when many sites were designed with Internet Explorer in mind, and tended to work less well on other browsers. I don't think it will be true now, either, now that most sites are designed with Chrome in mind, and tend to work less well on other browsers.

The big difference is that the functionality problems 20 years ago were easier to explain, and therefore easier to get people upset about. It's a lot easier to weave a compelling political story about straight-up incompatibility than it is to weave one about degraded performance due to differing just-in-time compiler optimization behavior.

Also, we seem to be stuck in a situation where people are still so fixated on a monarch that hasn't been in power for over a decade that they maybe haven't been so concerned that the old monarch's overthrower has consolidated power to become a new monarch.
A containerized process is a regular process, which just happens to be in a different namespace from the init process.
His picture is at the of article!
Same here. Crazy to think that I've been using it for over 15 years and never had a reason to change. I've tried other browsers, but none of them gave me a compelling reason to continue with them.

I think the most probable reason for that has been the complete support for addons that no other browser ever did. For instance, why doesn't Chrome have support for vertical/tree-style tabs without using a separate window? That one feature alone keeps me on firefox. By removing the tab bar at the top of the screen, you regain a significant amount of vertical space on a laptop.
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In real life, smaller particles tend to sink to the bottom of a container. So you're more likely to grab a whole pill as time goes by.
It's not whether uBlock Origin is a security risk, it's whether the APIs it's using are a security risk, lest they fall into the hands of a less benign actor.

(I also wish they'd kept the APIs open, just stating the other case.)
Yeah if US wasn't so hell-bent to be excluded from International Court of Justice in Hague, we would see quite a few US servicemen (and mercenaries from companies like Blackwater), err sorry 'patriots' being tried there and getting long/life sentences.

But that ain't gonna happen, ever.
> Or big pharma said, we’re not selling to government, they are telling us to depress prices, we disagree!

Big pharma has said this many times to many governments. When Brazil started to negotiate, we had to invalidate patents so somebody would sell the drugs.
A few years ago I made a similar project with a slightly different twist: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame

I did it as a learning exercise, and if anyone's interested I documented the source in a lot of detail to show everything I learned along the way.[1]

[1] https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame/blob/master/gi...
They absolutely have that level of thinking. They can't always verbalize it eloquently, so the author may have re-phrased it as the article was written. But my kids have real depth of feeling about the world, their place within it, and have more passion about engaging with it in their own way than most adults I know... not because adults don't have the same concerns, but because we resolved them decades ago, while the teens and tweens are just starting to engage in that process.
See focusmate.com, I’ve been using it a lot. Video conference with accountability partners
The whole driving force behind wind turbines was the reduciton of CO2 emissions. If you can reduce output from gas stations and close baseload coal plants then that is positive. Because CO2 emissions have been reduced. Doing that cheaply is just an added bonus. It leaves money left over for other things that are needed to balance the grid. Things like battery storage, interconnectors, pumped hydro, and nuclear.
This is incorrect, an EU website must provide notification of cookies if they use cookies at all, even for basic session tracking of authenticated users.
It’s not a “deal”. Society didn’t make a wager with some governmental body for free speech, contingent on free speech organizations policing undesirable speech.

The deal metaphor breaks down pretty clearly. If advocates of democracy don’t do enough to curtail voter fraud, society cancels the right to vote? If the auto lobby doesn’t figure out a solution for vehicle deaths, we stop building paved roads? Society as a whole is responsible for finding a way to respect granted rights and balance the risks of exercise of those rights; it’s not incumbent on specific groups to own that, just because they exercise that right.
A FOSS license allows an organization you dislike to continue using your software, but it doesn't require that you continue working on and providing that software on any specific way (there is the requirement in GPL to provide on request for a limited amount of time but it doesn't specify method and that can be done via - e.g. - email).

Others can pick it up from where you left and continue, of course.
Silly question, but is wind at sea guaranteed? What if weather patterns change? It's really expensive to put up these offshore turbines, but with systemic climate change is it possible they'd be becalmed?
To reply properly would warrant an essay about n order effects but long story short the fact that crowd funding exists in it's current state is a reflection of how broken our economic model is.
The license doesn't do any of those things. The author has chosen to stop hosting the project because of those things.

That is their right.
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That will be a good thing.
This thing again....

So can wind be consistent? Can it run, non stop, 24/365?

Same applies to solar. Hek, it doesn’t matter if it’s free energy. If it has volatility we can’t adopt it.

>b...but we can store it on ESS!

What about the price of batteries? The operating costs? Environmental impact of producing batteries? And https://lmgtfy.com/?q=ess+fires
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Wind is quite a good match in the UK. Daily demand peaks are in the morning and evening, around when daily winds peak. And seasonal winds peak in the winter, round about when peak seasonal demand is.

Coal is basically dead in the UK, gas is the source to beat, and is also a better match intermittent sources.

Renewables are getting to the point of being cheaper then just the burnable material in a fossil fuel plant, ie it is cheaper to have wind and gas/coal, than just gas/coal alone.

All of this is without getting into global warming, and all the other stuff in coal.
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Yes but power users do. And power users are the ones who set up and influence their friends and families browser choices.

At least that is my theory on it.
What prevented World War 3 so far was Mutually Assured Desctruction. "M.A.D." is beginning to look a bit long in the tooth, but it's clinging on to life yet.
They also made the same lecture only using Julia rather than Python. I personally found it to be really useful and I taught myself enough Julia to be a danger to myself and others.

https://lectures.quantecon.org/jl/
Just to be clear, it blocks remote images by default. Images embedded in a mail are displayed.
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Any power plant on it's own is not reliable (as in running 24x365 without interruption). To provide base load, you need many independent power plants, as this is the only way to ensure availability. This is independent of the method of power generation.

The sun does always shine someplace on the planet[1], and the wind never dies down completely[1], so it is at least theoretically conceivable to provide base load via those sources if you distribute enough solar/wind power plants across the planet.

[1] Citation needed
Nice example how price anchoring can be put to practice though ($300,000). So you're saying it didn't work on you? ;)
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One of my favorite (and most easily explained) unintended consequences of government actions. I call them "perfect or none" rules.

They get together and vote in rules they think will force things to be perfect, forgetting that it's entirely possible they will get none instead.
But it was taken out from him, personally.
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> How exactly does the reporter know which people are IS fighters? Is there some notion that militants don’t ever also farm?

Guilty until proven innocent, right?
My local tyre shop is used to it because sadly (in the UK) the majprity of fmily cars are sold without a spare wheel.
In Sweden we have a history of a very strict rent control (which will probably be scrapped for newly built homes, because of current politics) while also handing a lot of power to the local governments to regulate housing.

There are a lot of reasons Sweden has absurd real estate prices (the Gothenburg area in Sweden, which is the seat of moderately famous Volvo, has real estate prices close to the Seattle area which is the seat of Boeing, Amazon and Microsoft while the median incomes are not even remotely similar), and why the bulk of the price hike happened during the last decade, but a big one that's often overlooked is that local governments don't want rentals. Because of rent control they are mostly inhabited by low income earners, who pay less tax. Rent control is set by the national government agencies, who of course don't care where you live, they want everyone to have a decent home without being gouged.

Not saying that rent control is necessarily a bad thing, but if implemented on a national level they give local governments less tools to get rid of poor people. In the end, they'll find a way, and that might create even more problems.
I could have got a cellphone in high school and didn't.

I didn't in university either. I was uncomfortable with the idea of my location being tracked, and the idea that I could be interrupted by a call at any time.
I think Firefox is faster than Chrome these days. Unfortunately I prefer the web developer tools in Chrome, so I use Chromium as I wasn't a fan of every URL I type going to Google.
You can complain under the CAN-SPAM Act.
That's a long-standing problem - middle-aged addicts are starting to suffer from a lifetime of drug abuse.

But yeah, maybe if you can't get ultra-cheap cider you pop out for some heroin instead.
I'm surprised at the closed-mindedness of the comments here: usually browsing HN I read wonderful insights on tech how "you can't assume X, technology Y has a place and that place is Z".
Here commenters appear unable to accept that this tech has a place because it doesn't include "app/feature X" or it doesn't abide by "rule Y".
I'm more interested in the ripple effects seen here than the original article.
You're wrong, all those WWII resistance fighters were by definition terrorists to germans/japanese. Its just that US marketing over-used the term in past decade and a half to label anybody inconvenient as a justified target for extermination because 'national security'
Firefox always was fast. You were using it wrong.
Three-quarters of the dead were men and three-quarters were aged over 35.

This problem has been creeping up for a while, many of these people have been abusing themselves for a long time and are now paying the price.
I work for a company that will not allow you to be a lead or manager without a degree. Keep that in mind. Lots of companies are that way.
It’s the only logical conclusion. Any other would result in inconsistencies and uneven application. One cannot continually evaluate and determine worthiness (as defined by you) of all users.

Moreover this program began under the Obama admin. So the decision itself is internally inconsistent.