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> Just copy Chrome and confine all modal dialog boxes such as HTTP basic auth and Javascript alert() to the individual browser tab. No individual tab should every be allowed to pop a modal that prevents interaction with any other tab, any other browser window.

So, `alert()` was fixed about 10 years ago in Firefox.

I'm not sure why the "Authentication Required" dialog wasn't, but I'm willing to bet it's something that was blocked indirectly by the old extension infrastructure (the so-called XUL extensions): until Firefox ~57, huge chunks of the architecture of Firefox were impossible to touch without breaking XUL extensions at a fundamental level, and this included making many things non-blocking.

If I'm right, it's the kind of thing that can now be fixed.
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There are two pretty interesting things going on here. Firstly, if this goes through, it's going to force a bunch of people in Vancouver to reconcile some of their values in a way that's going to be pretty uncomfortable for them. Well to do urban-dwelling Vancouverites often hold the value publicly that reconciliation with First Nations and their right to self determination is very important, but they also really really don't like the idea of any developments changing the character of their neighborhood, despite the housing crisis we've been in for years.

Secondly, since the Squamish Nation doesn't need to follow a bunch of the typical city rules, they can do away with things like required parking spaces, and build more pedestrian space between towers with smaller footprints, and be open that they don't expect people living here will own cars. If the project and neighbourhood are successful, it could prove to be a pretty interesting counter point to the broadly successful development policies of the city that seem at risk of keeping up with the densification of the region.
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The problem with this reasoning is that it doesn't apply to countries outside the US. Take Europe for example where the healthcare system is miles ahead compared to the US yet Europe is clearly not the most innovative space because of this.
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The author didn't say that we should trust MasterCard but he was saying that this trust issue can be solved much more efficiently via the legal system. And in practice the current system already works as billions entrust their financial transactions in these institutions.

Some people have the tendency to think that technology could solve anything and should be allowed to solve everything. This Libra thing is no better than the crypto-currencies.
I bought a 2007 Rav4 for around $5k in 2017. Had 130k miles on it. Now 2 years later it's at around 210k and still no serious issues. I doubt it's gonna have much trouble going another 20k. I would imagine any Toyota or Honda would be similar, and probably lots of other cars too.
You're from Germany by any chance?

I think that in Lemonade german site, they changed the color to a darker pink (probably until the issue with T-mobile is finished)
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No, that solves nothing that AMP solves. Your comment is disinformation that make it seem like a non-issue.

Bandwidth is a real problem in developing countries that I feel people are not taking seriously. I don't think you understand the difference AMP makes.
Yes and no. Walmart often is not going to have food as fresh as a Farmers market or community store. But farmers may feel the need to shop there anyway due to prices.

Perhaps they still wanted fresh produce too, but because they weren't buying enough, the result was that couldn't buy any.

People are not good at predicting long term effects of their purchasing decisions. This had been a trend for the last 20 years: Walmart comes in, local businesses close down. But no one said the people are happy. The issue is the people need to coordinate their purchases to get what they actually want.
Thanks for sharing this. I just sent a modified version of your letter to my rep as well.
A couple of weeks back we had a thread where some people were arguing that speech can be a form of violence. That sort of lunacy is one of the assumptions that lead to the consequences described here.
I'm confused by the initial comparison between Hamilton and XKCD

> Alexander Hamilton was against the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment. This famous xkcd comic explains why:

They seems to be saying very different things: Hamilton (as I understand it) is saying the First Amendment is unnecessary (and even dangerous) because the constitution already provides no power by which to regulate speech. XKCD, however, is saying the non-government groups have the power to criticize speech and even ban it from their own platforms.
An example of how this gets dicey when you expand into new industries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
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I'm not sure I grok the `<=>` operator and the example they show seems to just show that `a == b`. Can someone explain what's going on with that?
And therein lies the obvious conclusion of allowing conglomerations. If one company has their foot in every possible industry, they can yield control far beyond what would normally be considered unreasonable.

I mean we are actually discussing “T-Mobile isn’t a mobile carrier, they’re an insurance company”.
I'm new (18 months) to Colorado, and I've really been enjoying the coverage the Sun provides. Very impressed.
To build on this, I don't think the US government sees NSO Group the same way they see foreign hackers. Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community probably see the defensive losses as an acceptable casualty if it means reaping the offensive benefits of NSO's software.

Edit: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxk9j/dea-didnt-buy-malw...

The Drug Enforcement Administration would have bought NSO's software, but it was too expensive.
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But you can't "fix" greed. Even punishing greed doesn't make people less greedy. That's a bit like thinking that the war on drugs will make people want drugs less, or even seek them out less. Constraining an inflexible market only moves it to places you no longer control.
I've never written a general purpose parser in SQL, I'll be curious to see what you come up with. Might be easier to retrofit your SQL engine so that it will run Python functions.

Regarding stemming addresses, you can combine the two approaches. See the procmail example.
I'm so sorry to do this, but it's "counterfeiters".
Same sh*t different target.
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I don't think it's realistic to declaratively define a UI that works well under both a 15 inch screen and a 2 inch screen. One is probably going to have to programmatically take different courses of action under each of those scenarios. For example, for mobile you'll probably want to split actions into multiple screens that are best done in a single screen with a big monitor.
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Previously you need to override all six operators (==, <=, <, >, >=, !=) to provide total order comparators. Now you only need to provide one method.
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Oh, I could immediately recognize which one was T-Mobile when I looked at the comparison. T-Mobile has a subdued magenta, whereas Lemonade uses bright hot pink. You can see the stark difference on their websites as well (though when you hover over one of the Lemonade buttons, it looks practically identical to the T-Mobile magenta).
Sometimes I wonder if all these hacks are a scapegoat for companies who were giving away your data anyway.
Is this really what companies worry about? An insurance (edit: ha, I thought it was a beverage company until I read another comment) company is using a similar colour as our telecommunications company so let's get lawyers involved?
Agree, although I think there's also something to be said about ease-of-use and ease-of-implementation, especially for many smaller merchants who might not be using anything at all due to the adoption barrier. Imagine being able to natively pull in all of your existing digital assets, never having to worry about links not working or the wrong picture displaying, or configuring a third party program to send email from your company domain. It also opens up a potential for full-cycle tracking, from delivery rates to click-through rates to checkout time to items sold...
Still pretty close.
Not every piece of software is a vape-delivery-via-drone-app.

I have about a dozen small very specific scientific 'calculators' (only the windows/linux ones that still run, the mac ones are all dead which is a darn shame since there were some jewels out there) that were written by researchers 10-20 years ago and never updated since. They haven't been touched by the original developer in years, in fact many of their host websites have been lost to the ages so they exist only through sharing on forums and whatnot. But, since they do not need any sort of connection to the outside world (times were simpler back then you see...) they still run fine in compatibility mode. For some of them their functionality can be replicated with modern software (probably in a web app or something), but the original tools still work perfectly for their jobs and are still useful today. Don't even get me started on all of the equipment which is stuck running windows 98 because of the serial port library used to communicate with the equipment was using the dos api...

examples:
Psst! - https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~psst/

Laser Line - http://www.skywise711.com/laserline/

I also use a number of paid tools that I paid for back in the '90s or early 2000's and haven't felt compelled to 'upgrade'. They run great and give me the answers I need, so until the vendor has added actual useful features (instead of reskinning them with a flat/metro interface...) I see no reason to upgrade.
Suburban areas already suck for ride shade. Try hailing a lyft in the proper suburbs, should take you over a half hour.
It’s about the high school, not the college.

Kids in this track don’t get access to services, AP classes, etc.
How do these towns even exist if there are no jobs? One guy talks about a collection of 100+ guns(from my understanding guns are worth quite a chunk of money if well maintained)

This story makes no sense to me, just sounds like a town where people don't want to leave and have no incentive to stay.

The only sane person is the one who started sustenance farming - that's the way to go if you want to live in the middle of nowhere.
Are you serious? Israel has the US Government by the balls. The first thing the Republicans did when Trump got elected was to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. They didn't even skip a beat, it was one of the first things they did (Speaking of that, we just had a federal election in Canada, where one of the primary election promises from our right-wing party was to move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem... strange... Thankfully they didn't get elected).

I fully expect that NSO will be allowed to act with impunity. If anyone in the US government tries to stop them, AIPAC would pull all their campaign funding from the Repubs or Dems (whichever party's lackey did it) and they'd never get elected again.
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You can top up using a 120v wall outlet. People using Tesla cars report around 40-50 km for an 8 hour charge.
I wonder how many Googlers would lose their job if Google dropped those contracts.
This is covered in the paper. They acknowledge this defense technique while also pointing out that a laser flashlight could be used to illuminate all microphones at once.
Shrug. I hear time and again people say they make it a point to always use Lyft, even if Uber is cheaper. So it's certainly not a 100% sure thing that people will always pick the cheapest option.
Yep, I had the exact same problem with v1903. In the end I had to make an install USB, reformat the disk and do a true reinstall (Windows claims it can do a clean reinstall of itself but it still keeps a ton of data and doesn't fix a broken installation)
1. This morning MSFT's market cap is higher than AAPLs.

2. But that's not how "most valuable" is usually rated by analysts: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alapshah/2018/08/02/apple-hits-...

3. There are privately held companies that are probably "more valuable", like Saudi Aramco

4. I don't know what I've done (which you asked in your original post), but I know I'm not a fanboy/shill/astroturfer for Apple.
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trademarks protect customers from confusion.

copyright protects the right of an author not to have their work copied (without their permission)

patents protect inventors from having their inventions used (without their permission)
pretty close?

Where's the line then?
What's next? Sue Lemonade for using 'L', 'e', 'm' and 'o' alphabets because they're also used in T-mobile's name?
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Okay, but they’re still the largest global privacy violation technology in history...you couldn’t pay me to have one of these in my home, and I mean; a lot - you could offer me cash every month to keep this in my house and I would still say no.

These devices are as literally Big Brother as it gets.

I personally boycott Google products and do not purchase from Amazon. Google has gone from ‘don’t be evil’ to ‘be evil and pretend we’re still cool’.
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I use my 120v outlet in my garage and it keeps the battery charged up enough - granted I'm not maxing out the range every day either. Takes about 13 hours to charge from half way.
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See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Color is an interesting thing, however. Because there are only so many colors to go around.

Imagine if companies could reserve an entire letter. All words beginning with that letter would belong to them.
Those evil corporations offering consumers lower prices and better selection!!

They need to stop hurting consumers!!
The magenta industry or the smartphone industry?
Lemonade is an insurance company.
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wow... one single website used it... now thanks to some dumb journalist, a lot more are going to use it too

aren't reporters supposed to wait for a patch?
> This line of argument is utterly insane.

That is just name calling, and doesn't really improve the quality of the discussion.

> Inasmuch as the intent of war is effecting political change (as Clausewitz put it, "the continuation of politics by other means"), your argument applies just as well. By your logic, antiwar activists would be nothing more than status quo fans who want to be comfortable. This would obviously be ludicrous: it's possible to object to the means of war without comment on whether its claimed aims are worthwhile.

Antiwar activists are, by definition, actively participating in politics. The same is true of people who promote war. So, no. Nothing that you write holds "by my logic". If you are "sick of politics", then you are in favor of maintaining the status quo, whatever it is. There is really no way around it.

> Being "sick of politics" in this case easily describes many people I know, people who have been far more serious about the issues you raise for far longer than most of the loudest advocates today are.

How do you know any of that? Sorry, but I won't just take your word for it. And, in any case, it is besides the point. I was not even arguing in favor of the activists, I was instead claiming that wanting people to stop doing politics is politics.

> The aversion isn't to change per se, but to methods that have become fashionable that are seen as both counterproductive to their aims and detrimental to civic society.

Again, how do you know that? Are you a mind reader?
I don't think Dollar General targets places without any businesses, at least around Iowa where I have experience with them. They target places where there is some community, but not enough to support a bigger general store (i.e Walmart).

There is a Dollar General about a half mile from my house. It is literally next door to the local grocery store. They serve similar but different purposes.

Dollar General is where you go to get something that you'd usually get in the city. Obviously, less selection and lower quality, but focused on stuff rather than food.
This whole article sounded like he started with a conclusion and then found reasons to support it. It doesn't look objective. I am no supporter of Libra but increasingly media and influencers are about starting with a belief/conclusion based on their bias and then finding proofs for it. Perhaps that's how any human mind works!?
The "counter-fitter" is the guy who cuts the granite for your kitchen.
A lot of these electricity subsidies are for the rich or well off in the UK you could get a twenty year guaranteed 8% return on investment of 10k for solar.

Which is great you like Me or my parents who have a spare 8-10k - if your a single mom living in rented accommodation who buys her electricity via a key not so much.
Does anyone know whether they have built their own mail server or are running this on top of a SendGrid/SES or similar?
Yes! I've got the Dell Ultrasharp 38 on my desk and it's been wonderful. It runs at 3840 x 1600 and gives me lots of room for text editor, terminals, and web browser, filling my line of sight while I'm working.
No, security alerts tell you something might be wrong. You have to then perform some analysis tasks and determine if it is a true or false positive alert. Even if it is a true positive you may not have enough info to action,you might continue monitoring or dismiss the threat. You might have to determine the cost of further investigstion and remediation vs security risk.

For example in a past life I was in a position where malware traffic will be detected from some locations but the infected device can't be located. Or some overt webapp scanning is happening,I want to know about it and make sure it isn't excessive but it's not worth the effort of blocking.

You don't really action security alerts and events,you action security incidents(which are security events/alerts confirmed to be true positive). With infrastructure monitoring if you see an alert that means something is wrong,the alert is an incident. Been on the responding side of both types of alerts.

Incident response is very interesting,most plans hardly survive the battlefield.
Your comment is the least charitable possible interpretation of the above user's statement, and adds nothing except for biting sarcasm to the discussion.

I hope that every user here tries to leave hacker news a better, more thoughtful place than they found it.
How is this not optimized for the greater good? Because some people miss their local grocery store?
How is this patent troll demolished? Won't they just go acquire more patents for $1 + 'other valuable considerations' and continue on?
Schools in QC are a different breed, though. The cost for QC residents is very low, and the cost for non-QC residents is still pretty tolerable. This means there are lot of applicants -- like why not, it's cheap -- and they can be picky.

I've also noticed that Canada and Australia place far more emphasis on formal credentials than US colleges. US Uni's will take you if you can demonstrate competency and can pay; Uni Melbourne won't talk to you unless you have the exact, specific kind of degree. Ditto for UBC, U Sydney, etc.
Firstly, when they add these types of charging stations, they will make the grid ready.

Secondly, grid has a lot of capacity. Its like motorways, most of the time its under utilised. Only during peak time that it is full capacity.
Think of the grid in a similar way. Its mostly under utilised except for peak time. All we need to do is make use of it outside peak time (with batteries) and suddenly we have double or triple the capacity.
It's not "natural consequences". Canonical counter example is this cease-and-desist for a book copying the Jack Daniels label design: https://mashable.com/2012/07/22/jack-daniels-trademark-lette...
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Yes there are. Social enterprises do.
Two years should be enough time to fix this.

Full disclosure will get this fixed rather quickly now.
You mean Lower Saxony. Saxony is a different state on the other side of Germany, that has no voting rights in VW.
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Backcountry is a way better online experience than REI.
Exactly, those towns were going to die anyways and the Walmarts came in coz they got tax subsidies - which they got because they would keep the towns alive a little longer.

If there's nothing in an area to give you income besides a single unknowable unexciting corporate employer, people will move away.
Not sure where the line is, but this is a case that's far too close IMO because the shades here change depending on screen type more than they are different from one another.

Amusingly I have 2 LCD monitors here, an acer and a samsung, and when I put Tmobile on the Samsung and Lemonade on the Acer, the colors look functionally identical to the naked eye.
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It sounds like what you're describing is passing a capability to withdraw balance (which is implicitly captured in an erc20's internal state via `approve` [0]). Of course, cap handling is probably a bit unwieldy for a snippet in a whitepaper, so they're likely making the assumption of "don't call untrusted code." I don't see a construction for sender delegation, so at least it reduces the TCB to the immediate callee.

[0] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20
Now try it with MacOS. Can you open executables/files made with MacOS 10.0 in 10.15?
Pretty much any old POS with 100k on it will last to 200k if you change the fluids on some semblance of a schedule. Somewhere north of 200k is where most automatic transmissions wear out.
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Most fire trucks in Germany would actually work well as EV: they rarely carry water, just pumps (places without hydrants are required by law to have water stored in a tank or lake); range isn't an issue since any place is reached by emergency services in under 10 minutes, even accounting for large scale operations that's not a lot of distance unless we are talking highly specialized vehicles; and the better acceleration of EVs might be a major speed boost. Similar reasoning applies to ambulances: small distances but high acceleration requirements.

Of course in sparsely populated places like much of the US this looks completely different. Another class of vehicle that will hold onto ICE for a long while will be farming vehicles. I don't see a farmer recharging his combine harvester in the middle of the field until we have made significant advances in battery tech.
It's weird that I manage to do that entire list of things without saying a word aloud.

It's luxury tech. That's where the market is.
Amazing this guy (and others) helping desperate people without compensation while he struggles financially. Seems the computer security industry and software vendors could be doing more.
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Or who goes round sabotaging trains.
That would be a pretty strong incentive for certain groups to oppose a minimum wage hike then. In my experience, a small town in the midwest is likely to have 1. A grocery store, 2. A hardware store, and 3. a Dollar General.

If you come along with a plan that is going to shutter one of the three remaining businesses where you can buy actual day to day goods, people aren't going to be too thrilled.
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