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> You'd then detach that sail, and cruise

Why? Just accelerate towards the target as long as possible and then flip around. Assuming a columnar source (e.g. from a laser) and non-columnar target (e.g. from our sun), this could be done with minimal (if any) cost in time to arrival.

Carrying two solar sails is expensive. If it’s not, I’m not sure one would be using solar sails at all.
Bottom navigation bar works great for me because it's easier to use with my thumb.

I think Mozilla had to choose to either wait a long time to get full extension support and miss the train, or release early. I am also unhappy with not having the extensions I use, but I think this was the right choice. They plan to support the whole extension API eventually. Also aren't they the only ones who support extensions on Mobile?
> to be arrested without violence or any resistance.

Again, why are people insisting on redefining words because they don't like their meaning? Chaining yourself to a physical structure like a building or tree, and going so far as to make cutting those chains difficult, is one of the prototypical examples of civil disobedience. The whole point is to make it difficult for police to arrest and remove the protestors in those situations.
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Mozilla did not handle this well. I like the new Firefox for Android, but it is obviously beta quality.

Extensions don't work, and last time I tried (a month ago or so) custom search engines weren't working either. I use Firefox on iOS just so I can sync and use my custom search engines.

I get that the new Firefox is faster and better, but don't break functionality people relied on, even if temporary. And if you do that, then release it under a different freaking name.
I wish it were so.

For card-not-present transactions (i.e., all online credit card transactions) the liability is the merchant's. There is no recourse for a merchant who is a victim of a stolen card, the money is simply removed from their account.
They walked right past the violin vigil and then the video cuts out. What was I supposed to gather from that video?
Taking a 30% cut from app store sales isn't anti-competitive though. If anything, it allows other platforms to compete on price. Which is exactly what Android does. Developers can't whinge if people still buy iPhones despite the restrictions on what you can and can't do on it.

The Microsoft case is completely different, in that it favored IE over other browsers based on the APIs the software was allowed access to. Apple allows all apps to access the iOS APIs and uses those same APIs to develop its own apps. Taking a 30% cut of software that Apple distributes on your behalf might be steep, but is certainly not anti-competitive. If you think it costs too much, don't pay it! Nobody is forcing you to distribute software for the iPhone. If you're lamenting that people are stupid enough to buy hardware they don't have full control over, then that speaks more of human stupidity and the fact that convenience will always win.
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Out of curiosity what league is this? I'm in Colorado as well and I've been looking for a good adult league. I'm a peg or two below you though
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so to follow up, the issue revolves mostly around the newer Kindle KFX format, and because it's been a while since I've done any DRM strips through calibre, it might at this point not even be an issue due to some more recent update. If it is though, this post from 2019 covers the details of getting around this too.

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/calibre-kfx-drm-guide.ht...
Ammonium nitrate is incredibly common. It has applications both in agriculture (fertilizer) and commercial blasting ops - so not hard to come by in general. That said, in this case you may be right.
What? Have you watched any of the riot video from France?[1] Lots of tear gas and at the end, the police corral the crowd under a bridge and then hit them with batons when they start to leave. Seem at a minimum as rough as US police if not more.

[1]
I don‘t have any issue with the bottom nav bar. But where the heck is the „back“ button? It can‘t be that hard to put a back button there...
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The toolbar on the bottom is easier to reach on big phones. But also you can decide whether you want it on the top or bottom in settings so it really isn't a big deal.

Losing extensions really does suck, but you can at least install a lot of the big ones like uBlock, Dark Reader etc.
You are misunderstanding what they meant by "personally." They don't mean they were singled out. They mean it was a first-hand experience. As in "I thanked him personally for the gift." This is the primary definition of personally
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Thousands of tons of explosives.

That said, I believe the article mentions the nitrates being removed during that time.
IIRC they did arrange a tour company/guide, but didn't actually tell the company that they were arriving via that border crossing.
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I have definitely noticed a bias towards Continental in a lot of your posts. Do you really think they have a leg up on the industry?
Burroughs is still being sold commercially as Unisys ClearPath, so at least NEWP is in a better shape in 2020 than BLISS.

Not sure what being a counter example means.

As for the rest, yeah you are right, BLISS came right in 1970.
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> In 1903 the Wright Brothers built the first airplane. In 1947, humans flew at supersonic speed for the first time.

And since then, not much has changed. Commercial supersonic flight never took off, and nowadays planes still use turbofans (invented during WWII). Engineering fields commonly make many breakthrough in a really short time, and then settle down for a long period. We can't predict how far IA progress will go. In the 50s, having flying cars by 2000 didn't sound unrealistic given how much flight advanced during the first half of the century. Yet, I don't think anyone nowadays believes we'll have them by 2100.

Also, between Da Vinci's Codex of the flight of birds (1502) and the Wright brothers flight, there has been four centuries. And regarding AGI, we might be closer to Da Vinci then to the Wright.
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> As late as 2004 leading newspapers editorialized that eradicating malaria in Africa outweighed the environmental damage

This doesn't make sense. Eradicating malaria in Africa is beneficial to the human species. Environmental damage applies to all other species. I don't understand how one could "outweigh" the other. They are just two different objectives.
I don't see that as counterintuitive. People wouldn't call for or desire for more police so they could have more encounters with more courtesy or more respect — they'd want more police because they feel it increases their level of safety and the level of safety of the community.

A LEO can be incredibly discourteous to you while still keeping you safe, and you might reasonably accept the former to gain a greater sense of the latter.
As far as complaints about the UI go, I agree with you. It's fine, and you can keep the URL bar at the top if you want to, that's why it asks you for your preference after you update.

The lack of addon support is annoying though. One addon I often use (Hide Fixed Elements, to get those annoying popovers to disappear) isn't supported and I still notice it missing every day. It seems to me that a browser built for customisability just isn't finished without the complete addon pack. They could've kept Fenix in beta but decided to launch with missing features regardless.

Wnat I'm also missing is about:config support. It exists but has been disabled in stable branches on purpose "in case people break their browser". This mindset is exactly why I'm starting to lose interest in Mozilla.

The UI looks great and the performance improvements are very welcome, but to say the bad news is all "just a vocal group" goes too far for me. Firefox users, especially on mobile, are mostly just "the vocal group". Everyone else is on Chrome already.
Rather than missing the point, they might just be disagreeing. It might be skepticism about the effectiveness of many of these “preventive measures”.

Just because they are named by their hoped for results, it doesn’t mean that they will lead to that outcome.

At least many might think that the effect from reducing police presence in the neighborhood (=defunding) won’t be counteracted by the other measures sufficiently.
2020 is already such a weird mish-mash of movie genres, I don't know if I want to add zombie-mosquito horror to that list
That's a bit of straw-man, I never said any of that. You have extended the conversation far beyond eating animals which is natural and can be done responsibly.
That's true, but it's nice to know it's there so you can have a use for old hardware, or to debug something obscure. More importantly, it's about the type of users it will attract.

Being able to have multiple app stores on android is also pretty good. I have an iPhone for work, and it's fine, but I don't know how people live with one. Everything wants to have ads or wants me to pay for it.
You act as if people to manage servers are free. How much time are you spending to avoid “cloud lock-in”? How much money are you spending on the extra support staff or are you making your developers do double duty? Is doing the grunt work of managing servers and services helping you win against your competitors? Is it helping you to go to market faster?

I’m not just speaking about cloud providers. Do you know how many healthcare systems are so tightly “locked in” to their EMR/EHR systems that it would make you cry?

So is “multi cloud” saving you money?
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Wasn't the majority of Flash content made before the rise of JIT-compliation and the use of mobile devices everywhere?
For me, the downfall of Flash were security issues and its similarity to Java plugins. Additionally, Adobe never invested all that much in Flash, Macromedia is still more associated with the name.
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Meh,

It's only because the government wanted to steal/use/sell/recover $ this happened.

It's just common fertiliser. Used everywhere. Transported everywhere.

If they really didn't want it they could have dumped it at sea and got some carbon credits.

Rickety ship's are a story, but nothing to do with Beirut.
I'm guessing here, as I've never built a sail-propelled interstellar probe :) But I'm assuming that:

1) The characteristics of a good laser-propelled acceleration sail would be different to those of a good solar-powered braking sail.

2) Flipping around while attached to a deployed solar sail would be hard. In my head I'm imagining something like looping a paraglider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oEeTtQIEjs) but much harder. It'd have to be autonomous (no fly-by-wire at those ranges), and for recovery purposes I'd want to have a spare sail anyway that it could deploy in the case the primary got tangled.
Are you referencing something specific?
They aren't that accurate and actual promote bad prescriptions - they tend to suggest higher myopia and astigmatism.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16815252/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorefractor
Any good sources to learn 1?
“We're all just human beings, and most people join the police because they want to do the right thing.”

I think in theory this is the idea, but I think in reality it isn’t. I know four people I grew up with who became police and all four were not people I’d want to run into. One, in high school, stated that being a cop is the only job you can have where you are paid to beat people up (I argued boxing, not realizing he’d later be a cop). Another was the middle school bully. Another was a high school drug dealer — who I’m not sure ever stopped. And the one black guy I knew who became a cop was just a jerk.

Maybe coincidence, but I have a feeling that the profession attracts exactly the mindset you don’t want as a cop. But people who don’t have that mindset probably don’t want to be cops.
The media is trying to portray it as a stand-off between Black and White, but I think it's more of a class thing: people that think their position in the society is fair vs. those who are unhappy with it.

I would say, there are 4 groups involved:

1. Hard-working Blacks. Against gangs. Against violence. Pro police. Pro civilization. Don't really hate Whites.

2. Short-sighted Blacks. Pro gangs. Against education. Don't have a high-paying job. Plenty of free time. Often substance abuse. Unhappy with their lives. Feel unfairly disadvantaged over Whites.

3. Hard-working Whites. Pretty much, the same as hard-working Blacks. Reasonable people are reasonable regardless of their race.

4. Short-sighted Whites. Unhappy with their lives. Didn't put much effort in education, mastering hard skills, etc. Do have a better starting point than the short-sighted Blacks due to their parents' efforts. Feel unfairly advantaged over group #2 and jealous towards group #3.

The thing is, groups #1 and #3 are busy with their work, while groups #2 and #4 are extremely vocal. So the click-driven media makes it look like there's a problem between the Black and Whites. While, in reality, groups #1 and #3 (a.k.a. silent majority) are happily working together, while groups #2 and #4 are stirring up the pot.
The first thing that comes to mind is a question. If we made something as smart as you why would you be legally allowed to use it as a slave?

Next the logical argument is that technology doesn't stand still. If we start with a human level AI we can gain increased runtime simply by throwing more compute at the problem. There is no particular reason we have to run it in real time why not 10x or 100x or 1000x.

What would you produce in your field if we gave you a century or a millennium between now and next year?

This leaves the last and perhaps obvious point that an AI that can improve itself can use these centuries of run time to work on such improvements.

If you have human level AI tomorrow you don't have merely human level AI for long and once something surpasses you, you are poorly positioned to predict or control it. This is not to say it would inherently be malicious but does your pet cat get much of a vote in the running of your day to day life?
You aren't making the case for abandoning the rule of law, you are just asserting that it is the right thing to do in this case.

Your argument seems to be that everything possible has been tried to address police violence and that there is no other solution other than to riot.

I could point to various crime statistics to suggest that the problem is not in fact intractable or "fairly common" (while still being a problem to be addressed) but it really isn't worth it. Even if I shared your apparent assessment of the problem, how does it make sense to physically and economically destroy communities in response? How does it make sense to make it impossible to actually "police" in these communities? How does it make sense to drive away anyone with resources from these communities? Why do you even think the people reacting this way are making a principled statement about police violence and aren't just taking advantage of the situation?

The phrase "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" comes to mind but it is entirely inadequate to describe the disastrous sequence of events that is going on in so many communities right now.
Any of the ones that cared but lacked authority may as well not exist, and any of the ones that have the authority but didn't use it correctly are proven inept by this; so _all of them_.
There was a project from Google just a few weeks ago, that is able to figure out position of irises with good precision using a web cam: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/i5mbdm/r_e...
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>Also I don't know why you count Ogg Vorbis as a fantasy kind of thing, it's used for pretty much any conference app and it has support on most consumer hardware and softwware for playback.

The idea in the day was it would replace mp3/aac/etc which it obviously didn't. That players support it is also not a mark of great success, since most people don't and won't care to use it. It just means that for the rare person caring enough, it will work.

From that aspect, the fact that conference apps use it as the internal format is hardly relevant, they could license and use whatever and we wouldn't know any difference.
Definitely agree that we should switch to object-capability systems.

Also, both hardware and software could be hardened through formal verification. Usually the focus is software, but given the recently exposed flaws, hardware verification seems sorely needed.

Standardizing on ECC memory and encrypted memory would help. Looks like encrypted memory is happening on all new x86 business-focused processors, but ECC is still far too uncommon which means RowHammer is still an issue.

And greatly simplified instruction sets would help, but that is probably the least likely to happen.
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Improved training requires more money, not less.
"An error occured" is not much of an improvement though. To me, it sounds like "A thing went wrong", with some specifity implied, but in the end the speaker withholds the information from you (perhaps because they have no idea themselves).

A more concrete example would actually tell me what went wrong, so that I can try to solve it, or it would give me a lead to get some help (like some reference I can take to the support channel to get help with my issue).
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Would it be accurate, then, to say that the "police abolitionist movement" does not want to abolish the police? If that is the case, why call it the police abolitionist movement? It seems like all that does is generate ill-will from people who are potential allies.
This is a strawman.

The context of the discussion is whether Google should be sending those DNS queries. The premises involved technical details about how heavy those DNS queries are. The DNS queries don't make things worse for the end-users privacy wise. Nobody is arguing that we should give Google more "abuse". There is an actual net negative of "abuse" in this case, by removing the abuse from the ISPs, with a solution that doesn't change your data privacy from Google.
Excuse me, i think your post is missind an /s at the end.
The parent claimed that it was a misconception that police were "quelling" peaceful protest and I shared a video of police disrupting a very obviously peaceful protest - feels relatively straightforward?

If you're looking for more information, https://twitter.com/MarcSallinger/status/1277063130523348995 is a Twitter thread showing the police using pepper spray and batons to disrupt and clear out said vigil.
Please, 90% of a 100 billion (that is currently growing faster than he can spend it) is not a fair comparison. Money is worthless once you've bought everything you want.
yes, because I'm sure no one will realize that within a month and then just run because there are no consequences.
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Shouldn’t that be possible on Android too then?
Was it the inherent quality (or lack thereof of the book) of mere resistance to counter opinions and certainty that "this can't be any good since it's ideologically opposite" though?
> One can remove DRM for amazon's ebook format (.azw3 ?) via some python scripts.

The fonts can be a pain to descramble though.
There has been numerous research showing that money rewards led to worse outcome. That was especially true do it creative tasks. Eg curiosity, fun, purpose, development was much better motivation.
Of course in real life job situation good money has to be on the table. But once they are are there, international motivators make all.the difference. I recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_...
i’m so glad we have reddit here to baby me and make sure no big bad “mis information” ever hits my precious ears. who knows what dangerous thing could happen. i might be forced to use critical thinking and evaluate claims on their values.

i’m so glad billion dollar corporations do my thinking for me :)
Wait, this is great. It means the guilt trip is very good at entrenching a viewpoint. So if you want to fuck someone over, find something he's doing that's hurting him and guilt trip him till he doubles down.

You can do this at the whole society level: for instance, no society that underemploys some large fraction of its populace will effectively compete against an equivalent one with efficient workplace participation.

So you can then blame them for all sorts of things. Guilt trip the Arabian nations for low participation of women, the Mississippis of America for low black participation. They'll double down and not correct. Then you beat them by just being better at using your people.

Sadly the article only hypothesizes this and doesn't talk about concrete evidence for the entrenching effect but one can hope.
I would argue that those are examples of non-violent approaches. Another tactic is to "play dead" so that the protesters have to be physically carried away, tedious and time consuming.

But those tactics are very different than what is going on and I think it is quite easy to distinguish between that sort of thing and rioting.
In the nightly there's a setting called "Use New Search Behaviour" (in the secret settings menu, tab the Firefox logo five times in the about screen to enable it) that solves a lot of UI annoyances for me. It seems they're not done tweaking the search behaviour yet.

Autocomplete works for me in the nightly (at least for DDG) so if it doesn't right now, it'll be fixed eventually.
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Freeports are pretty wild

You can do a lot with them and there are huge lacks in oversight

Try not to contribute to a Beirut
> Curiously, the three numbers do not seem really independent.

Those numbers.. Can't be a coincidence.
Maybe, and it's very well possible

I'm not sure how accurate the explosion size estimate is, but I suppose, not so much. And there are several factors that might have dampened the explosion (proximity to ground, water, etc)
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This is a nit, and should not be taken as engaging with the substance of your comment, positively or negatively:

"Antitrust" are the laws designed to break up monopolistic "trusts". So far as I am aware, Bill Gates only ever had costs from any antitrust operation, legal or illegal.
So, in a post-911 world, it's not even possible to categorically determine the owner of an international cargo ship due to the fact that mazes of opaque offshore (shell) company ownership is still not just possible and easy, but effectively "the norm".

No invasion or bombing of any country is going to affect the facilitation of terrorist funding anywhere near the action of restricting trade for companies that have these byzantine ownership structures that shield the actual owners and profiteers from identification. Anything other than shutting this farcical, gaping, cargo-ship sized hole in "international business" is, purely and simply, only theatrical effort against terrorism. It's actually worse than that because it's appearing to do something; claiming that efforts are being made, whilst it continues unabated.
Seems to me like Jobs needs to return