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> The picture you’re painting doesn’t reflect the reality of the country

As someone who has spent much of my life in that country, yes it does. However, I think that you are conflating orthogonal concepts.
And if the mainstream media channels are misrepresenting the protestors so blatantly - what other "news" has been propagated to us that they've misrepresented, even subtly?
> Fewer deaths means smaller healthcare expenditure

Well, actually more deaths would mean smaller healthcare expenditure. The dead can't get sick anymore.
Just because you don't want to think about externalities doesn't mean they don't exist. There are a lot of strong ideological assumptions you have to make to handwave all these away as "bullshit".
I would argue that a more accurate title would be "Dutch shipyard coerces government to dismantle Rotterdam bridge temporarily"
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Depending on the search engine you use, you can figure that manually, yes.
The title is really misleading. Bezos isn’t sailing through the bridge and having it dismantled to get it out of his way. A Rotterdam shipbuilder _assembling_ the yacht has specialized requirements and needs to do part of the assembly on one side of the bridge.
Ah, that explains it. Thank you. I recommend https://ffprofile.com/ which was posted earlier here on HN. Makes it easier to deploy Firefox with saner defaults.

You know I moved from Netscape 3.0 Gold to later versions, to Mozilla, to Phoenix, Firebird, and then Firefox. I tried other browsers but it's always a subpar experience for me. My only gripe is that they kept changing the UI.
You can enforce it by feeding a system with data, then checking if the data is in the system (e.g. by trying to buy the data, or pretending to be an advertiser).
I see your point, but one of the main problems of P3P was its complexity. There's more than two decades of privacy-enhancing technology research showing that privacy controls need to be fundamentally simple.

I think DNT/GPC can be more fine-grained than you make it out to be. The spec is simple, but there's nothing in there that stops you from developing a browser extension that only sends DNT/GPC signals to a curated list of known bad trackers. That would give you as an advanced user some configurability while it's a simple checkbox for most folks.
>I updated the post with several examples of the type of content I want you to find.

The point I'm making is that I think your underlying premise, that all sites which have any kind of monetary element to them are fundamentally corrupt in terms of intention or conflict of intention, is flawed. I've now read multiple reviews on https://www.mechtype.com/category/reviews/ that are quite clearly the work of a keen mechanical keyboard hobbyist with sufficient details, knowledge and effort to lead me to believe the work is genuine and useful rather than merely financially motivated alone or spammy. There are many examples of what you suggest, and I agree that many sites with affiliate links and ad popups are disingenuous and fall much closer to the spam end of the spectrum. But there are still useful results if the user is remotely competent at parsing information. If your argument is that users shouldn't need that competence, and search engines should be kinder to less competent users in that regard, then that's a separate (and probably more interesting) conversation.

That site also has a clear affiliate disclosure along with this:

https://www.mechtype.com/disclosures/

>Paid Reviews/Sponsored Posts. MechType does NOT accept paid reviews or sponsored posts. All thoughts expressed within our reviews are our own opinions. However, MechType may on occasion accept product samples for review. When a product sample is provided for review it will be clearly and fully disclosed in the post along with the company/persons who provided the sample.
> I don't think it's too late to fix this. We can build better search engines, or better yet, tools more suitable tools for discovery. It doesn't have to be big to be useful.

Over the next few years, things will change. When people don't like the product, it gives us an opportunity to make products people do like. Right now, a lot of the internet is just not very likable.
At first I thought Bezos was taking his yacht into Rotterdam but it makes a lot more sense.

If the municipality doesn’t want the yacht builder to dismantle the bridge they should put restrictions on how large they can be. I’m betting it’s much better for the city to be building, presumably, some of the best yachts in the world. They should come to some kind of agreement that’s ok for everyone city, ship builder, and historical society.
I've became so used to ignore useless stuff on pages that I sometimes don't even know what I came for originally.
The modern web makes me totally mindless.
Can't happen. Maps uses Google Location Services, which is built into Android and replaces the default, raw-sensor location provider for all applications. They have sunk their rootkit deep. You can't do this without uninstalling Google Play Services.
JavaScript platforms now support error cause / error origin
The feature (already widely available in other languages) has the potential to greatly enhance error handling in JS.
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Isn't the point you're making already possible with "if no one visits your spyware ridden site, the market has spoken, too bad?
> abstract/concrete ideas

If by "idea" you mean "concept", then they can only be abstract. Images are of concrete things.

"and when you speak of the 'time-keeping function' of the clock, or of its spring's 'elasticity', it is hard to see exactly what your ideas can copy"

This sounds very imagist and Humean. Take any principle or any concept. Can you see the law of contradiction? The primality of numbers? That the sum of the angles of all triangles is 180 degrees? What about your concept of triangle? No, not the image in your mind right now. That's just one particular triangle with definite color and shape. I mean the concept of triangularity, that which is true of all triangles and that which makes the aforementioned law of triangles true. You can't imagine that either.

Indeed, this is the basis for the Aristotelian proof of the immateriality of the intellect. If all material things are concrete (this or that triangle), and all concepts are universal (they apply to multiple things but do not exist on their own as such), then the intellect is not material. For if it was material, then it could not "contain" abstract concepts, only concrete images of particular triangles.
> how will this be enforced? Will authorities go and audit the data? How will they know where to look? Etc. “Hey did you delete the data?” “Yes, we deleted it” would, indeed, be laughable.

If you're not familiar with Northern European culture, I'm quite sure the companies can expect literal inspectors in their offices expecting clear answers to where the data is and what was done with it. They will be pleasant but firm, focused and unswerving. Infractions and evasions will be carefully noted. These notes will then form the basis of further lawsuits. These people are not fucking around.
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I always think of South Park. It's always a choice between a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
These animals would have suffered far less than the average animal we eat for food today. If we can judge this program and find it horrible, we can certainly stop our own contributions to animal cruelty.
That doesn't work if you give control to a third party. This is a defect in the implementation of a centralized market place.
EU sets out green label proposal for gas and nuclear power
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This is a popup I'd be happy to see.
Do note that the bridge is not in use for traffic and only a monument. The government did say it wasn't going to be dismantled anymore though.
>>So in your opinion it was the companies fault that they didn't purposely leave a competitive advantage on the table while their competition surely utilized it?

Are you OK with upper middle class and rich people getting in line at 'no questions asked' food banks? even though they don't need the help? taking away food from people that actually need it?

If so, please explain the the difference.
Most Windows shops could not care less about WinRT. Nobody is going to develop libraries that expose a WinRT interface besides Microsoft, nobody is going to use it unless they must, just as almost nobody exposes COM APIs unless they need to run within Office or something. WinRT is so unpopular that all language support was developed by Microsoft themselves.

I think we're talking over each other. I'm not following your point. Do you believe WinRT is going to become the new standard for cross-language interoperability, even on Windows?

Libraries are either OS libraries, in which case something wraps the "platform ABI" and hides the interface (see SDL on Android for example), language specific (.NET libs are only for .NET languages), have custom tailored language A <-> language B binding generators (e.g. Shiboken to expose C++ Qt to Python), or expose a C API.

Even tools like Xamarin to expose Android APIs to .NET rely heavily on intermediate C glue because that's the only alternative (besides IPC, which is not desirable) to avoid running on the JVM.
It's not a bridge that is actually in use. It's a historical bridge that's a national monument.
Buying Call and Put at same strike and expiration is just simple Long Straddle position, typically used near Earnings announcements, when you are expecting underlying to move significantly but not sure of direction. You don't need a neural network to do this. Look up books by Lawrence McMillan and Sheldon Nutenberg to learn more about options trading.
Yeah. I live in Russia and I trust this government more than e.g. the American one. It's always a matter of perspective.
Python? Yes. Unix? No.

There are environments for Python for Android and iOS, there are also web based ways to use an interpreter [1]. You can also get going with online tutorials instead of getting a book. Python has way way more options than just about anything else.

Considering your limitations you will probably not get beyond the basics of programming until you get your hands on a computer. Even if it is only a Raspberry PI. Entering large amounts of text or running even slightly larger scripts will be painful.

You will be better of trying out basic syntax to the point you understand it and only read the longer examples. One of the experiences of learning programming is entering longer texts and having them not work. Errors are usually small things and you need to be able to find them. In the beginning this is extremely frustrating and I don’t recommend doing this on phone.

[1]: https://www.python.org/shell/
> when it was a simple browser extension

You can download packages of extensions. I would recommend that you do it for the ones you love.

But the browser APIs are constantly changing, forcing you to keep running in order not to fall behind.
You were the one who claimed to be able to find anything on google, so I provided you with something difficult to find. Don't tell me I'm asking for the wrong thing, especially given I've demonstrated that pages matching my criteria do indeed exist.
I didn't find who will pay for the costs of the removal and restoration.
How many EU countries run a "two-party first past the post system" nowadays?

If you are in a first past the post system, and in a safe seat, vote for one of the no-chance-of-winning candidates who best represents your views. Although they won't win, the fact that they are getting votes will be noticed and the main 2 parties will respond by adopting some of their policies. E.g. in the UK as more people vote for the Green party, other parties will become more Green to get those votes back, even though the Green party has only ever got a single MP.
Good news: no special header is necessary, this should be the default as per the GDPR.
Let's go back to the old glory of RSS.

I was so frustated to see Facebook/Twitter using the fundamentals of RSS to their advantage whereas everybody should have started to use RSS for the greater good.
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If you’re on the Mac, you might want to give Grip (https://gripgrpc.dev) a chance. It’s a native client for gRPC. (Disclosure: I’m the author.)
Thanks for the pointer! Do we have any idea why the Belgian DPA's press release would skip this part?
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>But it is essential. Google (and Apple) maps provide lane specific navigation directions, which are really only possible with assisted GPS.

I'm trying very hard to not be sarcastic, but the past 10+ years it was not essential and served me great every time
I also thought anyone could learn to code at at least a basic level, until I worked for a year as a computer science instructor, including for the big intro class for freshmen. Some people's brains just aren't wired for it. (And this was a self-selected group in a positive sense; I would expect a random set of the population to do worse.)
Basic logic of social media platforms [pdf]
I don't think the $100k Foreign-earned income exclusion matters to Bezos too much.
> The industry should really get together and

The industry already got together and decided they are going to ignore GDPR in particular and people's privacy in general.
Advocacy groups tend to be overly optimistic.

Recently there was a comparison photo in circulation among urban planning activists showing how the Place de Brouckère in Brussels, Belgium was renovated removing car traffic and putting more greenery, ostensibly making it a location more inviting for pedestrians.

Problem is, the most recent photo in that comparison was from 2019 or so and if you look at the 2021 photos then indeed the cars are gone, but the place is a concrete desert with just a few trees left.

EDIT: most recent photo was from 2019:

https://mobile.twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/14726871949889...
The bridge dismantling isn’t why a huge personal yacht is disgusting, indeed.

It is just a poor choice of resource allocation, any way you look at it. Personally for Bezos, or as a society
Postman is so incredibly bloated and slow these days. All I want is a REST client, but it feels like every time I want to perform a basic task now, I have to dig past all of their confusing platform and cloud stuff that I have no interest in.
I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc.
To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question is is how do you actually expect products to just stop active feature development? Or would you rather a second standalone app to install?

I'm a relatively young developer so I'm hoping to gain some insight from this mindset I see all too often.
But it’s a lot funnier imagining a Duke or Lord riding atop his minions (literally on their backs) and nonchalantly waiving to have trees and villages be destroyed to accommodate his path. Oh, and that whole going to space thing in a giant dick shaped rocket.
They say it costs upwards of US$500M.
What crazy to me is how hard to parse the email was. I could hardly make heads or tails of it, and I'm no dummy. It almost seemed intentional, and now it makes sense.

Even manually setting this feature once you understand it I can't do either!

So first you might land here:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/11194328#zippy=%2Chow-do...

Then the instructions say:

> You can enable or disable Google Workspace search history:

> * Go to the My Activity page.

> * Click Other Google activity and then Google Workspace search history.

> * Click On or Off.

But this is wrong! When you follow the link the "Google workspace search history" is hidden in a hamburger menu in the top left. You have to click that to open the menu, THEN you can click on "Other Google Activity". But on THAT page there is no setting called "Google Workspace Search History". Just the old "Web & App Activity"

So what, I have to set a reminder for after 3/29/22 to come back to this screen? Madness!
Got it in 3 tries! Pretty happy with myself, especially since...

*Spoiler*

...It had 2 different operators.
Strange, I never encounter any bugs. I am on Windows in corporate land and Linux at home, all good!
> EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal.

Plagued Europeans? Are they seeing additional consent pop ups beyond the ones all the rest of us are tortured with?
Yeah, they probably meant long-term battery supply.
I think it's somewhat ironic that when I Google quote "how to fold a Shurgard moving crate" this article shows up on page 1 of the results.

I agree with the author's conclusion, but the example is a poor one. I would expect the sort of content to come directly from the manufacturer. Is it surprising nobody has blogged about a specific moving crate?
That's sticker shock for me... I'm paying $50/month for 1Gig in Rural Utah... I'm good.
> HTTP header which means "NO! Do not track anything, do not profile, do not collect any information [...]"

I think it's called uBlock Origin. No other way. Yet.
> I basically used it as a curl gui.

I just use Browser's Network tab for that nowadays. CORS can be a trouble at times, but that can be avoided with a few tweaks.
I definitely rather would have had a second (and third and further,...) app. But I guess most people do not.
That metric is misleading since it’s skewed by highway driving where people cover lots of mileage with far fewer points of contention. A better metric would be something like operating time but even there you’d probably want more nuance since different environments have different safety characteristics (someone stuck in traffic on the freeway just doesn’t have as many things to get right as a driver on a city street even if they’re both averaging 5mph).

The law actually does have a fairly strong correlation with safety — this is the basis of the claims that something over 90% of collisions are due to driver error – but there is a growing recognition that it’s not enough, and design changes to streets and cars are needed to reduce the number of times where obedience to the law is the only thing protecting someone else.
Well, the DNT header was kneecapped from the beginning, as it was required to be off by default, whereas GDPR rightly reuqires users to explicitly request to be tracked.
So far, our comments have boiled down to "Yes you can assess unimproved value of improved land", and "No, you can't, there is no way to get that number separate from the value of improvements."

So I'm going to try to say something different.

1. Here is the article that convinces me it is very possible to assess land separate from improvements. It details several strategies for doing so. Also properties are assessed in these ways already in many places.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-par...

2. Accuracy of assessment does not need to be super high for this idea to work. You just need an assessment with the intent of assessing unimproved land. The tax does not need to be literally 100% of unimproved land value, it just has to be a high percentage. Let's say there is a +/- 30% accuracy of unimproved land value assessment. We can have a 70% tax on that assessed value. Some people would in actuality be taxed at 97.5% of land value, and some people at 52.5% of land value. Perhaps the unfairness of this discrepancy is a true downside. However, one could argue the same about property taxes now.
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How does anyone have a choice in this?
> It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed. Fact checking liars or misleading statements is tedious, and some politicians lie or mislead....

> I can't blame journalists for the politicians lying or misleading, but I can blame them for so often going for the easy stories that they are fed, instead of the hard ones they have to look for or put together.

It's worth noting that journalism in general has had its revenue streams decimated by Craigslist, clickbait, subscriber loss due to competing with free, etc. Except for very few prestige outlets, most media outlets have been forced to shrink their newsrooms, year after year, for a couple decades. Even though the prestige outlets are healthier, they're not so healthy as to be able to pick up all the slack.

It's easy to criticize someone for not doing as thorough a job as you'd like, but it's not very reasonable when that person is the last man standing from a team of ten, and the team's workload has increased in the meantime.
It seems like you have a problem and a solution both staring right at you.
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> I wonder if the people using that language naturally and spontaneously evolved it

This doesn't make sense. You can't spontaneously evolve your own language; it's not a language until you've explained it to someone, and to do that, you'll have to use another language (whether verbal or physical.) "Tribe" is a shorthand that points at a few common meanings and a few less common ones, in at least English, and probably a few other languages. If you're confused about the meaning of the speaker, you ask specific questions in order to clarify it. If the speaker starts to get squirrelly about the meaning of the words they're using, suspect that they're repeating something they heard somewhere. When the same words in the same context shift meaning, that's called equivocation.

I, myself, proudly declare alliances to particular "tribes." Talking about tribal thinking doesn't imply that you think you're above it. Implying in sarcastic passive voice that people who talk about "tribes" are actually members of tribes is a self-own that I don't understand the point of.

It's only because we're both members of the English-speaking community that we have any means of communicating over the web.