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> Now consider states make it illegal to get birth control pills and retroactively go after anyone who has them prescribed. It's according to the law, ain't it?

Your example is ex post facto, but it doesn't even have to be that egregious. State A makes it illegal to leave the state with the intention of having or facilitating an abortion. Because CVS operates nationally, cops in State A can go to a CVS locally and pull records of a CVS in State B filling a prescription for a medication that is sometimes, but not always, used for abortion. They can then use that to build a case for prosecuting the person in State A.
This reads like someone hopelessly out of touch with actual users.

Most users don't give a shit if their client is "honest", or if it's respects intellectual property. These are concerns of web admins and media companies. Users just want something to load websites.
It's so telling when you continue to use the slur "bcash" and accuse others of being dishonest.

And focusing so much on a subreddit that's not tied to the project no more than r/bitcoin is to Bitcoin, while dismissing it's existential reason as "irrelevant", is tiring.
I didn't mean you were, I just said that talking to people is effective but some take it up a level where it likely ends badly.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Like others have said, “Water can’t be free anywhere” seems to be inevitable at a commercial level--but dystopian on an individual level. If you had neighbors in your rural area aggressively pumping water out of the ground your well would dry up...and you'd be paying "market price" for it.

Just looking at water usage when I owned a house, irrigation uses a ridiculous amount of water relative to everything else individuals use to live--including laundry, bathing, dishes, etc. If memory serves, sewage costs are significantly more than the water itself (and sewage as metered off of water consumption--so you're likely paying sewage feeds on water you're irrigating with).

The actual cost of enough clean drinking water for people is very small. Enough that drinking fountains are common and people shouldn't need to ration drinking water.
Why Electron? Better go the lightweight way with Tauri, NodeGUI or DeskGap.
> switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox

Mozilla is actually not an ethical organization, if ethics mean the things that are espoused in this article.

Mozilla receives literally billions from Google[1] every year -- $26,000,000,000.00 in 2021 alone, with only 3% market share. That's a lot of zeros -- some startups might be rather happy to see an annual 26 billion funding round!

Mozilla forced privacy-rejecting products like Pocket[2] into Firefox.

Mozilla secretly-installed advertising extensions[3].

1. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934961/google-antitrus...

2. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-firefox-brows...

3. https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-touting-mozilla-caught...

CORRECTION: a comment below correctly points out that Mozilla wasn't the only recipient of that $26B in 2021; it appears that Apple was the biggest payee.
Yep. Some combination of drying, salting, and smoking was pretty much it.

No refrigeration. No freezing. No canning.

They used a lot of salt.
Nominally. But if you’re relying on a drug for medical care and it becomes illegal, the distinction seems superficial to me, no?
I have been thinking it was the best way to introduce people to Blockchain but having to deploy it on a layer 2 and having to teach people how to switch has discouraged me a bit for getting started.

I was thinking it could be for the social club or a charity project.
> Now consider states make it illegal to get birth control pills and retroactively go after anyone who has them prescribed. It's according to the law, ain't it?

Are we discussing legality, morality, what should be legal, or what should be moral? I agree that would be bad morally, and shouldn't be legal, and currently isn't. My original comment was regarding how the process currently works, and why. It was also to explain that any concern of privacy regarding prescriptions comes more from the department of health/board of pharmacies than it does from 3rd partys providing documents, as the documents arent invading privacy anymore than what already happens.

> The states should keep their noses out of this and in effect all drugs should be made legal.

The whole "your right to swing your fist ends where someones face begins" thing applies here. The problem with some heavier drugs, and their addictive nature, comes in how it effects others. When something is so addictive that a person would sell their own child to acquire more of it, maybe we should limit access to that thing. Ive known a lot of addicts professionally and personally. They come in various degrees of wanting help. Some are in denial, some would do anything to kick the addiction. Some don't care at all and would fight to refuse any help under any circumstance. Its a super complicated issue, "Just legalize all of it", and "Just criminalize and punish all of it" are both equally shortsighted solutions.

> we should make it trivially easy to get help
I agree 100%

> it should be trivially easy for a pharmacy to check if a doctor did indeed prescribe something without raping the privacy of everyone involved

It is, and they do. They call the doctor, he says "I didnt write this". Then he gives me a list of people who filled prescriptions he didnt write. The biggest invasion of privacy of unaffected people is when we have a confirmed suspect, we see what other doctors he filled a prescription for, and then go through that list with the new doctor to see what is and isnt legit.

So yeah, at some point in a table of a few hundred people I probably saw some names of people who were a doctors patient, and that they have a prescription from him. I've been inside their privacy just as much as the receptionist at the doctor's office and the pharmacy tech at the CVS
Navigate to about:processes and click the X to your heart's content (it's also from Tools : Browser Tools : Task Manager )
Reminiscent of the business school joke - What does US Steel make? The answer is not "steel", but "money", that being the point of any company.
> (and a fair number of people (including reviewers!) actively propagandize about these cards, like complaining the 4060 or 4060 Ti is actually slower than its predecessor - they're absolutely not, even at 4K (tough for a 6600XT tier card!) the 4060 Ti is still faster on average. And as a general statement, AMD made the same switch to 128b memory bus last gen already without catastrophic issues, like the aforementioned 6600XT. A card can still be a mediocre step without making shit up about it, and the 3060 Ti was the absolute peak of the 30-series value so it's understandable the 40-series struggles to drastically outpace it. But it's not slower, either.)

Yeah, the 3060 Ti was probably the best 30-series card, but the 4060 Ti being 128 bit is a much bigger issue than the 6600 XT or 4060 being 128 bit. You see, the 6600 XT succeeded the 192-bit 5600 XT, and the 4060 succeeded the also 192-bit 3060. But the 3060 Ti was a 256 bit card.

I'm also pretty sure that the 3070, which is only a small step up from the 3060 Ti, often outpacing the 4060 Ti and it becomes a much worse thing, also considering that the 3060 Ti and 4060 Ti both launched for $400. (The 6600 XT also launched for an MSRP of $380, but this was amidst the huge pricing bubble and AMD didn't want to hand over all of that to scalpers.)

To add insult to injury, the 4060 Ti is available in a 16 GB variant, which has so much memory relative to its bit width that Nvidia has to put the chips both front and back. GA104 cards which wouldn't need such tricks did not get one.

The 4070 and 7800 XT are fine from a value perspective, but it's above the price range that most people are in. But the value proposition drops off quite hard there. GPUs like the 7600 or 4060 Ti offer almost nothing over their predecessor in terms of gaming performance, so it makes sense why nobody buys them. But those are the segments that are supposed to sell well.
Check out FileOptimizer (https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimi...)
Up to 779 MW now, maybe they're ramping it up slowly?
The engine monopoly point has been kind of stupid for a while now. Blink is open source. It's a stable target. It's not vendor-locked. There is no problem with it having a monopoly, and I am sure the industry can decide to fork it or start over if the leadership goes absolutely cuckoo. When it comes to good open source projects, we WANT to be converging on that one leading project and ensuring it's the best it can be. If Mozilla got their team to work supporting Blink and integrated it into Firefox, we'd probably all be better off.
On the phone as well? Impressive.

Firefox sync may then only be for us regular mortals.
Great! Not every visa granted needs to be permanent residence. Korea doesn’t need foreigners pushing up already difficult home prices. This is a cool program and they haven’t offered so many benefits it’ll be hard to cut off one day if it causes negative economic effects
I found Firefox to be much more response when operating lots of tabs and opening and closing tabs quickly with keyboard shortcuts on Windows. My direct comparison is Microsoft Edge (Chromium based) which is noticeably sluggish on CTRL-W and then trying to type a new address.

Even after days of usage, my Firefox process might grow to 3-4gb of ram usage with no noticeable performance penalty.
> Intel competes hard since its in distant third place but it’s products are far far behind in terms of performance.

Not THAT far behind. The arc 770 is currently $280 and is competitive with the nVidia 3060 at $290.

This is intel's first generation dedicated video card. I have a lot of hope for what comes with gen2. Assuming Intel doesn't just abandon the line (here's to hoping) there's a really good chance they come up from behind.

Make sure you look into more recent arc benchmarks. One of the issues Intel had is their drivers sucked on release. They've mostly resolved a lot of those issues.

I think the entire reason Intel entered the fray here is because they saw nVidia and AMD stagnating.
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I mean managing space on small multiple screens. The technical aspects are not complex but having to manage a small amount of screeen real estate is annoying, especially across multiple screens.
> not with the expected increase in energy consumption

Energy consumption is always strictly limited by energy supply.

> And other sources that we do intend to shut down.

"We" "intend" many things, but if there's a danger of blackouts or brownouts, we find ways to keep power plants running longer because (despite appearances) the people in charge mostly aren't idiots, and the few exceptions (in this context, Texas) provide ample evidence to everyone else.

> Also depends on where you live.

Unless you mean the imminent danger of airstrikes to Ukrainian, Gazan, etc. power stations, that sentence fragment is too vague to communicate anything. And if you do, sure, but that's still an issue for literally all possible power plants given no structures are safe in war zones.
Lol. There are a lot of things that should not be possible in the majority of the civilized works.

If this is your defense you're in trouble. Take for example the mythical "checks and balances" that are supposed to keep elected representatives under control. How is that working out?

US == freedom and democracy! Until you see the fucking army mobilized to protect the capitol like we are some banana republic where the dictator in charge decided they would like to remain in power. This also is not possible in the US, right?
Mentioning Gecko repeatedly without mentioning WebRender, the rendering engine that many users are using today in Firefox, and which will become the default/only rendering engine at some point in the future,[0] makes it seem that you have no idea about what you are speaking of.

0. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
Have you tried FileOptimizer (https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimi...) for shrinking their size?
I think it's also common in candy factories. New employees tend to eat a lot, but after the first week or so consumption declines considerably.
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I might move for a slightly weird reason. I have Chrome and Firefox and tend to use whatever's the less annoying. Recently there's a weird glitch in Chrome that in Twitter that if you scroll down by hitting space it kind of slowly keeps scrolling. Doesn't happen in Firefox so there you go.
Dystopian is “water was free so the big farming business pumped the aquifer dry and exported the agricultural goods. Now people here have no water and the land is a desert”.

This stuff is economics 101.

The full quote is:

“”Soren Bjorn, a senior executive at Driscoll’s who in January will become the chief executive, said in an interview that he “absolutely” sees the region as a model of water pricing that could be replicated in water-stressed regions from Texas to Portugal. “Water can’t be free anywhere, because you can’t run a sustainable water supply without pricing it,” he said. “That would apply to the globe."
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My observation has been that if the company has fewer than 100 employees, yet has a director-level or VP-level "...of HR", you will watch candidates one after another slip through your fingers. When you don't have enough employees worthy of a "VP of HR", then that VP will find busy work to justify their existence.

My poster child is a company of about 30 that had a "VP of HR". I can't count how many candidates took another offer while she sat on her ass "checking references".
Well, hotloading is very powerful, and can really mess things up in a hurry. You've got to plan for it. I wouldn't expect ejabberd to be built to hotload between releases (unless the docs say you can)

But for hotfixes, it's great. And for code you write, it's often possible to structure even large changes for hotloading.

A lot of people have built deployment around the limitations of other technology, and it's a hard thing to get them to hotload. But if you can, it really reduces the cycle time between when you detect an issue and when its fixed and deployed.

Short cycles are great because for many issues you can pick the issue up, fix it, deploy it, verify the fix, and be done without having to switch tasks. Additionally, a short cycle reduces the duration of impact for simple bugs, which means you need to spend less effort on finding them before deploy (probably not no effort though). Complex bugs that persist broken state are still difficult to remedy, so you should still spend significant effort on finding those before deployment.

(Also, I'm really not sure why having the port installed would interfere with building a new one, but I've always built Erlang with make and erlc which is maybe a bit unusual)
> Out of charity, I'll assume the former. But to be honest, every time I've spoken at length about this with LEOs, it's inevitably turned out to be the latter.

I am sure this is often true at the local LE level. But remember, they deal almost entirely with criminal investigations about individuals for things that do not present a broader risk to the public (beyond their continued individual behavior).

In our case, we are not reifying 'the drug menace' to a public level; we are trying to find out if a barge is full of vegetable oil or an explosive polymerization agent. And in those cases, no, I don't think your rights to privacy supersede our obligation to understand if there's a major threat to other people.

> That doesn't matter. You're still talking about accessing private, sensitive data about an individual.

This is true and I can assure you I know quite a bit about what can be in people medical records (I am a MD who has worked extensively in medical records exchange and machine learning). I don't think accessing this kind of data should be possible without genuine need.

> Yes, and that's exactly why warrants exist.

In our case at least, warrants wouldn't even make sense. We were not conducting criminal investigations and asking for access to pursue a person against their will, in response to a crime. We were trying to find out about near-term threats to other people.

I think you and I probably agree on the spirit here - it's just that in our case (and cases like the NTSB or FAA) there are compelling public interests that supersede someones right to privacy. Finding out if you were prescribed benzos so I can charge you for some garbage possession misdemeanor is not one; finding out if there's 30,000 barrels of explosive leaking under a highway is.

No?
Yes, the lending during bailouts could still pick winners/losers, but overall during normal times the government would be spending relatively less compared to the private market (as it'd be constrained to what level of taxation voters were willing to tolerate), and there'd also be potentially more oversight over its spending (as it'd have to justify spending increases in order to receive public support for increasing taxes to pay for it).
I worked at a rocket startup. 1/3 ex SpaceX. 1/3 ex Google/Facebook.

I interviewed a guy and asked him, essentially, "find the biggest number in a 2D array". This guy spent half an hour struggling because he "wasn't sure how to look through the grid in a circle pattern".

You'd be incredibly surprised who gets interviews.
In the last year of my last job I took on recruiting and mentoring tasks as one of my goals for the year. Management encouraged it, I got great feedback all year, and in my annual retrospective I highlighted it as a big win. When the annual review came around though it got no mention and I was basically punished for taking on those tasks because my billable time went down a small amount, even though we all knew (and agreed) that would happen. That, and other reasons, are why I found a new job the next month.

My experience is the same as yours OP. Hiring just isn't treated with any respect and your career will probably suffer if you take it on.

Now that i've finished complaining... I think there's a good reason for this behavior. In the US, where most of our posters are from, you can fire people for any or no reason. It's true that you can put in more effort at the beginning of the hiring process to find better candidates but you won't really know if they are a good fit until they work there for a while. You can have great candidates on paper who don't work out in person, and terrible candidates on paper who are great on the job. This randomness to the hiring process means that people don't treat it as a real discipline. And if you do hire a dud, you just fire them. Is it really any wonder that most recruiting processes are so callous?
The article is specifically talking about ghosting that happens after an interview.
What if the ethics come at a performance cost? Then you have to lead with what you value (and hope the market agrees)
I gave it a fair shot but somehow I ended up with Edge as my full time browser…

I am looking forward to Arc on Windows, it’s been nice on MacOS
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It’s literally a technological monoculture controlled by one company that can’t be trusted.

Ironically, focusing on the window chrome does not matter for a healthy web, let alone a healthy open standard.
I'm hardly contemptuous.
If I had a higher opinion of asterisk, I would still assume it's an error as that's exactly what it looks like.
Also, do you google the title of every article you read? Why would you say this as if that's something you expect me to do.
I'm not american, Hacker News is full of us, why would you assume that a specific sentence with a grammatical error is "well known".

You don't outright call me acting in bad faith, but you sure imply it. I am not embarrased at all, though I am grateful for the other commenter explaining the very nation-specific joke.

edit: I checked the video, it's thirteen years old! I wouldn't even expect an american to remember that.
Not just formaldehyde fumes, BTW:

"In announcing a massive recall of ventilators and sleep apnea machines, Philips Respironics acknowledged that an industrial foam placed inside the devices to reduce noise could break apart and send tiny particles and fumes into the noses, mouths and lungs of patients."

https://www.propublica.org/article/nine-stories-of-people-im...
There are plenty of alternative browsers based on Chromium that are way better than Firefox, and I don't see any good reason to switch on it.

I went away from Firefox a few years ago and am very happy about it.

I also think that the "free web" arguments are bullshit. Blink is open source, so any wrongdoing from Google can be undone.

An organization like Mozilla that is able to develop and maintain his own engine could achieve the same results by forking Blink. It would probably reduce the costs by more than 10, without any ethical compromise, resulting in a far better browser overall.

If they wanted it, they could lead the way to bridge projects like ungoogled-chromium or the various attempts at reviving android extensions in a consistent and ethical fork. Probably even convince others like Vivaldi, Edge, Opera or even Apple to join the initiative.
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This is a musty basement in need of repair. One wall appears more cracked than many of the others.

> swing sledgehammer
It'll all render the same using Chrome/Blink, but forks might take out tracking by Google (and potentially add other tracking), add adblock outside of plugins, or re-add support for Manifest V2 to name a few. Chromium forks can actually be pretty different.
I have two profiles for firefox dorkily called "hax0r mode" and "normie mode", each with different theming so I can tell the diff.
I try to do as much as I can in hax0r mode, which has uBlock O, NoScript, auto cookie delete and a few other privacy settings like no 3rd party cookies. Sites usually start pretty broken before I tweak NoScript for them, which I'm OK with.

Occasionally, sites are obstinate and I need to use Normie mode (e.g. for Maps)

Normie mode just has uBlock O, containers. I really have zero problems with sites breaking here.
> headless browser

I think you mean chromeless (an amusingly confusing term when it's chrome hosting the PWA). If it were headless, you wouldn't see anything at all.
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You setup is similar to mine in terms of workflow but I just have a single 48” split into three vertical panels.
I can't quite tell if you're trying to discuss policy (which is currently being discussed in this thread) or the law.

If you're trying to discuss the law, then your summary is both paradigmatically flawed (conflation of legislative versus constitutional protections, protected status versus suspect classification, etc.) and factually incorrect (being gay was not a protected class in 2008 in almost any jurisdiction, and making a political donation is not an action subject to the Civil Rights Act).

If instead you're trying to discuss principles, then your explicit embrace of being unprincipled seems... odd. Principles always apply symmetrically and to both sides. That's what makes them principles.
OK so what is broken? The homepage comes up fine and a few clicks seem fine. Do I have to sign up to see issues?