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I tried to switch to Firefox while ago, but there are two problems which holds me back:

- Firefox is horrible with inversive color theme (light text on dark background). With Chrome it just works on 99% websites

- KDE Firefox integration is horrible.
Lots of things are popular. However, I thought the rough consensus was more like what's outlined in (pulling up a recent relevant paper) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949959/

"Successful weight loss can be achieved with either a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet when coupled with behavioral treatment. A low-carbohydrate diet is associated with favorable changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors at 2 years."

"Data from several randomized trials over the past 6 years have demonstrated that low-carbohydrate diets produced greater short-term (6 months) weight loss than low-fat, calorie-restricted diets (1-5). The longer-term (1 to 2 years) results are mixed."

"Implication: Overweight persons can achieve substantial weight loss at 2 years if they participate in a behavioral intervention combined with a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate diet."

Also, attrition rates were about the same between the two.
I haven't seen this multiple download issue with Firefox, but you may like the DownThemAll! download manager, it provides a queue, maximum downloads, bandwidth limits, and other very nice features: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
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But we have no evidence that the diseases we wan to get rid of are diet driven, even obesity is amenable to better social cures than lets all eat this way.

Where can I find details on what did happen to people 11,000 years ago?
I had heard it before, but, based on the frequency with which I hear it, it is a new word for the majority of people.
FWIW It's stopped doing that to me in recent weeks.
It's a bit of a craze to mock things, we like to be pack animals feasting on the fresh carcus afterall. Just search Nickleback on Reddit.

However it's bizzarely useful in a way. Say you've got a trail version of an application, you can have a penalty of users who run the app for more than a month without a purchase. Simply flick the font in to Comic Sans. You gain geek credit, even some free blog advertising under the Comic Sans lol bandwagon.

That then creates more posative feedback, people like to read things they are already vaugely familiar with, so you get that natural circle of hate.
This is totally news to me as well. I'll have to investigate and confirm.
> How about pin pointing how exactly google tracks you more or better with chrome than with ff?

Why? It can change it the next update. Or you can just use Firefox (and NoScript) with much less worry.
http://caniuse.com/#cats=CSS
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Where is the parent saying anything about meal timing? It's about the effect on your body of a particular meal. Carbs and sugars spike insulin much more than fats or protein.
I'm sure it exists, or will come into existence. Why not? Challenges might be slower connection speed.
> Hunters and gatherers weren't obese.

The obesity epidemic is a modern phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the change from hunter gatherer to farmer.
Is this a particular geo thing? In the US, I'm getting a McAfee add-on to de-select prior to download.
Obesity is the result of a caloric surplus. Cavemen didn't have that luxury.

Obesity epidemic is a very recent phenomenon. Are you arguing that there were no societies that had caloric surplus up until late in the XX century?

Or would you say that American Samoa with obesity levels of 70% [1] somehow have the luxury of having calorie surplus, while people of Switzerland (8.2% obesity) are struggling to get enough food?

Speaking about Paleo diet in particular, why don't those guys gorge themselves into obesity [2]?

The Kitavan people have been under greater study for their remarkable health characteristics. The people show no indication of coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, congestive heart failure, acne, low or high blood pressure, or obesity. There is also almost no indication of cancer.

The Kitavans have abundant food supply and are not threatened by malnutrition or famine.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] http://wiki.whebsite.com/kitava
Should probably qualify: MBP from 3-4 years ago... But I don't expect it should suck this bad this quickly....
Talk about an intrinsically impossible bet to win!

(at least when betting on the platform itself)
Markets are only hard-to-predict in terms of future prices and returns. If all you want to do is to compare the relative value of two assets, the current price is a great place to start out. For example, the market is pretty sure that Exxon Mobil is worth vastly more than Groupon. Likewise, a prediction market does just fine at telling you stuff like "Romney is much more likely than Ron Paul to be the Republican candidate."
Yes we do. There was an article last week about how ingesting sugar has been categorically linked to diabetes - in the same way that smoking is linked to lung cancer.
It is the perpetrator's term. At the end of the article:

> prepare to be sold or traded to the kind of person who enters forums to ask, "Can I get some slaves for my rat please?"
In a logical system you have axioms, that are sentences that are true by definition and proof methods which are rules of sentence transformation that are assumed to preserve truthiness. The law of noncontradiction is an axiom that states:

X and (not X) == False for any sentence X

If you start with a sentence y, and then via the proof methods arrive at a sentence (not y), this is the same as saying

(y -> (not y)) == True

Which is equivalent to:

((not y) or (not y)) == True

Which is equivalent to:

(not y) == True

Now, if you accept the law of non-contradiction this implies that:

y == False

If you do not accept it, y can both True and False at the same time and the proof method is not valid anymore. Hence the proof method of reductio ad absurdum, or "proof by contradiction" as you call it, is valid if and only if this law holds.
this post is uninformed.

first, a cache should never slow you down. old obscure settings can. and these can be in your old firefox profile as well.

second, the usecase of many open tabs is better in firefox. there are studies out there that show lower ram usage in firefox for many tabs. (first google link, because i don't find the one i had in mind right now: http://lifehacker.com/5976082/browser-speed-tests-chrome-24-...)

btw: if you are going to criticize test methodology, why do you include two browser? you know you can run various development version of firefox as well?
Anecdotal evidence on movies and games :). Mostly based on reviews.

StarCraft II was one of the most silliest examples of this. The characters are one-dimensional to the point of being laughable. This is a game which had almost unlimited budget, and they just fail horrible at having an original story. I dare people to watch the cinematics say that the male roles are typical of the human male population.

But the more telling part, is that I would have to dig into the indy scene if I even wanted a bit originality in the story. I can't find a single AAA game that have original and well fleshed out characters, and a interesting story. At best, one would have to look at the walking dead which copies that from the TV-show.

Movies... pre-2000, we had a bunch of james bond copies. After that, we got the expendable? The new die hard? Any of the teenage vampire movies?

The one with good story and good character looks to be mostly remakes of older movies or comic/book made-movie, or animations. Wreck-It Ralph is a clear example of good characters.
Reading about any type of nutrition research has become beyond frustrating to me.

There are constantly new results doing away with old truisms only to have those results, in turn, questioned and overturned by other studies and then there are basically opposing theories being found as valid, too. To make matters worse, there is an overwhelming abundance of less-than-scientific literature following the latest "fad" scientific results, plugging some diet "silver bullets" and to top it off, most "professionals" in that area are nothing but gym rats that payed lots of money for some training on a specific diet fad and then that is the only thing they will in turn plug to their customers. And the actual professionals, as in doctors, well mostly they appear to not be up-to-date with the latest-and-greatest "proven" theories so I always feel like I am missing out some of the good stuff that the latest fads are promising me.

All I wanted was a REALLY, actually healthy diet. Do I eat mostly wholemeal bread and rice as is common where I am from? Paleo and Atkins tells me this is literally poisoning and destroying my body and THE worst thing I could do next to shooting myself in the stomach. So only lots of fat, meat and vegetables? But "everyone knows" lots of meat is bad and one should only eat meat maybe twice a week, says the official generals statement here. Of course there are the different shades of vegetarians and vegans who all have discovered the one truth and the ONLY ethically correct way of living and they have the studies to back them up on the "healthy" side but e.g. the legumes they are eating are supposed to be literally poison according to the paleo crowd... yet beans are healthy, says another group, also backed by studies. Oh and fish, we all should eat more fish right? Yet we keep hearing how polluted the oceans are and how fish are full of mercury and probably nuclear waste from dumping it into the north sea. And I could go on and on and on....

For practically each diet recommendation or "fad" backed by studies you can easily find at least one opposite or contradicting study and at least two other, even more "true" and new diet fads.

Ultimately, this means I have no idea what I should actually, really really be eating and it leads me to the conclusion that: diet and health are the educated masses' modern equivalent to religion. Everyone is following their one true savior and will launch into borderline religious flame wars against the "infidels" of the other fads and theories.

Yet actually definitive answers seem to be missing.

And I am sorry if this seems like an incoherent rant, somehow it is, but I assure you with all the best intentions. Maybe it is just the tech inside me that wants a clear and definitive answer.
It's because the ratters use it to refer to their victims.
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Because, of course, we know cavemen had very long lives.
I wasn't aware that was a big problem in infrastructure. Thank you for the info.

Perhaps a drop in the other costs could help cover the cost of acquiring land rights and permits?
Often I think authorities realize these laws are over-broad but don't care. They just selectively enforce.

For example in NZ, the crimes amendment act 2003 allows for prosecution[1] of anyone who drops or sells 0day.[2]

It's one of those laws which has never been enforced, but probably would be if you made a nuisance of yourself.

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http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2003/0039/latest/D...

(Section 251 Making, selling, or distributing or possessing software for committing crime)

[1] "liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years"

[2] The requirement is "the sole or principal use of which he or she knows to be the commission of a crime". However, gaining unauthorised or unlawful access to a computer system is a crime meaning exploits qualify.
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Philip K Dick also did a kind of recursion in The Man in the High Castle, where in the story there is another story being written, which is basically the different version of the original story.
Photoshop actually lets you cap its RAM and virtual memory usage. Does any browser?
Ok, looks like meh, yeah bit of retread and ... Hmm ok I like that and that appeals and yes !

Ok I am buying the book, they sold me. We are just a work-in-progress - that is a freeing piece of advice and one that allows experimentation as well as a search for greatness.

Not bad, lets see I the book matches up
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In Firefox, I right-click to bookmark the page, and then a little drop-down from the right side of the address bar allows me to modify the bookmark or cancel the whole thing. The main thing I do in this context is edit the tags.

I like Firefox's tagged bookmarks. I love how it's not slow anymore, and how I can browse by tag in the main bookmarks window I get through Ctrl+Shift+O.

But I'm using the MicroFox theme, which pretty much completely changes how Firefox looks. Nobody that I know of in the browser world does themes like Mozilla does for Firefox. Chrome doesn't even come close, and I don't remember Opera offering much beyond palette swaps, either. I have MicroFox and Status-4-Evar and a number of other Add-Ons that combine to give me the browser I want. I can do that with Firefox and with no other browser I know of.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...
It's getting better and it's now overtaken Safari as my default when I need a second browser. However I'll never consider switching back until they completely eliminate popups of any kind. I never want to be asked to restart the browser or update my plugins or anything. I don't care if Mozilla is filing for bankruptcy and they are turning it over to Kim Jong-un - I don't want a fucking popup announcing it.

Edit: immediately after making this post I realized there might be a way to disable all popups and notifications. Is there? If so, I might give it a spin for a week.
Brownian Motion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
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I spent the best part of a decade as a journalist, editor and copywriter and I never found a more effective way to edit and proof copy than paper + pen.

And whenever I had freelancers in who insisted that on-screen only was better/faster than on paper for them, I'd let them do it how they wanted, but they invariably spotted fewer mistakes, so not much faster in the long run. Anecdotal, sure, but paper works better in my view.

Edit: I'm 37
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Going through that listing, aside from the -webkit- atill being required for CSS transforms, the current versions of Chrome and Safari are ahead of the current version of Firefox. But it's pretty much the same for all the major browsers across the board.
Not even that, it feels like NetBus, especially with the opening and closing the DVD tray.
With Chrome you have to trade memory usage for the process sandboxing of each tab which adds a measurable overhead. But I think for the general population it is a trade worth making.
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Out of interest, who owns the land people hunt on in places like Pennsylvania?

Here in Scotland large parts of the country are privately owned sporting estates and shooting is not a cheap sport!
On a sunday, after a hung over weekend, I had a look at it for about a minute, tried a wrong move and gave up..

If that had been on the pizza delivery site then someone else would have got my order.
I was critiquing you. I'd really like to know what it's going to take for PHP to get replaced.
After I seeing the page I was sure a comment like this would be on top. Maybe there should be a service for evaluating if the contrast on a website is enough to avoid every other "Show HN" discussion here turning into a thread about contrast issues.

As for this color scheme, it probably is easier to read in the night :)
>> You're getting all this the wrong way round. When people make claims that stuff we've been eating for thousands of years (bread, cereals, grains etc.) are actually really bad for us, the burden of proof is on them.

I'm not sure if this should also apply with stuff that we put inside our body. In any case, not all of us are willing to wait that long, while we obviously see problems with the status quo. I choose to rather just make a judgement call based on social cues.

>> On top of that Paleo promotes some claims that are clearly ridiculous, e.g. that burning fat for fuel == burning carbs for fuel. They have totally different consequences.

This is inconsistent with anything I've read on this diet, but would be closer to the Low Carb High Fat diet, which I agree would be detrimental to an intense training regiment. May I suggest that you and I were not introduced to the same paleo diet? I recommend that you look up Robb Wolf.

>> Yes, eating lots of carbs is bad for you. So is eating lots of fatty food. Or lots of anything. Just eat lots of green stuff, and make sure you get adequate amounts of protein & carbs. To lose weight, make sure calories in < calories out.

Oddly, this is very consistent with what is promoted in the diet.

>> It mystifies me how otherwise-intelligent people can get so caught up in fads such as Paleo, backed up by flimsy pseudo-science.

Attempting to belittle people who choose to try the diet doesn't make you smarter and certainly doesn't prove nor validate your arguments.

>> My theory is that they appeal to the contrarian in us - after all, they're delightfully counter-intuitive in some ways (eating lots of steak can be good for me?!).

That is indeed only a theory. On the other hand, maybe some of us actually do see some results.

>> And if you still think it does, look up the diets of the top 10 athletes in basically any sport & explain to me why none of them are on Paleo.

The diet is extremely prevalent in the crossfit circles (it's even increasingly overshadowing the official diet, which is The Zone diet) and mixed martial arts (many of my training mates switch to it prior to competition). During my own research I stumbled upon this interview http://youtu.be/r-WRn8UttXw?t=10m (interview starts 10 minutes in the video, somewhere within the first 2 minutes after it begins Joe Rogan mentions having talked to many fighters who are on it).

My take away: "otherwise-intelligent people" use the diet as a set of guidelines for improved health and quality of life. You can choose to take it as a religion, but then lots of things just get more difficult. If you practice a sport, you need to adapt the diet to the demands of your discipline. I recommend to look up experts who are more sport oriented (I mentioned Robb Wolf earlier).
I was actually thinking the same thing and am giving it a try.

One thing that strikes me as vastly inferior in FF given my use cases is the way private browsing works. I use incognito tabs in Chrome all the time in dev to get a clean tab with no sessions etc. FF only allows for either normal tabs or private tabs, not both. Oh well :-)
These slides are motivating but they look like a mashup of everything you can read around.

I felt there was a subliminal message: Subscribe to LinkedIn Premium in order to leverage your network.
Having individual processes also dramatically increases the overhead of having multiple tabs open.
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What about discovering that you, a young girl, have been seen naked on your webcam? Can you imagine what that can do to the mind of a child/young adult? Imagine all the troubles that can bring to a human mind, and imagine if that mind can already be a little troubled.

I say pure evil. Like holocaust evil, just at a smaller scale.
I don't think it's regional. I'm in Sweden and if I visit the Flash install page with IE I get Chrome as pre-selected and if I visit with Firefox I get the McAfee add-on. (And when I'm using Linux, as usual, there are no extra applications installed.)
> It was significantly faster than any browser of its time

How was it faster than Opera? I have never seen another browser give you the previous page instantly when pressing the back button. Chrome needs to start its spinners for a few ms and then reflow the page, Opera just does it. I'm hoping that, with the move to WebKit, I can switch back to it.

EDIT: I just checked, Firefox does this too. It didn't, at the time that Chrome was released, though.
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Which anti-privacy directions did Opera go in?
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Would Ghostery accomplish the same thing?
> I have already passed their life-expectancy

The reason life expectancies were 35 back then was due to horrible infant and early childhood mortalities. People lived on the close order of 100 years (70-80 or so) back long before we had anything like medicine. For example:

> A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or the equivalent of the complete renewal of a human population. [snip] At the time of the reign of emperor Augustus, the Romans decided that a saeculum was 110 years.

In other words, if you wanted to make sure everyone who had been alive for some specific event was dead, you had to wait a hundred or so years. Does that sound like the reasoning of people who expected to die before they hit fifty?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum
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I am actually really interested in your open laptop idea. I am hoping to work on my own laptop.
Kremlin Rising, slightly dated now (2005), has a very good chapter on this, and I expect there are other more detailed works on the topic. For many enlistees, it seems the Russian Army (I don't know how this is in other branches) is a terrible place with a culture of physical and sexual abuse, not unlike a good chunk of the US prison system.
I agree, it doesn't make sense to compare absolute numbers. The risk of having a gun at home should be calculated as [deaths of children by gun]/[number of family homes with guns], and the same should be done to calculate the risk of having a pool at home.

For instance, if in 2008 376 children died by gun at home and as much as 376000 families had a gun at home, then the risk would be 0.1%. But if the number of families with a gun at home were 752, then this would mean a risk of 50%!
Yup. My Dad will tell of the great smog in '52 if you ask him.

Note that it's still possible to burn 'smokeless' fuels, including some forms of treated wood IIRC, very high quality coal & it's perfectly ok to burn wood in a high-temperature wood burning stove, which are much cleaner than an open fire.

The gory details are here: http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/
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