HalfwayToDice

Because by donating to RiseUp, Mozilla have made themselves a political organisation, and political organisations do things for political ends, not privacy ends.

Arrant nonsense

According to those statistics, Japan has a higher gun crime rate than the USA, looking at "Firearm-related deaths per gun per year".

My opinion is that those statistics are not very useful.

Norwegian and USA societies are vastly different. There is absolutely no reason that something that works in one country will work in the other.

For instance, look at the gun ownership/gun crime rates.

I want to add another comment, which is slightly more difficult. You say that your daughters school "has over 30 nationalities, and that it's not a bad thing". I admire you for this. BUT I don't think it's representative of how Norwegian society is, judging from my 6 months working in Oslo.

If this data collection is not declared in the user-agreement, then is it illegal?

I had to use the "Reader" feature of my browser to read the text, for maybe the first time ever.

This is absurd nonsense, but my viewpoint is a lonely one on HackerNews.

"It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?"

You sound like a really fun guy to know.

It embarrasses me to see such conspiratorial nonsense on this website.

There are many reasons why such things happen: coincidence, someone google the topic from the same router IP address, ad tracking on Googled websites, etc etc

The idea that one of the worlds largest companies would risk their entire business by secretly recording their users for ad revenue is absurd on almost every level.

Yet some people on HackerNew, a forum that self-selects to a highly educated/intelligent part of the community actually believes it.

It's mind-boggling.

But the headline says "Theresa May to launch sweeping internet regulation", which is complete nonsense, which is why no-one is reporting that.

For US readers, The Independent was a UK newspaper which closed last year. The website was handed over to a marketing team who make money farming outrage clicks from left-wing people on Facebook and Reddit.

Is there a credible news source for this, or just The Independent?

Just a reminder, and I think it's getting lost here in the HackerNews demographic narrative.. but:

The Conservatives Won The Election

They will be ruling for 5 years, in a coalition with the even more conservative DUP.

Labour/progressives are out of power for at least another 5 years.

I know it's a bucket of cold water, but I think people aren't facing up to reality after Corbyn did much much better than expected. But he still lost.

This is a rather simplistic analysis of why poor people often vote republican in the USA.

Ironically, I just visited Gothenburg in "socialist Sweden", and it was the most racially/poverty segregated city I have ever been to in the modern world.

If this decision stands, then surely Switzerland will have to construct an entire new legal apparatus to deal with the volume of legal cases when people "like" something that is untrue?

Calling aggregate anonymous analytics "spying on your customers" is absurd nonsense.

most modern devops are lazy to learn the basics of setting a HA system

Absurd nonsense.

Was my thought too after reading the article. The BBC! Clickbait! Where do we even go from here?

I don't care too much about RAM, I do care about the carnage it wrecks on my battery life.

Huh? The NSA didn't create the exploit. Oh, it's Gizmodo. Why is this garbage on HackerNews.

Sounds like you really hate Microsoft/Windows. Maybe you're not the target market here.

Enough about RAM and CPU. Let's talk about BATTERY LIFE.

Why would I run a terminal app which drains my Macbook battery three times as fast as the default app?

Discourse was a missed open-goal. Forum software was horrible, and Discourse were a smart team at the right point-in-time.

Unfortunately, they blew it. They created an over-engineered, over-complicated, bloated, heavy mess. Jeff bet on Moore's Law meaning that bandwidth/speed would eventually negate the bloat, but instead the world moved to low powered devices with mobile bandwidth.

They've spent years trying to get infinite scrolling working OK and installation OK. Why? Imagine if they'd actually used all their brainpower on features that forum owners actually wanted: automated spam tools, automated admin tasks, one-click install to any hosting plan (yes using PHP if necessary).

All the years of wasted talent, and now the other forum products have overtaken them on usability/maintainability. And they are STILL trying to fix the hijacked browser search feature, that you get lost in infinite scroll, and that you need to run a separate VM to run something as simple as forum software.

LESSON: beware second-system-syndrome, beware the CEO who has personal tech vendetas which are misaligned with your product strategy, and beware creating a team consisting solely of talented engineers who will do one thing: OVER-ENGINEER.

The Independent doesn't exist as a newspaper. It closed last year. The website was handed over to a team of marketers, to try and make money from the brand. They have been successful.

Do you have a credible news source, or just The Independent?

There are pictures of the engines.

Oh no, I replied to a conspiracy theorist. I should go to bed.

Not difficult to beat the iPhone camera.

Why does my iPhone 4S take better photos than my iPhone 7? Modern iPhones photos are smeary smudgy mess. Can always tell on Reddit or Facebook when an image has been taken with an iPhone.

Luckily using RAW mode helps, which means it's some lunatic software noise-reduction in newer versions of iOS that is the problem.

Medium STILL crashes Safari 9 on Mac. The only website that does this, for months and months. Congratulations guys, I don't know how you do it!

cringe

Click delay is bad UI. When you click it, the face first blinks, then moves. So it appears to not be working. Would be better to move first, then blink upon completion.

That was a fun 20 minute distraction!