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firefox (and lockwise) are very much on iOS and very well integrated with the system.

A child/foreigner can point at "inconceivable" and ask:

'what does "in-con-ceiv-able" mean?'

as opposed to 'what does "..." mean'

A japanese beginner will see 照り焼き and say "uhhhh.. ri..."

compare this with seeing テリヤキ

If you replace kanji with katakana and keep hiragana for particles and conjugation, you can call it a day.

Easy to learn, no more trying to guess if it's on/kunyomi, immune to mispronunciation from using a foreign alphabet, the list goes on.

Beatport? Definitely a lot easier to buy large amounts of tracks at once.

That's exactly why you need more than just hiragana, it'd be too difficult to tell what each character was parf of at speed. Something like katakana replacing kanji and hiragana for particles would be perfect.

Modern Japanese could learn a few lessons from hangul imo.

Spotify seems to be partially gearing for that. A lot of reasonable sized artists' pages have an "Offers" section where they sell records and other merch.

Spaces carry a lot of semantic weight, as do other components such as capitalisation and punctuation (most of which in use in Japan is borrowed from romaji anyway).

iimagineitdgetprettyannoyingtryingtoreadenglishifitwaswrittenlikethisbutitshardtotellwithouthavingdonesofortwentyyears

fun fact: when the dagger you've used to indicate footnotes is attached to a person (the user), this typically indicates that the person is now dead.

i thought you were applying some subtle commentary about the change until i saw you agree with it.

Same, but I typically take that as a cue to stand up and go outside, sitting all day is also phenomenally unhealthy.

You're still going to jail when you buy something with a stolen credit card and have it shipped to your house

Imagine me as the friendly neighbourhood trickster living on the same floor as you.

I buy an illegal firearm with a credit card bought over a DNM using Tor and have it mailed to your house.

Enjoy your preordained jailtime.

(you are not your address, IP or postal)

A prudent developer might make the expansions a mandatory purchase that adds the new content in cosmetic ways.

And how do they continue to "farm" you for gold if you unsubscribe because you no longer feel a part of the world?

The ad-blocker vs advertiser fight has just turned to total war, your target audience uses ad blockers more than any other demographic and you bet your profits on advertising.

Brave.

I also believe psychedelics can transform lives in a hugely positive way; since my first (and not last) experience with them last year my quality of life has been constantly improving and remains at an all time high.

That said I found this article extremely difficult to read because of constant references to religion and mysticism. There's a fine line between spirituality and religion and this article consistently falls on what I perceive to be the wrong side.

To anybody whose interest is piqued I give to you the same analogy that was given to me: Life is like running through the underbrush of a forest, using psychedelics is like climbing a nearby tree and seeing where you would like to go.

I mostly agree with your comment except for > benefit from ever improving medical technology

As I understand it (not a US citizen) most of this technology comes with a mortgage sized debt if you aren't insured? If so I think this reinforces the GP's case.

there are going to be a massive amount of people who simply can't afford to use the internet that way

In that case, they probably can't really afford to buy all the things targeted advertising is pushing on them either.

These are non-technical people who understand the importance of keeping their contact list private

Do you take this opportunity to point out to them that they do away with this privacy every time they install whatsapp / fb messenger / hangouts / skype / practically anything that asks for contacts permissions?

I really like this idea.

Without knowing too much about bar associations I feel like a programmer association with a code of ethics similar to the ABA model rules (perhaps including the Six Fixes[0]) would be a great start to reining in privacy violations.

I immediately see that it would need to be government mandated for it to have any effect, and given that many governments routinely violate these terms I don't know how it could be enforced.

[0] http://idlewords.com/six_fixes.html

West Germany had a similar culture to their occupant, the east not so much. Germany also became the centrepiece for a US vs. Russia proxy war, Syria would likely become the same and is arguably already in that state.

In any case it would depend on whether a post WWIII and independent(ish) Syria, much like the post WWII Germany, makes the prudent decision to outlaw and taboo the fanaticism that got it into that situation in the first place.

The number of answers there are to that question is phenomenal. Here's one I just thought up:

You stop going between A and B (home and work) for 6 months. You're now either unemployed or working from home; the latter can probably be inferred by any changes in shopping habits. Sell that information to recruiters and they'll know how hard to gouge you in your desperation for a new job.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, the only thing that convinced me to use a Mac (for a while) was the BSD base on some nice hardware. Without it it would be like trying to develop on iOS: slow, locked down and flashy.

Google isn't responsible for software that could glitch out and apply your accelerator directly into a concrete wall.

Like the GP said, physical devices that have a use that is in some way responsible for a human's safety or some element of real risk (cars, medical equipment, fridges, ovens etc.) should have inspectable source code. It need not be open source, just able to be viewed.

That said, if companies are willing to cheat emission schemes they'll probably obfuscate their code to "protect IP" or something.

I'm not saying that it's impossible for cloud software to harm a human, but every example I can think of is fairly contrived and would probably result in somebody reading the code and going "Why does this x-ray query a server for this person's safe dose?"

Every bank I've ever been with has had a pathetic limit on its online banking passwords. One of them (NAB) was limited to something like 10 characters and only numbers and letters.

Maybe that's changed recently but still, firewalls won't help you when somebody brute forces your users' passwords in 10 minutes.

Rad is definitely not my experience.

I've spent A LOT of time trying to get my site's appcache functionality to the point where it's barely usable. Probably more time than all of its users would have spent downloading the resources it was supposed to cache. It has more gotchas than anything else I've ever experienced.

This is incredibly accurate: http://alistapart.com/article/application-cache-is-a-doucheb...

FWIW The Hurt Report[1] didn't find any link between motorcycle colours and crash numbers. I'd say that doubly applies to bicycles when you consider that even a small motorbike still has a fairly significant showing of coloured fairings. Reflective jackets on the other hand...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOTORCYCLE_ACCIDENT_...

What they are describing is putting Usain Bolt at the beginning of an obstacle course and then saying he's not an Olympic level athlete when he trips on a tire.

Could have cloned the drive yourself and given them a nice clean factory new OSX install to snoop on.

It's hard to deep-link into an app.

Disagree. Case in point: steam://friends https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/steam

/s/ steam for news://home or news://business/26-05-2015-oil-prices

The content could (and definitely should) still be html, obviously not everybody you link to is going to want to install the news app and it should fall back to opening in a browser, but if you want to wrap a fancy interface around what should just be text there's your solution.

State run (or private) telecoms need to be greased individually and only reach as far as their individual customers. Far easier to lobby internet.org as a whole to censor a particular topic across a sizable portion of the globe.

My first thought is any game written in Unity. Works on desktops and android more or less out of the box and iOS with a little bit of tinkering.