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As I am living an almost mouse free life, automatically setting the input focus at the window (or input field) that I am currently looking on, would be a very nice comfort feature.

Last time I researched this, I could not find a solution, that works on Linux and also has widescreen support.

Will definitely check out this python package.

Inflation of specific asset prices is also playing into this. Money is losing its value. Try buying a house with a regular wage nowadays. Politicians, central banks and economic experts are sleeping at the helm.

Ironically I could not finish this article.

Here is the one thing, that works for me, if I must read a text:

While reading I use a Text-To-Speech-Engine to read out the text at the same time. TTS-reading speed should be at least 1.5x. It should not be too easy to keep up.

I have no explanation why this works, but it does. Maybe someone else with ADHD finds it useful.

This was different. They tried DST all year around. Russia also tried this in 2014 and also failed.

I suspect a connection with the intestinal flora. Bacteria in the intestinal flora are able to synthesize all kinds of neurotransmitters from carbohydrates.

I myself become very lethargic under a normal carbohydrate-containing diet. On low carb I have a lot of motivation and a lot of energy.

As a night owl (wich most people actually are), Standard Time all year around would be best for you, from a biological stand point at least.

Sorry for being imprecise, but I actually meant Standard Time (as in noon at about 12pm). Our circadian rhythms are not as flexible as many people think. There are many studies showing that people sleep less if the sun sets later, causing a net sleep loss with related health problems.

because people have little control over when their day starts.

This is actually one of the best arguments for standard time all year around!

If we force people to start the day at a specific time, we have the obligation, that for as many people possible, this time will be in sync with their circadian rhythm. And this can be guaranteed best with standard time.

No, it does not make any sense!

It forces the majority of the population to live with a constant mini jet-lag. It causes productivity loss and many health issues.

There are no chrono-biologists advocating DST (or constant summer time) over standard!

I hope Germans also reconsider and start listening to the scientists!

This is again one of those issues where people voted against their own interests, because they associate summer with warmth + light and winter with cold + darkness.

You didn't happen to have a short position on Tesla when the infamous 420 tweet happened?

clearly rape isn't such a big evolutionary disadvantage that no species exist with this trait.

If different species (with different evolutionary strategies) also have different moralities, would this not be a strong hint towards morality being based on evolution?

Two additional quotes from Bezos himself:

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness."

"If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."

Can’t you see that your happiness is dependent on none other than yourself?

I agree with that but differ from your conclusion. I think it is our responsibility to keep looking until we find what makes us happy.

When americans are discussing politics they are always missing the point. At least from the outside perspective.

It's like two parties arguing about football. One side is saying, we need to abolish referees, the players should sort problems out themselves. The other party is saying the referees need more power and instruments in order to better control the game.

The simple truth is, people need to make sure that the referees work for them and not for the individual players who hand them the most money.

From my experience, fixing the glitching issue is relatively easy. Took me about 5 minutes last time. I did it twice already. Only 4 screws have to be removed. Check youtube for tutorials.

Plus, she said that the law protecting foreign officials from defamation is obsolete and they will void it.

While, at the same time, allowing one of her citizens to be prosecuted based on it.

From my personal experience, I have to agree with wapapaloobop. I put a spoon of raw cacao in my morning coffee, because I love the taste. However I drink (and eat no) sugar whatsoever and found the taste disgusting (in the sense of spitting it out) when I accidentally drank from my girlfriends coffee some time ago.

Maybe do both? Rewriting in Rust and increasing incentives.

Writing security critical software in c++/c is not the sensible thing to do in my opinion (even though it is the standard right now). Humans in general cannot handle it without making a lot critical errors. And the people working on those projects are already really smart in general. This has been shown again and again.

If c++ was a car, it would force you to place your foot in a special position in between breaking and accelerating. If you do it wrong, your foot will get squashed in the exposed drive train.

Of course for the point of the argument I am exaggerating, but I really applaud the efforts Rust has made in order to advance the security of software.

When I do research I go through a lot of papers, many of them are discarded after the first couple of sentences. It would slow me down a lot, when I had to contact all of the authors in the first place.

How useful would google really be, if you had to contact every author before reading the actual website?

One of the earliest lessons I was taught, and I taught my kids, is that if somebody else has something we want and doesn't want to share it, it's not OK to just take it.

Like the absolute power of a dictator?

Of course this is a hyperbolic example, but the real world is not only black and white and simple rules like that cannot cope with the complexity of it. The question is, where we should draw the line. And many people in here agree, that publicly funded research should be made available to the public at no further costs for the greater good.

I would also prefer this for social networks like facebook. They should have an additional option where they store none of your data and guarantee not to track you.

As a compensation the user would need to pay money for using the service.

This would also put a price tag on privacy and show people what they actually give away when they use the service in the traditional way.

I can only speak from a German perspective but the real problem from my point of view is that in todays world everything seems as if it is going down slope.

Todays generation has less job security than the generation before.

Todays generation does not have a secured pension (like the generation before had).

It is expected of todays generation to be a life-long learner (if you are not, your economic value drops immediately and if your job gets terminated you fall back to the same support someone receives, who has never worked in their life before).

Affordable housing has decreased.

It is expected of both parents to work (tell me again why I should have children, if I rarely see them?).

Pressure on children has increased as there is less time at school and less time at Uni to learn the same things (do I really want to do this to my possible future children?).

Especially for women having a child still is very bad for your career. Also if you have a fixed-term contract (which there is an increasing number of, your maternity employment protection is severely limited).

Of course this is just an anecdote, but at least in my circle of friends, those with secured government jobs are the ones having the most children. I would love to see some large-scale data on this subject.

Very powerful presentation! It gives a very clear and graphic explanation of the problems America's democracy is facing today.

If you agree with his opinion, consider showing this video to your friends and family.

I do not understand the argument that CS is not "the real thing".

JavaScript isn't the real thing either. On the way to the processor there are so many different layers of abstraction to go through. CS is just another one of those layers.

Ok, even if this was the case, I fail to see the relevance of it?

The effect would be the same. Less money for candidates that vote against fixing the climate. Hence less chances for them winning in the elections.

Well, regarding privacy, google is in the wrong! They are collecting all the data they possible can and then transfer them to the U.S. where Europeans do not enjoy any right to privacy (which is considered a basic human right here). This is just trying to make a foreign company comply with European laws. I do not see a problem here. If the process was totally transparent (where does the data go, who uses the data) European citizens could make an informed decision. But this is not the case. It is totally intransparent. Who knows what the data is used for? The EU has the duty to protect its citizens.

As for the retribution of newspaper headlines. This might be some form of protectionism.

Calling Bing and Yahoo an alternative to google honors them. Just try them both exclusively for one week and see if you would really call them that.

How many Europeans use Google? 90%. That's democracy: the people of Europe gets what it wants.

Regulations are not trying to fix "what is wrong with google". They are trying to keep the competition going, which ideally results in a better product for the consumers.

On top of this, it just makes it more difficult for anyone in their dorm room to start a business. It's not a coincidence that the startup scene is nearly non-existent where unions have a strong presence (France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway).

As someone from a country with stronger unions, I would like to propose a different interpretation. As a result of a strong union culture, regular jobs are just too comfortable to consider doing a startup. A startup is a very risky venture where most founders have to work at their utmost limits. I am sure many startups have been created out of a dissatisfaction with the circumstances of the former employment.

In contrast, many jobs in unionized countries pay fair wages, force you to take 30 or more days of vacation and respect your work-life balance. Nowadays you also get a lot of time off, if you become a father or mother.

Would you give up all those things, just to try something that has a 80 percent (or more) failure rate? I know this is a forum for entrepreneurs, so most people would. But a job you are really satisfied with, makes this decision a lot harder.