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It is interesting to note that new technology products are never launched in the poor segment of the market and then gradually adapted to higher-level markets

Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potential" of starting in poorer places (cough Africa) and 'locking up' marketshare.

hell, zuckerberg and others tried pushing through the precedent of zero-rated internet for proprietary services in india and other countries as a way to lock up precedent for when they'd bring the same tech to america. (Not that the latter has needed any help being complacent with zero rating - apparently india beat us on that front)

Devil's advocate regarding cronyism is that they "just need someone good enough" for the job, and on average wealthy people tend to be far better qualified (or have the free time to learn) than trying to filter through the GP for people similarly qualified who don't already have ties to existing businesses (and would thus need higher financial motivation to be pulled away to work on your thing).

Anyone know what engine civ 6 uses? guessing it's some in-house one but am curious if it has an internal name or something.

So are the Clinton voters who reportedly stayed home

You mean nonvoter. Someone who stayed home is by definition someone who did not care enough to go vote, so there's no evidence they supported clinton over any other candidate.

the Bernie Bro smear

As far as I'm concerned anyone who considers this a 'smear' (implying any credibility) just feels or felt entitled to votes because they made the mistake of trying their own 'lesser of two evils' fearmongering koolaid.

Neither party convinced me to vote for their candidate, and adding my support to third party candidates would just have provided them to another statistic to blame.

The good news is that even Bernie could come up with a message that resonated enough to get as far as he did with as few connections as he had. Someone else could do the same.

I'd be amazed if anyone wanted to at this point. Most politically interested people I know've left for greener pastures.

Law has more to do with liability than practicality. Imagine trying to settle a dispute or lawsuit involving a volunteer traffic director, for instance.

People can be incredibly cordial when there aren't any problems or one big common one they can focus their efforts around. It isn't until personal liability enters the equation that the finger-pointing gets going.

They should! Why aren’t they!?!?! Somebody needs to make that a markdown extension. Every time you want to insert an indexed footnote, you type [^#]

Probably because there's no elegant way to support all the potential edge cases of that default behavior. For instance, if you introduced a reference with that format, you can't refer to it later - if you use the static number and it changes, you're now pointing to the wrong reference. So it reduces to using names, and the hassle of coming up with a name for each new link or footnote reduces to just using numbers - so the only thing that needs to be supported is manually named or numbered items.

The author correctly describes the ideal solution - a plugin that replaces unnamed links before saving or such - but likely fails to understand why that (as opposed to adding behavioral cruft to a markup language) is the correct level of abstraction for such a solution. Imagine if a project like wikipedia was riddled with the ambiguity of dozens of people's various attempts to wrangle the autonumbering to their writing.

okay?

Some people aren't like that. This should not be news. And it's "lose".

https://xkcd.com/1095/

This isn't limited to wine drinking preference, people can pontificate about anything.

I'm sure a sea of articles in the same vein wouldn't begin to compare to the number of person-hours wasted on alcohols.

And why not. Rebasing should be much more straightforward/common. I remember at one point I had a 'magic' command that just did a rebase the way I expected and allowed me to merge changes in easily; it quickly made its way through the group I was working with.

I've got a much nicer branching model- try not to have one

Ah, like my much nicer version control system ;)

“By his own admissions, Mr. Prince’s decision to terminate certain users’ accounts was ‘arbitrary,’ the result of him waking up ‘in a bad mood,’ and a decision he made unilaterally as ‘CEO of a major Internet infrastructure corporation’

I'm actually amazed that's from the press release they put out.

Let’s face it, its annoying when plugins get in the way of your personal design touch

Frankly I run into the converse problem far more; people's attempts to inflict "their personal design touch" trying to disrupt my browsing. Thankfully, the latter always wins out ;)

opendime [...] it's new

So everyone pays tithe to a single organization that creates 'trustable' units of physical currency. So new!

At least with cash you're not destroying the physical currency every time you use it. (That and the Mint's security measures are just a liittle more advanced than "we put some epoxy on a USB stick")

None of this was political until the mayor turned around and said to the US/USG "We are dying and you are killing us". Pointing out that she and local authorities were responsible for coordinating on-the-ground infrastructure is perfectly fair game.

Her job is to coordinate her people, not to be some ambassador between PR and the world. Most of the issues centered around lack of coordination/response infrastructure; this does not roll in from the USG every time there's a disaster, but is supposed to be a function of local and state authorities.

Helping people on the ground is not the job of the mayor, organizing what's necessary for thousands of her own citizens to be able to do that for each other is.

FEMA in fact is the branch of government designated to handle these type of situations.

"The agency's primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities" (via Wiki). For FEMA to be called in, "local and state authorities" have to have already failed.

As much as people hate the annoying orange - leaving aside the hole he's digging himself onto on twitter, which I don't really care about compared to the relief effort - FEMA and the USG is not supposed to be the first line of defense. Cries of "you're killing us" are politically popular because of trump, but the reality is that the mayor (et al) are/were supposed to have better distribution plans than being on foot doing what they can (again, popular though that image is politically, organizing many feet on the ground is the job of the mayor, not being 1 pair and blaming the USG).

The local mayors/authorities/government was and is responsible for its people, so if they want to make populist "blood on your hands" statements they should look in the mirror. "[FEMA]'s primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities" (via Wiki) - so to lay this at the feet of FEMA, local and state authorities have to have already failed. Considering the situation on the ground seems to be mostly arising from lack of coordination not resources, that sounds accurate.

To some equally secure alternative not bloated down by useless cruft, I'd imagine

What do you imagine is the point of proselytizing the use of secure apps to people for whom this is a concern that would override security? They aren't likely to adhere to secure practices anyways, so it's moot.

Not necessarily, depending on their OS

I just feel that rather than a browser, Firefox is becoming something like a service platform

Isn't it? Wasn't this the crux of the whole dev team controversy/split years ago?

(This is all sounding like rehashed news to me, but I admit I don't go out of my way to keep up with browser community drama, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.)

I feel like I'm being ActiveX'd into using Chrome now which is very non-Googly

Um

Define "googly"

(If you're saying it's atypical of the behavior you'd expect of them: based on what?) Considering there's no trivial way to log into one of their services (gmail) without automatically doing so on others (yt etc) without fucking around with browser sessions - among many other non-customizability gotchas from them - saying google doesn't want to control how their offerings are used is going to be a very tough sell.

Why is that not good enough?

I don't think "why isn't what we have good enough" has ever been the mantra of pioneers in their field, but ok

I don't get why you seem to take such exception to the stance that "we can do better". We can always do better.

Do you imagine 500 years from now the same technologies and web models in play as today? Even 100 years from now? Do you really think they are the pinnacle of the web.

If you really do, I'd sincerely love to read your counter blog post on this, as I reflect on this quite a bit and have generally always come to the conclusion that there's a long way to go.

This is like sitting there in 1600 and saying that the printing press sucks because it doesn't encrypt documents

If that's so, isn't your comment akin to saying "why isn't the printing press good enough for you"? :)

It's absolutely "just a perception". Companies are not people. Never trust companies to always be "the company you knew". Leadership changes, and sooner or later someone purely motivated by profit takes the reins, and the "company you knew" is now just the next one in a long chain to screw consumers whenever it means more money.

The word "bias" probably should have tipped you off

As far as legality goes, it's difficulty to say.

Didn't the SEC publish a report declaring their stance as ICOs = securities? Doesn't seem that difficult to go from there.

Hackneyed phrases are as old as time, kid; doesn't mean you have a point.

We hit Hitler comparisons fast on this thread, eh

god forbid people bring up hitler in a thread about history/world politics

In fact, let's just scrub history of any references to Germany so we can make internet threads marginally less annoying

Correct, with the exception of a few diehards who decided beating the 'blind adherence to contracts' drum was worth trying to stay on the initial fork and buy up the useless 'original' fork.

It's* also worth noting that currencies like Ethereum actually fork all the time. The only worthwhile ones are the forks with mass support, which in Eth's case is usually the latest one supported by the foundation/Vitalik and in Bitcoin's case are Core and Cash (the forks supported by Blockstream and the community fork centered around scaling the block limit, respectively)

Agree with the article title, but the 'fiat' in question is community fiat.

the marketing idea?

I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare

speaking of reddit's new redesign...

Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.

Man, it's almost hilarious