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by bzbarsky 6y ago
I think there's a wide gulf between "said something that someone on the internet construed as racist" and "demonstrated bias against some minority"... But past that, the general principle you advocate seems to be &q
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> They specifically state "naturally" The whole thing is in the context of farming. I really do think you're reading things into the text that aren't there... > Burning these things releases CO2 into the air Sure,
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> if soil naturally loses fertility over time I think the implied context there is "when farmed by humans", no? The problem of soil fertility loss has plagued agriculture for literally thousands of year; it's discussed in
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> and thus claiming it as inherently natural and unavoidable Where do you see that in the article? What I see is a call to basic understanding of the current state of the world and how it got there as a prerequisite to being able to pro
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The other important bicycle qualifier is "in good weather". Bicycles are not that great during a rainstorm, for example. At least from my point of view; I know some people who really enjoy being rained on and don't mind biki
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Automobiles were considered unacceptably dangerous in many places when they were actually released. Towns had ordinances banning them. There was a bunch of lobbying and counter-lobbying. They gained a foothold in some places first, then
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
It's easy enough to get to 5 devices, for a family. Especially given the current remote work/schooling situation. Figure 1 laptop or tablet per person (adults and kids) and 1 phone per adult. If you have two kids, that's 6
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
To be clear, the blacklisting was not, in theory, over "political leanings": it was for belonging to an organization that explicitly advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. There were a lot of issues with the McCa
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This isn't about whether help is provided in-kind or in cash; there is indeed good evidence that the latter is better. And there is evidence that a lump sum is better than an extended dribble: that was more or less my point in the com
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
When he made the donations it was not the case that everyone knew he did, yes? The fact that he's effectively been doxxed on the donations does mean it's no longer anonymous, yes.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> How do you know that they will become poor if not for your action? Here's a simple example. A mine closes down. You can start giving the ex-miners money on an ongoing basis to let them keep paying their bills, maybe. Or you cou
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
And just to be clear, the Koch brothers fund things like efforts to end civil asset forfeiture, not just the things people like to get mad at them for in the media...
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Just to take a specific example from the list: preventing people from becoming poor in the first place is better. How could it not be? They avoid the mental pain and stress of being poor and feeling like they are dependent on handouts to
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Inspecting Just-in-Time Compiled JavaScript(blog.mozilla.org)
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Without controlling for income, it's hard to draw good conclusions here. Looking at the area I am familiar with (Boston and its inner suburbs), CO2 emissions seem to correlate pretty well with income for areas which are a similar dist
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Just to be clear, "Battery Status" is not a "W3C spec". The latest published version at https://www.w3.org/TR/battery-status/ is "Candidate Recommendation", and has been stuck there
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
about:profiles is not amazing, but does exist...
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Generally free or not available at all to that specific patient, no? At least from the publicly funded system; some Western European countries also allow private practice of medicine where the availability criteria are different.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Yes, that is rather the point. ;)
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Unfortunately, HTML4 and CSS2 are severely underspecified, so actually implementing them interoperably without reverse-engineering is impossible. Oh, and some places where they _are_ clearly specified that specification is more or less bro
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Parent's comment was explicitly about FAANG companies. But similar numbers apply to companies that are competing for talent with the FAANGs.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> Still doesn’t explain what they do with the rest. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/about/public-records/#tax-... has some of the information you seek; see the various "Audited financial statements&
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The English East India Company was set up along lines pretty similar to today's corporations, and that happened almost 200 years before the constitution was written (1600, to be precise). By 1720 you definitely have bubbles involving
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If you're asking why the image data might matter, here are concrete examples of non-public images that people might want to get their hands on: * Earnings projections (and in general slides from non-public presentations that the user b
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Oh, I think it's doable; the question is how much the memory overhead for the extra processes is. I agree that doing this for script (and style) data is much harder from a conceptual point of view! On the other hand, the protections t
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
This is a concern somewhat orthogonal to site isolation as implemented in Chrome. Say you have a web page at https://a.com that does <img src=" https://b.com/foo.png"> . That's allowed in bro
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
While true, ~30 percent of households in the US are single-person (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-... ). And a number of others are single-parent. The parent specifically talked a
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Maybe. Last I checked, the tires on F1 cars are optimized for traction at actual racing speeds (when they get hot and stickier), which means that at low speeds F1 cars actually have much poorer traction than one might think. Only matters
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The specification describes what implementations should do to be interoperable. As opposed to what someone wishes implementations were doing but has no hope of convincing them to do, which was the major change with HTML 5. But the fact tha
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Consider a hostname that can map to different, widely geographically separated, IPs. You probably want the one with the lowest latency, which is likely to be the closest-located one. Not guaranteed, of course.

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