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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I think the "everyone almost knows someone personally" thing _really_ depends on patterns of settlement. If the population is very segregated in terms of whether they live, work, etc (as was the case in Poland), that may well not
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Yes, but those weren't the countries that had successful info campaigns against that sub-population, to my knowledge. Yes, the Poles were not trying to kill all the Jews in Poland. But "othering" Jews in Poland was _ver
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> In Germany, with the largest Jewish population Uh... you mean if you ignore Poland, Romania, and the USSR? > they accounted for less than 1% of the populace From the same article you cited, it was 9.5% in Poland, 3.4% in the USSR (w
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> The onus is on the owner to control their animal in public Unfortunately, most do not. And then they just go "oh, she's friendly, don't worry", when their dog jumps up into some 3-year-old's face and scares th
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
That is true, and I did not claim that the entirety of the "Chromium team" are Google employees, either... You do need to be a bit more involved than a few drive-by contributions to get a chromium.org email, as far as I can tell.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> How can you even find what you are looking for? Type '%' (no quotes) followed by parts of the URL or title or both in the URL bar. Searches only your open tabs. I can usually find exactly what I want quite quickly.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Because browsers are hard. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22059393 for some comparative numbers.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> The browser market is as free of a market as you can get. Given all the UA-sniffing and purposefully sending broken or degraded sites to various browsers going on nowadays (including on Google properties), no, it's not.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
OK, let's do some data-gathering. If I git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git and then run: git log --since=2019-01-15 | grep "^Author:" | fgrep chromium.org | sort -u | wc -l
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
How big do you think a "productive browser team" needs to be? How big do you think the Chromium team is?
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> I read just far enough to know your argument was going to be "free will to decide what contract to sign". Uh... That means you literally needed to read one or two more sentences to see that this is not the argument. If you&#x
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I'd really like to understand where you're coming from here, because I feel like we're talking past each other. I'll ignore the personal attacks, and hope you'll refrain from them in the future. First of all, a mis
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> It might be closer to slavery as commonly understood, but it's pretty far away from slavery as practiced. Slavery as practiced looked quite distinct in different places and different time periods. But yes, it was rare to claim 10
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I see people say this a lot, but the details of the equity investment really do matter. For example, an equity investment that gives the investor rights to 10% of the student's income for 20 years, capped at $100,000 total, is not at a
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Typically there is a time between "pushed to development branch" and "shipped to users" when features and bugfixes go through QA and testing by both full-time testers and volunteer beta-testers. That's a large part
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Looking at 10-year-old numbers, there are more female than male school principals in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/238631/us-school-princip... I'm pretty sure that the numbers are even more skew
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CRLite: All of the Web PKI’s Revocations, Compressed(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Well, yes, the "there aren't 330 million ponies in the US, and if there were, where would we keep them?" problem is definitely a problem too!
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Not to take away from your main point, but the capitalized total cost of ownership for a pony is _much_ larger than $1000 (which, by the way, is the price for a not-very-good-natured pony; breeds with nice temperaments cost a lot more accor
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Last I checked, Safari in fact restricts the fonts web pages can see/use to ones that ship by default with MacOS. So you can't fingerprint a Safari user via fonts any further than "Safari user". So yes, browsers, at lea
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Are you running that in a web page, or in the devtools console? I just tried running it in a web page, with the last line replaced by `console.log(performance.now() - t0);` and on my hardware it finishes in ~1.5 seconds in Firefox and ~2 se
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Google Chrome impacted by new Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities(zdnet.com)
6 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|3 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, and I was quite happy with IRC personally. The announcement may not mention it, but there were trial instances of a number of messaging apps set up, people could use them and submit feedback, and that feedbac
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
1) Open devtools. 2) Select the "Accessibility" panel. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility... 3) In Firefox 70 or newer, if WebRender is enabled, there will be a "
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Also what meaningful work can you really get done in 3 months? It really depends on where you are and how seriously they take their interns. I've seen interns accomplish a fair amount in 3 months where I work (Mozilla). As a con
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Sure. Unshipping things is always hard, and likely to break people. But there's still a difference between unshipping support for a standard and unshipping support for a non-standard technology that only you ever implemented. In the
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Just to set the record straight on the part I'm familiar with, "Custom Elements V0" was never a web standard. It was a proposal, which Chrome implemented and shipped without getting everyone else on board, and which turned o
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Just to be clear, the numbers in the parent comments were "3 per year" and "101 per day", so the ratio there is 12288:1. There are approximately 250e6 registered vehicles in the US, so if all the Tesla-related fatalities

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