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by bzbarsky 7y ago
There's a difference between UBI and something like EITC, in that UBI applies to all adults, whether working or not, whereas EITC is explicitly targeted at people who are employed but do not make what one would consider a "living
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
It doesn't have to take the form of an annual tax refund. It could take the form of lower, or negative, paycheck withholdings. The hard part is making sure that people don't end up owing a bunch of money at tax time, of course,
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The shrinking behavior infuriates a lot of people too, by making it impossible to find the tab you want. That's my experience with Chrome, at least. Setting the "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth" preference to 0 in Firefox will let
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Password manager impact on browser performance(twitter.com)
2 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|1 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Also important was mechanized spinning of thread. https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... cites making a shirt in the middle ages as 7 hours of hand-sewing, 42 hours of hand-weaving, and 50
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "gdb rr". "rr" is a separate debugger that uses the gdb frontend but a different backend. Importantly, it does not utilize breakpoints during the initial program execution, precisely
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/1373 is tracking that, but the short story is that ARM seems to not provide enough performance counters to make the current rr approach work at the moment. So it would ta
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The key thing here is that most of these measures are measuring income, not wealth. The graphs in the article definitely show income. And what that means is that "top 0.1%" or "top 0.001%" is not the same group year to
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
This is why the article says MAP_EXCLUSIVE would exclude the relevant pages from the direct map.
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Removing WebSQL Support(lists.webkit.org)
68 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|26 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Fwiw, Firefox stores almost everything it will need on startup in one large file (omni.ja) precisely to avoid the "thousands of tiny files" problem. That data is uncompressed, precisely to avoid the decompression problem. The lo
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
How big is the Claws Mail binary? A large part of the cost of starting up Firefox, or other large programs, is just getting the binary from disk into memory plus all the work the dynamic linker needs to do once it's there.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Actually, the number of German citizens (or ex-German-citizens, given that German Jews were stripped of citizenship) executed by the Third Reich was "only" about 200,000-300,000 [1], which was about 0.3-0.4% of the population (~70
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
1% of the US population is something like 3 million people; let's say about 2 million adults. Do you really think that there are 2 million adults in the US who have "a higher amount of wealth than sovereign countries" and th
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I appreciate the clarification!
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
It's not that hard for me to reconcile those things, for two reasons: 1) We have plenty of examples from the not-too-distant past of people who were very intelligent and yet definitely racists or bigots by anything resembling modern st
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The interesting thing is that the hypothetical "publishes views about how X are inferior" is considered OK if "X" is "male" or "white", say. I understand the arguments from a structural racism/se
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I just checked the bug database, and this has never been filed as an issue, for what it's worth. The closest to it was the offhand mention in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509560 which otherwise focuse
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Has a terrorist attack ever been carried out by a couple with children in the history of the world? Depends on how you define "children". E.g. see https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/terror-attacks-
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> CPUs don't miss an operation Unfortunately, once you deploy your software at scale you discover that some CPUs do in fact miss operations. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Which basic devtools features are you missing, if I might ask?
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Loading "about:profiles" lets you use profiles without the prelaunch dialog. It's not amazing UI; it's there basically to support debugging scenarios, but it does work.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
That quadratic behavior is only true for high Reynolds numbers, because the drag coefficient in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation is itself dependent on the Reynolds number (and hence on the velocity). The q
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I agree that not every good act or charity can be profitable. I guess my take on it is that _if_, all else being equal, we can make charitable acts profitable, we should do that, because that's a more reliable incentive than relying on
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
First, just to get this out of the way, I feel that taking action due to a profit motive is better than not taking action at all. Do we at least agree on that? Second, getting people to take action is all about incentives. Those incentive
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The regulators get to set the consumer-facing rates, yes.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> They couldn't have used that money for updates and maintenance? My understanding is that they could not, yes, because state regulators exercise line-by-line control over PG&E's budgets, including how much money will be di
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Are you implying the regulators forced PG&E to be awful? Yes. See https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187969182182166530 and https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/11879724952503418
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> You could write XHTML 1.0 documents that were backwards compatible to browsers that only understood HTML 4.01. You could and a lot of people _tried_, or at least pretended to. But the vast majority of documents that tried to do this f
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The "HTML" parts are generally not the hard part of a browser engine, nowadays.

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