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by bzbarsky 8y ago
One other thing, because I do think this is also important. In the presented hypothetical, "highly unpopular among educated people" is an important condition which I'd love to see data for in the case in question. That will
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I agree that the degree of possible harm is important here. But I also think that if we start measuring that, then we have to compare the actual positions people hold to the one you ascribed to your hypothetical outspoken Nazi-like person.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
A bare-bones tax return involving only W-2 income for a couple with moderately high-paying jobs (doctor, lawyer, engineer, in some areas police officer, nurse, school principal, that sort of thing; enough to end up at $250k+ between the two
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
"can't" is a pretty strong term. Up until recently, people would have said that you can't make Olympic sprinting accessible to someone with no feet, but it turns out in fact you can, with sufficient application of techn
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I'm Jewish. I would not in fact be up in arms if your hypothetical person were on an AI ethics council, if I felt they might have useful things to contribute outside the context of "the Jewish Question". I suspect I would p
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DNS-over-HTTPS Update(blog.mozilla.org)
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I am saying that there are some studies showing gender segregation at certain ages may improve educational outcomes, largely depending on how it affects teacher behavior. Whether that means we should do it rather depends on whether we can
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Ah, 260 base is a totally different story. Thank you for clarifying!
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I like that comparison! One caveat, though: the identity of chemicals needs to be pretty carefully defined. Especially any time chiral things are involved, naturally-derived things are much more likely to be a pure enantiomer or close to i
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> but we don’t segregate them anymore Except all the places we do (single-gender schools do exist, and even in non-single-gender schools physical education and health are often taught separately). Also, maybe we should do more of this; t
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
To be fair, the budget and the employee's base salary are not quite the same thing. Let's take a $150k base salary as a specific example, as a nice round-ish number. The numbers from Triplebyte don't include bonuses and equi
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Is there really a difference between a 12y/o and a 13y/o There can be huge differences in social development there, and not even strictly tied to age. The variance is rather large. But even if you just look at averages, as f
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> In this case, "chemicals" is shorthand for "bad chemicals." One problem is that lots of people include tons of known harmless stuff under "bad chemicals" because it's "artificial" (even if i
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It depends on where you keep your keys. If it's in your pocket, the Chico Bags are too big: these things are about 3"x4" and at least 1.5" thick. You can easily clip them to a belt loop if you don't mind the aesthe
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> it can only be spent on qualified health expenses Once you reach retirement age it can be used like any Traditional IRA account, except for inability to roll it over to another IRA or do a Roth conversion, if I understand correctly.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
In Scotland, juries can return one of three rulings: "guilty", "not guilty", and "not proven". I'm not sure what effect this has in practice.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Do you have a source for this? Non-anecdotal? Not at the moment, sorry. I'd have to go dig. But anecdotally, most of the people I hear complaining about rents (not in SV, various places on the East Coast) are complaining about
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to move to an area? Just to be clear, "move to an area" includes "move out of their parents' house and live on their own". > because it serves existin
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Oh, no. I'm referring to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488417 , which is where the change was attempted and which is marked "wontfix".
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Because: 1) It's not just Flipkart. It's a library that was being used on multiple sites. For example, lego.com was broken too, for the same reason. 2) Firefox can't tell Flipkart to go to hell per se. All it can do is t
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Yes, having a way to prevent conditional dispatch on known-likely-to-change values would be good for cases like this. Adding such a language feature to JS specifically is pretty unlikely, of course. :) Also, you may still want dispatch on
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
See most recent comments in the bug. The short answer is probably "there is no future here".
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In this case "left to fend for themselves" manifests as "users end up with a non-working (on some sites) browser, switch browsers". So it's not really an option, unless the browser involved is a monopoly and the si
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The worst part is that Firefox tried to change the error message it throws to include the "bar" piece of information, and that had to be reverted because it broke sites that were parsing the exception message with regexps. :( Se
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
On any 32-bit OS, processes have at most 4GB of address space, because that's how much you can address with 32 bits. In practice some of that is reserved for the kernel, so you get less for use by the process itself. Historically 2GB
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Thank you for the correction!
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Interesting. On Mac, the process is called "plugin-container" if you use something like "ps", but Activity Monitor shows it as "FirefoxCP Web Content", which is a lot clearer...
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You have to keep in mind that a large fraction of Firefox users are still using 32-bit builds on Windows. For those users, the memory a process can use is capped at 2-4GB (depending on whether the OS itself is 32-bit or 64-bit and a few oth
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
This change was made because opening a new tab or loading a new page can start a new renderer process. The way things work right now is that this is started by running the on-disk renderer process executable. If you've updated your in
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The "plugin-container" executable is used for all sandboxed processes on Windows. That started out as plug-ins, but now includes web renderers. So the "something inside it" could be script on a web page, or part of Geck

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