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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Firefox has both the option of granting the permission only for the current pageload (this is in fact the default behavior!) and exactly the "click the icon and revoke the permission" behavior you are asking for once you have gran
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Does it? In Firefox you can grant the permissions once (for the current page only) or grant them forever, your choice. If your browser doesn't offer that choice, that's a problem with your browser. [Disclaimer: I work on Firefox.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Where did you get this 130M number? I see $47 million on marketing in https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au... and $60 million on "General and administrative". How much marketing
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I agree there's a problem there: we seem to have more capital than we need, yet we also have less savings (in the sense of people deferring consumption) than individuals need to have a comfortable retirement, for example. I have yet to
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
So that still assumes that saving is risk-free (maybe) and the discount rate people apply to consumption is 0, right? The latter just doesn't match reality. But it would definitely be a step up from where we are now, in theory. In pr
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
This is a problem for all assets, not just primary residences. > I think we need to stop providing incentives for housing prices to go up. While true, the main such incentive historically is inflation: housing prices have been growing at
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> If there's no increase in stock price Then the value of the company (and the expected dividend stream) presumably fell, in real terms, because inflation is typically nonnegative.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
This is an incredibly anti-savings policy, given that we have central banks ensuring positive inflation (except in Japan) and capital gains are calculated in nominal, not real terms. In other words, if you just hold some money for a few yea
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It's not entirely unrelated. It's easier to get away with worker hostile policies for an employer when the employer's option if workers object is not "no workers" but "I guess I have ti shift production to Chin
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Mozilla has both multiple offices and remote employees. So do various other companies with significant physical presences in the Bay Area (Google and Facebook come to mind).
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I am aware of what the article says. The bit you quoted does not negate my two points about the data in that article. But just to be very clear, Connecticut is cited as having an infant mortality rate that is slightly above the comparison c
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The problem with infant mortality figures is that different countries measure them differently. There are cases (e.g. very premature births) that the US considers a live birth (with a high risk of mortality) while other countries consider
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The effect is still there after controlling for SES. There may be other correlates of race that matter here, though. Diet comes to mind. I would love to see a good study that tries to disentangle the various correlations here...
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You're right that these facts are highly location-dependent, but can you please cite your claim that food prices are rising faster than wages somewhere? I am rather doubtful. Housing is an entirely different matter.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
They're not entirely separate issues. One of the big reasons for rising living standards in the rest of the world has been the offshoring of work from the US and Western Europe, which is also one of the things reducing worker bargaini
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
A lot of the consumer-class CPU focus this decade has been on power consumption and the GPU part. A Sandy Bridge 4-core, 8-thread, 3.0 ghz CPU from 2011 would be something like a i7-2960XM. It's actually 2.70 ghz base frequency, but 8
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Thank you! Even just a page that shows the behavior differences, without much debugging, would be really helpful; this sort of thing is something browsers very much aim to have working identically.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
That's really odd. There are shared tests for all this stuff, and browsers should really be doing it identically. Did you happen to report bugs on this to browsers? If not, do you happen to have a link to a page that shows the behavi
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I just checked and there are over 100 checks for "should I have different behavior here if I am resisting fingerprinting?" just in the C++ code in Firefox today. There are some more in the JS code but they're harder to searc
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
There are plans to remove the SNI privacy leak as well. Note that "your local ISP" means "whatever coffeeshop you are using wifi in", for laptop users, right? You're right that if the resolver decides to keep and co
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> That 21% tax rate relies on paying employees more? I'm not sure what you're asking. The 35 -> 21 change is the actual corporate tax rate change that happened end of last year in the US. You don't _have_ to pay your em
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The problems start when "ill-equipped" is defined as expansively as possible. See the various cases of CPS getting involved when parents try to teach their kids basic independence by letting them walk to the playground on the cor
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Yes, but so what? A simple exercise: say you have a small business. Your tax rate is 35%, gross revenue is 200k, tax-deductible expenses are 100k (1 or _maybe_ two employees). We'll assume a C corporation, just for illustration purpo
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> I yet ever heard of infinite loops in loading. Do you have an open issue? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256031 has an example of a page using polymer that runs into this problem.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It all depends on what you want your constant to be. If your constant is "the worst-case time it takes to swap in the memory from my disk", and your dataset is guaranteed to fit in local disk then memory access is in fact O(1). W
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
As a simplified thought experiment, consider an a priori perfectly equal, static (equal numbers of people of all ages) society with the following characteristics: * People are in school until age 20. * Assets at age 20 are 0. * People work
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
They are? Polymer has a tendency to get confused by its own loading process and go into infinite loops. Are there any other shadow DOM polyfills out there? (And last I checked, Polymer was polyfilling the old proposal, not the one that is
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The Antonines (Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius) just don't offer the scandal and gossip that drove a lot of what people remembered. "Things were pretty much alright for about 80 years" doesn&#x
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Megan McArdle is a hardened libertarian sophist That's an ad-hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of this discussion. How about sticking to the actual numbers? > 1) With respect to healthcare, investopedia
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You should really read https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0... -- whether you agree with the author's politics or not her numbers are in fact right. There's no way to p

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