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by bzbarsky 9y ago
According to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm $0.05 in 1930 works out to $0.73 today. Figuring out a percentage increase is a bit complicated without knowing how much mod's grandfather earned. A
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Because otherwise you strike water at high speed with your unprotected crotch area.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> because it is based on the idea that there is an element of chance inherent in who gets sick That statement is true, but health "insurance" covers lots of non-chance things, because it covers lots of things that are not a res
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Yes, that one is on my to-investigate list already. Thank you for the reminder! Chrome has started just blocking the HTML parser completely on stylesheets. That means it doesn't end up with FOUC (except insofar as there is renderable
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Are you still seeing it on nightly after https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712130 was fixed? A bug report with steps to reproduce (even a link to the specific GitHub page involved would help) would be really usef
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> The only arguments are about how many tag bits & who gets to set them That's fair. I guess I've seen no indication that bits will be provided by ISAs and OSes to userland (past the bit that distinguishes userland from ke
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> No. Universal declaration of human rights article 23 may disagree, fwiw. Assuming you accept that declaration at all, of course. But the point is that there is, shall we say, a wide spectrum of views on this topic. > I was obvious
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I suspect you can get arbitrary memory read with Spectre 2 as well; just have to find the right gadgets. Which in a big program of the sort that would have a sandbox inside is somewhat likely... (I can't comment on specific counterexa
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Your proposal doesn't fix Spectre 2 in general; just the cross-privilege level (or at best cross-process) aspect. Anyone trying to create a sandbox still has to worry about the sandboxed stuff being able to read all of the sandbox mem
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Does that ever happen? What could cause it to happen? Please do read to the end of the article. It has happened, with this same sheriff.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> you are not entitled to receive service from GitHub Are you "entitled" to a job in your field? Plenty of employers now require you to work on GitHub. > both of these liberties will be infringed by most governments if you
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
There are absolutely lock-in effects. You want to participate in web standards groups? You have to use github to do so in any sort of effective fashion. Same thing for various open-source projects. The _owner_ of a project has a bit more s
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Right; my point was that "there are severe practical consequences for leaving" is exactly the situation with something like github.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
If you replace "country" with "city" or "province", then pretty much everyone is in fact free to leave, legally. Yet we still consider it bad when such governments censor things.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
It really depends. I, too, have been blocking them for years, with few problems. But other people run into problems more often. It really depends on the sites one uses.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Next time it might make sense to make it clear that the comment was edited and how... ;)
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Note that the definition of "Block 3rd party cookies" in Safari is different from the one in Firefox (not sure about Chrome). Firefox blocks a lot more stuff when that option is enabled in Firefox than Safari does when its option
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
No, I posted it in the right place. Tepix subsequently edited his/her comment, as far as I can tell. The comment I was replying to, about "mousewheel" events, is certainly no longer in evidence.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
There were thousands of changes from Firefox 58 to Firefox 59 (I count > 8900 changesets, though some are merges). The release notes only list the most visible and most unexpected changes. Ongoing memory and performance work rarely clea
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Looking at that bug, one problem with implementing the nonstandard "mousewheel" event is that the browsers that implement it have different behavior in terms of what the delta value means, so sites using it tend to do browser snif
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Ah, I did not know this had started happening. Thank you for the pointer!
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Or we could do loans with repayment based on post-education income. There are various ways of doing that, of course, with their own sets of problems. Note that the UK does exactly this, last I checked.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why is the rural minority so special? It's not about rural vs urban. It's about the assumption that the US is a union of separate _states_ with separate legal structures, cultures, etc, etc. So it's not the "rural
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
And in the newest installment, https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/883 is UA-sniffing that is now preventing Firefox from aligning with all other browsers on whether arrow keys fire keypress even
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Those days are nowhere close to over. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15636674 for a short list of examples that Mozilla's web compat team has hit just in the recent past.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
That existed: see DOMImplementation.hasFeature. Turned out, there were cases where browsers returned "true" while their implementation of the feature did not do what the authors wanted. There were various reasons for this: the fe
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> in case a field in one of the older objects was modified to point to an object in the young generation? This is typically handled by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_barrier#In_Garbage_colle...
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why does the EU still have the same gross and absurd copyright terms and laws the US does? Uh... you do realize the EU had them first?
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The last presidential election in the US had both OECD and OAS observers. See http://www.businessinsider.com/international-observers-at-us... for example. According to that article, there have been OECD observers since 20
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I've encountered several sites that broken with blocked third-party cookies. Most of the website for one local bank around here and a payment form for a local puppet theater are the ones that come to mind offhand. Typically, it'l

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