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by rvern 9y ago
There is a good summary on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book .
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by rvern 9y ago
Electrolysis has been enabled by default since Firefox 48. Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule .
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by rvern 9y ago
It is separate. You can disable searches for the Awesome Bar by setting keyword.enabled to false on about:config.
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by rvern 10y ago
The United States is only one of the many countries that Google and Facebook operate in. They have to follow the laws of the other countries as well, and they have done so in the past. Furthermore, if humans are still able to recognize the
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by rvern 10y ago
Smart bookmarks! Bookmarklets! RSS bookmarks! Awesomebar fuzzy matching! Along with bookmark keywords and bookmark syncing! Firefox's implementation of bookmarks is right next to Wikipedia and ad blockers among the crowning inventions
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by rvern 10y ago
A blog post by Allan Day addresses the vertical space issue: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-... .
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Molecule kills elderly cells, reduces signs of aging in mice(sciencemag.org)
1 points by rvern 10y ago|0 comments
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by rvern 10y ago
> Fire up VS Code, go to Help > Toggle Developer Tools, and poke around for a few minutes. Imagine the amount of time it would take to build a similar experience to just this one aspect if you were doing this from scratch. Don't
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by rvern 10y ago
> Doing the same with native technology would have took several weeks of coding, and it wouldn't have been cross-platform. Actually, it would take one hour because you would use Poppler, and it would be cross-platform. It would also
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by rvern 10y ago
> I put up with it's poor performance and instability merely for this one feature. Ah, but performance and stability is exactly what Mozilla is improving with WebExtensions, Electrolysis and Servo/Quantum, so you won't ne
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by rvern 10y ago
> When you do that you have nothing but a Chrome clone left and why use a Chrome clone when you can use Chrome. Why use Chrome when you can use a Chrome clone that better respects your privacy, is open source, and gives you more freedom
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by rvern 10y ago
Having more addons available for more browsers is good for the open web, even if these browsers aren't specifically Mozilla's.
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by rvern 10y ago
Mozilla created Tab Center, which is similar to Tree Style Tabs: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center .
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Facing ‘doomsday’ scenario, scientists consider fleeing Brazil(sciencemag.org)
4 points by rvern 10y ago|2 comments
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by rvern 10y ago
Yes, it will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy . "There is no limit to the amount of work to be done as long as any human need or wish that work could fill remains unsatisfied. In a modern excha
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Give the public the tools to trust scientists(nature.com)
1 points by rvern 10y ago|0 comments
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by rvern 10y ago
People who care more about convenience than freedom and privacy can and do use Skype, iMessage, and Snapchat. If you give up freedom and privacy to make a more convenient client, you're not improving the freedom and privacy situation,
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by rvern 10y ago
Yep. You can use Space to scroll a page down and Shift+Space to scroll a page up. For more precise scrolling, though, you will have to use the arrow keys or the mouse.
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by rvern 10y ago
Actually, it doesn't select the first instance in the document but rather the first after your cursor. And you can use ' instead of / to select only links. It allows you to open links without using the mouse, so saying it is
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by rvern 10y ago
If you just want to use your web browser more efficiently, from the keyboard, you don't need addons like Vimperator or VimFX. Firefox already has keyboard shortcuts for everything. You can press Alt+H K to see the list of keyboard shor
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by rvern 10y ago
It is, people just don't know about it (it seems?). In Firefox, just press '/'. You can also toggle 'Search for text when I start typing' in about:preferences#advanced.
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by rvern 10y ago
From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html : > A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution sche
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by rvern 10y ago
That's why witty_username said to check the domain name and for HTTPS, not just for HTTPS.
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by rvern 10y ago
You're making the unfounded assumption that it is necessary to simulate "the actual true process that governs nature"; Bostrom's argument does not require this, it only requires a simulation of people with our kind of ex
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by rvern 10y ago
Why "without having to convert your document into TeX"? Is there something wrong with TeX? Anyway, LibreOffice has been able to do all these things for a long time with Graphite fonts, and, since version 5.3, it can also do them w
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by rvern 10y ago
It isn't a solution in theory, but it's a great solution in practice. You're right that the schools won't advocate so-called piracy, but they don't seem to care too much about dropping the subscriptions either.
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Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals(nature.com)
98 points by rvern 10y ago|14 comments
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by rvern 10y ago
I like Parfit's writing. His two most important books are probably Reasons and Persons and On What Matters . In On What Matters ,[1] he suggests a new ethical theory which is a synthesis of consequentialism, Kantian deontology, and
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by rvern 10y ago
I'm not convinced... > I'm sorry but this is just not true. Network effects are important, but there's a reason that people are using these networks to begin with. They work really well. There's a reason they use thes
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by rvern 10y ago
Sounds right, maybe Diaspora or XMPP would not become popular if they were advertised today . Software like VLC, Firefox, LibreOffice would because they're not communication platforms. Chance might play a larger role than advertising

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