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by ygjb 5y ago
Check out nuraphones; I don't know enough about hearing and audio to know what voodoo they are doing, but as a person with significant hearing loss, the hearing customization they perform during set up allows the device to emit the rig
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by ygjb 5y ago
> Which isn't to say that one should avoid political advocacy, just that the costs should be evaluated before deciding to do it or to not do it. It is pretty clear that the decision to write the email was written with business impac
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Why? Is it because you disagree with the political leanings of the CEO? Is it because you don't think that corporations should express political biases? If so, do you maintain a list of companies that you won't do business with ba
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by ygjb 5y ago
Competent managers in technical companies managing highly skilled professionals do. The rapidly growing corporate surveillance market says that incompetent managers and companies that grind people until they burn out are still a a major fo
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Then, if you build a successful product, you get: * ransomware * free PR from haveibeenpwned (but not the kind you want) * a burning desire to put my (or one of my AppSec/IR peers) kids through college. That said, YMMV.
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I personally think that Firefox Pro could offer a shiny icon that says "Pro" in it, and the satisfaction of knowing that I supported a project I care about. For an annual license, perhaps a sheet of stickers?
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No it's not. Advertising is natural, from pretty flowers, to peacock and spider dances, to animals marking territory and making whatever mating noises they care to. The advertising industry, which generally means the corporate owned,
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I know this has been posted before, but it seems to be getting some traction and outrage on twitter and other social media today. Props to Mozilla for finding revenue diversification opportunities, but this still doesn't feel quite rig
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Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)(support.mozilla.org)
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We live in the same neck of the woods, based on your HN profile; there is a balance tracked at Vancouver Public Libraries that is based on late fees. It's also worth noting that VPL wants to get rid of late fees as well, based on this
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Wait, so now, in order to provide public library services, that are generally free, you want libraries to essentially function as banks and carry account balances and pay out interest? My dude, I don't think you really understand the g
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That would preclude the significant majority of use of public libraries; a $200 deposit is absolutely crippling to someone living in poverty, and unattainable for almost all children and students.
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Same. I always lumped it in with "can't curl my tongue" and "cilantro tastes like soap" types of genetic differences...
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But the model for it to be accessible to the general public is readily available, it's just not evenly distributed. I can go to several local fed-ex offices here in Vancouver and they will print on demand a file that I provide them, fo
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by ygjb 5y ago
This argument is the problem. If we stopped producing fossil fuels right now, there would be an economic collapse, and starvation, and probably a few wars. In 50-75 years we will probably be looking back in horror at the missed opportunity
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by ygjb 5y ago
No, you are underestimating the fact that people already understand how average temperature works, especially folks they have ever lived in a modest home with no AC. If someone's home is 24-26C, and they turn on their oven to cook some
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by ygjb 5y ago
In one of my campaign worlds the assassins guild was run by a church; you had to pay once to kill them, and again to make sure they stayed dead :P Introducing magic, or any kind of efficient machine or analog for modern medicine that might
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by ygjb 5y ago
I absolutely love it when I am present for when my kids start learning something. It's delightful to watch them learn and figure things out and take their first steps. Sometimes whatever they are learning is something they enjoy, and
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For Canada https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-and-data/data-and-analysis/e... Specifically for BC, where I live: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commoditie...
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> I live in a condo so charging at home isn't an option. Why not? Why not join your strata or hmo board and change that? Why not lobby your local jurisdiction to add these kind of requirements to new construction, or pass by-laws o
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Your concerns are basically straight up range anxiety. Anecdotally speaking, my previous vehicle was the only one out of 4 vehicles on camping trips for several years that had mechanical issues. The simple reality is that in most of North
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No one is arguing any of these points. The problem is that currently the increased efficiency of ICEs are externalized from the people who are profiting from it. Pollution, noise, power distribution (fuel vs electric) and the toll on publi
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Is this just your opinion, or do you actually have data to back up your claims here? I ask because there was a 5 year old study that illustrated that in 2016 87% of trips were within range for an electric vehicle with overnight charging. h
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It's not possible to both maximize the safety and efficacy of using oil while externalizing the long term economic and environmental impact of using oil. The proposed efficiency and safety are entirety predicated on the externalized i
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While there will always be the case that highly optimized javascript code will be more performant, the flexibility and performance of WASM on the web and in browsers means that a significant number of high impact products and services have
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You don't need to have a practical attack for something to be a credible threat that needs to be addressed in a multi-tenant system (like say, cloud providers).
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A premium chat room or forum doesn't make more sense because the people Mozilla would be paying to staff that channel are already on several open forums and most are willing to answer questions (even if that answer is RTFM and a redire
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by ygjb 5y ago
Well that's just an awful pretentious revisionist bit of rose colored navel gazing. Now granted, I have only been online in various forms since 1992 (first on BBSs, then on the Internet occasionally in 1994, and then pretty much contin
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by ygjb 5y ago
> The point of the product is to gamble You know that, and I know that, but legal weenies and regulators go to great pains to make it clear that it's not gambling, as do defenders of the "sport". And to be clear I love me
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by ygjb 5y ago
Consent isn't universal or eternal. Without commenting on the relationship the commenter has with their family, in general, whenever you give someone something that leaks information, it's worth letting them know and allowing the

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