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Humans have gotten real good at reproducing and staying alive despite external circumstances, up until their offspring can reproduce too.

So, individuals will reproduce.

With that perspective, how do you prevent scope creep when preparing a census exercise? You would collect everything and the shape of each house's kitchen sink, because "it can be useful".

The United States are listed as a secular state (ie. it "is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion")

Edit: As I research a bit further, I have stumbled upon an interesting counterargument [1] that enumeration of ethnicity and ethnic groups results in "more political discrimination and state-sponsored violence targeting ethnic groups". Perhaps a similar conclusion could be reached about religious census information.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2...

"What is your religious affiliation" makes absolutely no sense in a census exercise. IMO.

> I think the industry is optimizing for the wrong thing.

Indeed: The industry optimizes for speed, time to market, and features, and applies the ostrich model to everything that doesn't bring short-time revenue (security considerations, accessibility, vendor lock-in, interoperability, …)

This has been going on for as long as the industry exists, and now we start to have the proper tools to assess the damage and understand the brittleness of it all.

"Excuse me sir, would you mind carrying this extension that goes against your core business of selling ads?"

Publish it as a Firefox add-on instead.

Ads not only need to be relevant to me. They also have to be presented to me only when I am interested in the category of the advertised product or service. Otherwise they're just spam.

(Consider the typical "you just bought a new fridge, so let's show you ads of fridges".)

How long until a canvas is used to render the full chrome of a web browser (e.g. including the TLS padlock), showing a fake benign URL in the (fake) address bar while having the user interact with a malicious page?

> we include it in our terms and condition and privacy page, but I don't think users truly grasp how those tools work

Since you did collect the metrics, you had direct knowledge of how many users opened the T&C and scrolled down to the place where you mention you're recording their session.

Would be interesting if you can share an aggregate statistic of that.

All the questions about sneeze are either about open air, or Newton's third law. Did really no one ask what happens if you sneeze while wearing a spacesuit helmet? Does the visor have a windshield wiper on the inside?

I'm glad we don't have exclusion zones like that one in France either.

You misread my comment.

If someone can deliver the same greater value to society using less electricity than you, they should be rewarded.

Punitive pricing is a great thing.

The less energy you spend to deliver value, the better for everyone.

As addressed in the article ("Choosing the right target"):

> Pick the *highest-level* entry point that contains the bug

That's not prevention. That's remediation.

In my case, the site reports "The technique is called browser fingerprinting. It is legal everywhere."

It is definitely not legal in Europe, when used to track individual users. The consent pop-ups are not only about cookies.

I'll ask the obvious: wouldn't the aircraft just take to the skies directly, without bothering with the formality of setting their transponder, if they were knowingly escaping an apocalypse scenario?

Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.

Mickey mouse is in the public domain, at last!

There is apparently 10000 people every day who learn about it for the first time, according to https://xkcd.com/1053/

That's not a fix. It's a workaround.

I wonder how often do privacy policies change, for the average site, to merit investing in a dedicated library that renders them dynamically. Assuming that the default solution is a static page.

The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.

Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?

The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016

Valid question, which must be put in the context of US-based providers willingly satisfying US out-of-jurisdiction search requests for EU data without even letting the EU know about it. (And when the providers are not willing, they can be forced by U.S. Cloud Act)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro...

Your statement is wrong.

The report describes that there was no mechanism to dispatch the reactive power of renewables separately from the active power.

In page 452, item numbered 1 states "RES power plants follow fixed power factor" (RES = Renewable Energy Sources). The source of this finding is in section 4.2.1.

In page 208, footnote 35, the reference is given to Royal Decree 413/2014 of 6 June, which mandates this fixed power factor. The Article 7, section e), states that renewable energy sources must follow the instructions given by the operator to set power factor, and only if the distribution lines support it.

And footnote 36 describes how this worked in practice on the date of the outage: renewables were told, by email on the previous day, which fixed power factor correction to use the following day.

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This lack of dynamic dispatch of reactive power was a known problem, already reported in 2022 [1]

[1] https://www.eldiario.es/economia/competencia-reconocio-julio...

Obligatory read: https://how.complexsystems.fail/

Any company where this happens is being mismanaged.

The whole point of having companies is to overcome limitations of humans acting individually.

I'll do you one better: stealing the signing key was not even necessary.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ent...