TylerH

#6. drift into nothingness

> If you are in the business of collecting data without users' explicit permission, or a warrant from a court, you shouldn't be in business.

Fixed that for you

Because Apple and Google Music suck? And non Apple fanboys would never go to Apple music, Apple customers are probably already there, and people don't want to give all their business to the big giants which do evil things? (Not that Spotify doesn't do evil things). Spotify also lets you catalog your own tracks from local drives... does Apple Music or Google Music let you do that?

Those are both 3rd party offerings and could disappear at the drop of a hat. It's not a good practice for a standards body to rely on outside parties to write documentation for their work.

What's scary about "Looking Glass"? It's not named something like "PrivacyRemover" or "SpamEmailer" or anything.

Mark Zuckerberg is 33; his classmates are not having grandchildren yet. Facebook did not have to do anything to 'expand to grandparents'; grandparents could create accounts on Facebook as soon as anyone with a general e-mail address could.

Here is the Guardian piece on it that reads much better. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/11/excitement-a...

California also requires bottles of water to say that they cause cancer, so... yawn.

Are you trying to find that within the app or by right clicking a shortcut on a desktop/search result in your OS? I've never heard of someone expecting that option to be available from within the application. And even so, that seems like an absurd thing to cause you to throw your hands up and say to hell with the rest of it.

Browsers didn't have tabs in the dialup days.

The weaponization of space is generally outlawed by the Outer Space Treaty of which both the United States and North Korea are signatories.

Skepticism is always warranted for new things, but also remember this is the guy who made EVs viable and cool and luxurious, as well as they guy who made reusable rockets a thing, to put it mildly. Elon Musk has a brilliant mind for solving engineering problems that others think are too daunting to even approach. "Seeing around corners" is something fairly simple, especially when you consider Tesla vehicles have myriad sensors for detecting objects/vehicles on the road, even through other vehicles. Teslas can stop when the car ahead of them stops--surely they can provide a driver with a (near) real-time view of where cars are in another lane, ahead and behind the vehicle.

They're both fast. Most people who use them don't really care if one saves them a a few seconds to a minute over a standard browsing period. They care about other features that aren't necessarily specific to the private aspect of it.

For anyone not wanting to read the article, here's the list of states where UPS and FedEx will still ship wines to:

Alaska; California; Idaho; Louisiana; Missouri; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Mexico; North Dakota; Oregon; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; West Virginia; Wyoming

Was Brave ever good enough? I thought it was just Brendan Eich's swan song

Predicting someone "might" do something is not a prediction. You would have to predict that they will pull out in front of you or that they won't.

Noticing some behavior and thinking of all the possibilities is not predictive behavior. What you are doing is making a reaction based on the action by another driver.

In one case, you notice a driver edging forward, so you slow down in case they pull down. If you were predicting that they were going to pull out, you wouldn't just slow down, you would slam on your brakes.

In another case, you notice a driver with a blinker on, so you assume they are changing lanes, and slow down to give them additional space. This one is closer to a prediction, but in reality a driver would notice the blinker before they get anywhere near the car in question and would have plenty of time to tell whether it's a forgotten blinker or a conscious attempt at changing lanes. Or they don't see it from far away because traffic is moving very fast and/or is very heavy, so they just keep going making the prediction that the car w/ a blinker on will wait until the lane is clear (aka after you pass them) to change lanes.

Why would it ever be?

Because browsers have evolved beyond applications to serve up static web pages, and convenient features like this are a selling point. Google has created an entire "OS" ecosystem built on a port of their web browser, and they've been pushing people to use it for years. I think I'll give Firefox a pass at adding some super neat and useful features from time to time.

This is awesome. Great job!

Ha ha

I understand the concern, but this concern misses the nuance of what 'nature prefers' means.

AKA why the academic journal industry is bullshit.

Well, it's definitely worse for us because even with an inch of padding, our knees still take a huge amount of force when striking that way, even if we don't notice it per strike. Heel strikes on locked knees are a bad way to run, period.

What weird backward university is this that doesn't allow shorts?!

I dunno, working life of the author seems fair to me at least, if not life of the author, or "life of the author or 50 years, whichever lasts longer". If people love your work enough to keep buying it, why should you not get to keep profiting off of it for at least as long as you're alive? Considering people sometimes lose the ability to do work or also have families that depend on them, it doesn't seem so unreasonable to me. Now, these time periods that last what feels like 200 years, definitely absurd.

I don't mind the notion of a copyright entering into the hands of a company, either, but if a copyright was originally an individual's, and then transfers to a company (either through purchase or through contract, etc.), I think the copyright should expire after about 10 to 20 years. Let the company make money off of it for a decent amount of time (otherwise there's not much incentive to buy it), and then send it to the public domain.

I've heard that vitiligo is almost entirely reversible without surgery, so you might not even have to live with it if you don't want to.

Except for the small problem of money not being sentient.

Oh... I thought it's what they paid you to go adventure traveling per month... :-(

Military personnel are obligated by US and international law to not comply with such an order. Generals have also gone on record when asked about the potential for such crazy orders, and said they would not follow such a command (like nuking Mecca, etc.)

Yeah, if you own a copyright or trademark and do not defend it, and can be shown to have known about it, then it becomes almost impossible to defend later on in court. Kind of like a muscle, if you don't use it, you lose it.