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Is that really true? Or is the evidence pretty much in that all people shouldn't really be eating refined sugar?

Per Musk, the fast torque response and quality of the computers mean even the RWD version will have better traction than you might expect.

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Are we sure a feasible tether/mass could handle the impulse of a nuclear explosion?

I dislike that the filters are strictly defined. What if I wanted to create a category for 'rape' or 'animal-cruelty'? I should be able to add those notes, and have them be silently ignored by unsupporting clients. Even better though, I don't see why the client wouldn't include those new categories in what can be filtered for this specific clip.

Edit: Also, it seems like the severity levels (low/medium/high) are arbitrary, meaning they will vary from film to film. It might make more sense to give categories sub-categories or tags. So for swear words, it would have the sub-categories of all the various words which might be used. For violence, it might have the tags of ('simulated', 'on screen', 'bloody'), etc. That way the viewer could decide what they want to see, and it would be somewhat consistent.

> don't see how it's possible

It could be computerized pretty easily, it's just not.

> Why did it [take] a year to develop?

I believe this is your answer (from the About page):

> Almost every piece of code is ad hoc, built from the ground up to be as lightweight and efficient as possible.

My opinion is they most likely built many things which were already available in the open-source world.

If anyone would like to try this on more websites, I wrapped it in a quick Eager app: http://preview.eager.io/dyslexia/

I also modified the source to not use jQuery in the process: https://github.com/zackbloom/dyslexia/blob/master/script.js

In SemVer [1], it's prescribed that the first number is for breaking changes, the second number for new features, and the third number for fixes. So this would be v3.0.0.

It also allows you to add a suffix though for beta-type versions, so the beta would be v3.0.0-beta, or v3.0.0-rc1, etc.

[1] http://semver.org/

Yes, I've used bundlers before which package the scripts and styles into a single HTML file.

There's no mention of why they don't have redundant systems in more than one datacenter. As they say, it is unavoidable to have power or connectivity disruptions in a datacenter. This is why reliable configurations have redundancy in another datacenter elsewhere in the world.

The same thing which is stopping anyone from covering the whole visual field, the need for serious technological innovation. It's possible they've figured that out, but who knows.

If anyone would like to try a live preview on their site, I wrapped hint.css in a quick Eager app: http://bit.ly/202YkC5

How do you know he's the outlier?

He has gathered more data than had he not done it, or not blogged about it. You're right that it doesn't meet any scientific criteria for 'fact' yet, but it is data of a sort, and may be a helpful step on the road to the furtherance of science.

I think you have to think about how those people died. Heat exhaustion? An underlying heart condition? I don't think they died of not having enough nutrients, or not eating soon enough before running.

Please cite your sources. It's certainly possible that it's dangerous, but there is also a tradition of labeling anything which is different than what was historically done as medically dangerous. There is an equal tradition of pulling the medical dangers of various things out of thin air based on guesswork. It is of course possible, I am very interested in reviewing your sources.

The only fundamental difference between this and a 'proper' scientific experiment is the p value. All scientific experiments have cavets, and all have a probability their finding could be erroneous. Of course, no one should write a textbook based on this one guys self-reported experience. But, assuming he is accurately reporting it, it is evidence that this is _possible_ which is a very important thing to discover.

Yes, it may only be possible in 0.01% of the population, that is the type of thing which a larger-scale study can evaluate, but whatever they find, it will be an interesting result which would have been less likely if he hadn't shown it could be done.

Saying this is pointless and worthless is insane to me. More than thirty thousand people die in motor vehicle deaths in the US every year. The amount of pain and suffering this technology will eliminate is incalculable.

I don't think an isolated internet is the solution. That's what North Korea has (to the extent they have internet), and it is a problem in every way. The problem isn't really China, it's there are only a handful of people with the keys to this castle.

Thank you for your contribution, but please change the title to something more descriptive.

They're not losing it because of some legal battle or copyright claim, they're losing it because they lost contact with the guy who really owns it, and waited until they had one week to go to make the issue public.

You mean without JavaScript and CSS? The reason browser versions matter is because there has been a massive amount of innovation in JS and CSS in the last decade. That innovation has allowed websites to move closer and closer to the capabilities of desktop applications, which is a win for ease-of-installation, security and for the web as a platform.

Not showing a message to your users is very user hostile. It's one thing to not offer a service, it's another to frustrate your potential users.

We view Eager as a safer alternative to installing something like a WordPress plugin. Non-technical people certainly use them extensively, yet they introduce very large security holes. We are trying to provide much of the same power, but without the danger of a server exploit.

If you do read the Eager terms of service, you'll see that we explicitly guarantee that we won't sell any tracking information. We don't build every Eager app, but the ones we have built are open source, and don't track or report anything to us.

The reason that is in the terms and conditions is because Eager exists to allow people to install all sorts of third-party SaaS tools. If you install the Google Analytics app, they are going to track you, that is what we're trying to convey. Every app Eager has built is open-source, and is going to remain that way.

The nice thing about delivering software directly to the client as we do is you can examine the exact code which gets sent, and confirm that it is what you expect.

Eager is to give all of the non-technical website owners access to the JavaScript tools we use every day. If you do know how to install a script manually, there is certainly less of a reason to use it.

Just to clarify, Snow and Snow Pro don't to anything of the kind. You can view the source here:

https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro

You can get the pro version for free with a tweet. You can also find the source of both plugins here:

https://github.com/EagerApps

Eager itself is a platform to allow non-technical website owners to install the all of the open-source and SaaS tools which technical people already have access to. If you already know how to add JavaScript to your page, Eager is more about convenience, not necessity.

Sorry for the confusion, virtually everything on Eager is open-source. You can find the code here:

https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro

Eager is an app-store for installing things onto your website, if you are interested in it, you can see more apps here:

https://eager.io/apps