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So if a friend or family member from Europe wants to visit, they shouldn't travel with their personal laptops, phones etc?

All this talk of 'keep your data on a private vpn server and ssh' is so far outside of what a normal person can do its ridiculous. I understand the concerns but 99.999999% of people aren't even aware of these things.

And yet they can be arrested, detained indefinitely, and much much worse, for no reason whatsoever, and have their devices confiscated at the very least - and this isn't just a possibility now (as in its possible a black hole will spontaneously emerge and swallow us all) but a very likely probability.

So what do we do? Not have any visitors, never travel?

TSA, HS and Border protection are a bunch of unqualified, uneducated, underpaid thugs put in a position of absolute power with zero consequences, and rewarded for every 'criminal' they catch. What exactly do you think will happen?

These are people whose dream job is becoming a cop and being allowed to wield lethal force on anyone with zero questions.

The best part is most everyone in this country is so brainwashed they'll actually support this because it keeps us 'great'.

These articles are just wishful fantasy. Our history has shown that people are perfectly willing and happy to tolerate any form of govt abuse as long as they get their dose of reality tv and 'justifications' from mass media, all you need to do is mention the T word and 'keep America great' and you can do whatever you want.

Even if people cared, which they don't, the govt has zero incentive to actually do anything, because increased surveillance gives them more power and more power to abuse the system.

Its sad, and telling, that the majority of people in this country still believe that he's a traitor, should be punished, and that the govt is right and should be allowed to abuse power.

People actually believe that someone revealing information about crimes is more guilty than the criminals. Hypocricy at its finest.

I wish more people would donate to them. So many tech billionaires, you'd think at least one of them would be aware and not mind spending what amounts to loose pocket change for them to preserve information.

Which by definition is impossible to reach.

Science is by definition incomplete. It only provides a means for proposing theories to test observed phenomenon, test them, and use them to extrapolate and make future predictions, which can invalidate or strengthen the theory.

e.g. we don't even know if the physics we have is universal or local to our observable corner, the only evidence we have is we haven't seen any evidence to disprove it, but that's not proof.

String theory could be considered dogma. But it at least provides means to test its predictions, its just that we are very very far off from ever getting close to that capability.

If we live in an illusion, its entirely possible and in fact likely that it is beyond our ability to even detect that. In fact that would be one of the first requirements of such a 'program'. You can should 'computer, end program!' all you like but the holodeck will just ignore you :)

There really is no point to wondering about the reality of time if it doesn't lead to anything we can test/influence or use to advance our understanding and so far there is none.

You could just say the entire universe is but one of infinite multiverses which are being continuously spawned in the cosmic sea, but that doesn't change anything.

The best wine experts and master somm's can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine, red and white etc.

Wine is almost completely marketing and psychology.

I don't understand why people continue to believe that SUVs are safer just because they are huge. Seems like a very common myth.

Also Tesla's radar which can detect vehicles 2 cars in front of you by bouncing signals off the car in front is pretty neat tech. Who else is doing this? I'd assume most of the luxury car makers with auto pilots have this too?

So now Firefox will become much slower due to per tab process overhead, just like Chrome, will pollute the task list with processes, and lose the enormous benefits of it's fantastic extension model, all for some intangible security benefits?

I've almost never had a security issue or crash on Firefox with a hundred tabs and maybe fifty extensions, it's still faster than chrome with 10 tabs.

All the technical stuff aside, the simple fact is Apple enjoys a level of brand loyalty and market hype unlike anyone else, which is why they can afford to do practically whatever whatever they want and get away with it.

Their every decision now is weighed much more towards profitability and upsell/obsolescence than user satisfaction/usability/advancing tech.

The fact that the new MacBook is the fastest selling ever, despite all its negative press, is proof.

Chrome is the culprit. For as much as they helped with V8 innovations, they've also done harm

- ignores usability basics: horrible UI with > 10 tabs, reloads all tabs, many other issues - all of these are things people have complained about forever, they refuse to fix

- memory hog: Chrome uses more memory than almost any other browser

- Google forces Chrome upon you since Hangouts etc will not work with other browsers

- for reasons passing understanding, the Chrome UI has been copied by every browser

Firefox is better at every single thing and has a far better extension model, which sadly they will deprecate again to copy Chrome. I find it very sad that its popularity and market share has fallen as the world has collectively dumbed down the browser UI.

Microsoft Cortana achieved parity with human voice recognition for continuous speech input.

Google has the best machine learning along with MS, and they have billions of data points.

Amazon has neither comparable tech nor the innovation or customer data. Putting an Echo in every home doesn't matter when its dumb. Does Alexa understand context? Can it get even close to Cortana/Assistant? Lets not mention Siri, that's stone age.

> I want a nice car

Translation: I can afford a luxury car, Tesla is one of the nicer luxury cars and happens to be electric.

Why are diesel cars hated in the US? You can get a range of diesel car sin Europe which give you 50-60mpg, have all kinds of comforts and can be cheap, without the trickery of tax credits.

"no AI system is good enough to understand conversational speech just yet"

Didn't MS just announce that Cortana has achieved exactly this?

The arguments against Redux (which this article doesn't really make, but still) are very valid - it is a nice abstraction and way to think about data flow, but its simply too much boilerplate.

Almost every Redux example is tons of repetitive code because of this, and that's before you add in middleware, thunk, saga, reselect etc. Yes I know Dan himself wrote a bunch of articles on how you don't really need to use it and how its conceptually simple, none of that changes what most of the libs and code looks like.

I don't have the answer but I can't help but think there has to be a better way to handle this. We had templates and generics decades ago exactly to reduce repetitive boilerplate.

Redux should never have been adopted in its current form. Its exactly the sort of thing that should be handled by a framework/tooling for you. Imagine if for every React component you had to write a custom parser/resolver/reconciler, all of which had 99% common code and just passed params around. That's what redux boils down to.

This is only for low memory devices. From the linked article -

"All the improvements discussed above reduce the Chrome 55 overall memory consumption by up to 35% on low-memory devices compared to Chrome 53. Other device segments will only benefit from the zone memory improvements."

Chrome can't even begin to compare to Firefox when it comes to handling anything >10 tabs, which is I think what 99% of people max out at, so Chrome doesn't bother about the rest even though people have been begging for years.

- no multiple tab rows

- when you launch, it reloads every single tab vs loading only the active one (the only sane option), causing massive slowdown and network traffic

- as a result in Firefox you can have 100's of tabs, open the browser, work in a few and close, without affecting anything.

- Firefox had Tab groups, an awesome visual representation, before they made it optional due to everyone copying Chrome's limited feature set.

- Chrome still uses much more memory

- Firefox extensions are by design much more powerful. e.g. Session Manager. And things like Tree style tabs etc.

Buying glasses in Asia or online is so much cheaper than the scam run by Lenscrafters, most optometrists in the US. Its sold as a designer product where you spend $$$ on frames, the glass material with fancy treatments, and they charge you maybe 5-10x the actual costs.

I have ordered from Goggles4u, Zenni etc and these places must have razor thin profit margins, they always have coupons and its dirt cheap, never had issues with the quality of the lenses. You can always go to any optometrist/Costco etc and get the lens checked out to confirm.

I don't understand the negativity. This isn't buzzfeed or reddit, the target audience is supposed to be people who are already devs and not need handholding.

So there's no website. So what? The github page clearly explains what it is, who its for and how it works. Focus on the product, talk about its pros/cons without trying to distract from the core issues.

e.g. the size complaint - almost every article about React/Angular/Vue will compare the lib sizes and impact on loading etc - Inferno is faster and smaller. Why complain?

The focus of the library seems to be speed, a minimal implementation that is still fully API compatible with React, which is no mean feat. And on top of that it happens to be the fastest UI framework. Give some credit to the author, FB has already said they might be incorporating ideas from it.

NSL's are unconstitutional and should be illegal, sadly nothing is technically illegal if you are the govt.

The govt should not be allowed to operate in secret and issue gag orders, because then there is no recourse and no oversight, which is exactly what happens in practice.

Sadly most people in this country today couldn't care less because fear mongering and appeal to American nationalism work wonders. No one cares about human rights, due process or holding people accountable.

Organizations like EFF, IA, Wikipedia/leaks are the target of state sponsored attacks and media portrays them as evil.

For every time you hear of a case like this, there are thousands probably where the recipients lack the means to fight the order or are simply forced. The fact that the FBI withdrew in order not to set precedent proves they operate illegally, but of course there will be no mainstream coverage or consequences.

I wish one of the ultra rich people who are in tech would donate a huge amount and keep essential projects like this alive.