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IE6 also had the first reasonably performant CSS/DOM implementation that was not just bolted on... Unless Opera 3.x came before?

Yes, IE quirks were hard to deal with, especially when making complex designs.

However, this is setting a precedent for restricting websites to certain "acceptable" clients, which is not a good direction.

I asked a related question on StOv, and have been told that either "99.999999%" or "100.1%" of screen-reader users browse with JS enabled :D

Sometimes it feels like I am listening to a mechanic who is saying you don't really need to use 3rd gear, because you can just jump from 2nd to 4th, so he doesn't need to look into the funny noise the transmission makes.

Many Dyson hair dryers I have seen are loud enough to cause hearing discomfort, and probably damage, in those with sensitive hearing. I have personally experienced this, as well as seen a boy of about 8, whose mom told me he has sensitive hearing, not want to even go near the sinks because of the hair dryers, because they were so loud.

Just dry your hands on your freaking shirt, people. It will dry within a minute. Or let the process of evaporation do its trick in about the same amount of time.

I put a sticker over the sensors, which made many people happy, especially that boy and his mother, and me sitting right next to the stupid things. Only one person spent more than a second trying to get the dryers to work.

In my forum project, I use blockchain-like elements in the sense that when one replies to an existing comment, they include its hash in the reply text, which is then PGP-signed.

It is not a chain, however, more like a tree/web. And anyone can inspect the tree and re-verify its validity.

What is on the tree, however, is decided by me, the webmaster-operator. If there are troll comments that I want removed, they're gone. But I cannot forge something by another user, because I do not have their private key.

And anyone else can fork the forum and append to the tree in their own way, and I cannot stop them.

I don't think blockchain necessarily means anyone being able to make blocks.

Your site is blank without JS...

I'm working on a web-based system that uses PGP key as identity.

How do I integrate with Keybase?

I kind of assumed so because it would be hard to find pilots that would put their name on a critical piece.

Parking policy in New York City, including Manhattan, is actually designed quite thoughtfully to make parking accessible to everyone. It is certainly easier if you have money, but you could be living in a van on close to $0/day in Manhattan and still find a spot to park somewhere every day, even if it takes a while.

I think that many toothpastes make our teeth less sensitive. I think it is supposed to reduce pain, but it can backfire...

Thank you for this!

I have been making it a "soft transition", where I don't waste my time trying to remove PS, just look in FD for anything I need.

This will help.

I don't bother with GP anymore, just look on F-Droid for anything I need.

Better/faster app store app.

Better warnings about undesirable app behavior.

Better quality apps in the store.

And no nag screen for billing info every time I download a free app.

This seems to be a general trend in software, and perhaps life in general: an abusive, lower quality default option for those not "in the know", and better alternatives for anyone who is savvy or has a savvy friend.

I think a big part of it is that once you have even a minor cavity, eating anything sweet hurts like hell, so people just don't eat sweet stuff when they're older and have lost their baby teeth.

In addition to all the other arguments here (more chewing for bigger jaw development), I have another theory about tooth decay.

I think that pre-civilization humans did not eat much sweets past adolescence. This is because, as soon as a minor cavity starts developing, it hurts like hell to put anything sweet in your mouth. Sweet stuff was for children and adolescents, then we just stopped eating it.

Every time you spend a dollar/euro/etc on non-organic produce, food and external products made with pesticide-sprayed stuff, and most animal products, you are using the most important vote you have to support the practices that are causing the butterfly decline.

You are only 2-5 money steps removed from the process of spraying pesticides all over these butterflies' environment.

To add another correction to the others:

> Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (spelling often gets changed as words go from Russian to English).

The differing spelling is because "Chornobyl" (Чорнобиль) is what it's called in Ukrainian, whereas "Chernobyl" (Чернобыль) is a transcription of the same name in Russian.

People often seem to think I am being unreasonably paranoid for saying that you have to look out for yourself and your family when it comes to exposure to dangerous chemicals, and not just trust the Environmental Pimping Agency (or your local equivalent) to do it for you...

Don't lose hope. You will find your way.

I worked for a bank, and did my small part to help bring about 2007-2008.

Later, I worked in advertising, helping increase consumption and creation of various plastic trash, sugar-rich concoctions, and other such stuff.

I worked for a company that helped pharmaceutical companies target advertising to people on Facebook and other social networks who were sharing their health issues.

In between, I worked on other stuff, which was not as unsavory, but most of the time it still felt like pushing lots of little squares into square holes, and so on.

Lately, I've decided to just work on my own projects, and not contribute my brainpower to destroying my own habitat.

I am much happier now.

Unfortunately, there is no easy solution at this time...

If it's just the same theme, and not just another page on the same thing, why not encourage it instead?

Example: reddit.com/r/redditDayOf

No, it is not easy at all. And even in educated circles, your opinions will be in the minority, and cognitive dissonance will work against you too.

People hate finding out that they're wrong, and nobody wants to admit that they've been poisoning themselves and their family for decades.

It's either that or cancer, though...

Here is just one small example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945593/

If you look at the ingredients of your average shampoo bottle, google each one, click the Wikipedia link, you will find many more.

Many of them will also have a number in the hazmat rhombus, which is also not a good thing.

Detergents and cleaners are just as much of a black box, if not more, as cosmetics, and the largest source of indoor air pollution.

>prevention and not just treatment.

Unfortunately, this conflicts with "the economy".

Many of us are getting paid to produce cancer-causing products, such as:

* processed foods (most of the things you buy in a supermarket)

* most shampoos, cosmetics, soaps, detergents, cleaning products, etc.

* paraffin candles

* cigarettes and alcohol

* components of all these products and the byproducts of their production

* not to mention shit done on industrial scale

* the air, if you live in a populated area

* and so on.

If you really want to reduce your and your family's chances of getting cancer, you're doing your research and doing a lot of work to move away from the mainstream (which is still stuck in 1950's level of knowledge) on these habits, but most people are not, and just blindly trust the government and oversight bodies to protect them because it's "easier" and "cheaper" and "they wouldn't allow it to be sold if it was harmful". Years later: Surprise!

Option 3: Accept it, deal with it best you can, and keep looking. (As the other reply says.)

I want to preface this comment with a statement that in no way am I trying to blame the victim here, only to point out what can be learned from this situation.

This is certainly not the first time I've heard of Amazon being a shitty place to work at, and I don't see much reason to doubt the story of a vindictive boss doing everything they can to make an employee miserable after learning that the employee submitted bad feedback against them.

The two lessons I can extract from this post for myself are.

1. Never submit negative feedback via "anonymous" or "confidential" feedback processes at work, especially against a particular person, especially your boss.

It's been covered on HN before how these things are never really anonymous and confidential, and it should be kind of obvious to figure out if you think about it.

2. If you are at your job as part of your Visa process, you are essentially a slave with a slave's rights to match, and you are better off not rocking the boat if you want to complete the process.

>In addition to vigorously opposing this case in court, we created and sponsored Project Jengo to push back against the incentives that empower patent trolls like Blackbird Tech. Now that the case is over, we will be wrapping up Project Jengo and will report back with a summary of the Project’s successes in the near future.

I don't understand... Couldn't they expand the project to help others in a similar situation?