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react, node, rails, zine hound, social justice slacktivist.

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frandroid··on Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes
Canada has a Harmonized Sales Tax which covers both provincial and federal taxes, it works wonders and saves hundreds of millions of dollars a year in useless bureaucracy. Canada supports this suggestion. ;)
frandroid··on On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)
Probably from the comments on specific videos...
frandroid··on A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa
1) I'd rather lean towards Hanlon's razor 2) Obama was actually quite mindful of int'l law and seriously restricted aerial strikes 3) Once Trump came to power, the military has been allowed carte blanche, and they basically wiped Mosul and Raqqa to take ISIS.

As for your first paragraph, the point is that if you double-cross the enemy on a deal on made with them, then they won't make any more deals with you, and the U.S. needs leverage in Syria more than anyone else. So it's likely that the U.S. said, "you get out of Raqqa, we'll let you get to Albukamal or [whatever other place], and after that you're fair game again." Otherwise why would these jihadists have taken the bargain? They knew they would be a sitting target without assurances of safety until a destination.

frandroid··on Firefox 57.0 Released
Caveat: Of course your tabs should just open up in FF57.

But seriously, save all tabs as bookmarks. You're surely not using 97% of these tabs anyway.

frandroid··on Using SVG as image placeholders
This is an interesting technique for stills; I'd be curious to see it applied to video...
frandroid··on Using SVG as image placeholders
> reduce the number of remote file fetches

This will become less of an issue as HTTP/2 spreads though.

frandroid··on Arduino Death Clock
...did you get the job?
frandroid··on A deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa
Basically, either you let ISIS escape, or you completely flatten the city to get rid of them. I mean considering the way Raqqa looks now, I'm not sure it was effective in preventing much destruction, but if you have an opportunity to save a large city, you try to.
frandroid··on UK parliament to get binding vote on final Brexit deal
I looked this up: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41183041
frandroid··on Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury
Say more!
frandroid··on Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth and Income Database
> The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie.

No. The idea of income inequality assumes that no matter the size of the pie, everyone should have a decent slice of pie that lets them live comfortably.

Industrialization was supposed to reduce the amount of hours we work and increase our quality of life. We seemed to have reached a floor at 40/50 hours a week and many many people are struggling to make ends meet, even if the richest countries in the world. There's a problem.

frandroid··on How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS
> What doesn’t work: > Persistence after page reload

That's not an app.

TL;DR: Use styled checkboxes in a form.

frandroid··on Apple fires engineer after his daughter’s iPhone X video goes viral
My guess is, the downvotes are for "This is a non-story", while it jumps to the top of HN.
frandroid··on In Which My Identity Is Sought by Federal Grand Jury Subpoena
You'll always get to fall back on a tinfoil hat...
frandroid··on Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
All you need is for the state to back up the mortgage. Canada had a vibrant coöp housing creation model from the 70s to 1995. The same Crown corp that backed residential mortgages backed the purchase or construction of a building with a 30-year mortgage, which was paid back by members' housing charges (aka rent). They did add extra general subsidies and there is still an affordable housing subsidy tied to it for those who need it (Rent Geared to Income, where you pay only 30% of your income towards rent), but it could still work quite well without that. Once the mortgage is paid you can reduce housing charges or use the extra capital to renovate/upgrade the building.

Equity is never returned to members, they just contribute to cooperative living. Also, members cannot just sell the coöp to profit from increased real estate values; part of the founding charter of the non-profit corporation which manages the coöp says that if it was to disband, the main assets would have to be donated to charity.

frandroid··on Printers Meant to Make Rockets
https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/07/how-to-disable-auto-playin...

It's a bit annoying for pages like Youtube where you do want autoplay to work, so you have to move the timeline cursor a bit, but the upside is worth it.

Also available in Chrome, I hear.

frandroid··on Documenting the Web together
It the meantime, this sounds like a good idea for a browser plugin.
frandroid··on Just own the damn robots
You forget that Microsoft's stock stagnated for 10 years before that. A 28 PE ratio is the new normal for tech companies. With Ballmer out of the picture, investors are speculating on a brighter future for MS. It's not here yet but they're making lots of smart moves.
frandroid··on New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
> U.S.

> Global

Maybe you're not comparing the same thing... (And I'm with you on the seriousness of animal agriculture pollution!)

frandroid··on Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer than any 2015 country
"Worth" is a product of accumulation over many years. GDP is a yearly measure. So you should compare Lemann's yearly income to per capita GDP.

Then once you start looking at individual incomes, you can look at the median income rather than the average income. Could be interesting to compare GDP per capita (which is an average) with the mean income, but I don't know if that's another apples to oranges.

As for number of hours worked, that's more a feature of the economic system and culture than wealth. We're so wealthy and so much is automatized compared to the middle ages that we could provide for everyone's basic needs with 15 hours of work a week or something, but we've decided that we need cars and cell phones and new clothes every year, and we've turned homes into investment vehicles, so we need to work more.

frandroid··on Rat: Compose shell commands to build interactive terminal applications
And here I thought this would be about a rat issuing shell commands.

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/67715421b1524d9eba22ebc217d99967/f...

frandroid··on Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
Use the spacebar?
frandroid··on Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers
Anyway, for the WaPo you can click on your browser's Reader Mode button and that bypasses the paywall. However I stopped to read the pop-up and they have a $20/year international subscription, so I decided to pay for that.
frandroid··on What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (2014)
How does a piece table differ from a linked list?
frandroid··on Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers
I'd argue that's better than most... I think a paywall with a soft funnel can do wonders to bring people to pay for content that they value.
frandroid··on Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers
> - If I respect a publication and feel that the content has value for me, I'll happily subscribe.

How much do you spend monthly supporting online publications?

frandroid··on Photos: what Puerto Rico’s unfolding humanitarian disaster looks like
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/can-help-hurricane-victi...

PBS: How you can help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico

frandroid··on A therapist’s guide to staying productive when depressed or heartbroken
> Somehow, I accomplish things being asked of me

So you could pair with someone who will drive you around for a while. It could be a friend or someone you hire. Esp. important if you're a freelancer...

frandroid··on PostgreSQL's Hash Indexes Are Now Cool
> A report from a tester who goes by "AP" in July tipped us off to the need for a few further tweaks. AP found that trying to insert 2 billion rows into a newly-created hash index was causing an error.

This is what I call trying things "at Indian scale" :D

frandroid··on Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims
> Is there even anything wrong with any country

It's illegal?

But you ask good questions.

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