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Damn dude...

I'm sick and tired of writing stuff like

m = f( <...> )

if m:

    # do stuff with m

Trivial as it may be, I for one welcome this.

Firefox extension to bypass WSJ and FT paywall

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/

So the _average_ energy company has twice as high RPE as Google? That's unexpected...

Link please.

> Slide down to browse through the hundreds of tabs I have opened (...)

You have hundreds of tabs opened?

Man, you're doing something wrong. At this point learning how not to have hundreds of tabs opened seems like a bigger improvement than choosing one browser versus another.

> Correctness comes first.

I agree with this.

Interestingly, the post is very simple, and not correct. I prefer posts which are slightly more complex but correct, but those don't get as many upvotes.

I've heard of Nexcloud. What's the difference between it and Syncthing?

Companies like this data to improve their products. As long as it's opt-in, we should have no ethical issue with it. Doesn't surprise me that Mozilla is dealing with this ethically. One of the few organizations I trust.

> particularly since the current US administration will presumably see this as related to the larger international trade-war.

It's not just the administration. Every time the EU has levied fines against Google a lot of Americans on HN claim that the EU is doing it because they're jealous of how successful American businesses are.

> This was due to the culture of Europes entrepreneurs which is often "bureaucracy first, product later".

Are you just mindlessly repeating the usual right-wing nonsense that you read somewhere on the internet, or can you back this up with facts?

Stop contributing to google's ecosystem.

Yes. And because of that I cannot empathise with this developer.

It's not longer a case of "don't put your time into a closed ecosystem, for your own sake", but "you have the moral duty not to contribute to a closed ecosystem, for everyone's sake".

The developer was doing something imoral and something bad happened to him. It's karma, Kramer.

When you visit wikipedia in the UK you some times see a banner with information. I'm posting here the content and links of the banner:

> To all our readers in the UK This Tuesday we need your help. On 5 July 2018, the European Parliament will vote on a new copyright directive. If approved, these changes threaten to disrupt the open Internet that Wikipedia is a part of. You have time to act. Join the discussion. Thank you.

> Contact your MEP: https://changecopyright.org/

> Read about on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...

> Learn more: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/2018_European_Parl...

In particular that changecopyright.org link seems organized by Mozilla, and connects you directly with an MEP.

London has some really bad areas though.

I'm not the person you were responding to, but I'd be curious to hear more. Could you please explicitely say whatever it was that you were implying?

So in your mind people are just coming up with these things for no reason, is that it?

Hey, does anyone know where to find information about how python's releases are structured? For example, 3.6 exists and 3.7 is released. Without looking at the release details, should I be upgrading? Should I assume that it will break stuff, or assume that it won't, or should I make no assumptions? Etc...

> You need a lot of optimism about solutions for global warming and pollution.

I disagree. Unless you can show me a first-principle calculation for why a specific number should be "too much", then I don't think it's reasonable to assume that we're either above or below such a number. Don't get me wrong: I agree that such a number must exist. But you seem certain that we're above it, which isn't based on anything as far as I can tell.

> You can bypass the throttling by opening the About Firefox dialog to force an update check.

This didn't work. Opening that dialog doesn't seem to trigger anything, and I don't see any button within it either.

> Yuan has fallen 10%

Weak Yuan is good for Chinese trade, which has an enormous surplus.

Oh how interesting. Just went on lobste.rs and at the bottom they have the moderation log made public. Really cool. I guess it's unusual because moderators don't like accountability.

What's Lbda though?

> And now the dark theme also applies to address bar and hamburger menu which is nice bonus.

I have both normal FF and nightly FF. Before nightly getting the dark hamburger menu I'd never thought much of it. After nightly got the dark menu, now on normal FF I can't help but notice it every time I open the menu, and it annoys me to no end. Funny how these things work.

That sounds like the cartoonish view of the Chinese gov that someone who only has any contact with it through western media buys into.

And you use it as if it's some singular person, and of course it isn't, just like I use "the US" as if it's some singular person, which it also isn't. So we're both doing the same thing, and you're pointing that thing to me whilst doing the same thing. You used "the Chinese government", I used "the US", we both used it as if it's some singular person, and of course it isn't. Not sure how many more ways I can say this until you get it.

You use the Chinese government as if it's some singular person, and of course it isn't.

> The Fed sets interest rates, not the US government.

Who said anything about US gov? If I say "the US sets USD interest rates", responding that "it's not the US gov, it's the Fed" sounds likes you're using an argument that's often used in a different conversation.

How come I always find out about Firefox updates from HN faster than actually getting the updates? Honest question.

TIL about the Blub paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_paradox#The_Blub_paradox

Thanks for that.

> The US manages the value of its currency indirectly but the market sets the price.

The market sets the price based on (amongst other things) interest rates, and the US sets the interest rates however it's more convenient for its trade.

Are you saying that one is acceptable and the other one isn't? To me it seems that the difference is one of degree. I'm highly suspicious of anyone who says that this difference is a good justification for tariffs.

The US manipulates the value of its currency, exactly as do 100% of the countries on this planet.

That you're repeating an attack that applies exactly to you means you're either ignorant or dishonest.