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Gmail doesn't do this anymore: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

The garbage companies are burning that stuff because nobody wants to buy it from them. Because often making something by way of recycling uses more resources than the alternative.

Seems like you are thinking the value is created by customers, while the GP thinks it is created by employees.

A potential problem with the force-disabling in 57 is that the only way to hand over configuration from a legacy addon to its successor WebExtension is to preemptively for the legacy addon to convert their configuration. If you only irregularly use your Firefox, the configuration conversion is not guaranteed to run, as you would have to open your Firefox to trigger that.

Maybe you're subject to even more conformity than you think you are, and it's in places where you haven't noticed yet.

The list of countries seems to be coming from the blogpost the commenter linked: https://citizenlab.org/2013/01/planet-blue-coat-mapping-glob...

Even farm products from the US often times are produced with the help of children:

"US child labor laws allow child farm workers to work longer hours, at younger ages, and under more hazardous conditions than other working youths. While children in other sectors must be 12 to be employed and cannot work more than 3 hours on a school day, in agriculture, children can work at age 12 for unlimited hours before and after school."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_laws_in_the_United...

Humans are a part of the environment.

Seems like they fixed this. It's working for me

Not spending the credits is like giving them back to Amazon

Subsidising the research of solar panels sounds like it might be a good idea, but subsidising the installation of solar panels... I don't see the use in that. Could you explain why you think subsidising the installation of solar panels is a good thing?

"Looks like the current Australian and Canadian governments (Harper) want to fall into the extraction-economy trap and giving incentive to clever people to move elsewhere."

People will move away from Australia because there they would have to pay for their solar systems out of their own pockets?

Universities have a lot of "ethical" requirements for experiments, that are, in a large part, over the top. We should get rid of most of those ethical requirements at universities, rather than expand them to Facebook.

Google acts as a sort of proxy for those images, so by setting certain http headers, the marketers can make the proxy access the original image every time the email is being opened. So they can track the time you open their email.

I cannot imagine a policy that, in order to protect public health or the environment, had to discriminate between companies with foreign investors, and those with domestic investors.

Why shouldn't commercial entities be able to sue the government? When a government has agreed to an ISDS agreement (if they hadn't, the agreement wouldn't be in effect), it's only appropriate that they are held accountable to keep up on their promise.

An ISDS agreement is simply about a government promising “We will not discriminate against foreigners (and also don't do a bunch of other terrible stuff, like expropriating foreigners), and if we still do, we will at least compensate them.“

The oil companies could only successfully sue for compensation for being banned from fracking, when the ban only applies to foreign companies, i.e. only when the ban is discriminatory.

Source: The EU commission says “The protection given covers a limited number of specific actions which can concretely affect an investor’s daily business operations in a foreign market, i.e. discrimination, denial of access to justice, expropriation without compensation and the inability to transfer capital to invest.“

The myths those fears of ISDS are based on are so widespread in Germany, that the EU commission felt the need to debunk them, by stating (among other things):

“ISDS is not about giving unlimited rights to multinationals to challenge any legislative measure taken by sovereign states in any area of regulation. Under TTIP, investors will not be compensated with taxpayers’ money just because of a fall in profits due to a change in the law. Nor will it be possible for investors to override bans of practices like fracking. The protection given covers a limited number of specific actions which can concretely affect an investor’s daily business operations in a foreign market, i.e. discrimination, denial of access to justice, expropriation without compensation and the inability to transfer capital to invest. Legitimate policy measures taken by public authorities to protect the environment or public health and which apply to all firms in the same way – foreign or national – cannot be successfully challenged under these provisions under the guise of investment protection.“

(from http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1008)

You'll uninstall Iron after you've read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron

"Although SRWare claims 'Iron is free and OpenSource' ... Iron 'is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6'."

Or this:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...

Installing a camera would be massively cheaper than the driver having to have a college degree.

I'm skeptical if many people really want this. Modularity makes much more sense for televisions, but there's still people buying smart TVs, i.e. non-modular TVs.

Chrome has all those features too, it let's you add search engines via right-clicking a searchbox, ,you can change the search keyword, and "<search-keyword> <search-terms>" in the omnibar works as described by you.

Imgur and others handle to make a profit with ads. Why can't Twitcpic?

A Kinshasa origin around 1900 was already suggested in 2008:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9525342...

The malicious device can just fake breaking the connection and reconnecting. No way for the PC to tell the difference.

No longer true. The PDF viewer's been open-sourced a couple months ago. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878

The following seems to explain it - a guide on how to break into someone's AppleID.

From a site affiliated with AnonIB, where celebrity nudes first surfaced:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140904115530/http://ibstol.wor... (NSFW)

Summary

You need:

* The target's email address

* Date of birth (easily obtained)

* Answers to two of three security questions. With a trick you can choose which of the three you don't want to answer.

You have 8 reset attempts every 8 hours. More would lock the account.

The site also lists common answers to "What was the first thing you learned to cook?", and tips on how to answer both "What was the first concert you attended?" and "Where were you on January 1, 2000"?

To estimate probability distributions, you need data that is non-random. Non-random means there's a pattern. That's another word for correlation.

In using those methods you may never calculate correlation as a number, but when those methods find something you still rely on the fact that there is a correlation.

Those methods still rely on correlation. To be clear: We are not only talking about linear correlation here, which is only one of several kinds of correlations.

The right way to disprove "Nothing other than correlation implies causation." would be to find one causation whose existance we know from something other than causation.

But you won't find it. Think about any causation. Now ask yourself why we now that it exists. The answer will always be correlation.