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> I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)

You don't seem to understand why this is problematic though, so I'll explain it to you: enabling tracking when you know that one of your selling points to your users is respect for privacy is a huge breach of trust.

Hey! Listen, the abstract exactly matches what I described.

However, I believe that the essay I read specifically mentioned C&H as an example, which CTRL-F indicates your pdf doesn't. (On the other hand, it's also possible that I originally did read your pdf and in my mind used C&H as an example, and am now mis-remembering it haven been presented as example).

Regardless, I'll read your pdf, thank you!

Old spider-man content sells for a lot more than old calvin and hobbes content.

> Calvin and Hobbes was extremely mainstream. It only stopped being so because the creator stopped creating content for it.

I think that's exactly the point. It stopped being mainstream. Spiderman continues to be mainstream because the original author passed on the rights and now it will live for longer than the original author. Calvin and Hobbes will continue to shrivel in how well known it is.

Wasn't the a HN post a couple of weeks ago claiming that mozilla was now an advertising company?

It seems almost that mozilla's leadership is intentionally trying to ruin it.

I'm seconding this, and I have first hand experience in exactly this problem, in finance. My first boss also had the view that "batching is a special case of streaming where you stream N and streaming is also a special case of batching where the batch size is 1 and so it doesn't matter which one you implement". This was never performant enough and he was eventually asked to leave.

Very interesting.

At my company (tech) I've noticed that for the past 2-3 years grads are almost 50% women.

Now, I have absolutely nothing against this outcome. But I do wonder - instead of optimizing for a specific distribution of employee features shouldn't we be optimizing for hiring the best?

And you could say "they are the best, 50% of the best are women".

That's a possible explanation! However.... 5+ years ago when grad were roughly 100% men, weren't we hiring the best then? Surely back then they also thought they were hiring the best. Surely 5 years ago if you'd told the hiring manager "hey from those 20 people you hired, 10 aren't the best, 10 the best are these other people and they happen to be women", the hiring manager would've said "no way, we don't look at gender when hiring, we just hire the best".

My point is that we didn't understand why back then we were ending up with 100% men despite the fact that 50% of the population are women. We just mandated that 50% should be women. This is like you believe you have a bug and so you tweak something at random. Now it's different and you think it's fixed.

Anyway, they don't pay me enough, so I don't care :-)

Think you could find a link?

Is documentation that important? Even when I think is excellent like postgres, I've only ever had a few pages of it. Which leads me to think, who's reading the other thousands (?) of pages?

I think the amount of effort you should put into documentation varies wildly on the scope of the project.

> And there are plenty of teachers who are incentivized to use easy, fun, low-accountability, hard-to-measure practice techniques that keep students, parents, and administrators off their back.

I've been visiting schools in London and I've noticed that teachers/headmasters "sell" their schools with claims that their schools are "inclusive" or use "play based learning" or "great activities" etc. Everything and anything, but being serious about learning. I kind fo get the impression that the approaching to schooling is to get kids off parent's backs. Like "we'll take them, they'll have fun, don't worry about it". Extremely frustrating.

If anyone has here experience with schools in London, shoot me an email and lets talk? (email in profile)

What's your point? If I'm going to blow up a carrier with a drone, the fact that the carrier can also carry drones makes no difference.

Do you know that memory safety is relevant for security, compared to other causes of exploits? Or are you just guessing?

I'm not an expert or anything, but don't modern day drone capabilities mean that aricraft carriers are easy to destroy or incapacitate?

Exactly this, very eloquent, thank you.

Yes, I'm still bitter because I was one of those tricked into it.

> What makes mongo mongo is its distibruted nature, without it you could just store json(b) in an RDBMS.

Welllllllll I think that's moving the goalposts. Being distributed might be a thing _now_ but I still remember when it was marketed as the thing to have if you wanted to store unstructured documents.

Now that Postgres also does that, you're marketing Mongo as having a different unique feature. Moving the goalposts.

> Pongo - Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits.

I don't read this as saying it's "MongoDB but with...". I read it as saying that it's Postgres.

"Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say."

Ed Snowden

Why would I choose to do such a basic task over SSH? I do all "office-type" tasks locally. Adding a network here is just over complicating.

That's.... my point. I'm skeptical that you'd be more efficient by doing spreadsheet operations on your terminal vs just using excel on your non-terminal.

I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.

> but amazing for builders (ironically).

Could you expand on this? Who are "the builders" here? You mean the model developers? I don't see how this situation can be "amazing" for the builders - developers will just get a wage out of their work.

Word salad.

Am I the only one that can't open this?

> Error rendering embedded code

> Invalid PDF

Firefox

Science is a process, a methodology. It's not a collection of truthful fact.

Some got closer by accident, not because they had the right methodology. Because of that I award them no points.

Right. In general relativity the fact that you can't escape a black hole isn't about velocity, it's about geometry. There's literally, physically, no path out.

Right, just like Democritus "predicted" atoms.

> It's a shame the author's passions are directed to (...)

Now do Google.

Here, you forgot to link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

TLDR

What do these people live off? I mean, how do they make money?

Send it to Mars, get the process going.