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Agreed. I dread having to use Algolia search on documentation these days. The search results feel pretty naively selected, and the UI is pretty poor. I get that people want to deploy static sites, but can we please find a way to bring back search _pages_?

Do you mean Museum of Pop? (not Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Who are the cronies that are benefiting from the L-train shutdown?

The article makes it seem like the company is forcing pescatarianism (not vegetarianism) down people's throats. But unless you're eating the majority of your meals at work events, I don't see this as being the case. This new policy seems pretty consistent with policies which limit how much alcohol (if any) one can expense.

> The latter... again, are drones really that big of an issue to justify the jammers (and, presumably, legal clearance for jamming GPS)?

If birds are that big of an issue, would drones not be, too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike

> The German proliferation of knowledge created a curious situation that hardly anyone is likely to have noticed at the time. Sigismund Hermbstädt, for example, a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties for his "Principles of Leather Tanning" published in 1806 than British author Mary Shelley did for her horror novel "Frankenstein," which is still famous today.

In the absence of copyrights, and with plagiarism being rampant (as the article claims) how could authors command favorable royalty agreements? Could a rival publisher not just print the same book, sans royalty agreement, and undercut the original publisher?

These bikes that end up in the water are presumably not being thrown in by bike riders, but by vandals and pranksters. Is it possible that some of the poorly-parked bikes are also the work of individuals just looking to cause trouble?

Though I like the UW's efforts to improve the situation by creating designated bike-share parking, and having the companies enforce it via GPS, I suspect the long term solution to badly parked bicycles will be for these companies to abandon docklessness.

They do define non-commercial.

> It should not have paid support or paid contributors.

I remember listening to WFMU's station manager recount one of the times he had to fire a (volunteer) DJ: the DJ was selling ad time on his show. He got away with it for a while because his show was not in English.

It seems that ads were also a motivation for the long-running show JM in the AM to leave the station.

> WFMU, licensed as a non-profit radio station, adheres to the guidelines of charitable and non-commercial radio. With the move of ‘JM in the AM’ exclusively to NSN, the program, its host, its content and its reach will be allowed greater creative flexibility and sponsorship opportunities. [1]

[1] http://www.nachumsegal.com/historic-jm-announcement-made-mor...

Naive question: Are there functions analogous to `dangerouslySetInnerHTML` in non-JS GUI libraries (e.g. Qt) that will allow a similar attack?

What makes this reference even more bizarre is that Pokemon and Star Wars are incredible successful global brands.

If the Flow type checker ensures exhaustiveness, why does the switch statement require a default case and an `impossible` function?

A Clockwork Orange is supposedly loyal to it's source material, the American edition of the novel.

> This plot discrepancy occurred because Kubrick based his screenplay upon the novel's American edition, its final chapter deleted on insistence of the American publisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)#Diff...

Why is this, if true, discouraging? Do you think government workers (a pretty broad term which can encompass a wide range of positions and levels of expertise) should not be well paid?

Is projectM[1] not a suitable replacement for MilkDrop visualizations? Comes built into Clementine[2].

[1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm [2] https://www.clementine-player.org/

The NY Times paywall has got to be one of the easiest paywalls to bypass. You can either browse its site in private/incognito mode (or using Firefox Focus on mobile), delete a cookie, or disable Javascript on their site (though this isn't ideal when viewing some of their interactive pieces). I wonder if this is a deliberate compromise to ensure that nobody is ever really locked out of their content.

From the link, near the top:

> (It may take a little bit of time before you can search for Paint.NET on the Windows Store. I’m told that things take up to 24 hours to “propagate.”)

Assuming you have access to a no-fee checking account, you could save that cash in a separate bank account and store the corresponding debit card at home.

If you have access to a no-fee credit card, you can also have a back-up at home.

It's probably a good idea to have some cash at home, but you can do the same with cards.

>I can't find Firefox Focus in Germany, Austria or Switzerland

>Klar by Firefox is the German-language version and only available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It includes the same features as the English-language app Focus by Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/difference-between-fire...

Very readable on my device using both Firefox and Chrome. What's the issue for you?

In my attempt to switch over to DGG, I found its programming-related search results to be particularly bad. Searching DDG would give relevant results of questionable quality, or completely unrelated results (like links to tennis racket information when searching for help with the Racket programming language). The same search on Google would return relevant Stackoverflow threads and blogs which seemed more reputable.

I still use DDG about half of the time, and can't think of any egregious examples I've encountered recently. Perhaps they've gotten better, or I've learned to write better search queries.

> Brought to you by the very people selling your data, infecting your computers with malvertisements, bowing to their corporate masters and shoveling you shill-dirt for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Buy a newspaper.

Edit: Or a weekly periodical which employs fact-checkers.

Growing for personal use is legal. I don't know the legality of seed trade.

> 8. Washington DC

But in DC, marijuana sales are still illegal, which makes for an interesting situation: you're allowed to be in possession of something you cannot legally buy.

> And really, if we're going to talk about how flawed our system is, this is like one of the more minor points. If you want to get to the root of it, let's talk about how to get rid of the 2 party system, and allow more diverse parties and ideas. That's the real problem.

I agree. People will put more effort into voting if they were more motivated, but voting for the "lesser of two evils" is hardly a motivator.

I'd say the electoral college, where it's winner-take-all per state, also plays a large role in keeping people home on election day. If you're in a heavily blue or red state, it's pretty hard to convince yourself that your vote matters.

> him and other whistle blowers are being seriously screwed over by the US Government

What has the US government done to Assange?

I don't know about Brinks, but but unarmored delivery vehicles are routinely ticketed and towed. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/when-a-fedex-tr...

And Gitlab Pages supports https for custom domains, which Github Pages does not yet support.

> On a side note, don't forget the time dropbox accepted ANY password during logins - http://www.cnet.com/news/dropbox-confirms-security-glitch-no...

I've not forgotten, and this glitch has kept me from ever considering opening a Dropbox account.

I'm surprised everyone else seems so forgiving of this massive screw up.

Available for viewing on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript