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paulintrognon··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
I don't understand the behavior your are talking about. I tried in Google Chrome and could not figure it out.

In Chrome's address bar, you type the name of a site (say reddit.com), then tab, then some keywords, and that does a google search for your keywords inside reddit.com?

paulintrognon··on Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again (2018)
Can someone here please explain to me what the issue is? Firefox downloads non-free binaries in order to read some codecs by default, and this issue states that firefox should not download the codec by default because it is non-free, which is against debian's philosophy, is that correct?
paulintrognon··on Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
Fun explanation of what a Mutex is: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34524/what-is-a-mutex
paulintrognon··on Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution
It's especially true when editing a tag. I thought I could cancel the editing by clicking the cross button, instead it deleted the log.
paulintrognon··on France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k
From the article:

> Under a law adopted by parliament this week, cars emitting carbon dioxide above a certain threshold will be subject to a 20,000 euros ($22,240) penalty in 2020

So that seems to be because they don't pollute as much

paulintrognon··on Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
Why is this question downvoted? I thought that was an interesting question.
paulintrognon··on Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips
What is this movie please?
paulintrognon··on Music for Programming (2011)
I can't hear anything. Is it normal? Does it only works with headphones?
paulintrognon··on What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
The US already spends more than most countries with free healthcare systems. The healthcare problem in the US has little to do with money...
paulintrognon··on Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
I have trouble understanding from this article what the problem is with ICE (I'm from outside the US). The developpers disagree with the whole purpose of ICE, because they trakc refugees, so they don't want github to have anything to do with them, is that correct?
paulintrognon··on The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
You can edit your comment to fix it
paulintrognon··on Firefox Replay
Yes it is indeed very popular. All of my friends in IT switched to MacOS over the last few years, and I see more and more devs using Apple devices in web agencies. Because it looks good, it looks more pro.
paulintrognon··on Firefox Replay
Do you really think the web developpers that use advanced dev tools can make a real difference in their market share? (real question)
paulintrognon··on Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
Maybe the first user just deleted his/her account.
paulintrognon··on Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
That's the main reason I've always stuck with Firefox. I use the address bar as a way to quickly access my history instead of using bookmarks, and it has worked so well for me so far.
paulintrognon··on How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
I understand they are using the Dart langugage? Was it hard to master?
paulintrognon··on Firefox 70
Reminds me an old boss I had who, when I reported a complicated problem, always came up with: "why don't you just write if (problem) { solution(); } ? Should'nt take long, should it?

Well, the difficult part is not writing an if statement...

paulintrognon··on Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say
> ...EpiPen’s original cost of around $50 per injector in 2007. That year, Mylan bought the rights to EpiPen and then raised the price more than 400% in the years that followed. The authorized generic is essentially triple the price of what two injectors used to cost.

This is outrageous. Nothing new, I know, but every time I read about this I'm outraged. I trully think there should be a law on maximum margins at least for life saving drugs, or some kind of regulations preventing this phenomenon.

paulintrognon··on Opinion: Speeding Up Baseball to Save It
A volleyball female player once told me that she watched only female pro games, because it was much more dramatic than men's, you just as you described. More strategy involved, more "wow" moments, whereas men games were just endless "serve - smash - point". I don't know if that's true but I have heard the same argument made over football (soccer) when some friends watched the Women's World Cup.
paulintrognon··on Employee happiness and business success are linked
That's the point: those questions influence both employe happiness and company success. But employee happiness does not _directly_ influence company success.
paulintrognon··on “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
I don't think Noam Chomsky has ever been sympathetic to the USSR, he just said that the US was not much better than USSR.

For example in that speach he clearly states that USSR was a a flawed totalitarian system from the start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-XcAiswY4

(he has in fact also stated many times that his political views were indeed censored in the US)

paulintrognon··on Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?
Well according to st3fan, "If you change the User Agent to Chrome you can see that it works pretty well on Firefox actually." That means that they removed features on firefox on purpuse right? Or does that just mean they implemented their feature "for chrome only", checking the user agent to make sure it works on chrome only?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489237

paulintrognon··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
But it still a big difference at the end; if the customer lose money, that's money he or she cannot spend for himself/herself. Whereas on Amazon's side, all of the employees' wages will remain identical. The people at that company won't be impacted, just treasury of the company is. That's where the disctinction is important.
paulintrognon··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
We are aleardy paying /have already paid for those. The margin Amazon makes is (way) bigger than the losses they just had. So all the previous buyers that gave Amazon money and contributed to those margins "paid" for those cost, I think.
paulintrognon··on Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
Reminds me of that youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5xLVx2NGY
paulintrognon··on Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
It's crazy how disconnected from nature we have become to not notice in our everyday life an extinction event happening at this very moment.
paulintrognon··on Germany records hottest June temperature
We kind of need fewer consumption if we want to get anywhere near carbon neutrality. We don't have time to invent the future technology that will enable us to replace petrol everywhere. Hell, if that technology was invented already, we don't have enough time to replace our cars anyway. And even if we did, it would emit too much greenhouse gas just to manufacture all the new electric cars. So yeah, in my humble opinion the only solution in the time that we have is, less cars, planes, boats...
paulintrognon··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
That's an add-on right? I don't think they can advertise something that's not in Firefox's core
paulintrognon··on Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown
But after reading the thread following your fix it seemed that the fix wasn't done properly. That, more than the security issue itself, kind of ruined my confidence as well, sorry to say.
paulintrognon··on Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
They have since changed the links in the article
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