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This seems like a convenient time to remind folks that it is incredibly important to stand up against this kind of government action not only when it is conducted against your political allies, but especially when it is conducted against your political enemies. Even if this were a pro-Trump website being subpoenaed, this should sicken you nonetheless. Short-sighted political gain might be had by allowing the government to stomp all over political dissidents you don't agree with, but in a few short years you might find yourself on the receiving end of the same treatment you endorsed. My hope is that those in the alt-right will realize that supporting this kind of action may hurt themselves just as much as it hurts the anti-Trump folks.

This seems like a convenient time to remind folks that it is incredibly important to stand up against this kind of government action not only when it is conducted against your political allies, but especially when it is conducted against your political enemies. Even if this were a pro-Trump website being subpoenaed, this should sicken you nonetheless. Short-sighted political gain might be had by allowing the government to stomp all over political dissidents you don't agree with, but in a few short years you might find yourself on the receiving end of the same treatment you endorsed. My hope is that those in the alt-right will realize that supporting this kind of action may hurt themselves just as much as it hurts the anti-Trump folks.

I've turned my vim into a monstrosity with plugins in the past - believe me, it's possible to make your vim just as laggy :)

That said, it's pretty amazing that UBI has become such a big talking point. I remember about ten years ago I brought up the possibility of UBI in a college course where the instructor literally laughed at the idea. It's nice to see it being considered enough of a 'threat' that people feel like they even need to deign to argue against it.

There are benefits to light exercise beyond calorie expenditure.

I sincerely hope BS4 is the last nail in IE9's coffin.

I'm not entirely sure that'd work very well, since the Chromecast mirroring function has some pretty high latency.

If you want to stream Dolphin to your TV, a cheap option is to use Steam's in-home streaming feature. The Steam Link is a dedicated piece of hardware for this which I think is about $50 and will work with existing controllers or the Steam controller. You can also just use any existing laptop (windows, mac, linux) with a sufficiently powerful cpu for stream decoding and use it as an in-home streaming client. I've messed around with a lot of solutions for streaming from my PC to living room TV, and Steam's solution blows just about everything else out of the water.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he's calling for a specific organ of government to take on regulation of the internet and connected devices in a general sense, not calling for some specific regulation or law.

I suspect what he's getting at is having some set of "safety standards" to be put in place, especially for IoT tech. The whole quote of

>Our computers are secure for a bunch of reasons. The engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft spent a lot of time on this. But that doesn’t happen for these cheaper devices. … These devices are a lower price margin, they’re offshore, there’s no teams. And a lot of them cannot be patched.

sums up that point pretty well.

I honestly don't know how you would really enforce something like this, but the proposal seems to be less about the specifics of regulation and more about the need for new regulation. The FCC really isn't equipped to handle this kind of thing.

I'm sure he speaks exactly like he did in this press conference when he's at home with his family!

Acting != make believe. The dude was hamming it up to the point that he seemed like a caricature of a product announcement.

I work in an office of graphic designers, and they all have overpowered hardware that they bought thinking they needed the latest and greatest to run Photoshop and Illustrator.

They don't need a breakneck GPU - they need a device like this that gives them new, intuitive input options.

That said, for any kind of 3D development this hardware isn't up to snuff. Anyway, the device seems more targeted at 2D graphic designers.

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Just an FYI, the scroll-hacking on the home page doesn't work with arrow key or hotkey based scrolling (for example, vimium or vimperator extensions for j/k key scrolling) - obviously a small subset of users, but I know a lot of non-dev users that use arrow keys or page up/down to scroll on web pages too.

What an incredibly rude comment.

Exactly.

And to piggyback on your comment, modern academic science is the way it is because their "investors" (i.e. granting institutions like NSF) have certain stipulations for grant funds or at the very least prefer certain applications over others. Applications that have some aspect dealing with STEM education, for example, are incredibly popular with NSF and other institutions at the moment.

When you talk to research academics in the sciences, they often complain about what a burden education and outreach are on their time. Most of them would rather spend 100% of the time on their research. However, their public sector "investors" have an agenda for how their money is spent. They want to see certain results - it's not just enough to see more sea slug research, they want to have grantees also encourage STEM education growth.

It's called an opinion, and yes, even billionaires-turned-philanthrophists are entitled to them. :)

Don't worry, though - it'll be at least another 10 years or so until Gates starts sending his cronies out at night to black-bag folks into compulsory humanitarian aid work.

It doesn't matter whether or not you buy or use locks.

You passively pay for security at a bar when you buy a drink - the price of the bouncer is part of how they derive the cost of your beer. Similarly you pay taxes (local, state, federal) that pay for a massive amount of physical security that you utilize unknowingly on a day to day basis.

Just because you don't find it necessary to lock up your stuff in your driveway doesn't mean that you can claim that you don't use or pay for physical security.

It doesn't work on mobile though, which kinda sucks. But it does work cross-browser on desktop.

Yeah, that would be true if I hadn't already heard of it I guess. I've also seen a lot of people talking about baader-meinhof, so I suspect it might just be that pop psychology is the tech bro humblebrag du joir this week.

Just curious - why am I suddenly seeing so many people referencing occam's razor? It is happening way too frequently to be a coincidence. Was the idea featured someplace recently? It seems like just about every tech-ish thread on reddit and HN has one "Occam's Razor" dude for the last couple weeks.

A lot of people are guilty of a lot of things and don't ever get investigated or prosecuted. I agree with you that people take things a little far, but I think it's hardly conspiratorial thinking to acknowledge that the DOJ selectively pursues cases based on other factors than the crime committed.