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While I'm not sure it goes back nearly as far as 100,000 years (it's been a while since I read it), the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs%2C_and_Steel) does a compelling job of exploring why complex civilizations arose in some times and places and not in others.

An aspect I found particularly interesting was the idea that basic physical geography could have played a strong role in determining when and where complex civilizations arose.

Where does the money come from?

Cool idea. I like how focused it is. I'd love to be able to see an example without signing up though.

This is literally a $1 problem.

Well done. Would love to see a similar process that works for a Medium Publication (which has multiple authors, etc.).

Access to Apple Stores is a particularly difficult issue here in Canada. On the East Coast, I'm a half-day from the nearest Apple Store, and there's no main-in repair program.

My only option is the "apple-approved" is the local Staples. Staples!?

A Google-AMP version of a story published on Yahoo Finance syndicated from Business Insider. What a time to be alive!

James: Is there a feed for the new blog?

I don't mean to imply that it's necessarily the fault of the individual. Even it the password did get entered into the username field (for example), it could be that an autofill bug, or just bad UI was the cause.

If this was the case, though, it means that there's there may not be reason to assume that passwords are not stored safely.

I'm inclined to trust in the intentions and competence of the people at Duolingo because I've worked with them before, so with that disclaimer:

Is it possible that this person accidentally mixed up the username and password fields when editing their own account? Or, some type of browser auto-fill mixup put the password in the username field when editing the account?

"off-board"?

Yes?

How much would Harvard cost if you had to keep students from escaping?

While I appreciate the concern behind the petition, I support the decision to simplify and modernize the architecture in Firefox, even if it does disrupt extensions.

If there was somewhere I could lend my name to say "I support Mozilla making this difficult decision and sticking to it", I would.

It's cars, cars, cars. That's what I'm afraid of for my kids.

Some nice improvements here. It appears, though, that Projects suffer from the same problem we've had with Issues: they are limited to one repo.

I know there are some tools to manage Issues across repos, but for the most part, the tools seem to assume you work on only one repo, or that milestones only affect a single repo.

I would love to see projects/milestones become more capable when dealing with cross-repo issues.

For the lazy: https://mycroft.ai/

This is a fair question. I also begs the question of why we should trust other browser vendors.

Google's business model seems to be mostly advertising related. This doesn't align particularly well with the interests of individuals using Chrome.

Apple's business model has been more hardware-sales oriented, which might mean their browser exists to keep customers happy with their hardware, which might be a better fit.

Mozilla exists for the public good, thought it does have some financial pressure to keep the lights on.

Disclosure: My business has done work for Mozilla in the past.

Great work, much appreciated.

The best way to get Persona adopted would be to have someone significant other than Mozilla to adopt it. If IE, Safari, or Chrome had adopted, it would have had a great chance at success.

I haven't used Mailbox, but I'm glad to see Carousel being rolled back into the main Dropbox app. It's already good for photos, and didn't warrant a separate app.

A friend and (and client) produces a podcast about medial issues for general audiences and covered Nelly Bly with a personal twist in a recent episode: http://www.wonthurtabit.com/episodes/2015/10/19/3-voices-and...

This is s small, but awesome feature.

Does it work with mosh (https://mosh.mit.edu/)? Thanks.

Just an experiment, I know, but is it Chrome-only?

I had the exact same experience with Anathem.

I remember around the 200-page point thinking, "ok, now we're getting started."

This is a reminder that having a single service, like Google Analytics or Google Fonts, injected into just about every major site on the web might not be a great idea.

It took me quick a while to figure out that there are actually a bunch of different lists of 30 people (per-category). Frustrating interface.

Should be all set now.

Patience, friends.