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We'll find the answer to this question at the end of the year when manifest v2 extensions are removed

Which part is confusing, it made sense to me

I agree, I feel like it's only for niche uses. But if you have a niche requirement it can be very useful - I have issues with my ISP provided modem and they won't replace it. I use HA to locally power cycle the modem's plug from my phone (my router still works so local networking is fine)

I don't get it, don't curves limit the number of people who get an A each semester? But potentially everyone in a class that isn't curved could get an A (or F)

The api provided with v3 is not sufficient to create an adblocker with the same privacy protections as is currently possible with v2 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

If the tenants will pay and it doesn't break any rules, why not raise rent before taxes go up and pocket the extra? (serious question)

Off the top of my head, one reason could be that internally discussing grievances is more acceptable at one company, so there is less of a mental barrier to discussing it publicly. Or (and this is actually pretty likely, I think) maybe even just seeing people complain about Amazon online all day makes people more comfortable doing it themselves on Blind. I bet I could come up with more reasons if I thought a bit longer.

I'm not saying I think I'm right in this case but I also am not saying I think websites like blind/ratemyprofessor/etc accurately reflect how the general population actually feels

Why can you assume it's normalized across all companies?

I would want to see evidence to show blind is more than just a collection of anecdotes before calling it "data". In my (anecdotal, lol) experience the people who post on blind are a small subset that are way more likely to complain about things, sometimes unreasonably.

Why should developers unionize? I love not being in a union. If my company starts dicking me around I'll quit and find another job.

Besides, if I do something so bad my boss wants to fire me, fine then I'll go work somewhere where people want me. I don't want to have to bring in my union rep to argue about it since going somewhere else means losing my tenure and taking a 30% pay cut.

The only time unions make sense is when you're doing labor that could be done by anyone and your bus factor is basically infinite. It doesn't make sense for skilled labor

"...and this is your brain on Twitter"

Kind of, there are unlicensed radio bands but there are still rules about what you can't do on them. 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz

That's true but the article is specifically talking about ransomware

Are there any examples of widespread ransomware that demanded payment in cash, gold, or shiny rocks?

It's true that the creator pronounces it with a J, but take a look at the slide he used to announce his thoughts on the matter https://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/files/...

(what letters are used to describe how the word "gif" should not be pronounced?)

Devil's advocate: We were fine asking grocery store clerks, baristas, and cashiers to get covid

Probably, at the very least they're confirmed to be aware of the network effects of the ecosystem (imessage is also specifically called out) https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1463558823109660677

> Cost of living. Its the cheapest place in the US to live.

When I lived in a "low COL town" that wasn't in the midwest (about 2 hours from a major city of any kind and about an hour in various directions from a couple small cities) people would say this all the time... "Sure I'm only making 60% of what I could be but my CoL is so low!!"[0]

But my rent was still over $600/mo + utilities for a 2-room apartment (each). There were some really bad options for sub-$300, but you were living in a sub-$300 apartment. You can make this choice anywhere.

Gas costed the same it costs everywhere else

Walmart prices were walmart prices.

Restaurants were typically cheap but that's because they weren't amazing - the population couldn't afford to sustain an high-end restaurant. There are cheap restaurants everywhere.

I felt like it was cheap compared to outliers like seattle and the bay area, but not cheap on its own. I'm interested in how this might be different from the midwest. What kinds of products or services stand out to you as significantly contributing towards a low CoL?

[0] With remote the bit about 60% is no longer as accurate, but it's what a lot of people said at the time, and some of them still make comparatively little and say they're fine because of the low CoL.

I've been thinking about doing the same thing but am worried it will explode on me. Are there any tips you have for starting out or mistakes to be sure to avoid?

I was hoping to use this as a project to learn electricity with and it sounds like you did something similar.

I don't know anything about this, can someone provide context on why this post is getting so downvoted, the sources they are providing look very reliable

Search for a period (just ".") and pick any of the things youtube recommends (don't press enter on your "." query). These are the kinds of videos it tends to suggest to kids. Someone else posted a detailed explanation on why but tldr is that kids are curious about things that they don't understand and adults exploited this curiosity.

Edit: And also this trick is known by a lot of kids according to a friend I have that works at a public school

I'm not saying that the authors were dishonest I'm saying that if this is an honest outcome from the paper's authors (which it probably is) then the result we should expect should be closer to 95% than 99.9%. That it's this off from the expected value indicates that something external to this paper is inaccurate, even if these authors measured the inaccuracies correctly.

I am really suspicious of this 99.9% number. Most journals allow a ~5% margin of error so even if humans caused climate change (which they most likely did) we should only see 95% of these studies finding this result. Also this doesn't account for the fact that people and organizations have their own biases and that it's possible to construct "experiments" to give you whatever result you want, so we should be seeing some experiments showing that climate change isn't real or whatever, bringing that 95% number down even further.

If this number is accurate and not just chosen for PR reasons, it would lend credence to the idea that anti-human-climate-change research is being suppressed. Is this bad? Probably not, but it's probably a more accurate conclusion than declaring climate change the correct conclusion.

> The gas inlet port relocated to a more aesthetically pleasing location in the very center of the undercarriage

Why is this a problem? You shouldn't be trying to drive it while it's fueling anyway

I can't help but feel like anyone who is celebrating this is just going through a slightly modified thought process of https://xkcd.com/538/

The fact that the government has never requested anything probably just means they get it from somewhere else.

If there was actually a pedo-terror-arsonist on the loose using ddg to find information on their targets, I'm very confident that the government would still be able to figure out what they were searching for

They specifically forbid price-tracking websites from their affiliate program but camelcamelcamel still uses affiliate links, so they probably have a similar arrangement for a private API.

Good news, you can! https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

FYI, chrome/edge have similar behavior in their omnibox.

If you ever find the time, open up fiddler and keep it visible on a second monitor while you browse. You'll be amazed by how much data is sent back to microsoft/Google.

I'm not sure if other chromium browsers also do this, I know ungoogled chromium doesn't.

> From a USB C charger perspective, many of the banned brands were actually quite good

That doesn't match my experience, I have started to just put the word "anker" at the end of my searches because that seems to be the only brand amazon carries that don't break after a month

How do you like the conductive headphones for that purpose? I have been considering doing the same for when I go on walks at night.