FriedrichN

That's why I said most people (within two standard deviations from the mean roughly), there will be people for which their genetic component will make up a larger part of why they seem to suffer from low energy.

This may be a controversial opinion, but not everything is about efficiency, especially when it comes to social interactions. But even if your life's aim is to impose rigorous efficiency on every aspect of your life, I doubt you'll be more time efficient if you do your groceries by car compared to living in walking distance of a supermarket.

Walking with groceries in the rain won't kill you, I promise. It's a small inconvenience but in my opinion you get a lot back for it, everything just becomes more village like and friendly. Being in a car does not tend to make people more friendly.

And just because there are nice places to hang out does not automatically mean there will be drugs and crime. That is not my experience at least.

Not to burst your Amsterdam bubble, but you basically have to be a millionaire to be able to buy a house there right now. House prices have been rising like crazy in the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular. Amsterdam is now for the elite, basically the point the article is complaining about.

This was a shock for me when I learned of this. It's a great way to show people who think humanity somehow doesn't have the capability to have an effect on greenhouse gas emissions for example. We have totally and completely reshaped the earth in a matter of centuries in what should normally take thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Don't smoke, don't drink, don't use drugs, get enough sleep and exercise, eat enough fruits and veg and not too much junk and you've got like 90% covered, if not all.

Most people (without serious medical issues) moaning about a lack of energy know exactly what's causing it but refuse to change their habits. Whether it's drinking, smoking, junk food, staying up late, etc. they've just become too attached to that way of living.

The article wastes a lot of words on basically nothing.

Which will be totally useless if it's completely consumed by cryptocurrencies, thus only adding to further destruction of the climate.

Analogies are meant to be used once. You shouldn't take them and use them for another purpose.

Even if it did use mostly renewable energy, which I doubt (I've heard some buy old coal fired plants to run their mining operations), it's still energy that could have been used for something useful. It takes away power for real enterprises and people that use it for their daily living.

There is a difference between the two. That's like comparing the fuel use or exhaust of a Fiat 500 to that of a cargo ship.

I don't use Twitter, I don't have an account, but sometimes (news) articles link to tweets. And when I click on them and see the replies I have to actively remind myself that it is not an accurate representation of the population.

As Hannah Arendt wrote in her notebook "Amor mundi - warum ist es so schwer, die Welt zu lieben?"

I don't know the exact figures of how it operates. According to Wikipedia Firefox is "developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation".

Some that come to mind:

* completely changing the settings UI;

* the very annoying "present" icon that appears after updates;

* constantly messing the address bar in how it works and what it searches;

* constantly re-enabling stuff like searching in Amazon and Google;

* changing the menu to the hamburger menu.

There's probably more that I forgot. But it seems every two or three months or so I need to make effort to turn off some feature I don't want. Stuff like the stupid pocket functionality no one ever asked for.

Not all, some funding is.

>Last year, more than 400,000 individuals gave to Mozilla to protect and improve the health of the Internet. The Mozilla Foundation also receives support in the form of grants from other like-minded major foundations, including the Knight, MacArthur, Bill & Melinda Gates, and Ford foundations.

Every time I make the mistake of looking at Twitter I am reminded of how much of an absolute cesspool it is. Only the loudest, rudest, dumbest, most extreme opinions seem to get through. Social media only highlights the extremes of the spectrum whatever the subject.

Sadly, yes. But I hope it sinks.

Yes. It's also shrinking to be almost the only reason I run Firefox. I absolutely loathe the constant tinkering with UI and settings, they just can't seem to leave stuff alone. The ghacks user.js does get rid of a lot of nuisances, but I also know some people also want to get rid of the user.js config option.

A lot works quite okay, reader view also works great a lot of the time. And if necessary I'll allow first party scripts and most tracking scripts are third-party.

Seeing as Plausible is still a script, how much of the remaining percentage of Firefox/Linux users are blocking scripts entirely? My default uMatrix settings block everything but first party CSS and images.

Virtual meetings are usually much shorter, so in my experience a lot less fatiguing than IRL meetings (especially if I have to drive somewhere). Long meetings, virtual or in meatspace are always fatiguing. And they're very unnecessary almost all of the time.

But I prefer it when people have their camera on, that way I can tell whether or not they're engaged or not. And because of this 'being watched' effect meetings tend to be shorter.

It may be forgotten in some parts of the world, but certainly not in the Netherlands. Primarily because of the effects of nitrogen deposition on the environment and ammonia/methane in particular. There is basically a stop on building and expansion of agriculture as well as a reduction of the maximum speed on highways.

You could, but when you finally press enter it's all compressed back to one line.

I'll give a free cookie to whoever gets this done.

Sometimes I'll get these spreadsheets with byzantine formulas that I have to copy it to a text editor and format myself to make sense of all the parenthesis.

This always makes me wonder why this is even possible in the US. Why can anyone just make an anonymous call and have a death squad kick in someone's door? Sure the guy who does the calling is guilty, but why is it so easy to do, shouldn't there be at least some reconnaissance done before you decide to do something so invasive?

The problem with these kind of vehicles is that they exist somewhere between cars and bicycles, which means they won't be welcome on either bike paths or car roads. Hell, people even complain about people on race bicycles on bicycle paths. But then again, people wouldn't be people if they didn't complain (about traffic).

This is somewhat of a tangent but I think hoarding zerodays should be illegal for an individual, company, or state. It would be seen as highly irresponsible if someone held back critical information about a vulnerability in a dam, I don't see how a zeroday is any different.

What is especially stupid is that the US does this as well, while they're the ones who are the most vulnerable. Just look at the debacle with WannaCry. These attacks come from countries who have a lot less to lose than the US, yet the US insists on throwing stones from their glass house.

There is a difference between tenacity and doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when there are no signs of progress.

Ideas like "never give up" and "the power of habit" are not universally true, they are heuristics you can apply to your daily life.

In complex systems there are no absolutes. If you have an idea that can be applied to all things equally you're in a cult.

Sandboxes are hardly watertight, especially considering the hardware vulnerabilities that seem to be pouring in in the last years. And the phone have taken over the space for useless applications from the desktop. Most desktops today only have a browser and some office application installed.

But that is besides the point, because a hardware token is almost impervious to attack. One would have to engineer a very specific bit of software or hardware and have physical access to this token. Requiring a phone app to confirm a payment made on your desktop just increases the attack vector.

I had this argument with my bank, who insisted that all payments must be confirmed with their app instead of their card reader code. They presented it as being more secure, which is not true as most people's phones a littered with app that are either easily exploitable or malicious by design. Chances that the average user's phone is compromised is very high.

All people around me that are not involved in tech have so many crap apps on their phone and think I'm weird for not even having Google Play or any other Google service on my phone. It's kinda like that xkcd on voting software, if you work in the business, you know how bad things really are.

https://xkcd.com/2030/

Please be aware that people who say this is unfair (in sports) aren't saying trans people aren't allowed to be who they are. I am against trans women competing in women's sports, especially those who transitioned late in their life. But that doesn't mean I'm against trans people.

I don't mind the whole bathroom thing. Poop where you want, everybody poops. And conservatives will always find a reason to be against anything that goes against their norms. You might find that the backlash is getting worse, but actually it isn't. More people than ever are accepting of all things LGBT, conservatives have just become more vocal exactly because they are becoming a minority.