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I left a water bottle in my bag at SJC once. The TSA agent pulled me aside after I went through the scanner and pointed to it on the X-Ray to ask me what it was. I said something like "oh, oops, looks like I forgot my water bottle in there" and she asked me to take it out of the bag. She took a quick look at it and then just let me on the plane without making me dump it out or even opening the bottle.

I guess that means they at least looked at the X-Ray; it seems like a lot of the time they don't even bother to do that.

Watts measure power, Watt hours measure energy. A 200 GW power plant could output a maximum of ~1,700 TWh in a year which is about 8% of 21,000 TWh.

It's probably not very common but it has definitely happened:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-so...

Sex, sexual orientation, and gender are different things. By gender spectrum she means that most people's behavior is somewhere along a continuum between completely masculine and completely feminine and that virtually nobody is at one extreme or the other.

I think the point she's making is that while men and women have different interests as groups, there are plenty of women who are interested in what are perceived as masculine things (in this case probably computer programming) and vice versa.

Hybrid graphics likely depends on a proprietary driver to work so that's probably where the problem lies. As for the RAM, you might just need to expand your swap partition so its the same size in order for hibernation to work.

And really, this has nothing to do with free software; there are even more horror stories like this about Windows and macOS and those are both proprietary systems.

Yeah, there's really no excuse for the safety record at Tesla's factory. At least the workers seem to be organizing so hopefully things will improve soon.

Also FYI it's takt time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takt_time

That sounds infuriating. Have you started looking for another job yet? I know I would.

Wow, that's just extra obnoxious then. I wonder why they go to the trouble of breaking their website just for people who disable JS. Ads maybe?

I doing some work in a school just a year ago that still taught cursive to their students. I asked why and their response was pretty much just "because that's what you do in third grade." I don't get it.

Where are you that your local library is like this?

I've been to a few public libraries in my state and none of them have been like this. Most of them aren't very busy but they're always clean and usually have a decent selection of books and media. My local library is especially good; they have an entire floor devoted to children's books and I often see families in there picking out books together.

What are some of them? I'm not too up on the latest research in this area so it would be interesting to know how you can do a cryptocurrency that doesn't depend on proof-of-work calculations.

Iowa's redistricting commission is truly non-partisan: no politicians are allowed to participate.

Seems to work fairly well for them just looking at the maps and variety of results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa's_congressional_districts

I dunno if they've changed it since you looked but scroll is zoom for me (Firefox 52 on Debian).

Not OP but I do some of these things with KeePass as well.

For autofill, KeeFox works well for me on Firefox - there's probably something similar for Chrome. I think KeePass will do autotype if you right-click on an entry but it's not a feature that I really use so I'm not sure.

I store my password DB in my home folder and use syncthing to synchronize it to my other computers and my phone.

I don't know about iOS but I use KeePassDroid on Android and it works pretty well.

Yeah, it was probably a smaller amount. I would think most people's credit limit is less than the cost of a boat.

Most utilitarians turn out not to actually think that way in real-life situations so I wouldn't worry about it. Moral realism is tied to religion for a lot of people and so some non-religious folks just reject it out of hand, which I think is a mistake.

IMO, moral truth exists as much as scientific truth we just interact with/discover it differently. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good place to start if the topic interests you:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/

Some kind of cryptographic challenge-response system might be a good solution but I don't know how to get your average computer user and customer support rep to use a system like that. All the ones I can think of are designed for computers to talk to each other so they aren't very user friendly. Is there something like Kerberos but for humans?

I haven't tried Brave but that sounds like a good development. I still don't really like being advertised to but if it's relevant or at least easy to ignore then I don't mind either. I guess that puts me at about a 4 on their scale.

Meh, it's still kind of interesting though. Just because something's unpopular in general doesn't mean the specifics aren't worth looking at.

They mention this at one point; 4 is neutral on their scale so an average of 5.23 just means that people have a mild to moderate dislike of advertising in general. I don't know anybody who likes advertising (well, one person but they work for a marketing firm) so that makes sense to me.

It would be interesting if they could remove that bias though - it would make the differences more obvious if nothing else.

I like Bill Wurtz and all but I'm kind of surprised to see this on the front page of HN.

I mostly agreed with what he was saying until he made that non-sequitur about "postmodern neo-Marxism." Universities are just giving the students what they want: a piece of paper that allows access to the job market. Most modern university students do not appear to want an education and neo-Marxism has nothing to do with that shift.

Google was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

Just because it makes your job easier doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

It might be; looks like they were both added in 38.0.5:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.0.5/releasenotes/

That's my understanding of how the law works in the US. In the UK though it sounds like you're breaking the law if you watch the stream as well.

It looks pretty cheap in the US actually, not much more than home cable. For example, here's what Comcast offers bars and restaurants:

https://business.comcast.com/tv/restaurants

Are we currently able to trust hardware and closed source software implementations?

This is applicable regardless of who's in charge of the national security apparatus.

Not that encryption does much good against the state anyway; they'll just throw you in jail until you give them what they want:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man...

I'd prefer if they wrote something like "0.68 mm (about half as thick as a US dime)." That way the number is still there for people who don't want to look up how thick a dime is.