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Larry Elder's recent documentary "Uncle Tom" explores this same phenomenon from the Black conservative point of view.

If he's wearing traditional clothing, as depicted, he certainly would stand out. Modern Chinese New Year parades (and other ethnic parades) feature people in traditional attire, they'd be awfully boring otherwise.

Whether one stands out or not is relative to what's accepted as normal at a time and place. A person wearing a cowboy hat and boots in the northeast will have people stand and stare at them.

In the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith explains that the Matrix is designed after the peak of human civilization, which just so happens to be the late 90s.

She actually makes over $3 million now. https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-o...

Would love to see some statistics on party affiliation of faculty at these universities as a proxy measure for ideological diversity.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...

The citizens don't vote directly for the president, the electoral college does. Usually the distinction doesn't matter but it does affect outcomes. States have different rules in how their electors vote for the president.

Some states have tied their electoral votes to the national popular vote in the name of increases democracy. It will be interesting to see the first state that has its electoral votes changed due to this. I imagine those residents won't be so thrilled to have their votes go against their will and in favor of how other people in the country voted.

I reckon housing prices would be lower now too if interest rates were at that level. Most people care about what their monthly payment is going to be. If they're paying 20% interest the principal is going to have to be low enough to accommodate their budget. Increase rates and watch demand dry up as the monthly cost skyrockets for those financing the purchase. Prices should drop accordingly.

Forget where I read this but apparently they routinely file for an extension when doing their taxes so they don't submit to the IRS until October.

Expect the 2019 annual report sometime in November which is when they usually publish it.

Yes good points, which is why I think the type of plastic matters. Rubbermaid, for example, makes a variety of high quality reusable plastic food containers.

The Just Salad restaurant chain in NYC will sell you a reusable plastic salad container that you can wash and bring to them to prepare your meal in and there doesn't seem to be any issue with food safety regarding those bowls. It's heavier duty than the clear disposable ones they give you otherwise.

There's certainly a usable life to anything, plastic will degrade over multiple washes and being battered with utensils. I'd expect well used ones would need to be retired but it should still be better than the current situation where they are primarily single use.

Most of the restaurants by me already seem to use a few standard size food containers. Why do these containers need to be broken down into raw material and then reconstituted? If they were high quality enough, could they not just be sanitized and then repurchased by restaurants directly from the recycler? Seems like there'd be much less waste of material. The big question would be if the sanitation process would be not be more expensive than just remanufacturing the containers.

For what it's worth, JWZ said this of Mozilla a few days ago on his blog:

"Back to Mozilla -- in my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and

2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.

3. There is no 3."

http://archive.is/umaau (edit, using archive link)

I couldn't agree more.

I think there's some truth to this. Mozilla has become less of a technology organization and more of a political one.

There have been quite a few instances over the past few years of Mozilla demonstrating its left leaning politics:

* The Brendan Eich situation where his private contribution to a conservative cause impacted his employment

* Baker calling a former conservative employee's views "traumatic and damaging" in their obituary - https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva...

* The removal of "meritocracy" from the governance document in the name of D&I - https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/words-matter-moving-beyond-...

* Promoting BLM and anti-racism content via Pocket and their homepage

* Replacing "master password" with "primary password" - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/primary-password-replac...

Agree with their positions or not, they are definitely alienating to some. Even if just delivering a great browser and getting people to use it is not their primary mission (and it's not directly if you've ever read the Mozilla Manifesto), it is the means by which they retain the ability pursue those goals.

Recall Michael Jordan's reason for staying away from politics, "Republicans buy sneakers too".