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drilldrive··on Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them
I wouldn't leave the mouse to run about, causing trouble in other's yards. Just kill it swiftly.
drilldrive··on Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text
What would we call such a category of movies? Vubs?
drilldrive··on The Euthanasia That Wasn’t
Hmm, a miscarriage is not an intentional act, whereas there is intention in this case. It is moreso analagous to someone at planned parenthood not authorizing an abortion but providing either direct or indirect assistance for the woman to perform the abortion herself.
drilldrive··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Yes this is absolutely true. But once the cryptocurrencies gain a true grip, along with alternative payment processors, we will really begin to see a true divergence. In some sense, such particulars are the bedrock of the second internet.
drilldrive··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
We talk all the time about the two internets, one of China and one of the rest of the world. But more and more we are seeing a new division arising within America itself of two internets. I can't say how this will play out long-term, but with alternative-media sites rising we may well see two broad forces developing.
drilldrive··on Promising thousands of U.S. jobs, Foxconn offshored 155 to Mexico
As far as I can tell, this article doesn't belong on Hacker News.
drilldrive··on Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
And I am sure at least 95% of the populace does the same, and that such passwords are usually quite short. We need a better solution for passwords than we do now.
drilldrive··on Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
You could either keep a blanket rule of 50% coverage excempted from such cases, or you could only mandate 50% coverage rules on particular settings/events, such as Presidential election main-line coverage.
drilldrive··on A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google
Small note, but can't you block Google Analytics with something like Privacy Badger? Google Payments and Google registry services seem near impossible to avoid though. Not to mention the near requirement to use certain Google products in certain lines of work.
drilldrive··on James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
It is only rocket science if you use rockets. If you get the telescope up with a space elevator then the term no longer applies here.
drilldrive··on Trump announces tariffs on all Mexico goods
How would we be able to measure if the border crisis is alleviated? Five percent per month seems extreme.
drilldrive··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Yeah it was a higher total than I expected myself, but I do use a fair portion of the tabs fairly frequently, as I can witch to the tab I want by typing into the address bar.
drilldrive··on Waterfox Browser
It was a bit of both as I see it. Tab-groups developer quit soon after rewriting the add-on to fit the multi-processing update (which was announced several years in advance I believe, and was anticipated nonetheless), and then right after Mozilla announced the depreciation of XUL in favor of WebExtensions in a year's time, forcing another rewrite and wouldn't be fully functional until the replacement API's are developed.

Besides, that replacement API's haven't even now been fully developed points all the same to Mozilla forcing WebExtensions much too quick, as waiting more would have fixed this problem from occurring.

drilldrive··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
I currently use Firefox, and recently (likely owing to multi-processing) Firefox eats up 2G of RAM for me[0]. I have ~700 tabs open so that may be a factor as well. Other than this the browser works great for me, and I have always used Firefox as my main browser.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/O8vvwUC.png

drilldrive··on Waterfox Browser
I am glad Mozilla made the much needed change and don't have long-term problems with Mozilla other than perhaps lack of trust. I did not like how Mozilla made the swift change with little announcement for long-term add-ons though, particularly making the change right after allowing for multi-processing.
drilldrive··on What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
Great writeup Maciej. I do have some questions:

(1) Is there an easier secure way to open attachments to Emails? This is a critical point of error in campaigns, and yet your suggested solutions are lacking in my eyes. I for one do not use a smart phone, and even when I use a Gmail account I use the html version that does not have a Google Docs option for files. So I am left with your option 3, and this could take several minutes in contrast to double clicking the file.

(2) Why do you recommend to avoid SMS but to treat Twitter/Slack as a public messaging option? Why not just treat all three as public?

(3) Why do you recommend only Chrome browser? In particular, why not Firefox or Tor?

drilldrive··on Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
Currently my comment is +4, so I wouldn't be so quick to say it is greyed out. Regardless, claims based on vote totals are not useful and distract from discussion: vote totals consider only the subset of the population willing to participate in site-based voting, which will pull from the polemics much more than the moderates. And besides, the structured refutation comment format of mine above is rife for false corrections, in that frequently such comments are only be a distortion or a deflection of the truth. People learn to blind themselves of the content of the message over time, furthering the partisan lock on their minds.
drilldrive··on Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
You are misreading my comment: there were two major videos of Pelosi that came to the fore recently. The one that Giuliani posted on his twitter was the one mentioned in the article, and the footage and audio was distorted and slowed down. Trump did not post this video. Trump posted the second video comprising of spliced segments of Pelosi speaking, each segment was raw footage of the House Speaker.
drilldrive··on Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
Trump didn't spread the video, his lawyer Giuliani did. Trump pinned a video of spliced moments of Pelosi stumbling on her words: each segment was raw footage.
drilldrive··on 100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing
That is mostly Africa nowadays. The average age there is 19.3.
drilldrive··on 100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing
That may be so, but one should use a disclaimer if he is pasting the same comment into multiple threads.
drilldrive··on What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)
On this note, even when the game "is better now" to a new-comer the game almost always still possesses the characteristic flaws that it always did, albeit muted in the new release. At least this has been my experience in such matters.
drilldrive··on IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
>But don’t rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).

I couldn't help but laugh at this. Is the author trying to spin the USA as second- or third-world? We are the top global economy!

drilldrive··on We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks
If you cannot see that the March for Science is part of the problem of the politicization of science, then you are lost all the same.
drilldrive··on Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy
Not to mention the editing cut footage mid-sentence. I can't watch something like that.
drilldrive··on Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
I do not personally use a smartphone, so smart locks would disallow me from using the apartment. These locks may be unlawful as a result (I am not familiar with tenant rights in general).
drilldrive··on Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
On this topic, do you have any particular recommendations for locks, or recommendations from a lock-picking society?
drilldrive··on People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
Most people unfortunately refer to Europe when they mean north-west Europe or even the Nordic countries alone.
drilldrive··on Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet
My family has installed a house-fan that we use whenever we like the out-doors temperature moreso than our in-doors temperature, which is quite often in our summer months at night.
drilldrive··on Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
Looking at the listing you provided, the wide majority of the non-American unicorn startups are from China, with some scattered startups in other eastern countries. So I think the shift in startup-location speaks more about China's success in bringing back talent (especially compared to India) versus America's lack of a grip on talent.
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