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I keep coming back to the idea that HTML needs to phase out making way for a modern rendering language.

Then when I start thinking about what that would mean I realize it's almost always going to be an evolution not a revolution for the following reasons...

1) No one wants to deliver two UIs, one for HTML legacy browsers, and one for the hot new browser rendering.

2) Who would own the standards? If it's a consortium we'll be back to lengthy RFPs and glacier pace of agreement, possibly resulting in something worse than HTML that does not get adopted. I can't see how any one organization could own the standard and get other browser developers to buy into it.

HTML+CSS is so integral to everyday life it's hard to see how it could ever be deprecated.

> Furthermore (like SMS) this requires a connection to the cell tower, which some tablets may not have even if they have internet.

Some people don't have tablets OR cell phones. I doubt the objective is to reach 100% of all people.

Wait, so iOS doesn't let you fine tune your notifications? I don't know how I could deal with my phone unless I could turn off, or turn down notifications.

A mobile device is not recommended.

Presumption of consent in the context of organ donation is a very complex topic[1]. Amazon stealing your network is not a profound moral quandary, and comparing the two as level ground is either an indication of lack of comprehension or intentionally being a bad faith contributor to the argument. Either way it's not a helpful avenue of debate.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6475984/

As a Brit I was pretty shocked to arrive in Australia and see that binge drinking there is next level. The Melbourne Cup horse races is like a national drinking day, my employer took everyone out to get wasted (this was in Sydney, didn't even watch the races) and then it was understood that you'd probably take the next day off.

All of that sounds like a boot stomping to me. Complete oppression and control.

Why the dickens isn't this opt-in? Now we live in a world where a corp can sit on your own home network and do business using your bandwidth without you explicitly agreeing. Not to mention the potential for security issues.

How do we define "original" when talking about digital works? As soon as you upload it you are making a copy. Then that copy gets bounced around and duplicated across edge servers all over the world.

You'd have to own the SD card to own the 'original'. But who really cares? I don't understand NFTs, I just don't understand the value.

This was kind of my question too. I am still yet to properly understand what the point in owning an NFT tied to a piece of digital art is.

Traditionally owning art is meaningful because you get to display it in your home/office etc. The artwork is intrinsically valuable as a unique material object. Digital art, on the other hand, can be duplicated easily so there is nothing you can point to and say "this is the original".

I don't see how that is synonymous with owning traditional art, you don't have anything unique since everyone can "own" Charlie bit my finger as much as the NFT owner owns it. We can watch the video whenever we want, even if it's taken down off of the official YT channel, there are thousands of copies everywhere. So unless you own the rights to the video and royalties or whatever then all you have is an NFT token that symbolizes something important to whoever thinks it's important (much like currency).

Seems to me that an NFT itself is more like a vanity plate on a car than anything else, basically bragging rights that you can sell on if anyone else sees value in bragging. I suppose the gamble is that NFTs will continue to mean something to someone but it does seem to me to be a long bet that people with piles of cash are hedging or simply don't mind paying $$$s for a fashion statement.

When you say "we" do you mean a professional outfit, or just as a group of consumers at a sports event? I thought pros were all about DSLRs and long lenses at sporting events. What kind of action can you actually detail with an iPad's lens?

> overdue

The margins of 'overdue' are hundreds of years.

I agree, the one person who was excited looked like she stifled herself because the energy in the room was so low. Considering what they just achieved, and how much work they put into the project... I mean, we celebrate more when we have a successful sprint.

If FB reassures the new IG-K is safe for kids, then many parents are probably going to trust that this is true. Now their kids will be subject to all the puke that is on Instagram, pedos will target it for grooming since the audience is specifically children. Kids will be subject to all the monetization efforts FB can throw at them. I imagine kids would also stress about competing with their friend's popularity and all of the other ugly shit grown ups subject themselves to when they obsess over IG.

Are those tanks around the landing site full of anything volatile? Seems odd to me to plan on landing a highly experimental rocket next to equipment like that. I am assuming the whole landing site is miles away from people.

This is a bit of a sensational title. Developers are empowered by Git to use a workflow that works for them. This is exactly what the person has done, they've made a workflow that works for them.

One is free to commit any time they like, it's not "Git's commit workflow", Git itself does not have an opinion on when you commit, just how.

Bad habits are not encouraged by Git, people get lazy, or complacent, and learn bad habits.

There are GUIs that allow you to stage and commit hunks of code intuitively, but GUIs are often shunned by people who spend a majority of their time in the CLI - however I am sure Vim and the like have some kind of tool for doing something similar.

This is fascinating. It kinda sounds very unstable though. Like how does a pandemic ruptured economy somehow come out looking better than it was pre pandemic?

This is a rather brittle concept. I certainly don't want someone judging me based off of my occasional use of a professional profile. I would feel very hesitant to allow a proprietary value algorithm to judge me in my professional life. And as a recruiter that value would essentially be mostly meaningless, I'd want to look at recommendations, and experience first. A score based on trading simply measures how good you are at trading, not how good you are at doing your job.

> selling blocks of time to people who want to consult with you

What does this actually mean? Would you be selling my time to someone else?

Do you have an import LinkedIn profile feature to reduce friction of adoption?

Also why doesn't your sign up support Google auth or any other identity providers? Another friction reducer opportunity right there.

What's driving this new surge of cash?

To my knowledge you cannot own national park land in Canada. I should have said "minimal environmental impact", but yes it's probably something you should look into to make sure you aren't close to water courses or disturbing some kind of nesting area. By and large though, building a small cabin with no services in the woods is going to by definition have minimal environmental footprint if you follow common sense and do a little research.

Living in Canada legalizing Cannabis has indeed introduced more people to using it. I think you underestimate the stigma attached to using illicit substances, and the barrier this places on regular folk.

> By 2019, more than 5.1 million people nationally, or 16.8% of Canadians aged 15 or older, reported using cannabis in the three months before surveying (Table 1). This was higher than the 14.9% (4.5 million) reporting use, on average, in 2018 (before legalization).

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article...

Usage in 2020 was up to around 20% overall:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...

I am sure there have been murders from drinking alcohol but I doubt anyone has slayed their own father whom they love dearly whilst drunk. This story is just so sad, breaks my heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGVsJUW3WfY

I advocate supervised medical mushroom usage, but I really could never support home recreational use. I've taken a bunch of LSD and mushrooms in my youth and they have had lasting negative effects on me so I am speaking from experience too.

If you own land in the backwoods of rural Canada I doubt anyone who cares would know you've built the cabin. If there is no plumbing, power, road etc. and the cabin is under 500sq/ft and you have logging rights I can't imagine anyone has jurisdiction to oppose. Unincorporated land, no environmental impact, ownership of the property. I can't see a problem.

> Caution to the reader who thinks one could pump heat from frigid external temperatures into their very warm, high temperature house

I heat my house with a heat pump. I live in Eastern Canada and we regularly have -20c days and I still heat my house to a comfortable level. Our pump is >=100% efficient all the way down to around -25c at which point it's less and less effective.

These pumps are extremely popular around here. We heat during the winter and cool during the summer with the same unit.

I consider our heat pumps to be our primary source of heat in our house. We only run the gas furnace if we get into sub -25c days which is not often, we had none this year.

Isn't crypto ridiculous too? Rai stones look objectively more sensible and they are ridiculous.

I'm not saying the technology is ridiculous, I'm just saying the overall implementation and outcomes would look like a madness to someone from the past or indeed the future.

Famous last words "a reactor melt down isn't possible". Russian disasters aside, the Fukushima meltdown happened because the backup power needed to pump water to keep the core cool as the plant shut down failed.

Now, it's not a far stretch to imagine that a CME event causes a power station shut down, as you describe, but without the generators working to keep the reactor cool as it fully shuts down you have a disaster on your hands.

Furthermore chances of this sort of thing happening are increased when the whole planet is affected.

As for hospitals, lots of things came to mind including hospitals. Just in my mind a nuclear disaster seemed to have a much higher potential for wiping out lives.

Good point! Man, I am too old when I think of those cables I think of fat copper core slugs.

Faraday cages around anything electronic that you care about. Honestly though, your digital media is going to be the last thing you are going to care about as you are starving to death with no water, heat, power, and armed people roaming the streets looking to take all your provisions.

Your faraday or powered down devices also won't prevent them getting destroyed in a neighbourhood going up in fire either.

The idea of the internet being completely crippled, submarine cables fried, data centers zapped, backup power gone, is terrifying in itself. Almost every supply chain depends on modern communications. Everything we do is so embedded and dependent on technology losing power would just be scratching the surface of numerous catastrophic disasters. Nuclear power station meltdowns... oof.