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Ironically and to my surprise, as I'm far from being any sort of an art buff and this stuff usually bores me, at Rijskmusem I really enjoyed those typical descriptions put next to the paintings, with short notes about art history and some details about described work of art. There they really are filled with interesting info. To each his own I guess. Or maybe it is unexpected side-effect of the "Art is Therapy" project.

Aren't you tired of having to query the DOM tree and manually manage the structure to create UIs? Web Components doesn't solve this at all, it just tries to encapsulate the work. The problem is that building apps is building components, so you inevitably are forced back into the manual DOM management to create your app-specific components (like how you constantly have to create directives in Angular). You also need to jump into JavaScript to configure and wire up any Web Components you used. It's a very messy abstraction, and fools you into desiring a pure HTML-based declarative way to write apps, which is like wanting steak but eating liver.

See http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...

Questions were raised as to why Malaysia Airlines had continued to fly over such a volatile region, where separatists were known to be shooting at aircraft. Qantas, the Australian carrier, said it had been steering clear of the area by 400 nautical miles for several months. Malaysia Airlines said that after the crash it immediately altered its flight paths, while other airlines either did likewise or emphasised they had already been taking alternative routes.

"With immediate effect, all European flights operated by Malaysia Airlines will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route," said a statement from the airline. It added: "The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/mh17-pressure-o...

It will, however, run (...) on the platforms that support SIMD. This includes both the client platforms (...) as well as servers that run JavaScript, for example through the Node.js V8 engine.

...and:

A major part of the SIMD.JS API implementation has already landed in Firefox Nightly and our full implementation of the SIMD API for Intel Architecture has been submitted to Chromium for review.

...and:

Google, Intel, and Mozilla are working on a TC39 ECMAScript proposal to include this JavaScript SIMD API in the future ES7 version of the JavaScript standard.

So, yes, there's definitely an intention there to put it into V8/Node.js/ES7 (guess, it will be in this exact order).

Is it really possible?

Someone doing it already?

Any real benefits of that (web workers have their own overhead)?

Active aero isn't one of those but ERS and fuel consumption are and you can see this stuff is making its way into the normal cars already. KERS is a gimmick maybe, but I'm happy that they're tackling the problem of fuel consumption.

Not bad ideas in themselves, dunno about the execution. Personally I think it wouldn't be that bad to have some governmental control over some of the Internet functions.

Prefer this instead of leaving it at hands of corporations that only care about money (even if I agree that it's all a muddy area that can lead to some bad stuff too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law#United_...

This is not about NSA.

Private companies gather more and more data about us without any control (especially the US-ones), so it's good that EU tries to regulate that.

Anyone could elaborate on what this actually means?

In 2012 they emission of carbon dioxide raised by 3%, but that increase was at least lower than in previous years, where it oscillated around 10% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24742770)

29 of 71 nuclear reactors that under currently under construction are being built in China (http://world-nuclear.org/info/Facts-and-Figures/World-Nuclea...), they also have similar numbers for hydropower (see the previous link).

But also remember that there's no one proper way of doing these things, it's all heuristics, not laws written in stone.

E.g. banking regulation - sure, it won't prevent all the bad behaviour, but it will help (see Poland where state control over some banking regulations prevented banks from getting into bad mortgages). Does that mean that government should control everything? of course not! It can be somewhere in the middle (think Keynes instead of Friedman) and where's that middle also depends on the local environment and such - what worked in Poland won't necessarily work the same in Spain.

Also, I disagree with the notion that he proposes fighting the State with the State - he wants people to be the State and I agree with that to a large extent. People like to complain about politics as if they (the politics) were some aliens from the different planet. Spain is a good example here, 2-3 years ago thousands of people were protesting with slogans like "no nos representan". Yet no one from the protesters had the guts to take that movement and actually do something with it, become a leader, a politician, take a responsibility, try to change something for real. Instead they preferred to shift that responsibility back to the politicians they were protesting against. Year later people went to elections and voted the same people as before, the ones that supposedly "no les representaron".