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Remember when Opera had link search? Such a shame those features are dead nowadays


Firefox has link search built-in, just press '


Hurricanes can absolutely be controlled we just don’t have the tech yet


... so they can't?

Hurricanes have a lot of energy. In theory we could expend all Earth's currently accessible resources to try controlling them. Barring some impossible to predict breakthroughs we cannot control hurricanes. Just like we (meatbags) cannot travel to other solar systems.


It's probably easier to prevent them from forming in the first place, for example by somehow decreasing the surface water temperature in some areas.

No idea how to actually do that though.


This happens all the time naturally. For example dust from the Saraha reduces the amount of hurricanes. The problem here that's like putting a bandaid on a laceration, the hurricane is the effect of a complex system and not a causation. By blocking it you're allowing that energy to remain in the system and have all kinds of other potentially terrible side effects.


If rsync devs cared about brevity then we might of had a decent syncing client


rsync.net and rsync the open source project aren't related, afaik/afict. At the very least, no one at rsync.net has been the maintainer or original dev of rsync. Rsync either doesnt enforce their trademark, or rsync.net has an agreement with the project.


They definitely are not related


rsync.net works well with borg, fwiw.


Yeah? I use it all the time


In a professional context, using your real name? I never would, in this political climate. I probably never would have anyway, but morality is unimportant in the face of zealousness. I think most people agree that it's a stupid and irrelevant thing to care about, but nobody is going to be the first one to stick their neck out.


I don't know if you're aware but a lot of black people use this word all the time. Actually, it's used by a lot of peoples who aren't white.

I'm going to assume you are white - try telling a black guy he can't use that word because it's offensive.


You're right, I am a pasty white guy, and I'm also not in the business of telling people what to say or not say. All I know is that there are a couple of magic words I can say that will instantly ruin my life.


If I wanted to read tweets I would be on Twitter. You guys don’t need to repost everything you see online to HN.


Apple already solves this problem! https://imgur.com/a/HglsjJq (hovers around 78% on my personal machine)


1917 revolution jumps to mind.


Well, the conditions before the revolution were probably pretty bad for the average person, so they happily went along in hopes of getting something better. The same cannot be said about pre-brexit Britain, it was just pure self-sabotage.


Agree. Brexit was executed badly. Very.

Still it was motivated by independence from EU insanity in law and push for fast federation with Germans ruling it. I am pro united Europe but it is pure madness to expect entities (countries here) with interdependent history (of hostility) and opposite business expectations to unite in some theoretical ASAP. In my opinion 1k years is good timeframe, assuming everything will go positive all the time.

Maybe faster but true integration is not just laws on paper, it is whole continent societes integration so no constatnt backstabbing is default modus operandi.

So, IMO, Brexit is not Britain exiting rest of the Europe countries club forever.

And plan for lowering taxes was a good thing, just not something what can bring effects in just few months. Why not abolish VAT for example ? Transactions monitoring ? LOL


> Brexit was executed badly. Very.

What would a "well-executed brexit" even look like?

The problems are that, in order to have a "well-executed brexit", you would need pragmatic, realistic people to execute it. Who are also pro-brexit. and

a) I don't think that those exist much. It's a Venn diagram with no meaningful intersection. The realists aren't pro-brexit, and the brexiteers aren't realists.

b) Brexit is fundamentally a populist "over-promise to the people" project. Theresa May tried to pitch a reasonable compromise, and got shouted down in favour of more outlandish promises. Realistic versions can't be sold as "the real thing". What existent thing can accurately be sold as the "the real thing" I do not know or care: it's not my problem to polish that turd.


Amazing idea, great work man. Just one suggestion; the filters should probably be at the bottom within reach of your hands.


where’s my damn youtube competitor Netflix? You’re capable and desperate for workable ideas, just commit already. You can even cut back on film production expenditure and send recording equipment to interesting content creators.


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