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That's not a fix. It's a workaround.

It's a fix because it completely solves the issue on any site, without requiring changes from LinkedIn or any other actor.

My car leaks oil. So I refill it here and there. This fixes issue with any car maker and does not require action of any other actor.

Yes, it’s a workaround because it doesn’t require anyone to fix the issue.

>it completely solves the issue on any site

It doesn't solve the problem with Instagram links, which in my experience do the following:

1) Open a new browser tab, with no history. 2) Close the original tab, so I can't easily get back to where I was.


That's a different kind of dysfunction, though. You can address it by copying the link and pasting it in a new tab, or if that's not possible, copying the current page to a new tab and clicking on the link there.

I've noticed that on Instagram, too. Absolutely infuriating.

It's a work around to them making changes to deliberately change the expected results of pressing "back"

It's also not a very effective workaround, because some of the websites in question end up spamming multiple instances of their home page in the history stack.

You can usually address this by going back as far as possible, then holding the button again so more of the history shows up. And IME, it's only really broken sites that have this problem in the first place.

Yes, but that's super annoying and at that point graduates to being a shitty workaround.

I wonder how often do privacy policies change, for the average site, to merit investing in a dedicated library that renders them dynamically. Assuming that the default solution is a static page.

I think most apps don't update often enough. We've seen products with privacy/cookie policies that are 5+ years old and totally out of sync with the product itself.

We're building OpenPolicy not necessarily to reduce the risk companies have of litigation, but instead to be more transparent with users and to build trust.

In the next version we'll be releasing auto-instrumentation that tracks data/third parties to always keep things in sync.


> We're building OpenPolicy not necessarily to reduce the risk companies have of litigation

Privacy policy is one thing, but that’s what terms of service are for!


Terms of service don't override laws so only a fool thinks that they have any effect on litigation.

If a set of terms not overriding the law makes it useless, what do you think contracts are for?

Okay a couple of things here... The first is that not all contracts are equally legally binding. Terms of service would be among the least. The second is that a contract also cannot override the law... You can't break the law just because it's in a contract...

My problem is mostly that I lack the legal expertise to be able to a) write up a coherent policy with full coverage, and b) follow up on changing legislation, of which there has been quite a lot in recent years (at least in Europe).

The best option until now have been generators found online, which mostly seem to have pivoted to lead generators or demos for paid products now. Considering that in Germany, for example, any website affiliated with a company or pursuing any economic purpose is required to have both a proper imprint and privacy policy, this is something you have to care about. There are even lawyers writing specialised crawlers to find websites with linked Google Fonts but no privacy policy notice, and send automated litigation to the owners. This only became possible after a court decided (as shortsighted as stupidly) loading fonts from Google's servers constituted a privacy violation, given that visitors had no way to consent.

Following these changes and reacting in a timely way is a continuous effort, and a framework to automate this is very welcome IMHO.


Why would sending requests to Google's servers (complete with Referer headers) not be a privacy violation? It allows Google to track every page you visit that has Google Fonts, which is definitely a privacy concern.

The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.

Same method though. There's a plethora of vibrating things to choose from. I suppose you could mold a large silicone tentacle to put on a jackhammer, too, and use that to fish for bubbles in your cement soup. Call the tool what you want, you haven't changed the method.

Yes, I did feel a bit silly buying and using it, but to be fair it did get the bubbles out.

Are you guys all trying hard not to say the words dildo, satisfier, or sex toy? Why so? AFAIK it is neither a rude nor a prohibited word.

Nah, I was just being pedantic about the “method” of removing bubbles.

Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?

Yes. Which is why there are also IQ tests for pre-school kids.

Besides the declining groups have the same education with the earlier ones.


All of these effects are explained much better by social factors. If you're poor or discriminated against, you get less nutrition, less education, and face barriers in trying to improve both.

>If you're poor or discriminated against, you get less nutrition, less education, and face barriers in trying to improve both.

Which doesn't matter, since they measured rich and middle class, and poor and discriminated against both before and after.

Did you think the new measurements were done at some ghetto and the earlier higher ones at Martha's Vineyard?


Could you please elaborate on why measuring the same group somehow eliminates social effects?

Are you claiming social factors have remained constant during the measuring period? Because they very obviously haven't.

If you're aware of the Peter principle, and how inequality compounds over time, then you know that the rate at which social factors change is correlated with their quantile values.


In general the methodology for IQ is highly questionable

> In general the methodology for IQ is highly questionable

What do you propose as a replacement?


The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016


That sounds correct and straight from The Ironies of Automation.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2448136.2448149


Valid question, which must be put in the context of US-based providers willingly satisfying US out-of-jurisdiction search requests for EU data without even letting the EU know about it. (And when the providers are not willing, they can be forced by U.S. Cloud Act)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro...


Your statement is wrong.

The report describes that there was no mechanism to dispatch the reactive power of renewables separately from the active power.

In page 452, item numbered 1 states "RES power plants follow fixed power factor" (RES = Renewable Energy Sources). The source of this finding is in section 4.2.1.

In page 208, footnote 35, the reference is given to Royal Decree 413/2014 of 6 June, which mandates this fixed power factor. The Article 7, section e), states that renewable energy sources must follow the instructions given by the operator to set power factor, and only if the distribution lines support it.

And footnote 36 describes how this worked in practice on the date of the outage: renewables were told, by email on the previous day, which fixed power factor correction to use the following day.

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This lack of dynamic dispatch of reactive power was a known problem, already reported in 2022 [1]

[1] https://www.eldiario.es/economia/competencia-reconocio-julio...



Any company where this happens is being mismanaged.

The whole point of having companies is to overcome limitations of humans acting individually.


I'll do you one better: stealing the signing key was not even necessary.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ent...


I knew there was another incident that I was forgetting, insanity... I don't understand how Microsoft keeps getting away with this and everyone just forgets.


Microsoft has a very good PR department: they invest a lot in lobby/corruption, they pay for articles in big media companies. And Microsoft is too big to fail.


When people's income depends on them forgetting... they tend to become amnesiacs.


because time to market is more important than security (at microsoft)


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