They haven't got any other ideas to reverse the falling user numbers, and apparently neither does anyone else. Firefox is a decent browser, with some of the best privacy protection features. The Android version needs some work, but it's better than Chrome. HDR doesn't work, but how many people care?

So why do people abandon it? Some sites don't work, but without simply becoming a Chrome skin they can't do a huge amount about that.

Aggressive marketing by Google? Can't stop that either.

AI isn't actually the worst idea. For a lot of people being able to say "download this video" and it does would be a valuable feature. You can do it with an add on, but most people won't get that far. I bet it won't be able to do that though.

Employers need to accept that they have to train and develop people they take on. Grades should be an indication of ability to learn.

Say you have 100 shares available at a given price, and three people offer to buy them all in the same second. How do you handle that? You could give them all 33, and have one spare, as long as they are okay with only getting 33. Maybe you could have an "all or nothing" marker on the trade.

Random delays have the same issue, the buyer either has to accept an unknown price up front, or the seller has to accept cancelled trades and unpicking failed multi way deals.

The system was designed for human traders and needs a fundamental rethink.

Their energy costs are typical for Western Europe. The only ones significantly cheaper have already done what Germany is doing - installed a lot of renewables.

The UK has multiple spellings too. At school they mostly teach the -ise spelling, but I prefer the Oxford -ize spelling. Either is acceptable, although a lot of spell checkers don't support Oxford.

Whatever you do, don't Google what that stuff is. You don't want to know.

To be fair, the same is true of a lot of human designs too. Lots of modules and highly integrated ICs used, all basically black boxes. Not as bad, but certainly not immune to screw ups either.

I wonder if it passed EMC and ESD.

The way it works is that there are limits on fleet emissions. A certain proportion of cars sold must be zero emission, and the fossil ones must have average emissions below a certain level.

Even with this change, the great majority of cars sold will have to be EVs.

That is part of the English language, used extensively in England, and not pronounced the way its spelled.

Literally just picking a few place names from where I used to live in the UK, and you get:

Happisburgh - dates back a thousand years.

Wymondham - dates back approximately 1,500 years, and originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Costessey - originates from around 600AD, and again originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

"Lieutenant" (and numerous other words) wants to have a word with you :)

Note that the US has, multiple times, extradited people from the UK in order to try them in the US, for actions done in the UK - simply because they breached US laws and somewhere in the chain there was a US connection.

The US loves fining foreign companies as well, including major banks like HSBC, for breaching US law.

The US has also confiscated transactions between two Europeans who carried out a transaction in two countries outside the US, simply because they breached the US embargo on Cuba and the transaction was done across the SWIFT network.

In other words, the US loves to do what it complains about here.

Yeah, Zillow and others basically act like paywalls to make it harder to find out information about available real estate and force you to do everything through agents who try to steer you to properties that give them a bigger commission.

The absolute worst is searching for land, because most of those sites don't want to give you the parcel numbers, which make the information almost completely useless. With a parcel number and five minutes of GIS searching, I can tell you if it is worth my time, all without ever having to visit the property. Instead, they'd like you to have an agent try to convince you that the sheer cliff is buildable as long as you use an advanced septic system. ROFL.

I've never understood why MLS wasn't more open. It has always been going against consumers' best interest to keep it as closed as it is, IMO.

... spread over probably 24" x 48", or 8 square feet, for a total of 625 pounds per square foot.

Ignoring that the numbers above are probably less than half the static load limit, the static load limit is as low as it is because A. the raised floor has weight, and B. the raised floor likely has a much lower weight limit than the concrete slab under it.

Solution: Remove the raised floor.

Which means you can now run overhead cable trays above the height of your tallest employees. No need for the raised floors. Also, by ripping out the raised floors, you can have that extra height, so no need to rebuild the building.

Because people can't tip the racks up to get them through the doors, or lie them flat corner-to-corner in a freight elevator? This seems like a problem with movers not being creative enough when moving things, rather than a building problem.

This whole article reads like people looking for an excuse to spend more money and build monuments to themselves, rather than an actual problem. What am I missing?

The increase in fire rates is completely irrelevant for training, too. You can learn to shoot a rifle with any rifle. You'll need a little bit of training on how the mags load in different rifles and stuff, but not much. In terms of learning how to aim and stuff, kids can train on a single-shot rifle.

It's not obvious to me. I learned how to shoot rifles and handguns as a kid, and I've never had any kind of gun in my house other than a BB gun.

Governments at the time had a powder house that provided extra munitions and guns. Some militiamen at the time did have personal weapons in their homes. The minutemen were more trained than other militiamen, and presumably also screened for not being nuts. So yes, hand-picked elite soldiers all had weapons, but that's not an indication that everyone needs to — doubly so when you consider that the National Guard is the only remaining lawfully recognized militia in the U.S., and all others are markedly different from the militias at the time, which were organized by local governments, not by random people who like to shoot guns.

The whole point is that we have that, and it's called the National Guard.

Let's not forget that modern mass shootings still could not have happened without cartridged firearms. Let's not forget that there's a clear, direct correlation between the increase in assault rifle sales after that ban was overturned and the number of mass shooting deaths in the U.S. Let's not forget that mass shootings have been around since at least 1949, and probably longer — it's not a new phenomenon at all — and that the only thing that is clearly correlated with the number of mass shootings is the number of guns sold.

I'm not saying that we should get rid of guns, but blanketly saying that all gun laws are unconstitutional just isn't grounded in what the second amendment says, and burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the damage caused to our society by nutjobs getting guns isn't going to keep it from happening over and over.

Some common sense laws could cut the mass shooting to really close to zero, all without meaningfully preventing normal, sane people from owning firearms if they want to do so. Examples:

• Re-enacting a federal waiting period (with an exception made for people who have an active restraining order against someone else and can legitimately show a reason to need one immediately for self defense) can dramatically reduce gun suicides and heat-of-the-moment homicides. And while this probably won't reduce mass shootings much, it will reduce gun deaths.
• Safe storage laws can dramatically reduce access to guns by gangs and known criminals who would not pass a background check. They can also reduce access to guns by children, who should never be allowed to have access to a firearm without an adult present, because very few have the mental maturity to handle that responsibility.
• Mandatory government-funded pre-purchase and annual psych evaluations for anyone owning a firearm could massively reduce the rate of mass shootings by identifying people who might be unstable and ensuring that they get the therapy they need to not go postal, particularly if you combine it with free mental health counseling for anyone who wants it and make it easy for mental health professionals to report to police if they feel that a person may be a danger to themselves or others, and if the police then have a policy of confiscating any weapons that the person owns and not giving them back until they have gone through an adequate period of counseling and the health professional has lifted the firearm hold.
• Requiring all firearm sales to be tracked by serial number in a federal registry, and providing civil liability for the last registered owner when a firearm is used in a crime unless they can show that the firearm was stolen out of a certified gun safe can then make all of the previous regulations have the teeth needed to actually do their jobs.
• Requiring significant additional screening to own high-power rifles, semi-automatic and automatic rifles, large magazines, etc. would also likely fix the recent surge in mass shooting deaths. (It's not just that mass shootings are becoming more common; they're also becoming more deadly.)

And so on. None of those policies violate my understanding of what the second amendment says, because they don't prevent a typical person from owning the sorts of firearms that are commonly used by individuals who are not active military. They don't prevent people who are active military, reserve, or guard (militia) from owning the firearms needed to protect the country, and they don't meaningfully impede our national defense, nor our police.

But also Chinese LIDAR companies made rapid advances, especially when it comes to cost reduction and software that mitigates the slightly less capable hardware. It's still not clear how LIDAR will feature in self driving cars, but it looks like the low cost systems will probably be part of the solution.