The pipeline has nothing to do with the current government od Poland, as it has been hotly debated for over a decade. The only party benefitting from it is Russia. Before they were forced to treat all countries along the pipeline equally, now they are free to play political games buy choosing which knob to turn. Germany and the EU assume a simple contract will address that, US can see beyond that and has objected against giving Russia a strategic advantage. Neither Germany nor Russia benefit from the pipeline financially.

Would zero gravity and radiation help remove impurities from copper?

That is what I don't understand. Intel has already done all the hard work on BEOL, why don't they simply shrink transistor gates? That isn't very difficult at all (in comparison), it would help with the performance and from the marketing perspective having a 7nm process would be great.

Your team leader, perhaps? Or a director? Or the board? In every organization there is a group of people whose job is precisely that - deciding what is best for it and its stakeholders (yes, that includes you).

Imagine your post comes from a team member, multiply it by 5-10x, and assume a policy that every decision requires a team-wide consensus - nothing will ever be done, not even straightforward tasks like bug fixes and performance improvements. Productive folks will be busy defending their actions and non-productive ones will have plenty of time to come up with new ideas for things to consider.

It is simply none of the Mozilla Foundation's business. They should put 100% of their effort into making the best web possible browser as quickly and efficiently as possible. It's now more important than ever - raising money is going to be tough in 2020.

Each organization has some employees producing disproportional amount of churn and diverting productive ones into endless debates about the process. One such person can easily have a net value of negative 3-5 engineers, so removing them from the organization or at least keeping them in check is very important.

Two problems: Give politicians a knob that makes people feel good with no immediate bill to pay and they will turn it to 11. Downturns are necessary part of the market. Without them everyone would be taking too much risk hoping for a reward.

a joke about a Soviet news report:

(copy&paste) "A friendly communist agricultural tractor was intercepted by enemy group of seven Chinese battle tanks, while performing its everyday works on wheat fields along Soviet-Chinese border. Tractor has returned fire and after destroying all tanks it flew back to its base."

Performance, portability, openness aside (there are many contenders here today), the main reason I use Firefox is because guys at Mozilla Foundation *seem* to care about my privacy *a bit* more than others. Or rather, they haven't designed Firefox from ground up to suck as much information about me as they can get away with.

Unfortunately, even though the potential is clearly here, Firefox does very little to actively protect my privacy. All the killer privacy features are pushed out to extensions. In 2015 there is no excuse for not shipping Adblock as a built-in component. I would really love to see filters being maintained and distributed within Mozilla - if nothing else, that would be a great way to engage the community.

Another extension which is "a must" for me, and badly suffers from integration issues, is Multifox. It lets me open several windows, each presenting a different identity to web servers. I believe it was designed to allow multiple simultaneous logins to services like Gmail but it has a nice side effect of being the most effective way of blocking trackers. They can get all the information about Youtube videos "I" watch, or what online banking "I" use, but they cannot easily connect these patches of information into a single consistent picture of "me". I bet such function will never make its way into Chrome or Safari, yet Mozilla chose to ignore the potential killer feature again.

So, why many of such essential privacy features are still not part of Firefox? I used to think it was because of Google founding but times have changed and Mozilla still does very little on that front (no, DNT really doesn't count).

Not the same. US/EPA rules attempt to model a "real life" drive cycle at the cost of getting more subjective numbers. In Europe, the rules are more synthetic so there is less cheating but all numbers are overoptimistic.

It is a local news so the use of Fahrenheit scale is appropriate. It's not like people living outside of the US have to dress accordingly.

Why not?
- higher temperature -> more energy in the system (higher pressure gradients, strong winds etc).
- changing temperature -> upsetting the steady state of the system (ditto).

The temperature gradient attributable to the climate change is a degree per decade or so. Good luck sensing that. Your metabolism or body fat percentage is changing faster. Not to mention the weather.

Good point, pure EVs are currently unsuitable for apartment dwellers, or people commuting 100km to work. But, no one is talking about a market dominance. If only 5% of people decided to buy an EV that would already be a major success. Infrastructure and technology would follow and several years down the line we would find there are more of us falling into the "can buy" category.

The biggest problem at the moment is the price - ultimately it will have to go down because there is no reason why a mass produced EV has to be more expensive than an ICE. But for now, Tesla is doing it right, by targeting the premium market and selling a car that appeals to early adopters.