Seems like false dillema. If we look at other sectors, it is not that one big online monopoly vs. local physical shops, it is more like there are few big eshops and many small eshops (often specialised for some domain). I do not see a reason why similar development would not be with book shops (i.e., physical shops replaced with both big and small e-shops).

Unfortunately it is not just autoplay. You can disable autoplay on video in Firefox settings, but that does not prevent JS code to start playing the video. In order to really disable autoplay, one has to disable JS (e.g. by NoScript).

It is not free, it still have high capital costs.

(reposting my post from Hacker News)

This discussion about enforcing specific ethical standards in software licences is nothing new, freeware licences that forbade specific usage (like in military) existed quarter century ago.

That is why freedom 0 (the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose) in free software definition is important, and rejection of enforcement of specific ethical standard was intention and not omission.

This reflects modern liberal society, which accepts diversity of ethical systems and positions, accents civil cooperation and enforces just common necessary rules through law.

It is true that copyleft licences like GPL enforce free software idea itself, and are ideological in that sense. But such ideology is restricted in scope, so people with diverse ideological positions (say RMS and ESR) can accept it as a common ground. And even with this there is fracturing on copyleft vs non-copyleft free licences.

If 'free' software licences commited to some wider range of ideological and ethical positions, then it would lead to fracturing of communities along those lines and to endless infighting.

I would expect that such change would be advantageous to people with mainstream ethical positions, but oppressive to people with heterodox ethical positions. It would be ironic if free software would be more oppresive that commercial one (who is at least limited by consumer protection laws).

In conclusion, seems to me that such change is not benefical to free software and its users as a whole, but may be benefical to people who want to use free software as a power lever to force their ethical positions on others.

(There are also technical problems, like such software would be incompatible with GPL, and if forced as a new version of GPL that could delegitimize 'any newer' ammendment in GPL-3+ licences.)

> note that crossing the border in order to claim asylum is not illegal.

AFAIK that is only guaranteed for border crossing directly from country where life or freedom is threatened (i.e. country of origin), not from safe third-party country. See article 31 of UN refugee convention. Although i am not sure if US laws are not more lenient.

Parent wrote about firearms (i.e. both rifles and pistols), not just rifles.

Aren't almost all non-revolver handguns semiautomatic?

I prefer at least 1920px width for code. In this way i can have two text buffers alongside with ~95 columns each.

Therefore, i prefer 1920x1080 to 1600x1200 (comapring ones with similar total number of pixels).

It is true that the paper does not specify whether the data are for in-plane or horizontal irradiation. Considering the data in the paper were directly used for calculating PV production, i assumed in-plane for some fixed angle, but i may be wrong. So lets get more explicit data:

If i use EC photovolatic geographical information system [*], select Berlin, 1 kWp two-axis tracked PV, results for in-plane irradiation are 237 kWh/m^2 in june and 27.3 kWh/m^2 in december. For PV output it is 189 kWh in june, 23.4 kWh in december. That is pretty much consistent with the other data and with the 10-20 % from previous post.

[*] https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html

I just noticed that i have one thing wrong in the original post, it should be 10-20 % instead of 5-10 % (i originally wanted to write 1/5-1/10 and botched that during reformulating the sentence).

It is not just about number of hours of sunlight, but about intensity of light, which is significantly lower during winter. For overall effects, see e.g. this table:

http://www.leidi.ee/wb/media/INSOLATION%20LEVELS%20EU.pdf

For e.g. Munich, average insolation during july is 5.14 kWh/m^2/day, while during december it is 0.79 kWh/m^2/day.

Or these graphs of german solar electricity production in 2014:

https://carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/germany-will-never-run-on-solar-power-here-is-why/

In Central Europe, solar power production during winter is about 5-10 % of summer values, so essentially nonexistent. You could have storage to cover evening and cloudy days, but definitely not for whole season.

Caps lock - great key to map control modifier.

Hello, i am B. Daneel Olivaw.

DoH (as implemented in browsers) is actually a problematic issue for two reasons:

1) It causes all DNS requests to be send to a third party (Cloudflare or Google) that has no relation with the user.

2) It causes massive increase in centralization of DNS, when these two companies would have effective control over DNS.

Centralization of control over Internet in hands of browser developers is already problematic. One example is their boycott of DNSSEC, as implementing that would loosen their control over PKI.