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The underlying problem here is that a click or tap should always refer to whatever _was_ on the screen a few (100?) milliseconds ago. It’s a long-standing bug on all platforms.


That isn't a bug; it's working as intended. I do wonder if that could be mocked up easily in html to see what it feels like though. Sounds like a cool idea


I've come to rely on a robust method of adblocking YouTube which I believe to be perfectly reliable and impossible for YouTube to circumvent: avoid watching YouTube. Incidentally this method also reliably prevents false buffering.


But folders are now stuffed into a small dropdown, leaving All Items as an unorganized mess.

That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.


Certainly true. Gold is difficult to transport and expensive to protect, whereas Bitcoin is neither.


Indeed. Other commodities have other strengths; oil can be turned into a huge range of products that make people's lives better, wheat can be literally used to make food to radically enhance people's lived experience, aluminium is a key component in an enormous range of goods covering almost every aspect of life. If what Bitcoin can offer isn't having any actual application that improves anyone's life but is easy to move around, well, gotta go with your only strength, I guess.


I've long wished hyperlinks would permit multiple hrefs. Hypertext could be more sophisticated.

Multi-link QR codes could be practically useful, provided an interstice appears with the URLs and allows a person to follow any of them or all of them.


They did. I think the idea with XML based hypertext was to have links that are star-shaped with potentially multiple sources and potentially multiple targets and the location where the link is defined completely independent from any sources or targets.

One application would have been that people publish link collections and you could e.g read HN with the links I created.

There was a proposed standard for this but its name escapes me for the moment.

Of course all of this never went farther than XHTML where it took a sharp turn into a different direction.


> There was a proposed standard for this but its name escapes me for the moment.

XLink? It supports a feature known as extended links, which seems similar to what you're describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLink


It may well be considered a security flaw for any country to allow foreign nationals to purchase any real estate.

Incidentally, the practice also drives up prices for citizens, leading to housing crises.

But a policy that allows anyone with a foreign allegiance to set up shop next to a military base is courting disaster.


What resources are there for evaluating "national security" threats of which domestic individuals own what property? On intuition, domestic actors are of far greater threat to national security than foreign actors are.


Funny how the desire to attract new users seems genuine up until someone mentions the glaring elephant in the room, and then you're downvoted to oblivion.

I, like many others, would never use FreeBSD precisely because it promotes the idea that demons are cute, and it's made by people who see nothing wrong with that.


I think Docker support is probably a far bigger deal breaker for people than a cartoon demon.


theres no such thing as a downvote on HN


There is, but your karma is not high enough to be able to see and use the feature. However, you can notice comments that were downvoted more than upvoted by their grey text color (if you are sighted).


thanks, today i learned something new.


Why is this comment downvoted? I also saw no ads, using Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin and NextDNS.


There is something strange about asking "what ads" and then saying you are using ublock origin. Thats your answer to "what ads" right there...

I don't run ublock origin on my work computer (which maybe I should) which is where I viewed this article.


How do we solve that?


You provide the most accurate and valid information you can when placing an order online.


Yes, but there's still so much supporting software waiting to be built.


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