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I just turn this stuff off for now, the only use I can see for it is unskippable / unblockable ads no matter what neat things are theoretically possible. Soon we'll have "booter" sites which suck their data from who knows where, without the browser being able to intercept and block the baddies.


There is nothing that WASM can do to interfere with adblocking that Javascript can not already do. The reason ads remain blockable is logistics. You want to serve the ads from a different server, if for no other reason than billing.


Yeah I tried to find out what this even is a week or so ago, it wasn't clear even after reading several pages. It sounds like you actually need to get one of their marketing people to your site to even figure out what the secret is?


I hate news like this because they never EVER give you a nice handy list of worst offenders, safer options, etc.


If you’re in the US: I switched to Branch Basics last year and their products are pretty good. I have to scrub harder and maybe spray and let the solution sit to get tough messes out but they work reasonably well. Also switched to blueland tabs for laundry and dishwasher and they also work pretty well. They even started selling those at Target


I wish it was much more specific, but they do at least say that the green-marketed products are significantly better on average.


A weak solution of Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) works excellent.


Mailing lists will always be king. I don't get it either, Discord is proprietary, hosting your OSS project's infrastructure there just seems... idiotic.


It's for the community discussion.


Private nntp server could handle this quite easily, and today mailing list managers have web views with threading.


I'm sad that Hyperkitty, which is in all other respects a good piece of mailing list archive software, lacks a threading view. Now that most FOSS mailing lists have started using it, I've lost one of the main productivity benefits of them compared to linear discussions like chatrooms.

If it's important for me to follow a discussion in detail, I will try to download the emails to open with Mutt, which can be easily configured to use a threaded view.


i am sure it can but that's just another friction


You can significantly reduce it easily. Don't heat things in plastic, don't buy hot food or beverages served in plastic or "bamboo / paper," stop using K-cups, etc.


Reduced what percentage? What is the health impact of that percentage? What are other sources and do they have a higher percentage/health impact?


With something that's poison, reducing your intake just a bit is probably the best thing you can do. We know about vapor and outgassing and how temperature affects this. You don't need "sources" just a basic high school level understanding of chemistry to understand these things. I don't need a source to tell me water boils.

There are reams of information out there about how age affects plastics, and how. It's all based on basic chemistry.


What about clothes?


He is the company, it's his corporation. He's the founder, owner, and CEO. It's correct to associate anything he does with his company, while in law they're not the same entity, in truth, they can be treated as such.


But if the money is coming from the company accounts vs his own personal accounts makes a huge difference. What an individual does with their money is up to them as they decide. What a CEO does with the money of a company is very much not theirs alone to make. The board might not like it. Other banking rules come into play. Employees not getting a raise might have something to say.

How you can even try to conflate the two as being the same is just short sighted.


Bloomberg is privately held, and Mr Bloomberg holds 88% of its shares.

In this scenario the board works for him, not the other way around.


Do you honestly believe that the money used to operate the company comes out of his personal bank accounts? Are you just this unaware of how things work, or are you being a troll?


That’s not what that person said though. Bloomberg, the company, is an asset of Bloomberg the man, a tool he uses to accomplish… whatever he is up to. It’s a legal fiction under his direct control, money in the bank.


If he decides he'll need 500 million more for his personal goals he does a dividend amounting to a reduction of 568 million in Blomberg's money on hand, presto!

Huge difference there because it spent some time in his account, if you are his accountant or if you are Bank of America, but for the rest of us the distinction is largely a waste of time.


> while in law they're not the same entity, in truth, they can be treated as such

contradiction?


The first line of TFA makes it clear, that he, Michael Bloomberg, is personally doing this.

> "Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030."


Technically, he’s not the CEO of Bloomberg LP


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