With rules like that, we'll never get to have TV shows like The Running Man.

> this specific example doesn't seem like insider trading, just a seasoned gambler who knows basic hedging strategy.

why can't it be both? you think degenerate gamblers have never had a government job?

There are other much more lucrative, obfuscated, and legally defensible methods someone with insider information could take to monetize on insider information.

Using a public betting platform with KYC vetting is not that.

Who thought this? Be careful with your wild use of we here. I'm not part of your we. Opening betting markets has only one ultimate ending where everything is done for the betting.

Prediction was certainly the pitch. I don't know how many people genuinely believed it, beyond the level required to extract a profit.

It's hard to measure what anyone actually believes in the current social landscape, where nobody tells the truth. Maybe that's the real purpose of prediction markets.

> about time this young democracy go through one!

Did you skip class they day that discussed the Civil War?

Did somebody skip class where that's an attempt of secession, not an overtake of power?

Well, Jan 6 was an attempted coup...

Luckily, the oval office is on the ground floor, so it's safe to stand next to the windows

At least twice. Luckily, that's the max number

1/2 isn't bad.

He also lost his only midterm so far.

Not according to him

How many generations does it take before the historians/archeologists uncover old issues of The Onion and decide it was the authoritative news of the day?

There was another Show HN recently (today?) that explained this. The JS feature to access local file system is currently not available in FF.

https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

I understand, but why does it need filesystem access in the first place?

so you can upload (er, provide access to) an image of a PCB you are looking to trace

Edit: I should have used a different word than upload. It's just old habit. According to TFA, there is no uploading. All processing is done in the browser, so the app needs local file system access to get at your image

There are other ways for webpages to get file uploads than this particular JS API. I upload files via firefox every single business day as part of my job.

This JS feature doesn't upload the file to a server. This particular app says right there on the page that it does the magic in the browser.

You appear to be misunderstanding on how browsers handle file uploads. You cannot get the local file path for a file. There is no C:\ or /Volumes or whatever your OS uses. Browsers deliberately mask that from the upload.

You can 'upload' a file into a completely local web app just fine. The directory access is only necessary if you need the web app to be able to spontaneously write back to the original file on your machine, or if you want to read a whole directory tree, which might be slightly convenient for things like gerbers but can easily be dealt with in other ways (especially with gerbers, which you can distinguish by filename, something that the web browser does expose to javascript).

(and I do think it's kind of irritating that Mozilla is fighting against such useful features on somewhat patronising 'the users won't understand what permission they're granting' grounds)

But I can drag and drop (or use the file picker) just fine on other websites.

To do what with? Upload? That's totally not the same thing as providing access for directly manipulating the file. That's basically HTML1.0 type stuff. JS file system access to provide a file to, I'm assuming, a WASM app is not even the same sport to be in the same ballpark.

Access for directly manipulating the file isn't necessary (perhaps if the files were enormous, but images and Gerber files aren't). One can upload/download files from a local web app just fine on firefox, and the WASM app can act on the file in memory with whatever APIs it wants.

> in memory

This, but it can also have the browser store it to disk by requesting the persistent mode from the storage API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API

You are wrong. You can upload a file to a local web page for example, see this offline only image editing tool I made: https://lelandbatey.github.io/scrapbook_img_print_layout/

> Sony U-matic

3/4" tape and was the only tape format that had the take up reel on the left.

> You only get to land on the moon once before people stop giving a shit.

Depends on what happens once on the moon. If all you do is send 2 people at a time to collect rocks, then it does get boring to the general public. If each landing assembles the next section of a moon habitat, then I think the interest sticks around longer.

That’s just the ISS on the moon instead of space, which is also uninteresting.

Well, luckily for me and at least a couple of other people, we seem to have better imaginations than you. Must be boring at your place if you think taking a walk on the moon or going for a drive to see the sights is uninteresting.

It's the next step of progress. Did you suddenly become bored because you learned to walk after crawling? Sounds kind of like you did to me.