In theory css parallax is brilliant and should replace all bloated js versions. In practice, it's unusable. We spent 40 hours as two experienced frontend engineers trying to get the example to work on a relatively simple example but it requires such a specific markup that it became too convoluted. Eventually I gave in and looked for a js solution but those were much larger and slower than we wanted. Ultimately, ended up writing a short 100-line open source vanilla js lib, and a bunch of folks seemed to be having our same issues: https://github.com/dixonandmoe/rellax. That said I still love to explore the extents of css' capabilities but this is one time where it fell short.
Exact same problem, actually tried making this example mentioned here to work on other browsers besides Chrome and failed to do so.
Your rellax library looks really useful i just hope i won't have to build parallax websites anymore.
But the alternative seems to be browser exposing APIs for all those permissions through Javascript and the end-user not really having any control over that. Perhaps I'm just naive about it, since I really don't do Javascript-based development, but this seems to be a worse idea than apps.
32. People’s names are assigned at birth.
33. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
34. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
35. Five years?
36. You’re kidding me, right?
I must know what case there is of this, and who exactly was the poor soul to stumble upon it...
It's not automatic a lot of places, these days. It's just a far simpler/faster process to get the name change done, and most companies and even government agencies won't raise a fuss over a woman filling out a last name that doesn't match her ID, because they'll assume she got married and took her husband's name.
It's the certificate used to sign TLS for addons.mozilla.org. Since "Tor Browser" is a lightly modified Firefox that hasn't had its automatic addon update checking disabled, and Mozilla's addon signing process is an automated rubber stamp, that's a problem.
To be clear, I don't think it's so much a problem on Mozilla's part; perhaps manual review would be a good idea, but I doubt they have the resources. The problem here is that Tor Browser has claims made for it that aren't supported by the amount of work that's actually gone into making it secure. That would appear to be entirely on the people who run the Tor foundation, or whatever nonprofit structure it is that they use.
Why does "white"/"male" matter? I understand that this is potentially a very contentious question, but I genuinely don't understand why those are listed in the title, or why "white" was the first in a list of insulting words used at the end of the article.
I think the tacit claim made by the article was that the entire interaction was almost entirely race-driven, suggesting that:
1) The person he tried to help would not have been accosted by police if he were white
2) The author would not have been beaten and abused if he were white.
3) Perhaps neither would have happened if the officers were not white.
As the story fits in with the over-arching narrative of so many police departments across the country being explicitly or implicitly racist and heaping brutal unspeakable abuse and murder on nonwhite populations.
I think all 3 explanations above are plausible, but there's certainly enough police brutality floating around out there that white people can get their fair share as well. And nonwhite officers can certainly dish it out.
"Each of 4 white, ignorant, racist asshole police officers."
While he was probably trying to use it in an aggressive sense, I'd avoid getting too offended. You can't expect people to talk nicely right after being wronged like that. If I were telling people about something like that I would try to speak as calmly as possible, but I'd be pretty upset if someone found a slip-up as an excuse to ignore me.
I feel like it's important to point out that, while it's certainly understandable that a person might latch onto characteristics like that in reaction to that kind of a situation, it is, nonetheless, racism. In order for racism to stop, it eventually has to stop with no exceptions.
What really gets to me is the fact that white societies are the number #1 immigration destinations for non-whites, and are entirely responsible for this person's opportunities and high standards of living.
Yet all he sees is white racism.
edit: since I can't reply anymore; to that one person...
You've missed the point entirely.
1. You don't know that race had anything to do with what happened. All you have is one side of a story that keeps dragging race into it. Which is very racist in itself.
2. If white societies where racist, they would not be the #1 immigration destination or have the highest standards of living for non-whites (or even let non-whites in).
But he's probably right (and he's certainly the most qualified to comment on this incident). I'm pretty sure if I had walked up and said, "Is everything all right? I'm a medical doctor in case you need a hand with anything." the situation would have gone much differently.
Furthermore, even if he isn't right, there is plenty of evidence of a growing white nationalism/racism in this country that the article wouldn't be any less relevant if you could somehow prove that these four particular officers are not racist.
He should ignore a racially motivated beating by police because other people of the same race are responsible for his high standard of living?
There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. How about that his high standard of living is primarily due to his hard work and intelligence, not the graciousness of his white overlords.
