> DNT, on the other hand, is something all Firefox users will have enabled by default
It's opt-in. My guess is that the gap between people willing to install an add-in and people willing to dig into their settings and check a box is not large.
...That would leave Firefox in a permanent state of blocking advertisers' cookies by default.
Default means this feature would be an opt-out feature, not an opt-in feature. Since Firefox now autoupdates, that means soon most Firefox installs would have this enabled by default without any user input.
In that case, if client A wants to do something with the value x, it should instruct the server to place metadata on it, essentially saying that it's reading it with the intent to update. This could be implemented as "update x with value of get(x)". That way it would be placed into pending with metadata.
Having a heartbeat between the client and the server could also help prevent the write from getting purged from "pending" prematurely.
I'll also add that the metadata requirements aren't huge--typically 8 bytes for the timestamp and N*(bytes per key) for the keys. In our implementation and the benchmarks that we provided, we don't garbage collect the metadata as it's small and isn't a serious overhead.
Are... are you serious? Or is it just trolling? I'm not an obsessive HN reader but I see sexism stories show up at the top of the HN list all the time. To the point that I've taken it as one of the odd HN cultural quirks, that you all like to discuss it obsessively. Claiming they get "buried" is contrary to all evidence I've seen, though I guess if you have statistics I'm willing to be proven wrong.
What are you talking about? I see at least a few stories per week on sexism in the top 10. Given that this place is more technology/startup-related than "let's talk about society", that's a pretty good frequency for just one of many valid social causes.
Next time you see a story about sexism against women (redundant but needs the clarification here anyway), watch its movement. Yeah, it may get up in the top for a bit, but you can watch stories that are older with fewer points and comments move up above it. Happens every time.
I've seen this effect in other "heated" discussions, and I wonder if it's the effect of moderation. Primarily, what happens to a thread as the percentage of moderated messages increases? Is that metric involved in the positioning? I could see a topic like sexism (or emacs v. vi) getting an inordinate amount of moderation, and thus might be flagged more often, moving it down the list. Maybe that has nothing to do with it, but I've seen this effect before.
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises, they are perceived in a negative light whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light.
So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
This is not true, women tend to do better when they do negotiate: "However, when we explicitly mention the possibility that wages are negotiable, this difference disappears, and even tends to reverse"[1].
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises they are perceived in a negative light, whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light.
So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
Incidentally, this is Hitlerian argumentation style. Instead of making a straightforward argument, you load it with emotional baggage to support your Stalinesque worldview.
Admittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head. "Manichean" is a word you should just look up, as it is quite useful.
> Admittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head.
Thanks for pointing this out. I did go through high school, so I'm hip to your extremely erudite reference.
> "Manichean" is a word you should just look up, as it is quite useful.
Really. I don't find much use for it. Maybe if I just spent more time virtuously casting my opponents as evil users of "Orwellian" tactics, I could also point out that _their_ worldview is manichean.
It's opt-in. My guess is that the gap between people willing to install an add-in and people willing to dig into their settings and check a box is not large.