I have used jQuery UI for its "sortable" interaction. It did the job. I would use it again. Is there any alternative anyway?

Absolutely, lots of people are keen for jQuery UI features without the bloat of jQuery+jQuery UI.

For sortable, there's https://github.com/RubaXa/Sortable. It comes in at around ~6KB gzipped, compared to ~80kb for jQuery UI's JavaScript (not to mention CSS and jQuery itself).

And enabling the "studies" thing without my permission, which they did.

I'm happy paying for schools despite having no children because it benefit society as a whole.

Can we not apply the same thinking here?

That was not the point. The point is that universal healthcare is taking money from my pocket and giving it to someone else.

If you ever have a serious illness or an accident money will be taken out of someone's pocket and given to you. Unless you don't have insurance and refuse treatment.

You can qualify everything as a "handout" then. Like private car insurance, which is taking money from you and paying to a driver who had an accident.

Maybe I'm missing the point too, but can't that description be applied to insurance itself? So what's your point?

It's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...

We spend about the same as other OECD countries in public healthcare funding, plus we spend a bunch more privately, for an overall healthcare spend that's the highest per-capita in the world, and outcomes that aren't as good.

Impossible: they renamed it to Files some time ago.

If you want to keep laughing, they also renamed Epiphany to Web.

You can click on any Trump tweet and see a myriad of bad jokes from blue-checked journalists who live in New York

How will this work? Algorithm-based? Blacklist? Smells like useless cat and mouse to me

Ad blocking will always be an arms race. But even small imposed expenses on advertisers seems to eliminate most ads.

You get asked when you install the app but nobody looks at that huge list of permissions, especially if not accepting means you don't get to use the app

There's a huge difference between apps being able to do stuff without ever asking permission and apps asking permission but users choosing to ignore it and just say yes to everything.

While I agree with permission overload at install time, users pay more attention when permission prompts come up one at a time at first-use. It also gives the app a reason to stagger in permissions only when the feature is used, lest the user loses interest and drops off.

That's for Android users. For iOS users it was $1 to buy the app, but they changed that some time before they were purchased by FB

Common sense?