> invite someone over to your apartment to drink scotch, and then they come on to you

That's not all she said happened. She said he ignored her saying no, and he physically touched her anyway.

The graph of HTTPS percentage has some sudden massive dips a little bit ago. Does anyone know the reason for those?

Can someone explain to me (a developer, but one unfamiliar with this situation and issues) what Netflix did and why it's bad for the open web?

People do not seem happy about this, but I don't really understand what's going on.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is proprietary (closed-source) copy protection. It is made to prevent unauthorized copying.

In order to implement DRM, one must create a method for the user to decrypt a file without letting the user have any control over where that data goes. Netflix uses DRM to show the user a video file while making it difficult for the user to put that data anywhere outside of the browser's DRM plugin.

What Netflix has done here is strongarmed Mozilla into including the proprietary WidevineCDM component into their implementation of the open HTML5 standard. This means that Netflix has more control over what Firefox does on your computer than you do, or even Mozilla (who creates Firefox) does.

I assume the equation he's talking about already propagates the value to the "leaves", where if the app is boosting a person's productivity, and that person's productivity increases value for a group of people, then it's that final group of people's increased value that is counted toward the original total. And there could be more than 2 layers before you quantify the value without recursing any deeper, of course.

True. Thanks for the feedback, and we probably should have mentioned platform on here, given that we are totally aware that it is not fit for mobile yet.

Myself (Braid username: tscizzle) and Preethi (Braid username: preethiv) built this because our conversation style online doesn't fit well with traditional messaging. Our conversations tend to split into "strands", where we might send 5 messages (thus, 5 strands), and the other person wants to respond to each of the 5 messages independently.

So we built a chat application which allows each of these strands to be viewed independently, in an accessible and intuitive way. And now it's fully replaced Gchat for us (when talking to each other)! So we thought we'd share it, see if anyone else would find it useful, and see what other people thought in general.

Feel free to message us on Braid at usernames tscizzle and preethiv if you are trying it out.

Thanks, and enjoy!