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Hi! I'm a PM on the Chrome web platform team working on advanced apps including PWAs.

Can you tell me more about what's missing in PWAs in terms of support and UX?

PWAs are well supported in Chromium browsers. Can't speak to Firefox support, but I hope as adoption and usage grows we'll see them add more support.

Mentioned in another comment, but to be clear, our team contributes to MDN, and will continue to do so.

Web.dev is not an MDN replacement.

Our team actively contributes to MDN. Web.dev is not an MDN replacement, it's a channel for guides & other supporting documentation.

As another user mentioned, we do contribute to MDN. MDN is where we point devs for reference documentation. web.dev is for guides, how to's and other support docs.

Background geo, including geofencing is challenging, but there may be a way forward. We're exploring this conceptually, but it's not in the plan for 2020. I'd certainly like to be able to improve the capabilities of web based ride sharing and similar apps that have a need for this.

Bluetooth discovery is an especially thorny area from a privacy perspective. What use cases did you have in mind?

Asking for permissions upfront has been found to be an anti-pattern in systems UXR. Research has found that users make better decisions and find the experience less interruptive when permissions are requested in context at runtime. For example, in a video chat app, it's better to ask for the camera/mic permission at the start of the first chat session, not when the app first starts. Mac OS, Android etc. and other platforms have all been moving in this direction over the past few years.

When the permission is requested, we're investigating ways that we can do more to communicate permission risks to the user. Nothing publicly shareable yet, but do expect experiments to be showing up in dev channels over the next few months while we try new things.

From a Canadian viewpoint, the last couple of years of populism has been a bit like discovering your favorite Uncle has a probably lethal opiate addiction.

But, you're going to get to inherit his Corvette.

I believe the goal of the study was to explore how visual perceptions & expectations could influence the perception of taste.

Have you ever been focused on an activity and had more than one beverage at hand, and picked up the wrong one? For example, while coding, I had a freshly opened cold coke and yesterday's room temperature coffee both in reach. Focused on my screen, I took the coffee when I intended to pick up my coke. The mismatch between expectation and reality was very unpleasant when it hit me, but what was interesting was there was some fraction of a second after I took the sip before my consciousness was aware (painfully, painfully aware) that what I was drinking was not a fresh, cold coke.

Perception is interesting. What we see and what we expect are big influencers on what we perceive. I'm curious whether our other perceptions (touch, smell, hearing) can influence what our visual perception as strongly.

There isn't a lot of good data on foreign transactions because regional and federal governments have worked hard to make sure data was not collected on it. Popular pressure is slowly changing that.

One observation I have is that even if it's just single digit as a %, it can exert very significant pressure on the market. A bubble is a mob effect. It begins with some properties purchased at prices the local market can't support, regional opportunists jump in seeing the opportunity for flipping, then fear of missing out, especially for first time buyers, results in a stampede as people see the ladder going up and leverage themselves to get the last rung before it goes out of reach. But there was never any real scarcity in the first place.

Point being, a small amount of foreign investment can have a leveraged influence on local markets.

I do think the "foreign" word there gets too much attention though. The more important question to ask is - should property as an investment be something we economically encourage. How much economic activity does a $5M 3 bedroom house actually generate? I don't pretend to know the answer but I think this focus on the "foreign" bogeyman is blocking us from having more important conversations about the role of real-estate in economic policy.

The only way I can see to fix this is if there was more economic incentive for advertisers to care about the quality of the articles where their ads are placed.

There must have been attempts to do this.

I wonder what's been tried that didn't work.

Maybe some, but not all.

An old but concrete example: Andy Grove, in High Output Management, describes a fairly typical 8 to 5 day in which he works until he's tired, with level of fatigue vs level of "doneness" being the deciding factor of when he ends his day.

"I lost faith in democracy after the election because of the amount of companies and people that feel like the only way to beat Trump in the next election is to suppress the freedoms of the people that support him."

Evidence of systematic suppression please? Who? What? When? Where?

Do you have a preferred brand or online source?

I've also had good experiences with St Johns wort but found quality varies a lot from what you get at a pharmacy.

The tremor was something I was aware of since I was a kid, showed up in bad handwriting and general "clumsiness" with fine motor movements. Nobody ever thought much of it other than that I was "clumsy".

It wasn't until I was 27 that I started to wonder whether there was something actually wrong that might be a root cause for it. At this point the tremor was bad enough that at times I had trouble holding a fork to eat. The intensity of the symptoms could vary a great deal from day to day. Granted, I was in grad school at this time and my stress levels were pretty high. I did notice that alcohol made it better, but treatment with alcohol is contraindicated...

Got a referral to neurology dept and after they watched me do some drawing, arrived at the conclusion of the problem quite quickly.

For more off-label info, might have a look at Wikipedia page on beta blockers, it's pretty thorough. Turns out quite a few musicians use it for stage fright & dexterity.