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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> I do not see Mozilla taking any steps toward privacy at all https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=12609... are some concrete steps being taken. Or the containers work. Or the tracking protection work.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Yeah, I had hopes for FxOS too... As far as Google's anti-competitive practices, I know people have been looking at them. I am not a lawyer; it's unclear to me how easy it is to bring private suits about that sort of thing (as op
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
You have different tax withholding procedures, differences in labor law and what sort of employment contracts are allowed, differences in mandated benefits (e.g. parental leave). This is an issue even if you want to hire in more than one US
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I agree that the AMP stuff is not great in all sorts of ways. Short of building a mail service or search engine, what things can Mozilla do here other than capture market share away from Chrome? This last is _definitely_ being invested in
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The only shareholder the Mozilla Corporation has is the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation does not have shareholders. It does have a board that it presumably needs to justify their actions to. Those actions presumably need to
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I think you misread the example. Person A says they will be 30 mins late. Person B responds they are running late too, probably by an hour, so person A doesn't need to worry about being a mere 30 minutes late.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Not if they do it correctly (by setting .value on the password field)!
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Here's a simple example: Is sqrt(2)/2 or 1/sqrt(2) in "simplest form"? The answer depends on whether you have a calculator handy. Because computing sqrt(2)/2 from a square root table and the long division algo
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
People in China are in fact racist by Western definitions. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745355 for details. As I said in that comment, it's not because they're _bad_ people; it's a natural out
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Trump is very very different from a mainstream Republican. The key part of merpnderp's quote is "or agrees with any of his policies". There are tons things that are perceived as "Trump's policies" (and so
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Surely this is illegal, though? I don't know enough about the law on this to comment. > would be to appeal to the 'think of the children' argument Tempting, though I worry about unleashing demons even if you think the
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Yeah, I really wish websites would just stop embedding Facebook Like buttons. That would already help a lot.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I suspect that most people do not in fact have a Facebook account. Last I checked, world population was over 7 billion and Facebook did not have 3.5 billion accounts. Or did you mean "most people who live near where I live"? Bu
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
In a world in which any piece of content you want to exist does exist because someone is written it (and we're a lot closer to that world now than in Hearst's day), power lies not in production of content but in control over which
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I suspect arkh's point is something like the following (as made in an article I can't locate at the moment, from about 20 years ago): 1) There are multiple fields available for new entrants to the labor force to pick from. 2) Some
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
See the bit about "Funding Choices" at https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett... and the documentation for that at https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/ans
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Oh, I think I agree that Facebook couldn't actually go to a fee-based model, for precisely the reason you describe. I just suspect that the revenue-optimizing number is still below $20/month for them. And even then they won&#x27
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls for users that are using other adblockers (but only on the sites where Chrome
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> I suspect you and I both have very little insight into how much it actually costs to run Facebook Sure we do. They're a public company; they routinely publish this information, as required by law. https://investor.fb.c
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> The majority of money spend on ads ends up with content creators Do you happen to have good data on this? I've been wondering how much ends up with various middlemen (including Google) and how much ends up with content creators.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I think listening to the news to figure out what goals anyone has is a pretty lost cause. The news anchors will say things that have no bearing on reality. People they interview will say things that have only slightly more bearing on real
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Importantly, _Serbia_ wanted to cause a war that would pit Austria against Russia. One of the parts of https://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/dp/... that struck me was the offhand mention that S
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> That has never happened in my lifetime or that of my parents. Unless your parents are really young, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War is an obvious counterexample. There was a reasonably clear goal and the g
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
You can totally pay to avoid the consequences. Just buy all your ads from Google, and you're guaranteed to not be violating their policies.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Fundamentally, the setup is that Google is blocking all ads (and all ad revenue) on sites that serve any ads that don't comply with a certain Google-defined policy. Google of course makes certain that this policy allows whatever ads G
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Since their long-term gains depend on a vibrant, open web Does it? This is not at all obvious to me. Do you mind sharing your reasoning for this claim?
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
They're major sponsors of both parties. According to http://fortune.com/2017/03/08/wall-street-2016-election-spen... their donations in 2016 split about 45-55 Democrat-Republican. In 2012, according to
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment. That said, a doctor's office is a bad example. A modern one probably needs: 1) A brochure. 2) Scheduling. 3) A messaging system (sending email with health info is not HIPAA-compliant, obvio
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The most likely reason is that they have contractual agreements about how easy it is to be able to get at the data by unauthorized parties (read "the person watching the video") for various resolutions. For example, their contract
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Have you filed bugs about this, with the example emails attached? Thunderbird uses the same exact HTML/CSS renderer as Firefox. To the extent that it's not rendering mails "properly", those mails are clearly expecting t

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