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by dao- 8y ago
> So what do you do with kids whose parents refuse to vaccinate? Well, there are rules for parents failing to send their kids to school. Ultimately authorities can take away guardianship from the parents.
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by dao- 8y ago
Yep, I said as much in another comment. The downvoted comment I replied to was still right -- the issue preventing MS from migrating comments doesn't appear to be liability due to a lack of filters, which isn't even part of GDPR.
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by dao- 8y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. "If you don't have a system in place to automatically cleanse user-submitted content, you have a liability" is indeed not part of GDPR as far as I know, nor does it seem to be the reason
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by dao- 8y ago
Couple of responses to that question here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-01/?p=10... Basically the old accounts couldn't be carried over and so users wouldn't be able to log in anym
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by dao- 8y ago
You can still find the comments here: http://web.archive.org/web/20190301040236/https://blogs.msdn...
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by dao- 8y ago
last Archive.org snapshot of Eric Lippert's MSDN blog: http://web.archive.org/web/20190301145321/https://blogs.msdn...
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by dao- 8y ago
The feature has been there for years, i.e. you could always enter a magic character to restrict awesomebar searches to tabs. Problem is, people didn't know the magic character, so hardly anybody used this feature. It's more access
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by dao- 8y ago
The default is the default and this UI doesn't change that. It allows you to have a default, yet still use the other engines on a one-off basis. It's not limited to google either, e.g. I believe amazon is offered by default as wel
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by dao- 8y ago
It had been blocked by webrender if I remember correctly, now the work on fixing this issue has actually started. Markus Stange is a capable engineer as well so there's hope.
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by dao- 8y ago
At least the performance issue of Firefox on Mac is being worked on and should hopefully be resolved soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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by dao- 8y ago
Using Opera only superficially sidesteps the big Google problem, as you still contribute to the Chromium monoculture that reinforces Chrome's dominance and benefits Google.
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by dao- 8y ago
Opera is also closed source and has been bought by some Chinese consortium, so that may not be the best option if you want to get away from Google for privacy reasons.
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by dao- 8y ago
This doesn't even make sense. Not caring about something doesn't mean it won't be an issue for you and the people around you.
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by dao- 8y ago
They would still be fooling FB and its clients (advertisers) with the garbage metadata.
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by dao- 8y ago
So, Chrome is the new IE?
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by dao- 8y ago
The home / new tab page itself is local. The snippets at the bottom of the page are loaded from a Mozilla server.
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by dao- 8y ago
> re-usable glass containers with deposits (as are common in Germany) These containers are for recycling glass, not for reusing bottles. Reusable bottles need to be brought back to the store, which Loop appears to be planning for too.
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by dao- 8y ago
I don't want to and can't prevent Steve from blogging about whatever he wants. But I want him to know that the vague hints feels sour and not particularly professional.
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by dao- 8y ago
Working for Mozilla, I feel I should be able to make sense of these hints, but I can't. I have no clue what issues or missteps were deal-breakers for Steve, apart from the compensation issue. Any organization of the size will have &#x2
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by dao- 8y ago
Why hint at it at all then? Without details it won't satisfy the curious nor help fix whatever problems there might be. As someone who still works for Mozilla out of conviction, this feels like an unnecessary low blow.
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by dao- 8y ago
Britain First is not an independence movement.
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by dao- 8y ago
Maybe in part, although I think girls, more so than boys, also tend to be raised to care for others as well as express their own emotions, which would make them better at reading others' emotions too.
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by dao- 8y ago
> How much incentive will there be for them to develop a separate car purely for the US market? Aren't they doing that already? The whole pickup truck class mostly doesn't exist outside of the US.
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by dao- 8y ago
Oh, the irony: https://www.nytimes.com/shell
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by dao- 8y ago
duplicate from five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18621136 related MS blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18619774
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by dao- 8y ago
Pretty much any complex piece of software has known and unknown long-standing bugs.
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by dao- 8y ago
Browsers were simpler and cheaper to develop back then. Mozilla's yearly budget today is roughly what Google spends on marketing for Chrome alone.
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by dao- 8y ago
> Thankfully the U.S. still has peaceful transmission of presidential power between the major parties. As an outsider, i.e. European, I found this pretty interesting and alarming – but not surprising given recent developments in politics
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by dao- 8y ago
If you disable telemetry, Mozilla won't know about you. If you want Mozilla to cater for you, don't disable telemetry?
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by dao- 8y ago
Right, what I'm saying is that we should uphold objective standards rather than just saying independent journalists are generally more/less trustworthy than established ones.

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