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by db48x 2y ago
But this is just someone’s blog. All they’ve done is recount the day that they spent reading a writer’s personal papers. Why expect more than that? Why expect that one hurried day of research to have answered all of the questions?
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by db48x 2y ago
Sure, but money isn’t everything, and not everybody weighs their values the same way as you. Maybe they can justify it. Dishwashers are convenient, but you have to admit that paying someone else to put your dishes into the dishwasher is eve
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by db48x 2y ago
The only reasonable long–term strategy is for users to simply stop using any site which presents them with a captcha or other verification measure of any kind. Of course, 99% of users only care about how easy it is to get their fix and have
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by db48x 2y ago
Depends on what you value. If all you value are calories, then sure, there are much cheaper ways of getting the calories you need. But if you value time, or novelty, or the dining experience, or conversation with a neighbor or even just the
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by db48x 2y ago
If you sail to the Bay of Pirates you can find many wares from far distant shores. Mayhap you will find what you want there.
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by db48x 2y ago
Why should it answer those questions?
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by db48x 2y ago
No, because those specialists never quite existed. That is, every farmer who owned horses would let them breed and then sell most of the foals every year. Similarly, any farmer could carve a yoke whenever they needed one; it wasn’t skilled
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by db48x 2y ago
No, the technologies that the Luddites disliked were very specific and regional. They only cared about machines that threatened their own personal jobs, not anyone else’s job.
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by db48x 2y ago
No, clearly not. A philanthropist may spend their own money however they want, but the government is spending taxpayer money and should not be so profligate. Why should we give that money to racists and antisemites? Especially a really weal
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by db48x 2y ago
The people who commit the harassment and assaults call it a protest in order to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions. Their actions are illegal, and you cannot make them use the correct words, so it’s an illegal protest.
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by db48x 2y ago
That just means that Columbia doesn’t value research except as a way to get money from the government.
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by db48x 2y ago
I’m talking about grammar, not spelling. There are a few adopted grammatical rules (that many people ignore) but no artificial ones.
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by db48x 2y ago
Every grammatical property of every natural language is organic. Only the constructed languages have the opportunity to have inorganic grammar, but most of them borrow their grammar from some other natural language.
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by db48x 2y ago
As I've said, I totally agree. But Mozilla’s lawyers don’t.
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by db48x 2y ago
Have you never noticed this feature before? I’m starting to feel old. I was there, three thousand years ago. I was there when the strength of men failed. I mean, I was there when both the web and Firefox were really unreliable. We realized
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by db48x 2y ago
Right, but under US law you cannot give a license to a program. Only to people, or groups of people that we call a company. You’re giving Mozilla permission to implement the features in Firefox, since you can’t just give permission to Firef
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by db48x 2y ago
I totally agree with you that this is stupid. But apparently they feel that implicit permission isn’t enough.
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by db48x 2y ago
I agree that an explicit grant of a license is probably not necessary. I don’t grant `cat` or `less` a license, they just do what I tell them to do. I think an implicit grant is sufficient. If you use the software, you grant it the license
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by db48x 2y ago
Sure, here’s the one for Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/?hl=en_US It says “By using Chrome or ChromeOS, you agree to the Google Terms of Service located at https://policies.google.co
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by db48x 2y ago
You’re forgetting that browsers store all of the text you type just in case the browser crashes or the power goes out or the website is offline. Later you can revisit the same page and the form data that you already entered will be refilled
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by db48x 2y ago
The jackhammer does not store text that you write on your behalf. Firefox does. When you type a comment here on HN, you do so in a form field. Firefox stores that text for you and reproduces it on demand. Since you and only you have copyrig
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by db48x 2y ago
There are benchmarks on https://arewefastyet.com . Sadly they do not go as far back in time as they used to; the absolute speed increase that Firefox has had over its lifetime is quite impressive. They’ve made progress in virtual
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by db48x 2y ago
I know it’s not a defense for bad behavior; I didn’t say that it was. 99% of Chrome users have never read its ToS, and the same is true for Firefox users. They are not using Firefox because the ToS is better; they are using Firefox mostly f
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by db48x 2y ago
But under current law you cannot grant a _program_ a license to something, only a person or an organization of people.
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by db48x 2y ago
No, Mexican farmers are cutting down forests to plant avacado. No one is holding a gun to their head to force them to do it.
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by db48x 2y ago
No, because they expected some people to read the ToS. You don’t put something you are hiding into your ToS. It’s just that they didn’t expect people to freak out since other browsers already have similar language in their ToS.
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by db48x 2y ago
Firefox is actually faster in practice than Chrome. It also uses less memory, often far less, to accomplish the same tasks.
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by db48x 2y ago
They literally just mean things like filling out forms. Implicitly or explicitly you have to give Firefox permission to store and reproduce the text you type in this very textarea so that it can submit the form for you. But I agree with you
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by db48x 2y ago
Of course it does. It explicitly says that the license is for “operating Firefox” and “for the purpose of doing as you request”. Not for improving it, or serving you ads, or for understanding your usage. Just for Firefox to follow your inst
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by db48x 2y ago
I don’t think that they are trying to mislead at all. At no point do they call Firefox a service. Instead they call Pocket a service, and their VPN a service, and so on.

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