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by dorgo 5y ago
As far as I remember the problem was that you can donate to Mozilla foundation, but not the Mozilla corporation ( which is responsible for Firefox + other stuff ). There is no direct way to finance/donate for Firefox developement (with
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by dorgo 5y ago
Automated clicks on ads don't change anything. Even if everybody did this, over time the prices for ads would adjust and find a new equilibrium. Everything else would stay the same. If an advertiser pays $100 for 100 clicks today then
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by dorgo 5y ago
Isn't propaganda the perfect tool to create deeply held beliefs? I would even go as far as to say that propaganda is the only way to have deeply held beliefs. But maybe my definition of propaganda is too broad.
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by dorgo 5y ago
> it is not “reality” that we truly understand (we can’t) Yes, we can only describe with models what can be observed. But it is a bad excuse for ignoring contradictions in (or between) models.
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by dorgo 5y ago
It would be convenient. But with current android you can just use a police friendly profile when leaving home. Maybe event automate it with rules?
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by dorgo 5y ago
How do you define bear market for crypto? -90% is just another year (or even month) in crypto space.
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by dorgo 5y ago
>we just need to try not to do any irreversible damage before we get where we're going. May you live in interesting times...
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by dorgo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by dorgo 5y ago
and we do: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/latvia-allows-its-citiz...
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by dorgo 5y ago
And Russia has to understand europe's grievances. You can't invade europe and hope it won't react accordingly.
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by dorgo 5y ago
for example?
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by dorgo 5y ago
adversarial networks - isn't this exactly the branch of AI which is supposed to solve this?
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by dorgo 5y ago
If 1 out of 100 impressions leads to a purchase it's alredy a good performance. The effort to improve this rate is not always worth it. That's the reason we are spammed with ads.
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by dorgo 5y ago
>Also, three hours of storage for a continental grid? Nice dream. Comon, if we can't store energy for 3 hours that's an armutszeugnis. The battery of my electric bycicle can store the energy needed to power my flat for 3 hours.
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by dorgo 5y ago
Naa, we use gigantic mirrows in space to bring light to the night side.
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by dorgo 5y ago
>Other than "decentralization", what value does blockchain provide that can't be provided with existing technology (which will always be inherently less technically complex and thus easier and cheaper) can't do? My op
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by dorgo 5y ago
>none blockchains can scale and all are bad for planet >I didn't say anything bad about solana or PoS Isn't this a contradiction?
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by dorgo 5y ago
>and more like the Truman show: we craft your reality. It should be more like an assistant: here are some boring tasks/questions, find out everything about them, summarize it for me and present me my options. I dont't really wa
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by dorgo 5y ago
1. Most SEOs don't care about what Google cares about. The sites are their customers. 2. SEO is about the sites and Google and other sources are just that: means to an end. It's all a matter of perspective.
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by dorgo 5y ago
>An ad-supported search engine wants me to view more ads and click on them Is this really the case? Assuming pay per click model and rational and competent advertisers. More clicks would increase their costs and reduce the generated valu
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by dorgo 5y ago
> and plugs in random flash drives Is this still a problem? I thought OSs don't execute stuff from flash drives automatically any more.
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by dorgo 5y ago
sometimes I wake up and know the solution.
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by dorgo 5y ago
impressive! Whrereas I (alone) finished two client projects this month (programming) and am starting the third. Help colleagues with their stuff, and am supposed to work on an internal project ( client projects are merely a distraction from
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by dorgo 5y ago
>Well you installed an always on microphone in your house, attached to a processing unit connected to internet all the time. How is it different from a smartphone or notebook?
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by dorgo 5y ago
Cash is untraceable. Nothing else has this feature (yet?). So I use cash wherever I can.
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by dorgo 5y ago
>all validators could be owned by one person and you would have no way of knowing. all bitcoin miners could be owned by one person and you would have no way of knowing.... >it's effectively centralised so your argument is not tha
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by dorgo 5y ago
>If time was provable, the double-spending problem would not happen. Can't you sign two transactions at the same time? If yes then you could double-spend even without faking timestamps.
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by dorgo 5y ago
Aren't "censorship-resistant payments" part of "not based on trust" thing - which gp excluded as legitim explanation?
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>And honest question, what's your idea for monetizing Firefox? How about taxes? Browsers are modern infrastructure, same as roads and street lights.
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by dorgo 5y ago
use cases? It has at least one drawback. In the past there was an option to reload all tabs ( because every couple weeks Firefox starts begging to be restarted and after restart all tabs are blank ). Now you have to select all, reload, and

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