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by dralley 1y ago
It is completely unreasonable and (willfully) ignores the long, long list of places where Mozilla has fought against the other vendors including (especially) Google on privacy grounds. It's the sort of thing people say mostly for their
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by dralley 1y ago
Dude, I have literally 4,000 tabs (not a joke), and my Firefox is fully loaded on boot after only a couple of seconds. Something is wrong with your system.
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by dralley 1y ago
The kneejerk Mozilla hate on HN gets so fucking tedious. Google's marketing budget for Chrome is greater than Mozilla's entire budget. They sponsor a Formula 1 team FFS. They spent a decade paying off Adobe, Java, AVG, Avast and
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by dralley 1y ago
It's already possible with a lot of titles.
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Marc Andreesen and the Billionaire Victims Club(thebulwark.com)
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by dralley 1y ago
Sodium ion is more useful (relatively speaking) for grid backing than cars. Weight and power density aren't so much of an issue in that application, longevity and price definitely is. So they can probably pivot if the administration s
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by dralley 1y ago
Chrome's marketing budget is nearly as large as Mozilla's entire budget. They spent a couple of years actively targeting Firefox users with Chrome ads on the frontpage of google.com, and got Adobe Flash and Java and most of the fr
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by dralley 1y ago
Chrome's marketing budget is nearly as large as Mozilla's entire budget. They spent a couple of years actively targeting Firefox users with Chrome ads on the frontpage of google.com, and got Adobe Flash and Java and most of the fr
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by dralley 1y ago
It's Oracle, I can only assume that hostility to their employees is part of the package, since it seems to be their default state towards everyone else :P
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by dralley 1y ago
I donate to Kent's patreon and I'm very enthusiastic about bcachefs. However, Kent, if you read this: please just settle down and follow the rules. Quit deliberately antagonizing Linus. The constant drama is incredibly offputting.
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by dralley 1y ago
Rust isn't that difficult really. Easier in many ways than C if you're building normal software and not, like, a library of fancy data structures.
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by dralley 1y ago
pip? A tool written in Python is never going to be as fast as one written in Rust. There are plenty of Python alternatives and you're free to use them.
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by dralley 1y ago
What part of "strategic precision bombing is not the same as carpet bombing" did you not grasp. Yes, I agree that bombing random forest is not that useful.
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by dralley 1y ago
Nobody builds reactors with 60% enriched uranium
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by dralley 1y ago
What does "legal" even really mean between states at war. The consequences typically come down to a popularity contest and Iran is one of the few states with fewer friends than Israel. Was Iran's activities funding militias
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by dralley 1y ago
If you're actively doing the research and design required to build a nuclear weapon, and you're enriching uranium for the purpose of building a nuclear weapon, you have a nuclear weapons program. Whether you're actually phys
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by dralley 1y ago
This is dumb. Strategic bombing did work in WWII, but it was never as effective as its advocates claimed at the time mostly because the bombs rarely hit anything important. They had to drop far more munitions than originally envisioned to a
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by dralley 1y ago
I mean, you're also forgetting the fact that Israel sends assassins after their top nuclear scientists every year or two, and cyberattacks every few years, and "mysterious accidents". It's a bit like saying "but Y2K
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by dralley 1y ago
This is grammar-hacking and misleading. According to the IAEA, Iran has around 400kg of 60% enriched Uranium. Nobody disputes this. There is zero reason to ever enrich beyond around 5% for civilian purposes, and zero reason to ever enrich
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by dralley 1y ago
The petrodollar is severely overrated by people who claim it's the cause for every foreign policy decision they disagree with. USD is attractive because the US government is stable and US companies are attractive investments, due to a
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by dralley 1y ago
I mean, this strike doesn't really address the core issue either. The core issue being Iran being a fundamentalist regime.
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by dralley 1y ago
This stuff gets grammar-hacked a million different ways. Yes, 60% enriched Uranium is not weapons-grade, but it can be made weapons grade very quickly. Once you've gotten to 60%, you've done 99% of the work - U-235 starts as such
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by dralley 1y ago
86 year old fanatical Islamists don't necessarily operate on the same principles of game theory as the rest of us. Mutual self-destruction is not something they fear to the same degree.
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by dralley 1y ago
Well, it certainly was the greatest threat. It's unlikely to remain so.
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by dralley 1y ago
On the other hand, the internal Cyber Police HQ got bombed today. If the institutions of internal suppression are sufficiently disrupted, maybe some form of resistance could be form. Who knows.
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by dralley 1y ago
Also anything that is dangerous enough to actually be scary in dirty bomb form, like Cobalt-60, would be impossible to handle without providing a lethal dose of radiation to anyone working with he material within minutes if not seconds (pre
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by dralley 1y ago
They won't. The 1967 borders were broken by a war Israel did not start, but still won anyway. And Palestinians have refused any agreement on where the border should reside since then, which resulted in the current limbo situation. Fro
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by dralley 1y ago
There was no "Palestinian territory" in the 1967 map. Gaza was part of Egypt, the West Bank was part of Jordan. But neither Egypt nor Jordan want anything to do with them now because of the internal instability it would inevitabl
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by dralley 1y ago
The 1967 borders don't include Gaza or the West Bank, though? Israel isn't giving up the Golan Heights for basically any reason, and the Druze living there don't really seem to want to be part of any other country either.
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by dralley 1y ago
Right, they do fund Sunni Palestinian groups, especially Hamas, but mostly they stick to Shia paramilitaries.

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