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by dralley 2y ago
Making the browser itself paid would instantly doom them to irrelevance. It's already bad enough trying to make developers care about a browser with 2% marketshare, it will be impossible to do so if their marketshare drops to 0.1%, whi
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by dralley 2y ago
Making the browser itself paid would instantly doom them to irrelevance. It's already bad enough trying to make developers care about a browser with 2% marketshare, it will be impossible to do so if their marketshare drops to 0.1%, whi
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by dralley 2y ago
>Maybe they should think of starting to spend "Mozilla Foundation" money on browser development That would be tax fraud. Tax-exempt charitable donations from MoFo can't be used for product development by MoCo, a for-profi
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by dralley 2y ago
They do in fact have "alternative revenue streams" and HN complains about the existence of every single one of them. Every threat about Pocket or Mozilla VPN or Lockwise etc. etc. is full of the refrain "Why don't they
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by dralley 2y ago
This opinion is fully consistent with Mozilla's self-interest, whether it is or is not in Google's interest is basically immaterial. I also have to say I find it difficult to take "Mozilla is Google by proxy" complaints
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by dralley 2y ago
There are some ways in which it would perhaps make sense to rethink the traditional boundaries of these regulatory organizations. Why should food regulation responsibilities be split up between the FDA and USDA? Why not have a cleaner sep
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by dralley 2y ago
He explicitly opposes liberalism and pluralist democracy. He's not a libertarian.
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by dralley 2y ago
"Big tech" didn't spend over a billion, that's how much Harris spent total . Elon Musk personally spent $250 million on Trump, not to mention getting far more personally involved in bending Twitter (which he spent $44
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by dralley 2y ago
People like Peter Thiel are not so interested in government reform and efficiency so much as toppling "the ancien [sic] liberal order" and replacing it with techno-fuedalism.
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by dralley 2y ago
It's a bit more than 2% of the annual budget. How much higher should it go? There are tons of other things that need funding - healthcare (NZ has single-payer), coast guard / military, industrial / agricultural policy, envi
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by dralley 2y ago
Numbers that look small by American standards are somewhat more significant in a country of 5 million people.
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by dralley 2y ago
In the sense that advancing by two fields a week is much faster than advancing by one field a week, yes. By any absolute metric it is not a "fast" advance. The first week of the war was a "fast" advance. Even this "
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by dralley 2y ago
Well, this time (the 2022 invasion) the US and British got it correct while the French and Germans got caught with their pants around their knees.
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by dralley 2y ago
>In fact, there's a lot of people in Eastern Ukraine that has been hoping for Russia to start this military operation. There were some, perhaps 1% to 2% of the population. There was not "a lot" and there never was.
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by dralley 2y ago
I said no such thing. I also wouldn't dispute that the PKK are also "terrorists". I still think it's pretty clear that there can be some hierarchy within that category. HTS and the Kurds are less evil than the Taliban,
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by dralley 2y ago
HTS is not "literally" Al-Qaeda and ISIS because they've literally been at war against Al-Queda and ISIS. The dynamics here are incredibly complex. That doesn't mean they're "good" guys necessarily. But
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by dralley 2y ago
They're nationalist rather than international (like ISIS), which is frankly the aspect that Western governments would care most about.
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by dralley 2y ago
Allocated is not the same as delivered
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by dralley 2y ago
I mean, they've literally gone to war against both ISIS and Al-Qaeda. You don't have to trust them exactly but it's not like there's no grounds to believe they're at least not going to be ISIS.
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by dralley 2y ago
There's nothing in there that particularly suggests that they promted the attack. But of course they capitalized as best they could off of the distraction.
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by dralley 2y ago
And Iranian / Syrian funded militias.
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by dralley 2y ago
Hamas attacked Israel the day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war. While the October 7th attack may have benefitted Russia indirectly (temporarily at least), it's not particularly likely that Russia played any role in mak
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by dralley 2y ago
We're commenting on a long essay about making tech conferences hostile to any kind of defense contractor presence, that prefaced itself with a "content warning" simply because a handful of defense contractors were mentioned.
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by dralley 2y ago
The irony is that Luckey and Musk, despite their personal issues and divisiveness, are some of the better defense contractors in terms of actually providing good value for dollar and getting things done on time. Compare against, say, Boein
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by dralley 2y ago
The first link is not dead. None of them are. Kherson is not empty of civilians. Your link only claims that "southern" Kherson was evacuated. If you look at a map it's pretty clear why - it's at low elevation and hard
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by dralley 2y ago
You are absolutely wrong. They 100% target civilians - and FFS they will post videos of themselves doing it and brag about it on Telegram and Twitter. Chechnya and the Syrian civil war were no different, but now there's video evidence
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by dralley 2y ago
That... is not obvious at all. When hospitals and supermarkets are being hit repeatedly by multiple "precision" munitions, and then (sometimes) the Russians post drone footage of the impacts because they just happened to have been
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by dralley 2y ago
Because you aren't using "estimates" for Ukrainian casualties, you're using the numbers that have been able to be verified with evidence by third parties. In Mariupol alone there were ~10,000 new graves on satellite imag
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by dralley 2y ago
This is a category error. Baghdad was subject to capture by an invading force, Kharkiv was never captured. What was done to Mariupol, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Vulhedar, Popasna, Mariinka and dozens of other places far exeeds the damage done to B

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