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by gilrain 5y ago
Or because every actual study has shown this line of reasoning isn’t backed by reality.
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by gilrain 5y ago
By taking credit for a wider initiative Google was already pursuing. It wasn’t just Mozilla pushing for it.
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by gilrain 5y ago
They make $450 million a year. A premium Firefox would barely move the needle. Revenue is not the issue, but how it's allocated.
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by gilrain 5y ago
> but there is zero evidence of him ever projecting this private belief in the workplace in any way harmful to anybody at all Materially supporting a public, political campaign intended to remove my civil rights is NOT private behavior a
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by gilrain 5y ago
If they didn't have to even try to persuade the imperfect agent of the people to let them do what they want, they would stop doing what they want on their own? Smart!
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by gilrain 5y ago
Web devs make the websites they are paid to make. I'm not sure why you think their output would reflect their taste rather than their employer's taste.
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by gilrain 5y ago
> is everyone secretly walking around battling diarrhea? That's my secret. I'm always clenching.
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by gilrain 5y ago
There is a term for it: JAQing off. Just Asking Questions. It's used to put forward a distasteful argument without actually standing behind it. As in, "Why are you getting heated? I'm not condoning [whatever], I'm just a
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by gilrain 5y ago
> Perhaps not in everybody's character to do this but once one has had some experience of this sort (I have) and given it some thought, it should come naturally. And if your abuser is influential in your field, it will come naturall
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by gilrain 5y ago
Edge and Vivaldi have this as a built in option.
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by gilrain 5y ago
> It’s still not acceptable. At least the tax minimizer is following applicable laws, this vigilante is not. The total harm of stealing billions from the public dwarfs any concern for the thieves' privacy. They are following the law
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by gilrain 5y ago
An opinion you state because it benefits you is an opinion you hold. That you don't _really_ believe it matters to nobody but yourself.
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by gilrain 5y ago
"As a thought experiment" = "The actual situation is indefensible, so let's argue a situation of my choosing which is."
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by gilrain 5y ago
"These hypocrites will have a different response when the situation is different, just watch."
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by gilrain 5y ago
In the mean time, people are being charged different amounts. They are literally charging different people different amounts. You might think that isn't a big deal, but how can you insist it isn't the case?
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by gilrain 5y ago
They are naming different prices for different people. You walk into a bar and the guy in front of you orders a beer for $5. Looks good, so you order the same thing. The bartender says, "For you it's $10." Do you feel fairly
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by gilrain 5y ago
When they laid off a bunch of their technical writers, there was an outpouring of desire for a way to pay for MDN. Let's hope those voices follow through!
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by gilrain 5y ago
Now it's a browser that was probably already in memory for one reason or another, not necessarily a process per Tauri app.
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by gilrain 6y ago
It is a bit hidden, but yes, self-hosted is very much still an option. https://ghost.org/docs/install/
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by gilrain 6y ago
Is Nim garbage collected? There is no simple answer to that. When it is garbage collected, how is it garbage collected? There is no simple answer to that. As stated in my original comment, I prefer languages which are more opinionated than
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by gilrain 6y ago
The first one most people run into: Nim is roughly as performant as Rust, but it's easier to learn because it's garbage collected. But it's also not garbage collected, if you prefer (with caveats). Want a different flavor of
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by gilrain 6y ago
In my case, I actually prefer my languages to be more opinionated. Nim implements just about every paradigm it can think of, and if there are multiple ways to implement a paradigm, it implements them all. It feels like a sophomore college s
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by gilrain 6y ago
If all of your infrastructure is in one data center, you're on a disaster clock no matter who you choose.
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by gilrain 6y ago
> MaidSAFE is not a cryptocurrency Mmhm. Well, they raised money using an ICO, so apparently they felt their coin was worth people speculating on. Market cap is above $200 million. Maybe the technology is great, but it's built and o
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by gilrain 6y ago
I think a lot of us are tired of cryptocurrency snake oil. It is an uphill battle to build things on a cryptocurrency and try to convince the wise that it isn't an elaborate vehicle for get-rich-quick speculation.
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by gilrain 6y ago
> A message that said "Cigarettes will kill you" didn't stop smokers That's the opposite of true. It didn't stop _every_ smoker, but research has established that anti-smoking marketing and labeling has a massive
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by gilrain 6y ago
They should have promoted the photos instead; that's the most humanizing photo of Zuck I've ever seen. He's upgraded from "I hate everything about him" to "I hate everything about him except that he cleans up a
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by gilrain 6y ago
You realize that Gmail's prolonged "beta" was a common punchline to jokes while it lasted, right? Might be best not to compare yourself to that, even favorably.
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by gilrain 6y ago
Brave's method of slightly randomizing the metrics gets around that. They call it farbling.
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by gilrain 6y ago
Not according to their own metrics. Monthly Active Users and New Profile Rate are the relevant metrics, and both are in decline. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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