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by jordanb 2y ago
> The ACA was the best compromise that could be struck at the time, That's not he way the ACA went down. Obama had this idea that the best way to reform an industry was to have it write its own reform legislation and pretty much let
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You're right. They only raise $180 million a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti... Still feels like it aught to be enough to make a browser.
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> Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Wikipedia.
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> I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions, The problem is that Mozilla's customers are not Firefox's users. Mozilla's cu
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Not even "back in the day". Youtube and Gsuite constantly break on firefox.
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Being a prepper is a consumer activity. Conversely trying to prepare for things that could occur by, for instance, getting first aid training, ham radio license, etc. is a communal activity "how could I be an asset to my community in t
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by jordanb 2y ago
Personally the "Occupy Mars" thing rubbed me the wrong way when it came out. The message seemed to be "don't worry about inequality or the rise of the oligarchy because it'll get humans to Mars." I hope we can
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by jordanb 2y ago
Nah I've been in meetings before where it was asked "if we can find these ten million in cloud costs and licenses, can we retain staff?" and the answer was "no, because those are different buckets." Regarding "
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Once the Rad Lab got involved, the UK focused on more theoretical or foundational aspects of the technology and let the Rad Lab develop the actual weapons systems. The anti-submarine radar was a good example: the British developed the sea-s
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by jordanb 2y ago
I recommend reading Eri Hotta's Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy It's a book about how Japan decided to go to war with the united states. It details how China was a quagmire for Japan that was sucking up all the empire's res
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Bell Labs was involved in the MIT Radiation Lab, which was a rival to the Manhattan Project in importance to the US war effort. They developed Radar and Radar control systems, in collaboration with the British. One thing people don't r
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The "Gulf of America" in Google Maps is really going to pay some dividends for the company.
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The invasion of China wasn't successful. It was a quagmire. Japan didn't have the men or resources to conquer China and Chiang could just retreat whenever he had to.
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Tell that to the Japanese.
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> Sounds like a wealth transfer to anyone holding Bitcoin. Don't forget XRP, solana and whatever else David Sachs is involved with.
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The point of this article is there are insufficient safeguards against fraudulent take-down notices. There isn't even the theoretical safeguard that the DMCA has. There is no downside to the person making a frivolous claim, and there i
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"Forced savings account" is a bad proxy for a public pension. Why, for instance, do I need to bear the risk that I might live to 100, and therefore have to save for living to 100 even though statistically I'll probably die be
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by jordanb 2y ago
They're flooding the zone with corruption. Here's one you probably didn't hear anything about. The state department tried to purchase $400 million worth of armored cybertrucks. When caught, the administration claimed it was a
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I kinda feel like you're not being charitable with the OP My read is that the OP is saying that the air quality monitors in China were a massive soft-power win for the US, and it also shamed the Chinese government. So if you start from
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Well, Congress hasn't passed a budget and the department is still working on previous year's budget. So either that money somehow ran out unexpectedly, or it's the work of Elon, Big Balls, and the gang.
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Would make sense if it was the executive trying to get more money allocated out of Congress. In this case, the money is allocated but the executive is choosing not to spend it "for government efficiency."
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Well firstly this was "OPEC+" that includes Russia, the details are that SA isn't moving its quota up at all but Russia is "allowed" to pump more. Secondly, they're explicitly playing it as a gift to Trump, to
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EP: Elon Pandering, an essential function for any agency these days.
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It doesn't look like they're targeting the right things, given how much they've put into going after the FAA, NHTSA and NOAA. Not exactly dark-state power centers. Rather, they're people who've pissed of Elon specif
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> Greenwald is a liberal Greenwald was never a liberal and never would have described himself as such. Anyhow you haven't really even scratched the surface of all the lefty people who went right. And it's not even a new phenome
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Yeah I think the whole thing was planned in Riyadh between Trump, Putin and MBS. Which makes one wonder what MBS's role is. My theory is that he will organize OPEC production cuts, designed to boost Russia's economy and crush Euro
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A more accurate term is "value engineering." If you have a product that's been in the market for a while and it looks like it's meeting service life expectations you start looking at it trying to find ways to save money
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On the bright side we're no longer wasting money on shit people don't need like weather prediction.
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I'm assuming that next, the US will invest in a "Strategic Tesla stock reserve."
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FDR didn't "act like a King" he worked through congress, getting enabling legislation and appropriations for every thing he did. In addition to winning his own elections he also maintained large Democratic majorities in both

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