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by lolinder 2y ago
That is the question I ask myself every time this comes up, and the only answer I've been able to come up with is "because Google pays them not to".
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by lolinder 2y ago
Enough people pay for Nebula and Kagi and Fastmail to make them profitable, even though YouTube and Google and Gmail are free. You don't need to get everyone in the world who uses the free service to be willing to pay, just enough of t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Do you have any memory of any kids being held in place until someone came to pick them up after 2nd grade?
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by lolinder 2y ago
Systems thinking isn't a political belief, it's a model for the world that is incredibly useful in a lot of contexts. Some political factions may be more likely to engage in systems thinking than others, but that doesn't make
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by lolinder 2y ago
That's still a huge step back from previous generations, where all kids were expected to find their own way to their parents, whether waiting at home, waiting in the pickup loop, or waiting a few blocks away where it's not as busy
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by lolinder 2y ago
If kids have to be released to their parents and are no longer turned out en masse like they used to be, that will absolutely cause traffic and could very well be the root cause of traffic that exceeds the designed capacity of the school pi
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by lolinder 2y ago
You misread their comment (emphasis added): > direct ties to Biden associates Biden hired people with ties to people in his circle. Trump does the same. That is not, in and of itself, nefarious—in private companies it's widely und
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by lolinder 2y ago
Don't most browsers have a "Desktop site" option you can turn on to tell websites you want the desktop version? It seems weird to blame your device for websites' bad decisions, especially when your device goes out of its
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by lolinder 2y ago
I use ssh on Termux pretty regularly. It's about as smooth as I can imagine a touchscreen terminal being, and took about zero effort to set up.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Personally, and quietly, I have a major concern about the conflict of interest of Cursor deciding which files to add to context then charging you for the size of the context. Can you elaborate on what you're referring to? I don&#x
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Mozilla already solicits donations, but I wonder if people who donate to them know that Mozilla funds things that are wildly not Firefox-related It's not just that: Mozilla can't use any of your donation on Firefox. Firefox
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by lolinder 2y ago
Fair. I wasn't actually responding to your initial comment or defending the specific claims of the person that you were replying to—just responding to the person who mischaracterized the source of most anti-Mozilla rhetoric. So yeah, m
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I would be so bold at to assert that no millennial really taught that a) Britannia had an empire and b) Britain ruled the waves. Millenial here from the US. I was taught about the British Empire, extensively, in both high school and co
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by lolinder 2y ago
Why not? People is the plural of person.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Your VPN argument is based on, as far as I can tell, no information. Do you have numbers for what percentage of the VPN subscription goes to Mozilla? If not, you have no reason to believe that it's an effective way to contribute to Fir
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by lolinder 2y ago
That was published in 2013. Do you have a physical copy that would allow you to see footnote 64 and see where this author got the story? (The Google book has a lot of footnote 64s at the bottom, but it's impossible to see which corresp
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by lolinder 2y ago
Mozilla hasn't tried to get users to pay for or donate to Firefox. They can't complain users don't pay for it when they haven't once asked them to.
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by lolinder 2y ago
And as I've said, we agree, so I see no need to pick a thread to reply.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> "They" in my sentence clearly refers to "(or the Choctaw US$170/£111"... or Calcutta 1846 £14,000 donations" - not the Ottoman Sultan's generous donation or the anecdote about being pressured by the C
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by lolinder 2y ago
> It's basically all margin Is it? Do you have a citation for this? From what I understand it's a white labeled Mullvad VPN, and I haven't been able to find numbers for what percentage of the revenue is taken by Mozilla an
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by lolinder 2y ago
No one is questioning that all of this is relevant to the famine. All we're saying is that this specific story quoted by OP is most likely fictitious, so we're better off focusing on all of the other evidence and facts (such as th
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by lolinder 2y ago
As I mentioned in my response to your other comment, the controversial part of the anecdote is the claim that Victoria actually intercepted sent aid and convinced someone through diplomatic pressure to lower their intended donation. OP does
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by lolinder 2y ago
> They're (verified) anecdotes showing the British Crown was embarrassed Again, to be clear, this anecdote is not verified. It is extremely poorly sourced, not much more than an urban legend. The only attribution for the story dat
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes, that's the only conclusion I've been able to come to. The recent ToS changes make that even more clear.
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by lolinder 2y ago
In the US there are large regional differences in what is taught, especially when it comes to history topics. So some of the difference might be that your state had a more comprehensive approach to history than the commenters' states.
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by lolinder 2y ago
That's enough to be (apparently) profitable. It doesn't matter if most people don't pay for search as long as enough people do that paid search can exist. https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi
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by lolinder 2y ago
You misunderstand. The vast majority of people who complain about Mozilla on HN are Firefox users. We're the ones with the highest level of investment in the idea of an open web, so we're the ones who've stuck it out until Fi
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The funny thing is that the same people on here that crow on about Mozilla needing to "just focus on Firefox" are the same ones who complains about its reliance on Google for income. There's no inherent contradiction her
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by lolinder 2y ago
That deal is on the chopping block as part of the DOJ's lawsuit.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Linux is coming, but that still leaves Windows and Android (and iOS?) out.

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