marricks

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by marricks 10mo ago
Literally every other browser and most tech companies are shoving AI down users throats. Firefox isn't missing the boat by neglecting AI, they're missing it by being an alternative which reminds us how nice things can be without i
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by marricks 11mo ago
Didn't Xbox pivot to be an entertainment system a couple generations ago and flop compared to PlayStation?
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by marricks 11mo ago
Because they're not owned by private equity/publicly traded. If that ever happens the "let's squeeze this for every dime it's worth" will happen. That's really the saddest thing about capitalism, if everyt
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by marricks 11mo ago
> ACA was the most radical package that could have passed, and it still cost Democrats the Congress. People aren’t excited by half measures that let health insurance companies generate tons of money and CONTINUOUSLY raise premiums. Peopl
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by marricks 11mo ago
I don't think any super power looks fantastic, and we definitely should not idolize China. But also, we should let that be an excuse for western powers. We have corporations forcing most of the decisions in our country for extremely sh
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by marricks 11mo ago
This and Bill Gates saying... > “the doomsday outlook [on climate change] is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be d
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by marricks 11mo ago
Heel striking is fine, most pros do it, I do too. It is great joke fodder, though!
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by marricks 11mo ago
> incorrectly identifying vibrations from heel strikes as loud noise You should be thankful you get a free reminder to stop heel striking /uj figured a little running BS hear could be fun
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by marricks 1y ago
> https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/subscription-plans/ Garmin introduced a subscription and you can guarantee that'll pave the way for the base experience to get shittier over time as they funnel people
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by marricks 1y ago
Yeah, because hiring qualified female, black, and queer people is exactly the same as hiring someone who hates what the job and what it's trying to accomplish.
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by marricks 1y ago
Just because conservatives hate kids and don't want to be teachers/educators/work at universities doesn't mean it's biased or bad. It's like if you wanted a diversity of opinions designing a rocket so you decid
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by marricks 1y ago
I am having a very hard time finding his name, but there was a section on him in the dutch resistance museum. I highly suggest visiting it! Sorry for the lack of an online source.
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by marricks 1y ago
Before the Nazi's invaded the main guy who advocated for the civil registry which allowed the Nazi's to easily find jewish people went to his grave believing he did nothing wrong in advocating for such a database. Clearly we all
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by marricks 1y ago
It’s a pro business anti consumer supreme court which knows it’d be dangerous to appear that way. Government and court will hamstring their ability to help consumers. My favorite comment on HN was some law student saying his prof said “Scal
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by marricks 1y ago
Yes, but it's not a meaningful part of their revenue unlike Google where it's' their entire revenue. They are very different companies in structure and it certainly is a "pick your poison" but it's completely s
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by marricks 1y ago
Wow, folks almost had me convinced MS turned a new leaf 5 years ago. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by marricks 1y ago
That’s an intentional misdirection, and an all too common one :(
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by marricks 1y ago
both sides have hostages, and every country in the world besides the US and Israel call it one, in case you missed that
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by marricks 1y ago
I believe what’s under discussion is a students right to protest the US governments involvement in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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by marricks 2y ago
Most people dislike Trump, Musk, and Vance. Musk is by far the least liked of the three. People in the country very much dislike the status-quo, hence the dislike of the Democratic Party and voters going for ape-shit change over Biden. I si
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by marricks 2y ago
I'm not going to waste my time explaining to you what a metaphor is, but I will say this Firefox was the dominant player in the 00's 2010's when they did this, not the 2% market share it is now.
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by marricks 2y ago
Why be bitter at the people dealing with the shit, why not be angry at the people making the world shit? My company uses gmail so I'm forced to use it.
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by marricks 2y ago
> Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. Google has a long history of "accidentally" breaking gmail on firefox and funneling users to Chrome back in the day. It's beyond stupid to ar
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by marricks 2y ago
Which is funny because the CEO level one is the easiest to automate
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by marricks 2y ago
Could be chrome vs safari or ff
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by marricks 2y ago
> What’s the plan here? There's only ever been one plan and it hasn't changed: 1) cut funding to a public service 2) said service goes to shit because it lacks support 3) use chaos as an excuse to privatize it so someone makes
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by marricks 2y ago
One difficult I remember reading is: they can't always do things an obvious way someone else did because... patents.
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by marricks 2y ago
You end the project with less fingers than when you started?
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by marricks 2y ago
Perhaps aspirational in using AI to help the military :) https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/google-ai-weapons-su...
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by marricks 2y ago
I'm not sure how that relates to original comment. Do you mean you want everything that is or could be better than American technology banned/destroyed so we stay the best...? Like, any global hegemony will be increasingly corrupt

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