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by moz23 8y ago
Citizenship doesn't affect things. Place of residence does. If he lived in the US (or other non-EU country), then there's no way to claim any EU jurisdiction. (In this specific case: it looks like he does live in the UK.) Similarl
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by moz23 8y ago
15-20 years is exactly the same timeframe that most of Europe uses for railway planning. That includes things like HS2 in the UK, the Berlin-Munich high speed rail project, LGV Rhin-Rhone, the new Gotthard tunnel, etc. The main difference i
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by moz23 8y ago
It can also induce diarrhoea. And taking substances for performance enhancement is essentially doping (as in: not permitted for most sports).
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by moz23 8y ago
Seriously though, that city is SO dirty and smelly. The public infrastructure is not only bad and falling apart, but politics is sufficiently broken that very little is likely to be done about it. (Same for housing and homelessness: politic
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by moz23 8y ago
No, it doesn't. (Except for perhaps UK and Canada.)
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by moz23 8y ago
That's only true if you live in a place with an unsustainable market, i.e. permanently growing rents and house prices. There are places with stable house and rental prices, and in those - buying tends to be a worse choice financially.
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by moz23 8y ago
Took them long enough, glad they're becoming a bit braver (almost like Brave :p). Any plans for desktop though...? After all, desktop seems to be the main platform for Mozilla.
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by moz23 9y ago
Feel free to go to Switzerland and change the law if you think so. You are perfectly free to try and get the consitution changed, as long as you can convince 100'000 citizens to agree with you. As it stands: yes, the laws do work. It&#
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by moz23 9y ago
"US incomes are far higher than French incomes, and especially if we're comparing eg NYC vs Paris" A common assumption that americans get wrong: this isn't the case. (Taxes might affect things a bit, but that doesn'
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by moz23 9y ago
Yes, it loads all tabs at startup. That's not a good thing, starting chrom[e/ium] on my old laptop is not a very fast experience, even on my work machines it takes a while.
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by moz23 9y ago
Well, there are things like the US prison system, US telecommunications, US military industry, etc., etc., that would give you lots of good results.
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by moz23 9y ago
That comment could've been written without executing any Javascript. // Edit: heh, someone already said the same.
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by moz23 9y ago
Anything on BA is unpleasant though. First class on the United 747 was a fairly pleasant experience. You could tell it was an old plane, but the seat comfort was amazing and the view (in rows 1/2) was even better. And also the quietest
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by moz23 9y ago
Inroads on Android? Got data on that? As much as I love Focus, it's irrelevant in terms of marketshare (and it's also just webkit/chrome under the hood). And Firefox for Android marketshare was going down ever since Mozilla s
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by moz23 9y ago
How much money does DuckDuckGo have to offer Mozilla? Mozilla do ask for quite a chunk of money when selling traffic (/users).
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by moz23 9y ago
Except on Mobile. (Let's ignore Firefox iOS since that's really just webkit with a better UI.) Either Mozilla know something I don't, or they're sticking with a sinking ship and forgot to jump to the robust ship that was
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by moz23 9y ago
Gecko already runs on iOS, I just don't know what the exact build process is. The trouble is, a browser is much more than an engine, and why would people sink effort into an unreleasable product.
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by moz23 9y ago
To me the UX is a major plus in FF on Android (albeit with plenty of rough edges in the more hidden features). But yeah, no investment in mobile performance sucks (but hey, they spent hundred of eng months on making desktop not suck, so yay
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by moz23 9y ago
Focus is chrome with a different skin and ads blocked. Literally, it's WebView which is Chrome.
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by moz23 9y ago
Citations for "cutting how much they were going to pay"? Mozilla revenue is up, they're making a LOT of profit, and the Yahoo deal was supposed to be 5 years so they're not likely to be losing money by switching to Googl
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by moz23 9y ago
Mozilla don't really care about mobile. The (too) small mobile teams do care, but the company as a whole doesn't - which mostly explains why it's so rough.
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by moz23 9y ago
Ambitious in a technical sense - yes. But not ambitious in a "protect the users" sense (see e.g. tracking protection/ad blocking), and also not ambitious in a business sense (i.e. try to do something beyond sell users/tr
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by moz23 9y ago
If Mozilla fold, you could still use chromium. Effectively no privacy difference between chromium and firefox tbh. (Unless you use tracking protection in private browsing, but extensions let you do the same in chromium.)
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by moz23 9y ago
> This gives us a lot more freedom of choice when making decisions about what and how to make money. I'd argue the opposite. Mozilla seem too scared to try anything substantial because they're scared of losing the money they do