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by mvn9 6y ago
Why then all those monopoly-discussions? Cannot any program be 'side-loaded' by creating a personal team? Or the other way round: What good would be a personal team for epic if they cannot test their games on actual phones? If per
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by mvn9 6y ago
>got his deal reduced by 25% or so by Steve Jobs in person Was it the task-manager / parallel execution developer?
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by mvn9 6y ago
Kids take years to learn a language. They do it almost all day long. Emerge yourself in an environment with the language you want to learn. Boost some important words with spaced repetition. You will learn faster than any child. Accents, on
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by mvn9 6y ago
And yet you can be unconscious. For sure, consciousness is used to put humans over other creatures [1]. But that doesn't mean that consciousness doesn't exist. Why don't you look at it the other way round and assume conscious
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by mvn9 6y ago
That depends on your society. America is made of people who have left their societies to start something on their own. At what point in history have those people turned into a society that cares for each other beyond personal relations?
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by mvn9 6y ago
Like barrenko said in another comment [1]: >Wasn't it that the creators of Netscape wanted to put some kind of payment protocol similar to crypto in the original browser but ran into trouble with the government, can't remember
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by mvn9 6y ago
>I think it’s safe to say that Google’s AdWords is the dominant advertising platform on the open Web, which means it holds a commanding position in the Web’s finances. That's a very interesting observation. Google will thus prevent
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by mvn9 6y ago
Could you elaborate? As far as I know, Japan attacked in winter and won, everybody else lost in any conflict of which I am aware. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
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by mvn9 6y ago
That doesn't make sense. Winter is the best time to invade Russia because you have fresh supplies, you are prepared for winter and you have spring, summer and autumn to secure it. The mistake is to invade Russia in late summer because
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by mvn9 6y ago
Not OP, but I fancy this rough theory: According to armchair psychologists and a joke, the answer to every psychological question is 'your mother'. If you look at ways to deal with conflicts [1], it could be that being transgender
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by mvn9 6y ago
NVIDIA is the only hardware company that takes software serious. In every hardware thread, someone complains about hardware people being behind on software technology. And then there is NVIDIA, the company that provides the best development
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by mvn9 6y ago
Wasn't Gaius Julius Caesar [1] the first emperor? How come he is missing? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
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by mvn9 6y ago
There is no need to aim for mass adoption. Make it a standard for whoever wants a simple html environment. It could be situated between gopher and the full html spec. People use command line based browsers. A limited browser is usable, just
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by mvn9 6y ago
They need to do something, anything, since Instagram with text pictures must be taking their customers.
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by mvn9 6y ago
Germany doesn't want fibre: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Der-Kam...
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by mvn9 6y ago
>but it would take years to transfer the relevant knowledge. A) The people with the knowledge just have been fired and are free to move and to be hired B) Thanks to corona, remote work is a fully accepted option Something new can be runn
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by mvn9 6y ago
Let me iterate on my comment from the Manifesto submission [1] Their number one point is: >The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as
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by mvn9 6y ago
Also: functional programming feels better in JS than in Python. On the other hand, it's nicer to write for-loops in Python.
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by mvn9 6y ago
7 attributes could be too much. Those attributes belong to a class, not an object. If those attributes are binary, there can already be 128 objects within that class. If you have to think about their interaction, you are already well beyond
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by mvn9 6y ago
Or something is coming to Goldman Sachs. With zero-interest rates and quantitative easing, there is no need for countries to borrow money because they can start printing it. At the same time, China controls more and more business processes
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by mvn9 6y ago
>The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole. What if Mozilla had used the internet and hadn't spent their billions on ba
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by mvn9 6y ago
>because they try and stop you from destroying their world. Why would they try and stop you if they weren't sentient? In that game, how many players would stop if the native population were humanoid? If they were humans? If they wou
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by mvn9 6y ago
Where do all the competent people end up? Do the competent people find equally challenging positions or is their potential wasted?
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by mvn9 6y ago
That's the law. That's how forcing a second app store could be possible. But first of all, I don't think that it should be used to force Apple's hands. If they want to operate the app store the way they do, they should b
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by mvn9 6y ago
No, we shouldn't have had an alternative app store on iphones. Apple doesn't have a monopoly. Nobody is forcing anybody to buy an iphone to get online and make calls. If you start a company, and you have 50% market share [1], do y
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by mvn9 6y ago
Then it was a negotiation tactic. Mozilla showed that they don't desperately need the money because they are willing to cut all expenses. Thus, Google can't play the 'take whatever we offer or you will be bankrupt in 2021&#x2
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by mvn9 6y ago
So they have implemented that to copy https://mozillalifeboat.com/ ? That's sad. There is no reason to take away attention from mozillalifeboat.com. Just because something is hosted by mozilla doesn't make it bette
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by mvn9 6y ago
You will always find a person willing to be called CEO for $500,000. The question is: which skills do you get for that money? Would you find a person who doesn't fire the MDN team and still keeps Mozilla profitable?
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by mvn9 6y ago
And the other way round? How do you make your business known if you cannot buy the top search result position?
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by mvn9 6y ago
How does one ever start a business after such a ban? Does this require a co-founder who runs the marketing?

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