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by ngokevin 7y ago
You'll get the sense of scale in VR, but I don't think you can get the realization that below you would be billions of people walking and bustling around you cannot even sense. The feeling of being so zoomed out and everything fee
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Not as much as risk. More of not wanting to be seen as a monopoly. Giving up 1% of the browser market share and a few pennies is worth it to not be seen as the virtual dictator of the Web.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
I think there's not much pressure to get at it when they have hundreds of millions in the bank and have been funded externally their whole life. I believe those backfired since all their marketing has been propped on morality. When the
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Does the defense contractor rag on the military afterwards? You can take money from something, use it for good, but it's kinda funny when you start to claim the hands that feeds you is evil and bad.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Kind of funny though, the vast majority of Mozilla's money comes from the ads and tracking industry, just one step removed.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Those are terrible, but realize that the only news that makes it out from China to the US are the negative, and heavily paints China as evil. Everyone I talk to have never been to China, yet think everyone there is brainwashed. People reali
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Yup, they've set it up so money can flow within their own system and their own economy can prosper, rather than money feeding out to Google or Facebook. Quality of life in China has exploded massively, and things like restaurant prices
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by ngokevin 7y ago
It's my favorite place to be. Reject organic food and unique flavors for dirt cheap. Wine at marked off prices with an annual 20% blanket wine sale. There are some things that act as dinners for me for $0.50.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
I imagine it's a weekend so no one's on hand.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I have it on `jj`. No hand movement at all, less pinky-bending.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Honestly, I think most American media has it out for China. Which results in the people having it out for China. Which results in like Redditors spamming Tiananmen Square on any thread involving China or even things like Epic Games who mere
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Yeah, feels more like a "top". The current homepage is like Reddit's "hot", and the new "more" is like Reddit's "top".
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Yeah, we created and maintain it!
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by ngokevin 8y ago
$150K for 7%.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Those thoughts are valid, but that's not what i see online. See Reddit now about Tencent's investment. That's the sort of thing. Western media is more apt to upvoting and exposing anti-China stuff whenever it happens, no matt
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Any post supporting or defending China in any way is definitely an exception. I'm surprised to see any "China #1" posts anywhere. Anti-China sentiments are universal on HN and Reddit if you search any thread mentioning China.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I'm also on the T-Mobile $30 plan from some Walmart promotion from years back!
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Yup, Waze works as well and supports confirming and pinning reports.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Yeah, sorry I meant they either accept only cash or don't accept mobile payments. Most places take credit. But many still don't (often Asian / Mexican places). Even credit card is a poor experience, you insert the chip, hav
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Wechat is pretty good if you're in China. You can use it to do everything (payments, taxi, tickets, transfer, calls, games) versus having tons of miscellaneous poor apps. Every store and even panhandlers accept Wechat. I'm in the
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I don't think this is true. I've been using Wechat from US. I can see all the people's moments in China and in some groups fine. All the services I've tried so far have worked okay.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
As long as you're not an organized drug trafficker. Also our media is susceptible to surfacing up anti-China pieces so it'll skew perceptions. I think it could be healthy to visit to get a different perspective other than "th
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't legit. Guards were instructed and encouraged to act tough, and surprisingly few did. Prisoner breakdowns were kids acting and took it as an improv opportunity. And many other nuggets were exposed. htt
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by ngokevin 8y ago
More around 90% of the income. I think they would sustain better at a smaller capacity Wikipedia-style, but not 1000+ people multinationally. The ROI doesn't seem to be there versus the growth.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Or smaller than IE :0 Also remove the desktop filter and watch Safari jump up to like 20% and FF down to 4.5%. Usage of the Web on mobile is huge, and it's even bleaker for FF there.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Agree. Though default options hold great power, Chrome users could also navigate to DDG. Also hard to advertise themselves as the user champion of privacy going up against Google, and then route everyone to Google, while pocketing their mon
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by ngokevin 8y ago
2FA when possible as well. Both Steam and Google offer this.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
He linked to Mozilla’s own public data set though. I think other data sets corroborate decline. The 9% might even be optimistic.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
One engine already dominates the Web. Gecko is there just for show. Google more or less funds Gecko development.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Honestly, I think it’s a monoculture already and the fact that multiple engines exist puts up an illusion of competition. Google controls where the Web goes today, and that there is an oligopoly is a false symbol. At least Chrome gets more

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