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by swed420 2mo ago
There's nothing convincing in your link. More importantly, even if it did contain the solution, there is no obvious way for a country with an already corrupt government to transition to such a thing.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> This is about consumer products, not government policy. You speak as if these things are unrelated. > Buy an alternative, you have those choices. Increasingly, we don't: "Modern Capitalism Is Weirder Than You Think: It als
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by swed420 2mo ago
> If you insist that the result of a democratic election does not reflect the will of the people, that, and nothing else, is election denialism. No. This reflects the common understanding of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by swed420 2mo ago
> No your choice was between a competent leader and a con man. No, the non-con man option was an unpopular candidate who was installed after skipping a primary process. A primary process that was shown to be a complete joke during the pr
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> This is akin to arguing "nothing ever changes or improves in Liberal democracies", when policy history doesn't reflect that. Ever-growing wealth disparities, eroded rights, mass enshitification in a race to the bottom, a
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by swed420 2mo ago
It doesn't require a "grand conspiracy theory" to know that dominant capital interests have the power and desire to perpetuate themselves. But keep trying to wave the away the obvious. You only look more ridiculous the harder
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Election denialism is unbecoming of anyone with a brain Convincing argument you have there, but the choices we're provided between shit sandwich A and shit sandwich B are the problem, not which one wins.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Instead, solutions should be developed through a public democratic process that includes elected officials, policymakers, educators, health workers, local officials, and community leaders. Millions of people will have their lives disru
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by swed420 2mo ago
> The best thing to do is to learn from what happened, and not allow a proprietary platform to become so central again. In the spirit of that, here's some brainstorming: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-soci
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by swed420 2mo ago
Discussion of patio11's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928604
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by swed420 2mo ago
Discussion of patio11's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928604
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by swed420 2mo ago
Discussion of patio11's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928604
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by swed420 2mo ago
Discussion of Patrick's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928604
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Red states letting Alex Jones make them more afraid of the vaccine than the virus was their choice. Can we move on? That's oversimplifying the article, which also states: > Why did so many Americans die? High rates of obesity,
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by swed420 2mo ago
> I ran Graphene without a Sim card for 2 months and as soon as I added a Sim card (with of course, difficult to vet networking) the phone is always hot and the battery life reduced by half. Might be a coincidence but also made me rethin
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by swed420 2mo ago
> The only consistent position on US politics that won't get you downvoted on HN is "both parties are dumb." As it should be, because they are. Well, not dumb, but both are complicit and essentially operate as a uniparty f
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by swed420 2mo ago
Agreed. Aside from it being uncensored, its default chronological sort makes it much easier to follow and see where I left off.
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by swed420 2mo ago
> Aaaaaand right on cue the flagging brigade promptly flagged this to get it off the front page. This is why I exclusively use https://hckrnews.com as the "front page"
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True, but it ultimately depends on the terms of the sponsorship. One would hope that a project like Ladybird (which is motivated to compete with a product which was ruined by Google's sponsorship) would choose those terms carefully.
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> Even the best people seem to go out of their way to rationalise (their own?) alcohol consumption. Gotta love the phrase "drugs and alcohol," as if to imply alcohol isn't a drug or is some special exception.
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You've yet to say anything of substance. Why are you even on HN?
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Very convincing argument you have there.
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But you would still be left with all of the other issues pointed out by me and others. Plus, the parent seemed to be referring to FF, not just its core, so I replied accordingly.
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Looks like you took a rhetorical question literally. See my other comments if you're confused.
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> What flaws exactly? For starters, they notoriously make configuration a difficult and shifting game of whac-o-mole to do simple things such as disabling the AI that nobody asked for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by swed420 2mo ago
That was a rhetorical question. Mozilla have given us plenty of reasons to not trust them, which makes it hilarious that anybody would think it's noteworthy they're reviewing the code of Raymond Hill of all people.
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> Next, an ad-blocker needs continuous maintenance - someone started a good one long time ago and apparently loves to improve it and maintain the various lists it uses - why should Mozilla strain to compete with one of their best contrib
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Their separate point was ignored because it was an irrelevant tangent. > Regardless, I don't want baked-in Firefox adblocking in part because I don't trust Mozilla with that task either. This is in a thread about how we should
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> You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core If you want to inherit all of Firefox's flaws, I suppose. > and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare? Considering Clo
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> That's like suggesting that someone using LLMs to assist coding, could save themselves the trouble by writing the code by hand. No it's not. > Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. Th

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