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by vamur 11y ago
Compare K-Meleon on Windows to Chrome and Firefox to Chrome. Switching between tabs, opening menu, etc is slower on Firefox while the difference is less noticeable between K-Meleon and Chrome. And on Linux, Chrome's custom toolkit feel
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by vamur 11y ago
This is one of the reasons why BDFLs while being very effective, are also very dangerous. As when there is no equivalent replacement, the entire structure collapses.
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by vamur 11y ago
They should have built nuclear plants when oil was expensive.
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by vamur 11y ago
For example construction, guarding, supermarkets, restaurant.
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by vamur 11y ago
It's going to take time for these technologies to mature and for developers and companies to start using them. And even then it will be Flash like games for a while.
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by vamur 11y ago
XUL is the biggest reason why Firefox feels so much slower on Windows and Linux compared to Chrome. So it's high time for Mozilla to remove it - along with support for Flash. And you can use self hosted webmail instead of Thunderbird.
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by vamur 11y ago
It could also be the next iPhone, time will tell. But I suspect that will require lighter goggles and better graphics. Full HD is just not good enough at that close range.
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by vamur 11y ago
Not to mention every bank creating their own buggy mobile app and of course the usually buggy and slow bank websites.
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by vamur 11y ago
No, the point should be to provide a safety net while not creating a Ponzi scheme or forcing working population into welfare.
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by vamur 11y ago
Basic income should be done like in the Expanse (e.g only for those with no/minimal income) and it should be dynamic - percentage based on the current economy size. It should also be spent only on domestic products to stimulate local e
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by vamur 11y ago
If they make a decent AI for Total War I'd be impressed. Or an AI in Civilization that doesn't cheat. But of course requiring a mini-datacenter in hardware and time to think (probably seconds) would make it unrealistic for both.
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by vamur 11y ago
Eliminating third parties is always a good thing.
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by vamur 11y ago
They only disabled it for Windows 10/Mobile, probably because no one is buying those using their store anyway.
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by vamur 11y ago
For example you are running an ASP.net+MSSQL app and you are tired of dealing with IIS and/or Windows Server. Now you can run Nginx+ASP.net+MSSQL on Linux, for minimal effort.
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by vamur 11y ago
Inflation is not healthy for an economy - consumer spending is. Governments can encourage consumer spending by expiring parts of money supply, instead of using negative interest rates. >>As we begin seeing more viable altcoin systems
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by vamur 11y ago
Firefox and Chrome currently do not work on Wayland without Xwayland. But Libreoffice and Gnome work. You also have to use open source drivers for Wayland to work, so no Steam.
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by vamur 11y ago
Steam has a defacto monopoly for gaming on Windows and there are over 2000 games for Linux on Steam. So Microsoft would be foolish to try and restrict games to their own app store. That would be the end of Windows as a gaming platform. And
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by vamur 11y ago
Ethereum has been out for 7 months already and so far there have been no useful or popular dapps. This would mean that for most applications trustlessness is not very useful. And for those apps where it would be generally useful, such as ex
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by vamur 11y ago
>>PHP is a slow abomination. In my benchmarks, for accessing databases, string concatenation and output, PHP is faster than Nodejs, Go and Python and is on par with Luajit. So no. And it's not PHP's fault that Drupal and Mag
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by vamur 11y ago
One issue with Ethereum is that smart contracts are expensive and must run on every node. These days a VPS with 2GB RAM costs $4 so Ethereum would not be competitive even in short term. Another issue is the blockchain size which is already
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by vamur 11y ago
More bureaucracy. If they really wanted to decrease sugar usage, they could require poison labels on fruits, and any product with more than 5 grams of sugar, as well as any ads for these products.
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by vamur 11y ago
This is a sign that Facebook is in trouble. More and more people are fed up with its slow UI and are moving elsewhere, and increasingly to Telegram.
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by vamur 11y ago
Both Thunderbird and XUL are slow, so good riddance. Hopefully, dropping these and 32bit support will allow Mozilla to concentrate on improving Firefox performance. And add Wayland support in Linux as well.
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by vamur 11y ago
Based on this interview, it looks like Tsipras is solely to blame for the Sunday's disastrous deal. I think his career will be finished after the deal passes.
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by vamur 11y ago
They need authorization from ECB and the printer prints only 10 euros. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/return-drachma...
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by vamur 11y ago
Good riddance. Hopefully, they not only deactivate it but remove Flash and Java altogether. These two have been nothing but constant security and performance issues. And without Flash, Firefox can finally work on GTK3.
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by vamur 11y ago
Without cheap batteries, electric cars are a niche product, unfortunately. And with the Iran deal, oil and natural gas are going to be even cheaper so electric cars would become even more expensive.
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by vamur 11y ago
According to that page, it costs 10,880 Yuan (before subsidies). This comes to about $2000, which seems too low to be possible. Or is that without the battery?
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by vamur 11y ago
Syriza government is laughably incompetent. They had 6 months to introduce a cryptocurrency and remove reliance on ECB for running internal economy and exports. They also had 6 months to start reforms to reduce bloated government spending a
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by vamur 11y ago
Good for Greece. What they now need asap is digital drachma with automatic tax on incoming transfers, capital controls on imports, default on debts to ECB, haircut on deposits above 100k, exit Schengen/Russia sanctions and currency swa

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