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by will4274 6y ago
As does Microsoft. I'm always baffled at these "soft deletes are normal" threads. Maybe at a bootstrapping startup, but most real tech companies implement hard deletes within the first couple years.
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I disagree. I think the primary beneficiaries are the universities themselves and their alumni networks. Employers, particularly elite employers, know about affirmative action - and not just racial affirmative action. Job candidates are som
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Thank you for the correction, I'll make an edit. Edit: it appears I cannot make an edit. I do think the correction is immaterial to the larger point. Eich was not able to function as CEO given his donation. The wide publicity of this e
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by will4274 6y ago
> You just can't be in charge of everything. Unless by "everything" you mean the government of the United State of America (the country where Mozilla has its headquarters), in which case, it's OK again (Obama opposed
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> Far more interesting to me is that 6 years later, you and others on this forums go to such effort to justify why any problem with the company is a consequence of that resignation. Eich doesn't need your support. I'm curious a
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I appreciate that site isolation is in progress in Firefox, but it came out in Chrome two years ago (three now?). You're telling me that the soon to be released IE7 will include a pop-up blocker, so I should switch back to IE from Fire
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The US Supreme Court rejected separate but equal in the context of race and government provided public school for children. In 2020, it's still legal to provide separate but equal accommodations for gender - and most establishment (pub
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I don't think anybody will bother. Firefox fighting IE was successful because it allied three groups: people who cared about open source, people who cared about modern web standards, and people who cared about user-first free software
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> It is notable that in your summary you refer to this as political fashion swings, and "unpopular" political views, and an overreaction. Would you characterize the civil right movement in the same fashion? Just to answer your
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Brendan Eich donated to a proposal opposed to same sex marriage during a year that Barack Obama was opposed to same sex marriage. Do you believe that Barack Obama's opposition to same sex marriage should have made him unsuitable for an
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Well, it's slower for one and web features lag for two. But the one that is really the most important to me is security and privacy features. Browsers have effectively made two majors improvements recently - Safari made third party tra
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Please don't worry about offending me / invalidating what I say - it's an internet forum, I don't take it that seriously. Please take my response in the same frame of mind. Your defenses... aren't. It's not air
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by will4274 6y ago
I don't hold Mozilla to higher standards. I regard Mozilla as being deeply sick, even by the standards of a non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation has three plagues. First, the plague of Debian and the logjam breakers. Mozilla, like Debia
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by will4274 6y ago
From the universal declaration of human rights: > Article 19. > Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information
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> China has a large, modern and highly capable navy. They are perfectly able to protect their own shipping against piracy or any state-level actor that would be insane enough to start a naval war. In the event of a direct conflict, the A
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by will4274 6y ago
> the regulation of Chinese media is a matter of Chinese sovereignty And the freedom of that media is a matter of basic human rights. Your argument can be summarized as saying it's ok for China to deny fundamental human rights (free
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I find your comment to be in bad faith. You failed to address Chinese bans of American companies, which was the thrust of parent's comment, and which is obviously the unfair imbalance China created. Quoting imbalance but ignoring the e
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by will4274 6y ago
Yeah, that's not hate speech. It's trash propoganda. It uses classical techniques like musical undertones, playing innocuous clips in show motion, audio reverb to sound creepy. I mean, sure, Facebook shouldn't censor it; it&#
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by will4274 6y ago
I was thrown by the same thing. Both the article and the parent comment have the same premise - the author presumes that Rachel, as a woman, is more qualified than the average person to judge whether Apple's rejection of an astrology d
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by will4274 6y ago
> Don't conflate encouraging cult-like following and at times divisive politics with authoritarianism But, if I don't, how will I be able to call Trump a facist? /s In all seriousness, your reply could have been written ab
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by will4274 6y ago
> Selling at a loss is also called "dumping" and Is generally considered as a illegal anticompetitive practice No, this is wrong. Dumping is selling at a loss unsustainably in the short term to drive out competitors. If you do
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by will4274 6y ago
Only if you believe discrimination laws are cost free. On the other hand, if you believe that such laws have cost at scale - frivolous lawsuits from fired employees erroneously claiming protection, and more constrained hiring and firing to
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The fact that the police chief was racist doesn't make him wrong. He can be both racist and correct that looting generally leads to shooting.
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by will4274 6y ago
Can you give an example of a claim he "welched" on? Google isn't pointing me to anything except the fact that email is unencrypted which I tend to agree is out of scope.
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Google sent an email saying they were asking for too many permissions. Pushbullet was asking to observe all website traffic. Google's email was objectively correct. I agree that the second rejection is more surprising, but yes, the fir
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There may not be as many new cars for Christmas, but it's important to keep in mind that the US economy was doing extraordinarily well prior to the pandemic - with unemployment at 3.5%, the average person in the labor market was employ
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I guess I take issue with this. Google encouraged discussion and disagreement on large mailing lists, unlike most companies. It doesn't seem right that Google would simultaneously sollicit such feedback and then punish somebody for giv
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by will4274 6y ago
> Damore doesn’t strike me as an expert in the field. Just a typical engineer who thinks he knows everything. FWIW, Damore has a masters in systems biology. This fact was fairly widely reported. So, you can fall back on the facts instead
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Are you joking? Event Viewer's "filter event sources" UI is unusable - the scroll causes the check boxes to vanish. It's been unusable for 20 years. Virtually every ops person needs to be told to use the keyboard and jus
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by will4274 6y ago
You're as silly as those people who claim that male and female refer exclusively to sex but not gender. Terms change in meaning and fake news is widely used to refer to false news stories, regardless of reason. You have to accept the w

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