> trying their best to do a job they care about I would not take that as a given for Mozilla's upper management. Many of their decisions seem to ignore what users want in deference to Google or other motivations.
How does Opera have 3-4x the market share of Firefox? Is it installed by default anywhere?
Have you tried deleting your profile and starting fresh? Something is clearly messed up. Launching takes a fraction of a second for me on NixOS with a years-old profile.
Racism definitely is based on race, hence the name. Maybe you're referring to some other kind of out-group bias based on tribal or familial status?
I could not disagree more strongly. Giving large corporations (and governments effectively) the power to control my access to 3rd party resources is totally unacceptable.
What was particularly bad about India's situation?
That's a depressing viewpoint. The text chat version of Omegle could have easily been hosted on a single server with some kind of automated spam protection. Donations could have more than covered the costs to run it.…
Are things like Operation Chokepoint [1] still a conspiracy theory? It appears to me like a sophisticated and coordinated operation, not the accidental result of bureaucracy. [1]…
The answer depends on how your specific state defines tax residency (for example California is notoriously difficult to escape). Generally the rules will be something like you remain a tax resident of your old state,…
What exactly did they tell you? I've been doing it for the last 7 years without any problems.
It's not that simple. There are a lot more details, but at a minimum you will still need to pay US taxes to the extent that the foreign government taxes at a lower rate. You'll also often still need to pay state income…
You mean when the ICOs started? Wasn't that just a cash grab? Everyone threw some buzz words in a white paper and made a pretty landing page hoping to take advantage of the hype. I don't understand what you mean by…
There is little to no lawful utility. The value of crypto has always been in its ability to take the power to control the financial freedom of individuals away from government and put it back in the hands of people.…
> whoever orchestrated this whole thing holds them on a tight leash What makes you think there is coordination rather than natural incentives that drive individuals to act in similar ways?
I used it for my home directory too for several years up until a few months ago, but with default settings. The corrupted files were almost always Firefox cookies db and cache files. Maybe there's something specific…
Is diversity of thought and culture not a good thing? Sure it could make politics more polarized, but hopefully that will result in greater diversity of governments under which one can choose to live. Anything that gets…
Just an anecdote, but when I used gocryptfs on a btrfs partition, I'd always end up with a few corrupted files on power failure. After switching to gocryptfs on ext4, I never have any corruption.
I absolutely agree about additional rigor and precision making math easier to learn. Only after you're familiar with the concepts can you be more lazy. That's the approach taken by my favorite math book:…
I agree that the crackdown will continue, but I'm fairly sure cryptocurrencies will survive in a non-trivial capacity. Their use case for black markets is just too great, especially after cash disappears and governments…
If only there were a decentralized method of electronic payment that single entities could not control.
Sounds to me like it's working perfectly. The point of surge pricing is to rebalance supply and demand when demand for rides outstrips supply of drivers, whether by attracting more drivers or by discouraging price…
I haven't actually used the system in question; I'm just speculating based on my frustration with the increasing number of banking, trading, and even taxi booking apps that will refuse to work on modified phones.
If their tech decides it doesn't like my de-googled phone, then it becomes no longer optional.
So how would that work if the IRS requires ID verification for my taxes and I live on the other side of the world, usually visiting the US every 2-3 years?
> trying their best to do a job they care about I would not take that as a given for Mozilla's upper management. Many of their decisions seem to ignore what users want in deference to Google or other motivations.
How does Opera have 3-4x the market share of Firefox? Is it installed by default anywhere?
Have you tried deleting your profile and starting fresh? Something is clearly messed up. Launching takes a fraction of a second for me on NixOS with a years-old profile.
Racism definitely is based on race, hence the name. Maybe you're referring to some other kind of out-group bias based on tribal or familial status?
I could not disagree more strongly. Giving large corporations (and governments effectively) the power to control my access to 3rd party resources is totally unacceptable.
What was particularly bad about India's situation?
That's a depressing viewpoint. The text chat version of Omegle could have easily been hosted on a single server with some kind of automated spam protection. Donations could have more than covered the costs to run it.…
Are things like Operation Chokepoint [1] still a conspiracy theory? It appears to me like a sophisticated and coordinated operation, not the accidental result of bureaucracy. [1]…
The answer depends on how your specific state defines tax residency (for example California is notoriously difficult to escape). Generally the rules will be something like you remain a tax resident of your old state,…
What exactly did they tell you? I've been doing it for the last 7 years without any problems.
It's not that simple. There are a lot more details, but at a minimum you will still need to pay US taxes to the extent that the foreign government taxes at a lower rate. You'll also often still need to pay state income…
You mean when the ICOs started? Wasn't that just a cash grab? Everyone threw some buzz words in a white paper and made a pretty landing page hoping to take advantage of the hype. I don't understand what you mean by…
There is little to no lawful utility. The value of crypto has always been in its ability to take the power to control the financial freedom of individuals away from government and put it back in the hands of people.…
> whoever orchestrated this whole thing holds them on a tight leash What makes you think there is coordination rather than natural incentives that drive individuals to act in similar ways?
I used it for my home directory too for several years up until a few months ago, but with default settings. The corrupted files were almost always Firefox cookies db and cache files. Maybe there's something specific…
Is diversity of thought and culture not a good thing? Sure it could make politics more polarized, but hopefully that will result in greater diversity of governments under which one can choose to live. Anything that gets…
Just an anecdote, but when I used gocryptfs on a btrfs partition, I'd always end up with a few corrupted files on power failure. After switching to gocryptfs on ext4, I never have any corruption.
I absolutely agree about additional rigor and precision making math easier to learn. Only after you're familiar with the concepts can you be more lazy. That's the approach taken by my favorite math book:…
I agree that the crackdown will continue, but I'm fairly sure cryptocurrencies will survive in a non-trivial capacity. Their use case for black markets is just too great, especially after cash disappears and governments…
If only there were a decentralized method of electronic payment that single entities could not control.
Sounds to me like it's working perfectly. The point of surge pricing is to rebalance supply and demand when demand for rides outstrips supply of drivers, whether by attracting more drivers or by discouraging price…
I haven't actually used the system in question; I'm just speculating based on my frustration with the increasing number of banking, trading, and even taxi booking apps that will refuse to work on modified phones.
If their tech decides it doesn't like my de-googled phone, then it becomes no longer optional.
So how would that work if the IRS requires ID verification for my taxes and I live on the other side of the world, usually visiting the US every 2-3 years?