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  • He was CEO briefly, until the controversy over his appointment got loud enough. It makes sense he would've been paid the most that year, especially with the golden parachute CEOs get when they leave.

    His appointment remains one of the most damaging events in Mozilla's history, as it led to the resignation of multiple prior leaders (including previous CEOs). Making him CEO might've been Mitch Baker's worst decision as chairwoman.

  • Most fission plants transfer the heat away from the reactor before boiling water. The same can be done with fusion.

    The main difference with fusion is you have to convert some of the released energy to heat first. Various elements have been proposed for this.

  • They weren't trying to generate electricity in this experiment. They were trying to sustain a reaction. As you said in another comment, they are different problems.

    Converting heat to electricity is a problem we already understand pretty well since we've been doing it basically the same way since the first power plant fired up. Sustaining a fusion reaction is a problem we've barely started figuring out.

  • The point of 230 was not to protect hobbyists, but rather to encourage big platforms (like CompuServe at the time) to moderate their users. The issue was that in moderating users, the platform makes themselves a publisher rather than a distributor (which were already immune from liability for the speech they distributed).

    Without section 230, platforms will simply stop all moderation (including for illegal activity and content) to protect themselves from liability. Every single platform operating in the US would become 4Chan (or worse, since even 4Chan does some moderation).

  • The two encrypted messaging platforms I currently suggest are XMPP or Matrix. Both are usually fine and are decentralized. The main thing with them is to either self-host or choose a server you trust to set up an account — which applies to the Fediverse in general.