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I mean, they could. They have been cutting costs in the wrong areas, though - those harder to replace if exgoogled. There's plenty of unnecessary fat in Mozilla as an organization. They have been doing lots of expensive (in terms of developer and testing resources) unneeded crap (apparently to support the appearance of relevancy, which is different from relevancy itself), they also don't need that many management people.

Let's please remember how Mozilla started. Yes, a browser back then and a browser now are two completely different things, but the imbalance in resources has always been there. It's just that now they are spreading resources where they shouldn't, to imitate Chrome in things secondary to a browser itself. They don't have the resources for that even with Google, and of course they won't otherwise.

Also supporting something like XULRunner or in general olden times Gecko would help, so that people could use FF's engine like they still do with Chromium and Webkit. That would increase the amount of people contributing in various ways.

That's how I see it, my humble opinion and all that.

Making no backups as a public organization comes pretty close.

The very fact of doing things like this was in the 00s something which would make your life dangerous. People really good at generating spam would sometimes get their legs broken, or walk out of their window by mysterious causes.

But then non-flat search engines and social media came into existence, empowering these fucks so radically that killing them IRL stopped being a solution, 10 heads would pop up for each one you hew down.

Oh. Thx.

There's also another continuation: "fool me twice - shame on me".

Slaves will be slaves.

I’d argue that even Telegram has a higher chance than X for such a superapp position given the steps they’ve taken.

I live in Russia, have used VK before Telegram became a thing, and the thought of a company owned by Durov with that much power scares me shitless.

I can't even describe that feeling, emotionally it's something similar to combination of Saint-Petersburg (I hate that city), Russian-speaking Web (like 4chan gone respectable) and the more elitist layer of Russian university youth (just somehow reptilian and unpleasant and untrustworthy, while not being quite as bright as they themselves may think).

I mean, reading what people say about TG's protocol may give you some idea as to why TG is bad. Also its desktop client source is open, looking at that is also, eh, an unpleasant experience.

Which worked very slowly and unreliably. It's about stretching extremes.

Today with Internet connectivity crimes are more likely to be seen, but so is propaganda from the perpetrators.

Now they've removed the former and preserved the latter.

Another extreme is that 100 years ago it was easier for witnesses to somehow get out, and today one can virtually track every inch of the perimeter and prevent attempts with precision munitions.

Which is why I don't think saying Israeli special services didn't somehow "miss" the attack or "fail" is promoting a conspiracy theory. They are led by people capable of thinking inside that logic and they are confident that they can contain the consequences as they already have.

This wouldn't be the first time of such a provocation in well-established history, and even in modern history. It's just that people usually easily forget the details of how wars start (Archduke Franz-Ferdinand's murder for most of the world or 22 June 1941 for ex-USSR etc would seem notorious exceptions, but they are really not, nobody except historians remembers the context of preceding and following days).

Exactly.

Yes, the thing is - it's a choice.

I'd be using Gentoo if not for installing software being something you have to plan for.

In some sense this would even seem an advantage of Windows. (I know it's the fundamental reason for many hangs and freezes, but the idea that a file is a lockable resource doesn't seem that bad.)

Some even Paradox ones. One can waste many-many hours in CK:DV with Mappa Regnorum mod, for example. Though CK2 is more complex, it lacks the relative simplicity and clarity.

HP laptops were nice ... somewhere in 2011.

And I have two HP mice and an HP keyboard (that one is PS/2, so not very relevant, I guess), which work fine.

Well, China, when its ruling organization still had some consistent ideology, was a copy of Stalin's USSR, bigger and weaker, give or take. Only it started later.

Its way off that track started with reforms like Kosygin's reforms, would those not be neutered.

I'd say the reason in China this happened was exactly that it was bigger and weaker. It didn't quite have anything like Soviet industrial establishment, and it had the issues of poverty, hunger etc.

I’m just gonna block you. Everyone wins.

Not the worst way to look at this, if you want my opinion.

There’s just so much wrong in your comment I can’t address it all…

If you can't then you'd better say nothing.

But where has anyone said the government had to manufacture it too?

You said when talking about pharma companies as middlemen. You remove those middlemen - you have to do tasks they perform.

We’re talking about patents right now.

Yes, patent law should be abolished. That's what I'm talking about while commenting in most threads blaming "capitalism", because in like 2/3 cases patent law is to blame and not that.

The rest of what you said is still wrong, can’t stress that enough, it just also has absolutely nothing to do with what people were talking about…

Thank you for your unsubstantiated opinion which I can beat with that of my own every time, so not sure why you'd even express it without details.

Actually in human societies, not just in capitalism.

People talk about capitalism being bad as if only there people try to eat each other to become richer.

If you read something about reasons the USSR wouldn't have more efficient centralized planning, while having necessary machinery and resources, or why it wouldn't have standardized something, while having the standardization apparatus and planned economy, or why all the Internet-like projects went nowhere in USSR while being much more ambitious due to, again, planned economy, or why despite less fragmentation scale wouldn't make things cheaper to produce in USSR, but the opposite, and so on - that's because every reform would mean someone losing influence, and that someone would naturally use that influence to resist reform.

It's actually fascinating to read how some of those people really believed in Marxism and Communism, and were even very competent sometimes, but the general architecture made the whole thing less than just a sum of its parts. Really sad, though.

Because "government research" doesn't cover mass production and all of the supply chain management. Which is where anything bureaucratic really sucks.

(Unless you need to build things badly, but fast and on large scale, mobilization-style - see Khruschev-era mass construction in ex-USSR, or, for exotic stuff, older state-built housing in Israel which isn't that much better).

Actual production rots very quickly, if centralized and bureaucratic.

I agree that research requires long-term investment and is in general a completely different thing.

Ah, trademark laws and patents are obviously governmental stuff. So - not present in some imagined absolute capitalism. And with those abolished (except for stealing authorship still being illegal), I suppose market mechanisms would do their job sufficiently well for this particular case.

Believing in capitalism is believing in humans making rational and moral choices, anyone to do that would be nuts. That's a proactive answer to politically active people getting triggered by my comment and labeling me as a member of the other crowd.