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Sundar's claim to fame is Google Toolbar for MSIE. It was a big deal at that time. It locked Google search on MSIE and ultimately enable navboost in search quality. Then he was the…

> You aren't really engaging seriously. Do you really want to switch discussion to personalities? > and dragnet surveillance and the power to freeze or seize money from anyone's ac…

Not true. Fiat currencies are backed by the consumer of last resort: governments. Everyone has to pay taxes using the official currency of the country. For instance, US$ is backed …

> Yes, they are ready to use violence to enforce their rules, no that doesn't help them read my encrypted data/messages/transactionds if I don't give them the key. You are mistaken…

Let me repeat: any kind of government comes down to monopoly on use of violence. It does not matter if it's Henry VIII or Kim Jong Un or Democratically Elected Government of Cybers…

There is a contradiction in your reasoning. The system we have today requires surveillance and control of governments to function. The parallel system or systems on the internet wo…

> The over-prioritization of certain products, which has led to a lack of focus on other important issues like infrastructure It comes down to someone's judgement call. It's usuall…

The main problem with Firefox is Gecko. Technically it's a great rendering engine, fast, standards-compliant, maybe only slightly more buggy than Webkit. Unfortunately it has a dif…

I wonder why Fastmail decided to bend the knee and proactively block Russian IPs. The only thing those &^#%$-!@ could do is just that what FM did: block Russian IPs. Why make life …

The reason for that is actually rational: when Amit Singhal was in charge the search rules were written by hand. Once he was fired, the Search Quality team switched to machine lear…

If it's so much more efficient then why is it sold at 2-3x the price of a normal beef burger? Where does the difference go?

The reason for rising inequality in the States is very clear: offshoring and automation. Historically, the rest of the world had much lower wages while it was difficult to move US …

But they are getting an unlicensed product. IMNAL, but if they are made aware of the fact and continue to use the product, wouldn't it be willful misconduct?

but status dashboard shows "healthy"[2] for the whole week. Dear Google, do you actually care? [1]: Partially broken: https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!topic/firebase-talk/nO…

EU demands common charger standard but does not require a specific type of charger, right? It does not prescribe USB-C. So, what prevents Apple from offering lightning connector as…

It doesn't have to be p2p. It just needs to be sufficiently decentralized, like email. If a company provides software but not a service then it's not liable under the new ruling. Y…

We've been using Firebase and one of the issues we had is that methods become "cold": if it's not used for a few minutes, the latency of the next call is unpredictable and could be…

If you want to try socialist culture go work for the government.

Erlang is just too different from the C-like languages that everyone is accustomed to.

Well, then there is even more open sourced alternative than Mattermost: https://github.com/tinode/chat

Here is another scam that someone tried to pull on me. I booked a place in Reno a week in advance. On the night before check-in at about 2am I got a text from the host asking me to…

You are still wrong though :) Gambling contracts are legal in a lot of states. They are also generally not enforceable through courts. If my argument is tautological (I think not),…

I don't doubt for a second that money laundering and tax evasion services are very lucrative. Look at Cayman Islands. Their per capita GDP (PPP) is higher than in the States! If yo…

Why downvotes? He is exactly right about crypto (>50% of volume?) being used to move money out of China.