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Under US law, you have a nearly absolute right to not answer police questions.

What am I looking at? It's a link to a Windows update from 2016?

I believe an open source ranking algorithm is antithetical to good search, sadly. It hands spammers a recipe for how to push past legitimate sites to dominate the search results.

This is a strange concept to me. When companies add additional features to a product I use, I generally want to be notified about them so that I can make an informed decision about…

What do you mean by "locked to Mozilla's AI"? Mozilla doesn't host an AI chat bot to my knowledge.

Torbrowser is a fork of Firefox, not a user. I'm not going to bother looking this up because pigs aren't flying yet, so I'll just state it as fact: the torbrowser fork does not inc…

Firefox development is funded almost entirely out of Google's massive donations to Mozilla. For Google, it's no more than a regulatory hedge - something they can point at and say t…

I can't imagine a quality random sample could come from 52 users who self-selected to participate in a browser beta, then self-selected to post about it in a thread on the Mozilla …

I use AI in Firefox all the time. Obviously it seems like I'm in a minority. * I summarize articles. * When I need more context to understand an article, I ask AI what I'm missing.…

Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain…

Git itself is a safeguard against "expunging all traces". It preserves history permanently.

> A degraded fleet is worse than no fleet here, there is no 2 are down, 8 are up here. Ethereum runs at 100% throughput with 100% of its security guarantees, all the way up to a 33…

Society is a scam. Everyone else already owns all the good stuff by the time you're born. Wake me up when you can manufacture a Bitcoin mining ASIC by yourself starting with sticks…

> We don’t know exactly what happened between 0 and 1, but it’s not really that important, other than it’s “externally verifiable hash”, eg PoW. Whether or not someone ran a partic…

> it was a split (not downtime) There were several significant double-spends. People were able to create fake transactions and scam each other. Preventing people from sending fake …

> I recall genesis block took 6 days of hashing at difficulty 1. The genesis block (0) was hard-coded. Block 1 was mined 6 days later, but Satoshi wasn't hashing that whole time, h…

> Ugh. Satoshi wrote about this. I don't believe he did, and I'm familiar with a lot of his writings. Do you have a source? > Single Client = Good. multiple client = menace. Two ma…

This subthread is about mining pools and I made my argument about bitaxe. You didn't address it at all.

ETH price has been performing poorly lately, therefore PoS is "failing"? That seems like quite the leap in logic to me. I'd like to mention by the way that Bitcoin has had two egre…

One bitaxe costs $145 and runs at about 400GH/s. That's $0.02 per day in gross revenue, before electricity expenditure. It breaks even at $0.05 per kWh, which is an electricity rat…

I am a random nobody, I was there at the time the Ethereum presale happened, and they were accepting purchases from people just like me. In fact the presale was so open that it was…

See my other reply. The coins were not sold to insiders, and your percentage is wrong on top of that.

Bitcoin is not currently mined by "people", it is mined by large specialized companies with razor-thin margins in warehouses with access to bulk ASIC purchase agreements and incred…

The largest single staking entity, Coinbase, currently holds 7.6% of the ETH stake.

Of course if you want to buy something useful you have to pay someone who created it or someone who is reselling it. It sounds like you're basically describing the software market,…