Viewing profile — uniqueid

The dev posted this some weeks back, but I found it too off-the-wall to believe. I wish I could go back and append a mea culpa to my old comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

Of the four, I've only ever heard of SeaMonkey before. I'll definitely check them out though.

I'm currently using Brave to reply to this comment because it was already on my drive. I don't like Brave's philosophy and I don't like its proximity to Google. I'm using it as a s…

When I was still a Firefox user, I just ended up blocking any domain owned by mozilla. And by 'when I was still a Firefox user' I mean 'until approximately 12 hours ago.' What prio…

I'm out! I don't care how few users Firefox has. I do care that the product has become a pile of garbage. I already tolerate the dumb tab bar, the update nag screen that interrupts…

Humans can only focus on one thing at a time. So why are we spending money to display multiple things simultaneously? Would the author use that logic to argue that no monitor shoul…

'Google' is not the most common query on Google, just the most common search result.

The shift in company culture that I am thinking about is about how strongly people react to react to social justice issues, not really the issues themselves. I think, deep down, Co…

I predicted Coinbase would enter a vicious cycle in which the work culture increasingly promotes ass-covering and discourages conscientiousness. Sometimes people who don't work for…

Almost! The author is actually a self-described "anarcho-capitalist". He also dresses like Tweedledee for some reason.

Well, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. Just to clarify, I don't think I'm particularly prone to romanticize societies that Europeans colonized. What changed my view about the…

That way of looking at things is mostly wrong, but it is a belief that suited the winners, so it is a wide-spread belief. I'm not keen to rebut it at much length because my previou…

I sometimes consider the notion that, socially, Western modernity was just reified feudalism: everybody's a lord now! I figure historians of the future will view it like this: ther…

Either that or we have changed enough that we are now capable of being creative, in terms of both art and theorizing about prehistory. Personally I think it's the latter. If we wer…