Being banned from Mozilla is actually sort of endorsement for me :)
I was worried this project is just repacked Thunderbird, with malware. This makes it more legit.
Also some people do not like politics in Mozilla Corp. Firefox is supposed to be privacy focused, yet it uses Google for search, CEO salaries, scraping promising tech etc...
I use Brave browser, created by a guy who was also banned from Mozilla, it works great.
He was appointed Mozilla's CEO. There was then some public discussion about his political donations (Brendan donated money to a campaign trying to prevent gay people from marrying because of their gender) and whether they were relevant to this position. After a couple of weeks he stepped down as Mozilla's CEO.
His Wikipedia article has more details — if you just can't get enough real-time “people shouting at each other” and you want to add some historical “people shouting at each other” to bulk it out a bit.
I think he is referring to the massive fallout after Brendan Eich (one of the founders of Mozilla and now founder of Brave) donated some money to a socially conservative political campaign (I forgot what one).
Brendan "quit" Mozilla, but many people consider that he was kinda forced to quit.
It was the 2008 California Proposition 8 which banned same-sex marriage. Its worth noting at the time that 52% of Californians agreed with him and 48% were against. It wasn't until 2014 when he was cancelled for it and people were calling it an "extreme" position.
Brave was founded by Brendan Eich, long-time Mozilla developer, long-time Mozilla CTO, briefly Mozilla CEO.
Brendan Eich also happened to be an anti-gay-marriage activist and donator (afaik, only his spare time, not at work) and California law says that if you donate more than [some sum of money], you must specify your employer. So, suddenly, a few days after Brendan Eich was nominated CEO, someone on Twitter published the records of Brendan Eich's donation, phrasing it as "Mozilla is donating against gay rights", or something like that. A shitstorm started, including death threats against Mozilla employees, a highly hypocritical PR campaign by OKCupid (whose CEO was member of the same political circles as Brendan Eich) to boycott Mozilla, etc. Brendan Eich was convinced to resign from Mozilla after about two weeks of this.
That's probably what GP calls "banned from Mozilla".
Of course, after this, US Conservatives rephrased this into "Mozilla is persecuting Christians", so the death threats continued, just from the other side.
> Brendan Eich also happened to be an anti-gay-marriage activist and donator
AFAIK he only donated some money in 2008; I can't find anything on him being an "activist"?
And 2008 was the same year Obama said "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage." Although Obama did support it a few years later (2012). And the prop 8 he donated to was actually passed, so a majority of CA residents at the time agreed with him. My point is, it was a mainstream view (and to some degree, still is, although less so).
For what it's worth, I strongly support same-sex marriage, but I feel this ostracisation of anyone who disagreed is not doing the cause any good... Oh well, old drama...
As if the history of the dollars used is relevant. Chase money far enough and 90% of US bills have some trace of cocaine. Should we avoid any and all donations because it's drug money?
> Presumably the donations were of money that he made at work.
And? It's his money at that point, is it not? Isn't "work" trading labour for money? While working you abide by the rules and principles of your employer and outside of that, you operate by your own principles.
Brendan Eich - wasn't banned per se, but resigned as CEO of Mozilla after it came to light he'd donated to a cause supporting the ban of same-sex marriage. This is all on Wikipedia.
RX470 and RX480 are quite nice cards for Linux workstation. Support for 5 displays, and most importantly great opensource drivers. I am buying couple...
My PowerColor Fighter RX6600 works completely fine on Ubuntu 22.04. No stability issues at all, and even ROCm works. The GPU itself supports 5 simultaneous displays but the card has only 4 outputs: 3 DP 1.4a and 1 HDMI 2.1
Well, I’m saying it may not perform for workstation workloads as well as nvidia cards, because cuda, but I also dont know how well supported workstation/pro features are with nvidia cards on Linux.
I think OP meant problems with setting up payment method, dealing with credit card etc.. Most of the world population can not even pay with usual visa card.
There's that. But there's also a big psychological barrier to paying anything at all (even if you can whip out a credit card and pay in a minute) vs. paying a bit more. Is that barrier greater than an additional $99? I'm not sure in general. But it's probably bigger than paying an additional $3.99 or whatever.
I program in Java, C++, Go, PHP and Ruby. For me Intellij Idea (and related products) is a lifesaver. Without it, I would lost most energy on slightly different ways to compile, test, deploy...
With Idea most things are uniform, and programming language is just slightly different flavour.
I never understood why children should be able to give a consent to such loans. There is a young and naive person, that can not legally drink, but somehow is able to understand complicated legal contracts!
Make student loans part of personal bankruptcy, and see what happens!
As a child I was coerced to join the military by adults who told me I would run into incredible debt otherwise.
Coming from a poor family it felt like my only option, even with excellent performance in school (I lived in a small town).
Fortunately, my time in the military ended up becoming one of the most productive parts of my life but I still shudder at the thought of it happening to kids every day.
Good! They will not get 40 years into unpaidable loans! If university education is such a goldmine, any bank will loan them, it must be like 20% per annum profit!!!
It's got nothing to do with that correlation. My point is that it closes off opportunities for smart-and-poor people. (Today's system also has drawbacks, but let's not forget that it does afford opportunities to people who wouldn't otherwise have them.)
Educational attainment for intellectual gratification is good.
Educational attainment for career and financial condition improvement is also, but independently, good.
It would suck to have a world where only the rich (or perhaps "only the rich plus people for whom their parents are willing to pledge a house they own") can afford to attend high-end colleges. That shuts out some intellectual development [and economic and social mobility], but I'm focused on the "hey, it's great that you're smart and did well in school, but because you're poor, here's a broom..."
New loan issuances will fall overnight and university fee will fall probably by next year. They will end up discontinuing a lot of useless courses due to lack of students.
I think the GP is a bit confused and mixed Lithuania up with its neighbors. Lithuania, unlike its neighbors Estonia and Latvia, gave citizenship automatically to everyone residing in Lithuania right before the independence. While Estonia and Latvia chose to create a naturalization process aimed at excluding ethnic Russians.
All Russians born in Lithuania been offered Lithuanian citizenship, repeatedly, many times over.
Some Russians on the far right of the political spectrum repeatedly imply the contrary. This is not even a conspiracy theory, but a "being debunked in 5 minutes Googling theory."
How would you even go about this though? What store will accept a return “because it consumes too much power when off?” They most likely don’t even have tools available to verify the claim.
Even if you ship it to Sony, when will you see your refund?
Yes, if you took it to the store you bought it from either with a print off of the relevant parts of thst thread, or my smart plugs also show power consumption, I could screen shot that and take it in.
I honestly don't think you'd have an issue at all doing that in the UK at any of the main highstreet electronic stores, or somewhere like John Lewis.
About 10% of Americans are functionaly iliterate, like they have troubles to understand and form long sentences in writting. Learning second method seems wasteful in that case.
And yes, I know only one way to add, multiply and so on. Also I can only program in one way (in very specific language and heavy IDE support).
Attractive people are more likely to be intelligent. Obesity and other "unattractive" traits have negative impact on cognitive functions and IQ. And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
I’m not so sure about that correlation. Some of the smartest folks I’ve ever met have been overweight. I’ve also known plenty of attractive people who were pretty dumb when you got to know them. I’d bet on a random distribution of intelligence across the spectrum.
> includes all babies born during the week of March 9, 1958 in Great Britain
> When the children were 7 and again when they were 11, their teachers were asked to describe them physically. For the purpose of the analysis below, the children are defined to be attractive if they were described as attractive at both age 7 and age 11.
> Sixty-two percent of the NCDS respondents are coded as attractive.
It is possible that teacher involuntary describe rich students as attractive and poor students as not attractive, or at least there is a bias. Or perhaps it's a bias for some race that is correlated with wealth that is correlated with intelligence. Malnutrition cause learning problems. Poor students get bad schools and not out of school tuition when necessary. It's not a 100% correlation, but perhaps enough to cause a difference in the study.
That is interesting. It makes me wonder if this difference is due to something innate, or due to the apparent leg up that attractive people have— teachers being more prone to spend time with them, etc.
That's why professors, doctors, and lawyers are so hot.
There's literally a term "law school hot" which means definitely not hot, but hot for a lawyer.
> used to describe women who, in any other scenario would be considered hunchbacked, slovenly, heinous wildebeasts. But, because of their captive audience (law school men) and their alternatives (other trolls, buffalos, and wildebeasts) they somehow garner attraction.
Not so sure about intelligence, but perhaps fitness to some extent. Unattractive traits are usually red flags for other problems that don't necessarily have anything to do with IQ.
> And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
Being competent would probably be more accurate. I assume you mean intelligence when you use the word smart here, in which case I would say that most people consider intelligence to be boring. But no one likes an idiot. One can be competent, or perhaps smart (which is really more about decision making than processing capability), without being abundant in intelligence.
I was worried this project is just repacked Thunderbird, with malware. This makes it more legit.
Also some people do not like politics in Mozilla Corp. Firefox is supposed to be privacy focused, yet it uses Google for search, CEO salaries, scraping promising tech etc...
I use Brave browser, created by a guy who was also banned from Mozilla, it works great.