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Comment · 1 year ago
That makes sense. Do you know the reason for Firefox being more sensitive? Is their DNS prefetching not as effective?
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you just referring to ads not being blocked?

A regular dns like quad9 + ublock origin on Firefox has been a consistently great experience for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you don't want others to use your data, perhaps you should have kept it private?
Comment · 1 year ago
What do you mean by weights?

I'd certainly trust their predictions more than those given by most "experts".

Comment · 1 year ago
Participants in prediction market do not need to be experts for their collective input to be informative.

There's a long history of economic research on the "wisdom of crowds" that backs up their value.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's annoying to read on my phone. Text and pictures are moving at different speeds than I'm scrolling.
Comment · 1 year ago
It uses UTC, as everyone should.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Gnu IceCat, the ONLY firefox fork with no telemetry.

Why would you think that? Plenty of other forks like LibreWolf and IronFox have removed all telemetry.

Comment · 1 year ago
FYI, precision is an entirely unrelated to accuracy, whether consistent or not.

Precision is basically just how many decimals your measurements have.

Comment · 1 year ago
That seems pretty reasonable to me. The vast majority of innovations that have consistently raised everyone's standard of living over the last centuries has also come from that 10%.
Comment · 1 year ago
With every year that passes, I am more sympathetic to Kaczynski's manifesto.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd say "Gulf of North America" is ideal.

"Americas" implies South America, which doesn't make sense. And only "America" ties it too closely to the US.

Of course the whole thing is silly and "Gulf of Mexico" was perfectly fine. And I say that as someone who supports 50% of what Trump is doing.

Comment · 1 year ago
> If you're ok with a lifestyle on the level that they get (with hard, dangerous work), you can have it quite easily in today's society.

There are very few places left in the world where that is true.

Governments basically all hate stateless people. There's been a long history of forcing "civilization" on stateless people "for their own good", but really it's because they can't be easily controlled or taxed.

Comment · 1 year ago
An easier life isn't always a better life, at least for some like the Amish.
Comment · 1 year ago
> they talk about how much the tuktuk drivers hassle any white person trying to walk around.

That wasn't my experience when I traveled there 3 years ago, and I walked around quite a bit.

My biggest complaint was the lack of good local restaurants, even in big cities. The juice bars were pretty great though. Still miss wood apple.

Another issue was the insanely reckless driving and incessant honking. Even with the plentiful metal bars and hand straps, trying to stand on a crowded bus while they fly around mountain curves is a total body workout.

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