The word *serious* is the key here. Apparently the people in charge of triaging bugs didn't take it seriously enough, though.

I anticipate this will make my mobile Firefox usage significantly better. Adblockers alone...

What are you talking about? GeForce Now it's a cloud streaming platform, you pay them to host the game on cloud hardware...

The controllers work with USB as is.. Just saying

So you replace your phones every 1-2 years? Why not just get some proper phones that last 4 years apiece instead??

Face ID is super convenient, the chip inside was the fastest until the Pixel 6, camera is boss, and the XL version has tons of battery life to spare. Despite having to get it repaired/replaced twice (at cost, just out of warranty) I am still loving the Pixel 4 XL. The small version had crap battery life to be sure, but to say the 4XL is a "very bad device" is some extreme hyperbole, and actually not even remotely true.

That is not correct. I'm not talking about ivermectin. A quick Google of "existing drugs that treat covid" yields:
https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-researchers-see-hope-in-existing-drugs/6432976.html
https://www.biopath.ph/study-identifies-3-existing-drugs-that-may-help-treat-covid-19/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-existing-drugs-fight-coronavirus-with-almost-100-success-in-jerusalem-lab/

There's 8 drugs for you mentioned in those three articles: fluvoxamine (anti-depressant), budesonide (inhaled steroid), amodiaquine (antimalarial), zuclopenthixol (antipsychotic), nebivolol (blood pressure), darapladib (atherosclerosis), Flumatinib (cancer), and an unspecified HIV medication. And that's pretty much the tip of the iceberg.

Your arguments are logical on the surface of it, but they're missing a couple of key points:

1) Drugs, unlike vaccines, can be reused to treat illnesses beyond their original target. This was in fact the case with COVID, and had drug trials been better coordinated, plenty of hospital beds could arguably have been freed up, especially pre-vaccine and in areas of the world where vaccine distribution was behind the curve. Because we're talking about existing drugs, potentially in generic form, they can be more easily/quickly/cheaply manufactured and distributed around the world.

2) Vaccines aren't actually needed if you've recovered from the actual thing. So given an effective treatment, the importance of vaccines is significantly reduced.

3) COVID has more in common with influenza than with polio. It is a rapidly mutating virus that, like the flu, seems to require a new vaccine every year or even every season. There's a reason that to this day most people don't vaccinate against the flu - because available treatments are "good enough" and only really necessary in severe cases. At the moment we are seeing a law of diminishing returns on COVID vaccine boosters, while baseline COVID immunity has become widespread in the population. So we could potentially start treating COVID more like we treat the flu - i.e., drugs and not vaccines as the first line of defense. (Whether this might have been possible from the get-go is an open question.)

IMHO, one reason vaccines were prioritized to the extent they were is because, in the current state of the world, it pays off a lot more to develop a novel vaccine or treatment than to run trials on existing drugs. The pharmaceutical companies succeeded in convincing the government and the media that this was the main/only way forward, to the detriment of funding for trials of existing drugs.

To summarize: Just because vaccines have succeeded in wiping certain viruses off the planet, doesn't prove that they will be able to do so for all viruses. And the reasons for favoring vaccines don't all have to do with logic. When considering how we handle future pandemics, I think the lesson to take from COVID is that trials of treatments, in particular using existing drugs, should be given at least as much emphasis as vaccines, in particular when the target is as fast-moving as COVID is.

I pay just 5.20 euros a month for Google Workspace Starter. Just checked and the price for the basic plan in the U.S. is just 6 Euros - and it even advertises being able to host up to 100 users in Meet, I'm fairly certain with no time limit. So what gives, why would anyone pay more for the "Individual" plan? Couldn't find any direct comparisons of "Business Startet" and "Individual" when I googled it. ðY(TM)

Talk and gChat are the same, as is "Hangouts Chat" and "Chat"

Found it: https://www.newyorker.com/maga... Slashdot editors, please update the summary.

I agree with everything you say, however: the reason broadband and mobile networks are more expensive/have less coverage than in other countries is because America is geographically huge, and essentially the people in more populated areas are financing the building out of infrastructure in less populated areas. The simple expectation that a mobile phone plan should work "nationwide" drives costs way up compared to countries that have a higher population density overall. Same goes for broadband - on average broadband is less available / slower, but that's only because there are huge areas that are hard to cover due to low population density.

Sorry but you seem to have an impressive ability not too read/understand what everyone is telling you in their answers. Netflix pays for hosting. There is no free hosting involved. They pay shitloads for big fat pipes attached to their server farms. What this charter thing is about is not hosting, but rather the consumption end of things. Netflix does not get special treatment any more than any other company.

Technically the Edge "classic" engine is just a further iteration of Trident. What's the fourth engine you're referring to?

The slow/unreliable debugging experience in Firefox when using bundled code with sourcemaps was one of the main reasons I have stuck with Chrome for web development thus far, despite Firefox's progress in providing advanced CSS debugging. As I recall there were also problems debugging into async callbacks, a feature Chrome didn't implement until a couple of years ago.. so hopefully that is sorted too. I guess it's time to give FF another spin...