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One wonders whether Mr. Beard had to do a lie detector run to prove his loyalty the cause(s) du jour.
One wonders whether Mr. Beard had to do a lie detector run to prove his loyalty the cause(s) du jour.
It must be awkward for the ASF/OASIS fundraiser folks to have helped a reporter make it sound like they feel entitled to Apple's charity.
It is too easy to flip around that "analysis" with partisan rhetoric of the other polarity.
Or maybe it's questionable because the Lovejoy paper is based on the Amman/Wahl multiproxy work, which is far from uncontroversial.
My point was that by mashing together all these proxies, and presenting it as an edifice that can only fail if *all* parts fail, is an inappropriate burden of proof.
It's a questionable mixing of questionable data, with a proposed burden of proof that claims to immunize it against questioning or any part.
It's as though you only accept a cryptosystem broken if all stages and are shown weak.
"all of these would have to be invalidated"
No, only *any*.
Aw heck, there is no reason to make anybody work at all.
Well, I'm busy this week, but let's get together next and see what we can come up with. Those laurels are getting put away right this second.
Well, not just that. Cochlear implants were invented 50ish years ago, and this exact same complaint has been raised ever since. It's the non-story of the generation.
"You are a customer, the service provider needs to keep you or there is nothing to offer advertisers."
Then you are a resource - a necessary expense - but not a customer.
The customers are still the advertisers.
Users of the browser are the product, not the customers.
What customer backlash?
Who is a Mozilla customer, except perhaps Google?
Under that reasoning, laws of physics are just another external constraints. As are laws of Moses.
Luckily, Mozilla is not in the business of handing out marriage certificates, so the CEO's opinions on that narrow issue don't affect what the company does.
How about a certain northern state?
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