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Comment Re:It would have been interesting... (Score 1) 26

Nuclear fission is dirty. Its waste products need to be carefully and securely stored for thousands of years. Don't get me wrong -- it's one of the cleanest options we currently have for scalable power generation -- but it's dirty dirty dirty. Fusion's waste products are safe and non-radioactive.

Oh, and even disregarding waste products, it's safer. Not entirely safe, but a fusion reactor explodes, nobody outside the blast radius is going to be hurt, ever. If a fisison reactor melts down, the place where that fission reactor was, automatically becomes a permanent synonym for "environmental catastrophe". Have you ever heard of this town in Eastern Europe called Chernobyl? I have too! So will our great great grandchildren.

If you tried to design a power source which was as scary as possible, you'd end up with nuclear fission. Again, it's one of the best options we have. But it's awful compared to fusion.

Comment Re: It a guidebook... (Score 1) 225

Really isn't. I haven't seen cursive anywhere but on documents in a museum at any point in my life. That includes signatures, which are more likely to be a squiggle than anything resembling actual cursive. There is zero point to mandatory instruction on it anymore (if there ever was- the idea that it was a faster way of writing is backed by 0 proof. And even if it was, the ease of reading script more than cancels out those speed gains).

Comment Re:of course the question not asked: why? (Score 1) 53

dissolve Hyundai and 130,000 people lose their jobs because a criminal managed to break into a database?

No. Because the company collected the data in the first place. "In a database" is a place where criminals are likely to devote enormous resources to stealing it, and which they are unlikely to be able to protect adequately. On top of which, exactly 0 customers want their details to be stored.

Comment How much more "AI" do we need in Firefox? (Score 1) 42

This seems rather redundant with the AI Sidebar feature they already have. I can interact with a chatbot whenever I want with their existing tool. I guess the difference here is the AI will be watching the browsing to assist you further? Funny how we went to fearing third-party cookies and cross-site scripting to asking a third-party to shoulder surf while we use the Internet.

Also curious what Mozilla as a company is going to focus on after this. Doesn't seem like there is much more AI they can distract themselves with beyond making the browser completely chatbot voice-controlled so you have to verbally ask the computer to see sites.

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