Even get positive comments from random people who see me using my set up... Mostly focusing on plug-ins I am using, but hey that's all part of the Firefox ecosystem that is great at what it does.

California banned noncompete clauses.

"What I wanted to do was just provide a venue for students who are doing it anyway, to get credit,"

That's Nobel Prize material, there.

Maybe they will be taken more seriously if they offer it as double major with Bitcoin studies.

But the issue is not a choice between J&J and nothing...
The choice is between A) splitting future orders between a less effective/more problematic vaccine and a more effective/less problematic vaccine.... Or B) dropping the worse one and ordering twice as much of the other.

Even if the difference between them is marginal, say 1% for easy number but it could be even smaller, the second option B is still better because you aren't giving up anything while getting better result. It's not necessary to believe the J&J is absolutely horrible and evil, if that was the only vaccine available then maybe it would be good option to produce. But if there is better options available, why go with the worse one?

Yeah, I don't get it. Nobody else even comments on that basic piece of obvious info, at least relevant to this site community. I think the stats are also dubious considering people inclined to use FF are also inclined to block Javascript and/or tracking elements which are counted for browser stats, FF now including native blocking by default. I read all this stuff implying FF is bad or horrible, and don't know what they are talking about as I have no problem using it for 99.9% of my browsing, it works great and I recommend it to anybody as far as I'm concerned. The remainder only when some site doesn't work with FF, i.e. not by my choice. Nothing about FF experience is pushing me to switch, although I have effectively suffered harassment from MS pushing Edge on me.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not the same flag you're thinking of.

First, concern at lack of Russian flag is a non sequitur, the Russian Navy has own flag distinct from Russian national flag.
Second, the primary Russian Navy flag is a blue "X" cross on white field. .But that's not the only flag they have.
They also have "Jack" flag which is what you're probably focused on. But that isn't the same as the "Novorussia flag".
(which doesn't have any official status in Donbass currently AFAIK, DNR/LNR having own official flags each with different colored horizontal bars)
Although the "Novorussia flag" seemingly was "based on" the Navy Jack, it differs in lacking the thin vertical/horizontal white cross lines of Navy Jack..
Third, there are actually more flags used by Russian Navy, and in one shot of video you can make out mostly red flag with emblem in upper left,
that being the flag of Fleet Commander, obviously corresponding to the specific hierarchy of staff in command of the naval grouping on display.

Removing the option (with justification "not many people use it because we don't make the option prominent") does seem especially strange when they plan to increase the size of the default style, i.e. increasing the relative benefit in it what it does (save space) vs the standard. If it's possible some people didn't think the difference was enough to matter before (now), the difference will be even more noticeable. And it's not like there is any technical problem for why it can't exist, they just are being overly anal-retentive control freaks.

Incidentally, I find a signficant benefit of it to be not just saving vertical screen space which seems the design focus, but saving horizontal space as well... Which for the Bookmark Bar (which the setting also applies to, not just Toolbar Widgets), translates to more Bookmarks/Folders on-screen without forcing overflow into menu.

The fact Compact Mode is smaller just doesn't really negatively impact usability, 99.999% of the time the extra spacing does nothing for you, and likewise you don't generally need to look at that stuff to use a web page, and when you do you typically use "muscle memory" to know where stuff generally is so the tighter spacing isn't really key for legibility.

Anyways, I don't like this design decision if they choose to go thru with it in the end (seemingly it will get alot more attention now, so who knows), but really love everything else about the browser, it works great and I love the privacy options like built in anti-fingerprinting which is really the only way to go since otherwise you make yourself more unique by trying to be less unique to the trackers.

Exactly. Actually I used MS' own (little publicized) script / reg edit file to block download of "New Edge" and I wonder how the new update will be affected by that or not... I mean, AFAIK the existing updates alread forced dowloading new Edge, so the only people who haven't downloaded would be people who blocked it.

Personally, I would be thrilled if I could delete the old one while not installing the new one, as I never use either and am creeped out by their presence. I couldn't figure out way to delete old Edge in way I was sure would persist beyond updates, but the new updates sounds like it does just that.

I wonder if the best approach is to use MS tools against it. Download their "new New Edge update" and edit it to remove all parts that install New Edge... just leaving the part that deletes Old Edge. The update as a whole would show up on your computer, and so MS would then leave your computer alone... In theory?

If anybody has an idea about that, particularly if you have yourself used MS' blocker, I'm all ears.(open to information)

Sure, I don't know what is so hard to understand about that. But if this guy is serious, he needs to get serious about marketing.
Every year publicize the number of sharks that would not have been culled if his program was implemented (compared to mass culls).
The other side of this is implementing his plan implies a comprehensively thorough survey of shark populations in order to track DNA.
That in itself should be appealing from perspective of most accurate research and management program, so what is the real problem?

Yeah, I was going to say the same, what is the rationale here?
Alot of "techies" work for Silicon Valley that is in bed with NSA/surveillance state, so movies about spies are on brand?

PS4 can output that high with UHD videos etc, if local network can handle it, why shouldn't that be possible?

I honestly find it strange the author is casually suggesting undermining the PS5 controller requirement that is built into PS5 games played on PS5 itself, after most media including Eurogamer itself has called out the new Dual Sense controller as one of most compelling parts of "next gen" experience offered by PS5. If there is way, even by streaming thru PS4, for PS5 games to be played with PS4 controller, that becomes the lowest common denominator that the game is actually built around, instead of features like dynamic triggers being core to the game experience. I guess the author is just in denial on that, and whining about needing to spend on 2nd controller (although personally it wouldn't be additional to what I would have for local multiplayer anyways).

They killed Bennu and want to hide their murder behind fancy words!

I guess that's better while still money-grabbing into what could be community recirculation at maximum efficiency with plenty of people happy to ignore minor "restorable" scuffs or whatever in exchange for cheaper price which IKEA would be profiting off atop costs of the whole operation. I also assume plenty of people would be happy living with the furniture that may not be able to profitably restored/resold by them so will end up "recycled".

Some stuff does get broken beyond repair, and recycling materials is good there, but that doesn't really need to be IKEA specific thing anymore, as large amount of furniture or similar objects of all brands could be handled by same processes.

Using the word "recycling" is a distraction from what this is: These are all good-to-great condition furnitures, so if Ikea didn't "buy them back" they would likely be filling the living rooms of poor people buying 2nd hand. Instead of that happening, IKEA "recycles" while those people now must acquire furniture somewhere else which IKEA knows nothing about. RE-USING is better goal than RE-CYCLE here, all IKEA is doing is getting return customers and "greening" it's image.

Exactly. Satisfaction surveys are more about marketing and consumer sentiment. You can have the same car model from same factory and it will have different "satisfaction" metrics in different regions or countries. Obviously the car itself is but one factor in how people think or feel about it. People very likely enjoy the idea of owning a "green" electric vehicle seen as prestigious (Tesla), and that impacts "satisfaction".