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Did you read the full context, or just rage at the cut out sentence that someone else here provided to you?
It's very clear in long form what he was talking about.
He has no control of people taking one sentence out of a long opinion that he has written.
It's up to you to inform yourself before joining the mob and sharpening your pitchfork.
What is the cutoff date for terms we can use that won't confuse and emotionally outrage you?
"Get the vaccine to reduce your symptoms or I'll fire you incase it kills you!"
It's not like the vaccine prevents spread to other coworkers, why require it?
Everyone has a different health risk, let them decide whether they can weather a certain viral load.
That is, unless, you have a vaccine that can actually prevent trasmission.
Do you mean head change? Basically a dizzy/foggy/rolling feeling mainly in the head.
It gets less extreme with tolerance, similar to cannabis highs.
But spliff smokers are in the minority in the US. Was more prevalent in the past when more people smoked tobacco.
Nowadays most people use carts / pens for cannabis use anyway.
Yes, since and during the communist takeover of China, all of its military might has generally been directed inwards at it's own people, but they are still a military force and are well organized.
I'd equate the current period of the PRC to the Soviet arms build up of the Cold War.
They "invaded" Crimea in 2013, a lot of people expected what's currently happening.
edit: 2014 not 2013. Also Crimea overwhelmingly supported being annexed into Russia as they were severely mistreated by Ukraine.
There were very clear tensions leading up to both Crimea and Ukraine events.
But using the political events of Ukraine/Russia to support tossing Taiwan to the PRC is not something I agree with.
Users also have a right to enable a separate rewards text system notification ads program if they so choose.
If content providers want to paywall adblockers they can choose to do so.
If you turn the BAT rewards on, you get system text notifications at intervals, it's not anywhere on the site or triggered by browsing.
They are two completely different features. The adblocker is a basic utility for everyone.
The BAT rewards is an optional program you can enable if you want extra tokens.
It's a real user agent, as in, for the user.
It may even hinder your motivation to build a browser that focuses on the user, and more to appease the person paying the bills (Google).
In comparison to a change that was in the browser for a day or so 2 years ago, yeah that's an asinine comparison alright.
They have a built in ad blocker and only block ads, not replace.
The OPT-IN text notification ad service is separate. You can enable it to get text notification ads in exchange for BAT. It's OPT-IN and completely up to you.
It's ALWAYS been like that. At no time did they ever "replace" blocked ads.
What's really shady is how these obviously false talking points about Brave get perpetuated to this day, in every Brave thread.
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I was responding to a very specific false claim that they replaced ads being constantly repeated.
If you want to go on a general rant find another thread.
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Nice biased article, that's exactly where this misinformation came from.
They say "replaced ads" then their only linked source to that claim is https://brave.com/brave-launches-user-trials-for-opt-in-ads/
Which talks about the BAT rewards program, which are opt-in text system notification ads shown in an interval. Not on the webpage, or while browsing, or by default.
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No you notice people bringing up 2 year old lies and people responding to them. The first people who act crazy are those saying these ridiculous statements like "Brave is a cryptocurrency scam!" Then the people who inevitably have to call them out, then comes the people who say the people calling them out are fanboying. It's a cycle that repeats over and over in every Tesla, SpaceX, Brave, etc. thread that for some reason (because the owners are hated) gets the same talking points spammed over and over.
The change was transparent, the response was transparent, and it was reversed immediately.
You do know that FireFox gets paid for Google search referrals to this day right?
In comparison this was responded to and resolved 2 years ago.
BAT is disabled by default.
Of course GDP grew for all countries over a decade, if it's not that means your country is doing worse than inflation rates lol.
European countries energy output shrank due to outsourcing their energy to places like Russia (something that recently just bit them in the ass)
Personally the fact that the US regulators aren't wasting time monitoring gif repo purchases is a good thing in my book.
> Someone has to reign in oligopolies amassing even more power and dominance
Quite a hyperbole for a gif repo purchase. Can FB purchase Tenor then? Who could purchase Giphy, any other social media giant?
This is all virtue signaling because they know certain people will eat it up.
I would hope they wouldn't do that to their own people. You're not really hurting FB, you're hurting your own citizens.
Is that really the best use of regulation, political power, etc?
Can FB buy Tenor then? Is any gif service off limits?
Who can buy Giphy? Any other social media?
I guess UK does already have a firewall with it's nanny-state porn filters though.
I can see it now, "All of UK blocked FB today because of meme gif service purchase" Great headline, wonderful use of regulation /s
Meanwhile you have actual problems going on and a crashing economy, but at least we prevented a meme service from being bought!
Especially about whether a social media company can own a meme gif repo...
There's got to be much more pressing matters for them right?
That's from your perceived bias. All MSM is biased and plays these tricks, you cross verify reporting from both extremes, check first hand sources and think for yourself!
You fight misinformation with more information. That's it.
Censorship leads to truth counsels, which leads to corruption.
We already had an example where valid topics were banned even though they were true (laptop story)
You're being a useful idiot if you advocate to take inalienable rights away from your brethren.
We did it because of fracking nat. gas replacing coal due to innovation. Capitalism brings a lot of innovation including advancements in green energy too.
Tesla was able to economically compete and take a huge segment away from the automobile giants through capitalism, forcing them to compete and develop EV cars.
I don't see many socialist countries actually doing much, hell Germany still wanted Russian gas so much someone (wonder who) had to blow up the pipeline!
He even references scenes that they do in Seinfeld when pitching it.
And I wouldn't call it fluff, its observational humor and his style is to do 95% detailed setup and a quick punchline connecting it altogether.
React doesn't only work for SPA.
bit of irony it's posted to a VC ran forum, bet they'd take funding too.
Exactly. That's my point. Don't assume everyone who was acquitted is guilty because of the few exceptions of injustice such as OJ.