Mozilla Corporation is a taxable entity owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. The tax system in the US apparently doesn't take kindly to non-profits funding open-source projects because they "can" be used commercially. e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/open-source-madness

$300 million revenue with ~1,000 employees is about $300,000/employee. Pretty good but no guarantee of profitability.

> Fucking SQL. I don't want to learn your stupid DSL.

I really like one change in LINQ syntax (and probably various other SQL-inspired DSLs), which is to invert the basic query structure, enabling better IDE support:

from thing in things ... (yay, now my editor knows what a "thing" is and can provide better code completion and type checking for the remainder of this deeply-nested behemoth of a query that probably should be expressed as hundreds of simple statements instead of cramming half of the day's work into a single "statement" with no obvious rules for indentation because, after all, run-on sentences are notoriously annoying to read and generally should be avoided).

That alone is worth investing a few minutes to learn something new.

Maybe in the '90s. Today's students are busy cooking up ways to use ambient radio signals ("illuminators of opportunity") as passive radar to see into houses.

It's a letter, issued by an occult kangaroo court, that coup d'etat forces hold in hand while demanding the keys to the kingdom - a demand that can't be challenged in a legitimate court of law.

A mid-range motorcycle is cheaper than a car and could make that trip in 9 minutes or less, if security isn't a concern.

> the only thing going on is the linking of his name with his actions.

And linking his name with unverified claims about somebody's actions. Ever tried not to think of a pink elephant when someone told you not to? Try it. Don't think of a pink elephant. It works about as well as "don't let this damning claim tarnish X's reputation in your mind, because it might be wrong."

Well that seems less preposterous than my own idea of using lasers to accelerate a ring of air, generating a plasma circuit that would pull the craft up magnetically. (Version 2 would have a series of plasma rings that the craft would fly through like a coil gun.)

Eich shares the same moral ground with gay marriage supporters. Anyone supporting government-issued marriage licenses with associated privileges and entitlements is hateful and bigoted toward individuals who aren't marriage material for various reasons beyond their control.

I wonder if there are enough privacy advocates to convince stores to stop carrying invasive products by buying the product and then returning it, citing the privacy policy. Question is whether the store would actually stop selling the products or just change the return policy.

If blocks were closer to optimal, it should have the effect of raising transaction fees to ensure timely confirmation, which would improve the reward ratio somewhat. Maybe it still wouldn't be significant.