PrivacyDingus

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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · -2 pts · 352d

Wealth and income are two different things. We should tax wealth savagely, i.e., the ownership of assets, and we should also tax income, but to a lesser degree.

Just to level set: income refers to the flow of money earned over a period, like a salary or wages, while wealth represents the accumulated assets minus liabilities at a specific point in time

nepenthe

It's a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they're hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it's only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven't thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.

guessing this is a money-from-google take, or something about some of the telemetry stuff firefox collects, or the fact they're not really focused on their browser and keep putting their efforts into AI products or other flights of fancy. To be fair they're all good takes; I mainly use Firefox, but they also have some deep issues.