The moment you read “crypto mining in the browser while you browse” should be an immediate red flag that you should run away. Absolutely no need to respect him even when he was the creator of JS. So what.

“but it’s opt in, bro, you dont have to use it” — every Brave stan

You need to read again. Parent is asking opt-in, not opt-out. Firefox should have been doing opt-in

Then he will spin off and then remerge again. He has several more small companies before he plays that game. Maybe next quarter!

You actually believe he makes razor thin profit? And you believes he reinvests everything? Sorry but none of us have verified his company’s books. Just saying

I like Practical Engineering. I also watch a lot of quality family vblog. You can tell genuine content vs influencer contents I am sure

Mark Rober has turned into very content-driven since a few years ago. He used to spend more time on explaining how the science works. His “toys” are also copycat from existing competitors

The abuse and toxic workplace had been exposed a few years back but nobody took those allegations seriously

Lol he didn’t build 1000 houses. 100 only. But also, I think many of the houses were rushed to build… so…

Dart, angular don't matter in business. They are just "passionate" projects. Google's culture of having multiple teams trying to build and scrape and never commit to a product is a big problem. They aren't slow to adopt to trends but they always seem to "overthink" about products. So when they lose the edge they close the door on the product. In the case of Google Meet, Good Lord, they renamed at least six times before they finally settled.

Subaru Forester

Netflix was great until everyone else caught up in the streaming war. Everyone else holds the licensing authority and they don’t give Netfli what they want. Plus, Netfix keeps killing their popular original content for reasons that fans don’t understand.

Music on the other hand is so strange and different. I knew the big 4 tried again and again in 2000s to offer form of music store but failed. Since none of the existing large music streaming services (YT. apple, Spotify) license, labels are happy to hand them licensing agreements.

> Netflix was great until everyone else caught up in the streaming war.

Everyone else jumped on the video service bandwagon because they wanted to kill off netflix and bring us back to the days of cable TV. It's slowly working, and netflix being terrible at producing quality content for their library, littering the service with more and more ads, and refusing to give users features they've been asking for, all while jacking up prices is only helping.