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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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paul7986 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:16 UTC] No.22059384[source]▶
Seems odd in his tweet he noted he was unable to get funding in the valley for Brave. The guy created JavaScript and was a creator of Firefox. Don't get it ..as JS alone has contributed like how much to world economies, as well to almost every HN reader's wallet/bank.
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Thorentis ◴[15 Jan 20 22:22 UTC] No.22059454[source]▶
Read more about his background and you'll see why. Cancel culture is definitely real. (There was a post here from WSJ the other day about it - wasn't great since it was more of a whinge, but there are some legitimate examples of "cancel culture" happening, and they are increasing in the tech industry).

tl;dr he was fired for having conservative beliefs, and nobody in the valley would touch him. So he went a founded Brave instead.

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__jal ◴[15 Jan 20 22:40 UTC] No.22059612{3}[source]▶
Conservative != bigot/anti-gay.

We do have a brood of reactionaries attempting to blur that distinction like they always do, but there are plenty of conservatives who do not share that particular bias.

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Thorentis ◴[16 Jan 20 02:57 UTC] No.22061306{4}[source]▶
Bigot: a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions. (http://english.oxforddictionaries.com/bigot)

I have met plenty of bigots on both sides of politics. But immediately trying to call me out on labeling this man a conservative by saying he is actually a bigot is, ironically, bigotry itself.

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1. MaxBarraclough ◴[17 Jan 20 21:46 UTC] No.22079772{5}[source]▶
__jal's comment was ambiguous. I think they may have been saying the opposite: that not all conservatives are bigots, and that it's unfair on conservatives to brand bigotry as conservatism.