Readit Newsramsj commented on Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case reuters.com/technology/ap... · Posted by u/ramsj
Statement from Eddy Cue:
"If this Court prohibits Google from sharing revenue for search distribution, Apple would have two unacceptable choices. It could still let users in the United States choose Google as a search engine for Safari, but Apple could not receive any share of the resulting revenue, so Google would obtain valuable access to Apple's users at no cost. Or Apple could remove Google Search as a choice on Safari. But because customers prefer Google, removing it as an option would harm both Apple and its customers."
and "... it is unlikely that Apple will decide to create a search engine in the future, regardless of what remedies are ordered in this case."
Source: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgvoalybovd/...
ramsj commented on What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore? ft.com/content/c10ff7de-c... · Posted by u/ramsj
Potentially a fair point vis a vis the environment, but it’s not really true of people as far as DeBeers is concerned. I know people that work for them in Botswana and I hear nothing but good things about them as an employer. On the environment, Kimberlites are pretty small and the environmental impact of primary diamond mining isn’t really that great in the grand scheme of things. Take this with a pinch of salt from a guy on the internet sharing some anecdata etc etc.
De Beers is only ~25% of total annual carats of diamonds mined.
ramsj commented on What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore? ft.com/content/c10ff7de-c... · Posted by u/ramsj
A diamond manufactured becomes a product like any other, an iPhone, a TV, whatever.
There is something more profound with holding a stone that was forged deep in the Earth and somehow mined from there, too, even if chemically it's the exact same thing.
I'm too utilitarian to see the distinction, but I guess that feeling is valid in others.
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a... ”$7.8M in donations from the public, grants from foundations, and government funding” in 2023
[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990... $6.9mm in 2022, page 7
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