They weren't alone though:

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As far as I know exchanges are paid for trades executed on their market, its a key part of how they make money.

If its consistent latency then we're in the same state we're in now where people are shaving nanoseconds to beat others. If its random then they can't reliably can an advantage by shaving time.

It might make sense to add an integration point if they can sell the space as they do with search engines. I don't find them useful, but I knew a couple people who do and if it helps keep Firefox going...

Mozilla has operated as if they were a silicon valley startup for the past 10-15 years. Their recent history is littered with with these decisions (e.g. pocket) instead of using the wikimeda model which recognizes its a charitable organization that needs to be sustainable.

And just kill the people trying to use arbitrage to front run the market. They aren't adding any value, they're leeches.

Actually section 230 protected the opposite. The origin of the law is two ISPs running message boards, one attempted to moderate, the other didn't bother. The company that attempted to moderate lost a lawsuit because they weren't perfect, while the latter won. The republicans complaints about section 230 is that their attempts to blatantly lie and spread conspiracy theories are rightfully moderated.

Maybe you're just not old enough ;) I don't have a garage, but I could imagine if you use it for parking it would be annoying to get in and out of the car 4x a day to close it would be annoying.

Its always been a turd.

Its corporate directives - ultimately its about pumping company valuation for which new money is sexier than old money. In Microsoft's case their stock valuation is predicated upon AI, so anything else is de-prioritized.

To me, it isn't just Microsoft the software industry is rife with the problem. Maintenance has been deprioritized in the corporate world in favour of ticking new boxes.

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Oddly I was thinking about this the other day. I have a vague recollection of hearing stories of McDonald's at one point being proud about how their executives would have come up through the business as a fry cook in high school, manager, etc. I suspect this is no longer true their, or really anywhere in corporate america. One wonders whether corporations would do better if their senior management actually had experience in the business they worked in.

As a long time AMD user I feel this isn't necessarily fair. Intel did cheat with their compiler, but I think the whole industry wasn't careful enough with chip design but hadn't yet faced the close scrutiny that had been happening for 20-years on the software side.

Internal politics are well within the control of the CEO, if he didn't address them its on him. That said, my impression has been that the root of Intel's problems is that something went awry in their fabs around a decade ago. Intel went from leading the industry in chip manufacturing to stagnating.