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justinreeves

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    > They straight up told Mozilla this 3 years ago when they signed the billion dollar contract; Mozilla had 3 years to become profitable. Wait, why does Google care if Mozilla is pr…

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    Comment #8628175

    Moxie Marlinspike's Perspectives addon for Firefox was a good attempt to resolve some of the problems with self-signed certs. Unfortunately, no browsers adopted the project, and it…

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    Comment #8378189

    What would those be?

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    Comment #8046032

    Additionally, with all the emphasis people put on being a responsible adult, that's not something that's really taught in school. There isn't much value placed on learning how to b…

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    Comment #8026467

    Thanks for that, I was struggling for the right words when I was writing the post. I would really like to see another crypto currency come out that addressed the validating client …

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    Comment #8020809

    >> What happens when the value of a coin is less than the mining costs or ledger maintenance? > There are transaction fees that go to the block miner. The issue here is that they g…

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    Comment #7923787

    So you could use YO like you would a missed call, maybe to get around the charge of a text, but if you're on a smartphone, there's already plenty of free texting apps. WhatsApp, Li…

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    Comment #7878671

    Yeah, seems like a lot of people are jumping straight to the comment section based on the headline.

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    Comment #7807480

    Yeah it seems like it was a great platform, and was just held back by the companies that owned it. I'd still like to see it be picked up again, even if it's not by Mozilla for the …

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    Ask HN: What makes Firefox OS better than webOS?

    I don't understand why Mozilla chose to create Firefox OS, rather than pick up development of Palm/HP's webOS? It seems like a lot of what Mozilla wants to do could be done easily …

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    Comment #7791657

    I think karma scores have a negative impact on sites, because they encourage people to post agreeable (or antagonistic), shallow content. Reddit is an easy example of this. There a…

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    Comment #7753051

    It's not really, because a motorcycle can out-accelerate the traffic they filter past.

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    Comment #7753034

    > So I should be able to ride my bike on the highway. You can't drive a car at 20mph on the highway either.

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    Comment #7723483

    It's most certainly in dispute. I'm disputing it right now. You seem to think that communism is the same thing as "communism under Stalin", and that's incorrect.

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    Comment #7719104

    I'd say more than slightly. Spotify's main draw is that you can search for the song you want to listen to, and you can hear that song. iTunes match works off your own personal coll…

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    Comment #7708303

    Communism == Execution for Thought Crime, apparently.

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    Comment #7689405

    >Criminal profilers might qualify as experts in court, saying someone "fits the profile", helping the state make a case, while their profiling could be totally wrong, as it was in …

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    Comment #7643129

    "a truly fair free market" doesn't translate to anything, because it's not attainable.

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    Comment #7643080

    Seriously? Bad planning? Those reasons are things that happen to everyone, sometime. Are you perfect?

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    Comment #7618532

    Just because it's hard for you, doesn't mean it's hard for everyone. Lots of people seem to be using it just fine.

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    Comment #7570250

    It's not shocking at all that Gawker picked up the story without fact checking it. They're not in the business of facts.

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    Comment #7562401

    How many? I can only 11 comments in total right now.