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Again you continue to equate political issues with civil rights issues, my views on gun laws are not the same as my view on whether one group of people should be treated the same a…

Yeah the discrimination wasn't that bad, I mean those gays should just suck it up it's not like they were getting sent to an internment camp! Do they really need to get married any…

"Mozilla's mission has absolutely nothing to do with gay rights." So it is not Mozilla's best interest to makes sure that all their employees are working in a comfortable work envi…

Really? It's working fine for me. What problems are you having?

Only the lawyers who don't understand the idea of an open source project would be licking their chops. I can still run popcorn time, you can still run popcorn time, anyone can stil…

its open source, submit a pull request

Poorly designed forms. If there is no plate, leave the plate field blank, then check a box for no plate.

But we are at the center of a log-scale. One that for powers much greater than 3 or 4 in either direction takes serious cognitive processing to comprehend. When you start discussin…

It is. I'm in Minneapolis, it showed Minneapolis.

It is absurd to even mention the New York Times in the same sentence as Cracked and BuzzFeed, suddenly if 100% of your articles aren't about "real" news then it is content "light."…

Did you even read the article? Literally the next sentence after the one you so nicely cherry picked says: "But capitalism alone can’t address the needs of the very poor. This mean…

Well you can easily schedule it to do that... set it up to defrag and shutdown after you're done using it for the night.

But given the history of rigged results in this country it is unlikely that this was some mistake in testing the app. The more reasonable explanation is that they just faked the da…

http://cars.findthebest.com/ This site has a lot more detailed information than a lot of other sites. Not sure if it has everything you mentioned, but I think it would be an adequa…

I asked this question the last time your little shop popped up on HN. What are some other areas in Rwanda/East Africa that software is taking hold? It seems that many of the softwa…

This looks really cool. Could you go into some details on the stack used? Also what does your API look like right now?

So with thousands of audited violations what power do the oversight committees actually have? I'm not sure of the timeline of this audit, but it seems apparent that the agency can …

I'm sorry but what the hell kind of reasoning is this? "It could be worse in other countries, so how it is here isn't really bad" We could have a full on police state like in some …

Hi, this looks like a great product. It looks like you've built this with a focus on helping NGOs and their information gathering needs. Have you guys done any work with more focus…

> It could've very well damaged your personal brand. But it didn't. They are smart guys. They'll learn that what they didn't probably wasn't advisable and they probably won't do it…

This is really cool. As a wanna be web dev I would love to hear about your guys' design process and the technologies you're using. I'm curious about how credits will work. It seems…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship There is an entire class of businesses who's primary goal is not profit. While they must be run like a business, i.e. turn a p…

What are you even talking about right now? The facts are: poverty makes it difficult for children to get access to stimulating environments, diversity of experience, non-stressful …

I'm sorry, but you need to do the basic research yourself. It has been consistently shown in the science. Here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14599 Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

That was a hilarious article. I really want aliens to be here on Earth right now, that would be SOO cool and would answer a fundamental question that has intrigued humanity since w…