johnkarahalis

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   by johnkarahalis 6y ago

   Is there evidence that plants feel pain or that bugs do not? I don't know of any, but I would definitively be interested as that could change my view. I want to go wherever the evidence leads, even if it's uncomfortable. In either
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   by johnkarahalis 6y ago

   Would you say intelligence is the most important factor when determining whether it is ethical to cause suffering? Is it more ethical to cause suffering to an unintelligent person, like a toddler, than an intelligent one?
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   by johnkarahalis 6y ago

   Are friendliness and loyalty important ethical factors? Is it more ethical to cause suffering to an unfriendly and disloyal person than a friendly and loyal one?
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   by johnkarahalis 6y ago

   Password reset?
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   Leaving Mozilla(medium.com)

   2 points by johnkarahalis 6y ago|0 comments
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   by johnkarahalis 7y ago

   I hope this update introduces global preferences. Keeping preferences synchronized between different workspaces can be a real chore.
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   by johnkarahalis 7y ago

   Small correction. Although many people think that Hal Finney could have been the creator of Bitcoin, the matter is far from settled. He even denied it himself before he passed.
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   by johnkarahalis 7y ago

   Here's a version that doesn't punish ad-blockers: https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/20/twitter-testing-new-ways...
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   by johnkarahalis 7y ago

   Feature addiction is real. This post points to perverse economic incentives as being one possible cause, but I have also seen this happen in open-source projects. It's a matter of listening to the wrong people, in my view. User feedbac
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    by johnkarahalis 7y ago

    For years, I have been using the Inbox Zero method ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk ) to stay sane. It really does help. I regularly empty my inbox while others seem stuck in the hell that is 9,000 unread emails.
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    by johnkarahalis 7y ago

    A friend of mine was considering building an anonymous forwarding service and ran into this same question. He also considered allowing custom domains, but if a custom domain is used, is it really anonymous? Couldn't services coordinate
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    by johnkarahalis 8y ago

    Direct link to the data: https://data.firefox.com/
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    Let’s be Transparent(blog.mozilla.org)

    3 points by johnkarahalis 8y ago|1 comments