justinreeves

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by justinreeves 12y ago
> 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 profitable?
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 is no longer compatible with Firefox. There are a co
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by justinreeves 12y ago
What would those be?
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 budget, keep track on finances, but then when
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 issue. I think that could also get more people interested in
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by justinreeves 12y ago
>> 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 go to the person who mined the block originally, but
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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, Line, Telegram… You can just send short messages tho
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by justinreeves 12y ago
Yeah, seems like a lot of people are jumping straight to the comment section based on the headline.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 reasons that fabrice_d pointed out. I remember it
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Ask HN: What makes Firefox OS better than webOS?
16 points by justinreeves 12y ago|10 comments
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 are 'karma whores', which just try to accumulate as
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by justinreeves 12y ago
It's not really, because a motorcycle can out-accelerate the traffic they filter past.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
> 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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by justinreeves 12y ago
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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by justinreeves 12y ago
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 collection, and Radio is just like Pandora. Neither al
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by justinreeves 12y ago
Communism == Execution for Thought Crime, apparently.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
>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 the famous sniper case, where they went with th
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by justinreeves 12y ago
"a truly fair free market" doesn't translate to anything, because it's not attainable.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
Seriously? Bad planning? Those reasons are things that happen to everyone, sometime. Are you perfect?
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by justinreeves 12y ago
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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by justinreeves 12y ago
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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by justinreeves 12y ago
How many? I can only 11 comments in total right now.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
> Because you're confident that with that system and its incentives this drug would have been invented? No way to guarantee this drug would have been invented. However, > As well as the ones which haven't been invented yet?
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by justinreeves 12y ago
If something is to replace Javascript, it's going to be because of the language, not Brendan Eich.
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by justinreeves 12y ago
>And lose, like everyone else who tried. You mean like everyone else who's tried before moving to public funded elections, with restrictions on campaign donations? Of course I can't guarantee that one change will result in a
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by justinreeves 12y ago
>over half the population of California had the same opinion as Eich, back in 2008. Well, over half of the population that voted had the same opinion. Voter turnout was around 60%, iirc. Additionally, even if 60% of people held the sa
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by justinreeves 12y ago
jholly's post reads like a concern troll.
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by justinreeves 13y ago
Or.... you could still run, but not as a Republican or a Democrat?
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by justinreeves 13y ago
More like companies still running XP risk security reputation. How long should MS be expected to support that OS? They've already postponed the retirement at least once to give people more time to upgrade.
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by justinreeves 13y ago
Mistaken identity is likely, considering how eyewitness accounts are actually quite unreliable.

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