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by apostacy 7y ago
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted. You are absolutely correct. I've gotten in many discussions about this exact same thing on HN. I at one point I had an exchange with someone about terrible bad Pale Moon was because it let user
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by apostacy 7y ago
Mozilla has been very destructive, and I have had to restrain Firefox in a number of different ways. It's Updater.app will disregard your wishes and repeatedly download updates over and over again. This happened to me when I had to tur
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by apostacy 7y ago
Me too, but I think that the big financial institutions are strongly against that.
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by apostacy 7y ago
Like, Privacy.com has access to your bank account and have the authority to collect? Because then it is the same problem. All I want, is the digital equivalent of a personal check. A one time promise to pay money. If the merchant has a disp
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by apostacy 7y ago
The reason I don't use virtual credit cards is because they tend to not protect you from first party fraud, only third party fraud. Despite what the banks claim, they usually will NOT prevent recurring payments from being honored. Even
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by apostacy 7y ago
This took me 15 seconds: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2016/12/2... They do this all around Chicago. The federal government engages in what is essentially balkanization. An
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by apostacy 7y ago
Really, so if a bunch of people in wealthy suburbs and people in public housing switched geographical locations, then their behavior would change? I hope you can see how ludicrous that is. Is their something in the air perhaps, that makes p
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by apostacy 7y ago
The South Bronx and Crown Heights are 20 minutes from downtown Manhattan. Their access to public transit is some of the best in the country. And yet you would never live there, because of the people. At best, you'd move to a gentrifica
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by apostacy 7y ago
I will never apologize for not wanting me kids to deal with what I had to deal with. There are bad neighborhoods, and it is wrong that the government is taking people and dumping them in our communities. I don't hate these people, I do
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by apostacy 7y ago
I actually had the fortune of living in a public housing project for a brief period in my youth. And since you think it would be so beneficial to live in or near one, I am still wondering why you don't consider moving there. Maybe you
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by apostacy 7y ago
Thank you for sharing that! That's really cool! I'm just very attracted to the idea of bundling repos together. I frequently use git-annex and datalad, and try to keep binaries and helper scripts in different repositories.
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by apostacy 7y ago
Cool, pack your bags and move to the nearest big city housing project. Actually, why aren't you there now, you can save so much money. Or for that matter, homeless shelters are even cheaper.
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by apostacy 7y ago
So, you would be ok with transplanting a chunk of Detroit into your neighborhood? Unless the answer to that question is an enthusiastic yes, then you would be called a racist. Actually, forget who the people are. Would you be ok with the fe
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by apostacy 7y ago
The regulations are worse than the problem though. Thankfully the HUD under this administration has been trying to slow it down. In my friend's home town, the federal government has deemed it to be "too white", and is trying
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by apostacy 7y ago
This is such a pain point for me. I would LOVE something between subtrees and submodules. I have explored this many times, and if I had the ability to write something like this, I would. I would love it if I could have a child repo that did
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by apostacy 8y ago
So, it is bad that Firefox was removed? Are you saying that you think that Firefox needs to be crippled enough that school districts feel comfortable using it? The fact that it is enabling students (or anyone) to bypass restrictions is a go
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by apostacy 8y ago
Don't know why you are getting downvoted when you are completely correct. There's so much that Mozilla could do structurally, but they are terrified of rocking the boat or disrupting their corporate underwriters. Just like earlier
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by apostacy 8y ago
Then Mozilla should make a crippled "safe" version of their browser that has a hard coded list of trusted servers then. Because by making this the default, they are helping centralize the internet and greatly benefiting the entren
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by apostacy 8y ago
I wish the reality of our economy was talked about more. Without benefiting from the wealth of our parents, we'd be very poor indeed. Most people I know are being supported in some way by their parents. Maybe the United States should h
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by apostacy 8y ago
They are pseudo-governmental de-facto public utilities. They have been heavily invested in and subsidized by the government, and given special permission to provide vital infrastructure. So no, they can't just do whatever the hell they
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by apostacy 8y ago
I blame the OSS community that rolled out the red carpet for DRM. They are the only ones who really had a choice to make. I frankly don't blame the corporations pushing this, because they have been trying the whole time. And they did i
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by apostacy 8y ago
> Downgrading the prompt to a non-popup icon in the address bar unless it follows a user action sounds like the perfect balance. But where should we put these non-popups? Perhaps we could have a dedicated bar for notifications, rss, and
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by apostacy 8y ago
It really isn't a distribution problem, although it is tempting to look at it that way. But I think you are neglecting human behavior. It would seem that what is happening is that the majority of women are competing for the attention o
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by apostacy 8y ago
This has actually been studied quite a bit, and it would appear that the increased optimization of dating apps has caused a huge inequality in the dating "market". It can even be quantified with the Gini Coefficient, a measure of
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by apostacy 8y ago
I never got to read your reply. Look I'm sorry for any negativity. I think there is a place for you and what you are doing. But I'd like to make my own software my own way. I don't agree with your paradigm for how people shou
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by apostacy 8y ago
lol, my reply to you was too long. http://dpaste.com/3H8SRNZ
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by apostacy 8y ago
I'm sorry for your bad experiences with the Palemoon guys. You are obviously not who this software is meant for. I don't need or want sandboxing for my extensions -- I can take care of my own sandboxing external to the browser pro
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by apostacy 8y ago
> there is clearly an actual obligation to wear a kippah, headscarf, or turban There is no obligation to wear anything. There is an "obligation" for some sects of Islam. But that does not mean anything in the domain of secular
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by apostacy 8y ago
Thank you, very well said! I'm also disappointed with the response on HN as supposedly free governments cut off entire chunks of the Internet. Any concern about this is met with "but if we don't kill the Internet then the Naz
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by apostacy 8y ago
You're right, it doesn't make sense. Just like it doesn't make sense to hold Gab.com to unreasonably high standards, while letting Twitter and Facebook get away with exactly the same things. YouTube also left up Elliot Rodger

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