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by minot 12y ago
Why do we have to insist that we are the best though? Why do we have to say we are number one? Of course, Europe is obsessed with the US. I've got nothing to say to them. Why are we obsessed with calling ourselves the best?
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by minot 12y ago
I don't understand the obsession with being the best in class or the best in history. Why does it matter? We have to try to be good. We have to try to be better than we were yesterday but why do we feel the need to outdo everyone else?
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by minot 12y ago
Follow the money. Who pays for it? How do we pay them?
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by minot 12y ago
> In fact, these consequences would be more severe for public servants like cops. I absolutely agree with this. Police officers need to uphold a higher standard. > If the cop wants to lie to get a conviction, they should be able to do
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by minot 12y ago
This one isn't so easy. What should the footer github link to? Assuming they might want to keep the same footer across the whole web site, https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet does not seem right either.
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by minot 12y ago
Let's encrypt works on the assumption that there is no reason why https certificate cannot be easy (not as cumbersome?) to use AND free of cost. They hope to start availability in the middle of this year. Free of cost is possible. We j
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by minot 12y ago
I personally have adblock disabled on google.com because I want to support them and I see this: https://i.imgur.com/dEnFy15.png The ads are not gone.
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by minot 12y ago
Here's the text Talking about Mozilla, the first thing that comes to mind is the Firefox Browser, powered with Gecko Engine, smooth rendering, and fast browsing capabilities. But that’s not all; Mozilla has been spending 15 years in de
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by minot 12y ago
If they have to make up the difference often enough, they'll just let you go.
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by minot 12y ago
Personally, I got an Asus router as well so this does not affect me. However, I can understand this from an average customer's point of view. It would be nice for the ISP to give a router that is good enough for the speed that they adv
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by minot 12y ago
I don't know why the upload stalled but I went back to upload the rest of the files and it worked. I tried downloading and it was a little under 2 mbps which isn't that great.
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by minot 12y ago
I don't have a fat enough pipe to confirm or deny 10 MB/s but here's my experiment uploading a few RAW photo files (~25 MB each). Seems good enough. I haven't tried download speed though. For what it is worth, downloadin
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by minot 12y ago
I hope they do. I hope they regret it happened. It should never have happened.
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by minot 12y ago
Check the certificate store for the browser you are using. Mozilla Firefox has its own. Internet Explorer and Chrome on Windows rely on the Windows certificate store. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista&#x2
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by minot 12y ago
> I'm always in favor of the first amendment, but this is one context where outlawing the firearms does make a difference. There is a significant lower penetration of firearms in Europe period since almost every European country ban
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by minot 12y ago
> We use Microsoft OneDrive which is bundled with our office 365 license. Pretty good. Strongly recommended. I'd like to pitch in until the parent clarifies but they probably mean OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business. To anyone re
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by minot 12y ago
Yup. I wonder how people would like it if I rewrote history to send people to bing or pornhub or something when they clicked back once and made them click back twice to get back to hn...
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by minot 12y ago
Spoiler alert: They're not.
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by minot 12y ago
See also uBlock https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/µblock/cjpalhdlnbp... for ad blocking.
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by minot 12y ago
I went through the steps and unregistered. It looks like it worked. As for the SSL, my hope is that the EFF and Mozilla project will make it easier to deploy https certificates everywhere.
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by minot 12y ago
> You are not entitled to behave as an insensitive asshole, in particular when people is asking you to stop. You can legally do it, but it doesn't mean it's morally right. There are venues where you can tell bad jokes to your f
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by minot 12y ago
Thank you for your reply. We agree on so much. However, I'd like to point out that the middle ground is not always the best way. Sometimes, the other side is flat oiut wrong. Reminds me of the wikipedia article about a wwe wrestler whe
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by minot 12y ago
I'd compare this more with someone buying a large hydroelectricity project and just stopping production. Land is a finite resource. However, I struggle with this because following this logic, is it OK for Argentina to seize bank accoun
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by minot 12y ago
> I believe she actually felt like this. And that it is possible for women to feel this way at a conference heavily dominated by men. But we are oblivious to it, we can't even imagine how it feels. I can't imagine what it is li
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by minot 12y ago
If anyone from Whisper Systems is reading, can you please tell me how I can disassociate my number from a Cyanogenmod installed version of TextSecure in my (now formatted and sold) Nexus 4 and get it working with my no sim Nexus 5 with Goog
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by minot 12y ago
Because they are using some proprietary technology that is only available in Google Chrome. It will probably take time for Mozilla to adapt this... When Google announced Inbox, they said it would be later adapted to work with other browsers
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by minot 12y ago
For the people who were confused like I was, MRU stands for most recently used...
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by minot 12y ago
Sorry, me using the word "real" was unwarranted and vague. I meant in terms of fiscal policy. I should have been clearer.
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by minot 12y ago
This is why I hate the whole "starve the beast" idea. Even Cato Institute (which I disagree with on so many issues) agrees that starve the beast was a resounding failure. If we want to cut federal spending, we need to cut federal
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by minot 12y ago
No worries, friend :)

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