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Comment · 9 years ago
Or an N version again.
Comment · 9 years ago
>this is microtargeting, death by a thousand cuts

Nah this isn't. This is a failed propaganda campaign.

Comment · 9 years ago
Gates as a candidate would work as well as McAfee
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't understand why is this called Firefox Send. Shouldn't it be called Mozilla Send?
Comment · 9 years ago
>If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.

A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Reminds me of those who never forget to mention Mastodon in every thread about Twitter. They make me believe the Mastodon community is full of know-it-alls who pity us the peasants who are too stupid to leave Twitter.
Comment · 9 years ago
I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.
Comment · 9 years ago
Then people will use cyrillic letters, etc. That approach simply does not work.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.
Comment · 9 years ago
What I don't like about WhatsApp is that even if you hide your last connection time, everybody gets to see whether you're online.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, Groove Music (by default installed, too) plays those.
Comment · 9 years ago
An official WhatsApp app has existed since forever and is actively maintained. You probably mean Snapchat?

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