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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Hey magic, can we get a UK version of magic?
Comment · 10 years ago
Krugman says that greater wealth leads to a lack of empathy.

Surely it's a lack of empathy leads to greater wealth?

Comment · 11 years ago
But they can and should go out of business
Comment · 11 years ago
EFF seems to be making a habit of backing these worryingly pernicious bills.
Comment · 11 years ago
> Statistically speaking, more users get owned via web browsers than via native apps

Source? Seems like a long stretch, especially if you factor in non-windows desktops and all mobile devices.

If you really are concerned about security wouldn't you rather trust basically just Apple and Google or Apple, Google, and every native app developer in the app store?

Having a load of random apps installed on your smartphone is simply less secure than than just using that functionality within a sandboxed and standardised web browser that goes through endless routine security updates.

Comment · 11 years ago
> The Garden City Police Department had cannabis oil activist Shona Banda’s Facebook account shutdown

Citation needed

Comment · 11 years ago
All arguments can lean you strange places. They're inconsequential if they don't.

Luckily, the modern pragmatist is also socially aware.

Comment · 11 years ago
Why does it need to be official?
Comment · 11 years ago
ITT: People complaining that a technology isn't mature because some features rely on 3rd party plugins. Please -- name one technology that doesn't.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago

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