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212d1d··on Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking
>It's so frustrating seeing people talk about ad blocking as some ethical issue.

How often do you hear your family talk about the ethical implications about ad blocking? What I mean is, how often do people with no dog in the fight talk about ad blocking ethics? For me, never. Of course websites that depend on advertising dollars are going to complain about the public blocking their advertising dollars.

212d1d··on Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
Just a curiosity I have found: why does no ad blocker, Focus included, block ads on 4chan (4chan-ads.org, IMC)?
212d1d··on Are Adblock companies breaking the law?
Do you not have to 'accept' the TOS prior to using a Blizzard bot? I am not told to accept (or even view) the Business Insider's TOS prior to use.

IANAL, both it's obvious that parties must agree for a contract to be valid. It can not be implied. I can not hang a mortgage contract on my wall in the bank and bypass the need for individual acceptance.

212d1d··on Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted
Will this support Apple Pay?
212d1d··on How to minimize procrastination
This is me. What's the reason behind this? Is this because it gives me the "I'm doing something productive" feeling while simultaneously doing nothing productive?
212d1d··on Scan a book in five minutes? $199 ‘Smart scanner’ with foot pedal and WiFi
Hm - interesting. What stops students from sending in their textbooks to have scanned and shared with fellow students?
212d1d··on The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors
> Never heard of Kyocera being anywhere nesr tge top of Best Places to Work surveys adressing employees satisfaction.

Have you never worked in a company that's on those lists? It's highly encouraged (wink, wink) that you help them out with high marks.

212d1d··on Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)
Steve Klabnik: "Twitter makes it so hard not to accidentally be an asshole." This should not be included in a sincere apology.
212d1d··on Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B
1. This is not cash in a bank. 2. Innovation is a requirement not an option. 3. Innovator's Dilemma completely contradicts the point you attempt to make in #2.
212d1d··on Yahoo CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go
I agree. But, as a potential shareholder, let's point out the elephant in the room: Yahoo is not doing good. What is being done about that? If all you do is emphasize the positives, I have to wonder if you're taking the bad seriously.
212d1d··on BMW i8 in WebGL
Rendered perfect for me. 2009 HP computer here.
212d1d··on Apple CEO Tim Cook blasts encryption backdoors
The article claims the CIA is targeting iPhones, iPads, and OSX. It says nothing about a deliberate backdoor coded by Apple.
212d1d··on Pragmatic app pricing
Don't forget when he banned 9To5Mac from Instapaper because they called it Instascraper: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/how-to-get-banned-from-...