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If someone from TrueOS reads this, you have some weird characters on your front page: http://i.imgur.com/GuOXYPJ.png

Most businesses of all sectors use all kinds of techniques to maximise consumption from customers, some of them very shady. Billions are poured into behavioural studies of customers and voodoo tricks so people spend money on stuff sometimes they don't even need.

As a customer, I feel entitled to take advantage of everything I can. I don't understand the negativity around it. Us consumers have a salary each month, and we are supposed to get everything we can out of it. It's that simple.

I don't see how I'm trolling here.

For example, I run Spotify with an ad blocker, so I don't have to pay for it. And years ago, when they limited the amount of minutes of music you could listen to every month, I made tons of accounts to bypass that limitation. Why? Because, in the unlikely case they go out of business, by then some other service would've appeared, run by someone who thinks he won't commit the same mistakes the owners of the previous service made.

Common sense says my system of abandoning/taking services is not sustainable in the long term, but by now it hasn't failed me. And I'm also sure a sizable percent of people do the same I do. Am I a troll just because I'm open about it?

I am a proud free user. When a service closes because of bankruptcy, a new one always appears. Or maybe two or three. So who cares?

There's always a free alternative to every service, especially web ones.

I'm not familiar with that header, but by the sound of it, it sounds like it would be sort of a C struct with info about the ROM, not code. Isn't it possible that, if Nintendo had written the header in the ROM they're selling, it would be exactly the same as any other ROM dump from out there?

Exactly, I don't see the problem here. It's their intellectual property, they can do whatever they want with it. Just because somebody else dumped it from a cartridge and uploaded it, doesn't mean they own any kind of copyright or anything--Nintendo still does.

>Make no mistake: privacy, liberty, and accountability are not partisan issues.

I don't think they believe that. Or at least they didn't whine so much about Obama, who was horrible for digital privacy. And Hillary would've continued that legacy, but of course they didn't whine about that either.

The 3DS can do that. They made an emulator that runs on it and they sell Gameboy games on the store. I know nothing about the pricing though.

This is just spam.

I think she means this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qlLUf7KtAw

Is the NYT more legitimate than RT? What about the CNN? Don't make me laugh.

So you literally have to be a millionaire to live in Manhattan?

>With 1% income in nyc, you can't even raise a family in decent life style.

I don't know much of NYC but isn't it... huge? I'm sure that there are parts of it far away from Manhattan that aren't shitholes and where you can live with a "normal" wage.

>1. People send a like/sticker as a conversation starter

I do that! When you open a conversation with a bot sometimes you don't know what the bot expects you to do to start a conversation, so instead of writing gibberish and expect a help text, I tap "like" because it's only one tap.

Front page does indeed take that. But many links (comment pages) take around 3 seconds as I mentioned (generation time, has nothing to do at all with my browser) and pages with hundreds of comments (like most links in the default subs) can easily take over 5 seconds to generate.

I believe a data-driven approach has worked here specifically because it's a very very small country with a very homogeneous culture. If we multiply the population by 1000, and if we introduce minorities and other agents that increase the heterogeneity of the population, the data-driven approach would stop working because there simply are too many things to take care of. It's like trying to win a war: as the amount of concurrent battles approaches infinity, so does the complexity of the war, and therefore the chances of winning sharply decrease.

The solution, as you just said, is to govern ourselves in a smaller scale. Apply data-driven solutions (like this one from Iceland) to smaller communities, one by one. Also, make sure those who apply these solutions are knowledgeable about how those smaller communities work.

I think "stopping substance abuse" and "free education" are very different problems. The first one is completely social, at least, while the second one has a strong economical component.

Well, "large scale"... it's a culturally/racially homogeneous country of a little over 300k people. Whatever works there will probably not work anywhere else

That website is very heavy on JS, that's why it's unbearably slow. I remember having to use it on a mobile with 512MB of RAM once, it literally killed my browser (probably the OOM killer)

For me all pages take 3+ seconds to load (generation time), which means reddit is easily the slowest site I visit.

Taking into account how reddit performs, I'll take this as a guide on how not to use cache.

(This is a joke please. Understand it as such. I know reddit has the problems it has because it is severely understaffed)

How does that change anything?

Do you have (multiprocess|sandbox) enabled for all users of all platforms and compatible with all addons?

For how many years have your competitors had that?

You're years behind, losing market share every month. You like to make it look like it's because Google is pushing Chrome with their money, but your product is simply inferior. And instead of getting engineers, you're wasting your money on political stuff.

The Mozilla project is dying a sad death.

I see.

There's a clear shortage of engineers in Mozilla projects. Why isn't the money from donations used for that instead of political stuff?

If the guys over at Mozilla don't want to use the money for engineering purposes, I think they should stop asking for donations and tell people to donate to entirely political projects such as the EFF instead.

The Firefox project is literally years behind in security and performance, I think the Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand how critical the current situation is.

I'm really appalled about how the foundation keeps burning money on frivolous stuff like this or Firefox OS* or Persona and on the other hand they killed Thunderbird and they have been unable to release a sandboxed Firefox or a fast Gecko.

* I consider Firefox OS to be a frivolous waste of money because Gecko is barely bearable on a mid-range desktop computer, how did they even think of putting it in a low-end ARM CPU?

I understand guys here don't like negativity like the one in this comment, but Mozilla being a company that asks for donations, I feel like I can complain about what they do with them.

No offence, but you really sound angered and I feel somehow responsible--different people have different political views about all issues (everything is politics, after all) and we have to live with that fact. You are not going to convince others by insulting them. Also, HN is not the place to try and convince anybody to think the way you do, because that leads to flamewars (if you have an opinion, you'll stick to it, no?), and guys here detest flamewars. Just my two cents, greetings.

I am not American so I don't know the constitution of the US. It was an innocent question but people here seemed not to like it somehow.

So it's only possible if it was something that was done against the US?

I suppose as long as they keep being showered with money from Steam, they don't really have an incentive to end with that chaotic way of organising the corporation.

How do you know Opera will do that? I don't think they would care too much at this point.

You don't have to hate brown people (as you said up there) to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term. And citizens from A8 countries are barely brown, anyway. ;P

I believe political correctness triggered Brexit, and will eventually kill the EU (not only because of immigration, though)