ChristianMarks

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by ChristianMarks 16y ago
Ad blockers suppress ads, but do not provide positive reinforcement. Site blocking software systems filter unwanted content, but do not substitute desired content in its place. It's not enough to slap the user's hand. We could ask, "why not
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It's not misleading. The political economic function of the government is to ensure that markets function under controlled conditions. An elaborate government apparatus provides services without which capitalism as we know it today would be
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This is neither original nor insightful. The political economic function of government is to ensure that markets function under controlled conditions. An elaborate government apparatus exists to manage vast social programs for business. The
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I had thought of doing this also, and a few people to whom I showed the system to mentioned a Firefox add-on that substitutes art for advertisements. It bothers me that personal computers replicate the internal chatter of the mind. The web
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I use a hosts file of ad site domains aliased to localhost. A web server on my machine redirects the default page at localhost to my to-do list on http://rememberthemilk.com . In addition, I use OpenDNS to block distracting sites, and redi
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by ChristianMarks 16y ago
Absolutely wrong! Do not spend money on experiences or possessions. Try to avoid spending money altogether.
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Despite the conservative naysayers, the federal government is heavily invested in climate research. Take the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ. This is a NOAA facility involved with sophisticated climate models. Raytheo
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This is more like unbaked: http://wallstdollar.com
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Your original text is: Our personal computers replicate the internal chatter of the mind. The web itself seems designed to prey on human weakness, to encourage wilfing through the Internet and short-term gratification, and to discourage lea