RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Great point, and I think the question we should all be asking ourselves is how do we know we're not the ones pointing at rocks and shouting wolf at a myriad of issues we don't really understand - but believe we do. As soon as it c
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Tons of competition. I have a choice of multiple different fiber line providers, government copper phone line provider, a bunch of different wireless options, and then multiple different ISPs who run over those different fiber or copper lin
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Yeah you definitely have bigger problems than net neutrality. I'm in the middle of Africa, 30km from the CBD of a small city, and I have 1gb local / 100mb international fiber with no caps or throttling for the equivalent of ~$85&#
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Sorry, I may be incorrect here, but from what I understand net neutrality only came into effect two years ago in 2015. All three of the companies you mentioned were up and running prior to that. So net neutrality enabling them doesn't
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Ho! Amazing, thanks for clarifying. Your ISPs are pretty messed up. Are they government monopolies? I think your problems are far, far deeper than net neutrality, and just re-affirms my belief that net neutrality was a band-aid that needed
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
That's crazy! I'd have cancelled and swapped ISPs after a week. Guess people didn't really care? EDIT: After reading more replies, it seems like you guys actually have no choice. Serious red flag that it sounds like net neutr
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
How long did it stay blocked? I bet they unblocked it as soon as customers complained. Definitely an interesting example though. Nothing like that has ever happened in my country without net neutrality, but then we have a fairly competitive
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
As someone from a country without net neutrality, I have to say this hasn't happened. Generally you get very cheap or free plans that are sponsored by Facebook or others that give priority to Facebook, but ISPs are always happy to take
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
They definitely weren't wrong. But at the same time, it shows that this isn't a good argument against Facebook, and that it likely means we'll be using Facebook more in future instead of less. Probably to our detriment, but d
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Right! As the article points out very clearly, it's not the "more X" that stops people buying the new product. It's that to get more X, those cars gave up Y and Z which were really the most important parts even if custom
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Why do you say the slices have gotten smaller? The absolute percentage of people in poverty in the world has had a very rapid decline over the last 50 years. So something we are doing is working.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
> My boss getting a new Tesla or yet another house from the extra profits doesn't make me happy. Hang on, last I checked everyone still gets employed in China; Denmark; Finland; Netherlands; Canada; Sweden; Norway; Ireland the same
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
As stated by bigbugbag above: > I can't help but strongly dislike rappler for being part of facebook's effort to destroy the internet with their internet.org thing They weren't just users of Facebook. They were involved mo
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Isn't he more complaining about capitalists participating in capitalism until other people make more money than them, and only then becoming anticapitalists? It's not a group that has always been anti-Facebook. It's a group t
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I spent a number of months there talking to people while doing remote work. It's a great place to visit - highly recommend it to anyone! As for why I'm posting: all it takes for evil to win is for good men to stay silent.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
The article itself provides no proof that the people they are calling fake are indeed fake. That counts as being deliberately malicious in my book, but I'd think it would count as being 'biased' in anybody's book. That&#
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I don't believe that is true. You want it to be true, and so you've fallen for it. The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. Such as this article, but that goes witho
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
The article gives zero proof of any kind of fake accounts aside from fake profile pictures, and calls Facebook out for not removing the accounts, even thought Facebook says they have removed the fake ones. So clearly Facebook does not feel
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
The article makes it sound like it's fake accounts who are against some in the media, but it's really the entire population. The article calls out fake profile pictures on facebook as some indication of an artificial message. This
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
This is an extremely biased piece of journalism that almost anyone on the ground in the Philippines would disagree with. Very dishonest and should not be trusted at face value.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
There's an interesting psychological effect there. Maybe before people buy it, the idea of it being a bubble is first and foremost in their mind. After they buy some, and they see it make them money, it's probably not a big concer
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
That's true. Maybe the issue is that when there's only a 'down' and an 'up' button, people infer everything into it. Maybe we should have an 'up' button for interesting posts, a 'flag' butto
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Certainly, although it's clear that the largest part of the context would be the audience that the comment is exposed to. And it also shows that the upvote and downvote feature is not used correctly here either - it's used to prom
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
HN isn't all that different, so it's probably about more than just reddit. For example, you can post the same remarks criticizing functional programming in a post about C# or Java and get upvotes, while the same post in a Haskell
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I did not delete anything. What are you talking about? Also I'm not from USA.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
It's not really about equivalence. It's about insulting some other political affiliation for something your political affiliation is guilty of. And the key word is insulting: you're not trying to change anyone's mind. Yo
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
You do know you're quoting an American left-wing comedy show host, right? It's a great quote, but it's not exactly a good argument. I think you can definitely get correct and incorrect facts, but doesn't it break down wh
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
Yeah that's right, you're correct.
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
I don't think the issue is a hard fork which would be bad for Chinese miners. It's more about Chinese miners being able to insert transactions. For example, the Chinese government getting all miners to commit to transferring some
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by RyanZAG 9y ago
This site is hilariously partisan, so while "idiot democrats" certainly does violate the comment guidelines, "idiot republicans" does not. I've seen a few banned comments to that effect. As someone who isn't Am

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