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by Volpe 14y ago
No it's not. Because I WANT spam protection... I don't want ads. Just like it's fine for an electrician to enter my house to fix a power point. It is NOT okay for anyone to enter my house in order to sell me random things.
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by Volpe 14y ago
But google DO go through every message to sell ads. How is this pathetic? Some people don't like the fact that their emails are used in that way, so focusing on that is just marketing. No different to google running ads for chrome saying "
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by Volpe 14y ago
Could you point me to an example of Chrome "UI rearranging itself at random"? The only time I've had issues with chrome, is when I switched to the dev stream... Stable has always been, well, stable.
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by Volpe 14y ago
erm... right... but the EU doesn't collect taxes from all of that... they are individual countries.
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by Volpe 14y ago
If the GP is advocating that ideas and their expressions shouldn't be 'private' if expressed publicly, then comparing it to stealing is incorrect. > Just because it's possible to steal something, you/society should allow it to happen? A
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by Volpe 14y ago
> We should all put in the most amount of time to our lives and passions Should we? Is that the ultimate goal here? The problem with trying to tell people what their life is about, is that you are wrong as soon as you start. > how
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by Volpe 14y ago
Well given you can't know what your family would be like, or your kids education levels would be without home schooling... your can't make too many meaningful observations. From all the reading I've done on educational outcomes for kids, th
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by Volpe 14y ago
I feel like this is equivalent to: "how to fix a bug when you don't know how to program"... I could write as much as you like but there is an explanatory gap...
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by Volpe 14y ago
Right, that's exactly the other citation I needed. I think that explains why the US is so hostile to the activities of china (and vice versa)
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by Volpe 14y ago
Dictators... Are you saying wen jiaobao is a dictator? Given the vast improvement in the way of life for Chinese since deng xiaoping, and their continuos prosperity. Are we really sure that's the "best" thing to do.
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by Volpe 14y ago
That was my point. If it takes 20 years to see a 'benefit' is it that bad now, that they should go through that kind of mess?
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by Volpe 14y ago
I was implying it could be an American newspaper... As it stands if I 'hacked' HN and routed through china, I reckon the news would be: "HN hacked by Chinese Government!"
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by Volpe 14y ago
> One journalist from China I met long ago in a place far away commented well in advance of the Internet age that if the Communist Party of China ceased censoring mass media that its rule would be gone "in a week." Is that a good thing?
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by Volpe 14y ago
China pushes an alternative world view[0] to the US, it doesn't involve individual rights, and free markets. It seems the majority in the west (primarily the U.S) view this as a 'menace' or a 'threat' to their way of life... hence the cons
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by Volpe 14y ago
I've found that's the case with any hack... for all we know it could be a competing newspaper routing through China. But nationalism/xenophobia trumps reason.
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by Volpe 14y ago
Strange that they would hack NYT when NYT's source for the WenJiaobao article seemed to be public financial records and info from wikileaks (state department cables). What is the strategic gain from hacking NYT? Identify potential other sou
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by Volpe 14y ago
because people have olive oil already...
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by Volpe 14y ago
Didn't the "original" seeder, pay for the copy? Seems to be that rather than pay taxes to buy content for the library, one can just contribute directly to that library.
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by Volpe 14y ago
Yeah... but they weren't producing anything, which caused the crash.
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by Volpe 14y ago
So everyone should stop throwing around this 35 number... because it was 2. ?
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by Volpe 14y ago
I don't think it's a win. These underage workers likely weren't doing it against their will. So really we just fired a bunch of poor people, because we think they are too young to work... Win! Do we really think these underage workers are g
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by Volpe 14y ago
But would have they been in this case?
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by Volpe 14y ago
No it isn't, I can think of heaps of counter examples where the assumption of guilt is a good way to act...
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by Volpe 14y ago
I thought the 35 years was false. Sentences aren't cumulative like that... or was my understanding wrong?
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by Volpe 14y ago
Yeah I agree with most of your points. Australia never had the gun culture the US had (even before the Gun buy back). Most people in urban areas did not own guns, it was (and remains) mostly farmers. I don't have a citation, but I remembe
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by Volpe 14y ago
> Many of us laowai in Beijing get depressed in the winter because of the poor air quality. I'm confused about the implication here. Are westerners (laowai) more prone to getting depressed from poor air quality? Chinese (native/migrant
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by Volpe 14y ago
Really, you are upset by his JSTOR connections... not the fact he is an MIT Professor? This is not an impartial investigation... Whether he has connections with JSTOR makes no difference to that fact.
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by Volpe 14y ago
Umm it's a book, and the piece was written by The Guardian... So not sure what you are talking about... Also, there are 2 Koreas, you talk as if there is only 1. No one is suggesting that South Korea is crazy or belligerent. I didn't even
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by Volpe 14y ago
It's still a misleading stat, The North Korean stats are essentially a "Total War" stat (as that reservist number is the ~ number of Males). To suggest that any countries are scared of another's simply by it's population is ridiculous. Let
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by Volpe 14y ago
Except that North Korea is a bordering country to China (by a land border no less). A little different to Vietnam, not very close to the US. From my own reading, it seemed that China's involvement was largely due to the Russian, and Chines

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