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by a3_nm 9y ago
> The commercialized web of today is vastly different from the early beginnings and 99% of the content and services you use online are funded through advertising. Not sure about this value. For instance, Wikipedia, the 5th website in Ale
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by a3_nm 9y ago
I agree but I wouldn't be surprised if nothing happens in terms of anti-trust. Google has a monopoly on search in EU, and is leveraging this monopoly to gain a monopoly in other areas (e.g., ads on the Google Search homepage telling pe
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by a3_nm 9y ago
Also what I thought. If this starts becoming widely used, then Google would be essentially getting a share out of the tip that readers would be giving to publishers, only for the service of "not showing ads and redistributing money&quo
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by a3_nm 9y ago
> If there is functionality that they want which is not standardized, they go ahead and implement it. ... in a non-standardizable way. Why not try to help create a standard instead? What's the benefit of starting with a dirty approa
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by a3_nm 9y ago
> Only downside is its cloud based so I can't be productive on an airplane. Other downside is that in-browser text editing sucks compared to what you can do (e.g.) with vim.
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by a3_nm 9y ago
Why would retailers care? They are not making money from the payment information; the credit card company is. Further, they're not making money from the fact that people use the credit card; it's again the credit card company. I d
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by a3_nm 9y ago
It's very important to keep making as many purchases in cash as possible, precisely for this reason. At least where I live (France), this is very doable. Cash is an anonymous payment system which cannot be traced and is widely accepted
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by a3_nm 9y ago
The Intel program pops a weird license when you download it, but the files themselves, to my surprise, are not proprietary: they are dual-licensed under the BSD license and GPLv2 license.
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by a3_nm 9y ago
Most of academic research is not a for-profit enterprise and aims at serving the common good: scientists don't make direct monetary profit from the articles that they write. Knowing that this "idealist" system appears to work
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by a3_nm 9y ago
> I think 8 euro a month is not a huge price to pay. It's a price that readers (people who wish to access scientific articles) have to pay: this is unacceptable no matter the amount. > [arXiv] had near death experiences in the me
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by a3_nm 9y ago
Further, there are good open-source solutions to read these dumps offline. For instance Kiwix http://www.kiwix.org/ which has a dedicated reader application but also an HTTP server (very useful if you want to run a local mi
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Internet Archive to ignore robots.txt directives(boingboing.net)
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by a3_nm 10y ago
If you want to write things on a self-hosted static blog in your free time, the hosting costs add up to a few dollars per month for a domain name and (e.g.) a VPS, for something that can scale to thousands of simultaneous readers. This is c
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I don't think this holds as a general rule. A counterexample is App.net.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Offering free downloads wouldn't even be a waste of bandwidth, really--just a waste of server disk space You are very humble. :) I would be very surprised if there isn't someone who considered reading your work but didn&#x27
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> It's also a value judgment that virtually everyone would agree with The interpretation of this judgment has varied a lot across the times. Historically, in less individualistic societies, I think that the loss of human lives for
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Human life is the most advanced creation of evolution; the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. No other life is as advanced. This is a biased view of evolution. All species today are "the pinnacle of billions of years of e
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Q: Why are so many people starving while a minority is endangering their lives by eating too much? Q: Why are places that manufacture most things poor rather than rich? Q: Why are so many humans dying all the time?
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Any software or web page you use is backed by an inscrutable pile of legalese This isn't the case of all software, fortunately. For free software under the GPL, for instance, you don't need to read the GPL or agree with the G
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by a3_nm 10y ago
No matter how benevolent Amazon may be, it is still problematic that, when you "buy" an ebook with them, they are technically able to remove it from your ebook reader. This is bad even if they only use this power when they mess up
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The closest analogue I know is Amazon remotely wiping books from customer devices when Amazon noticed that they did not have the right to sell them in the first place: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technol
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Despite deletionists' efforts, I doubt that any long-standing mathematical conjecture which can reasonably be called "famous" (to a general, non-specialist audience) does not currently have a Wikipedia page. My point about th
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Calling this a "famous long-standing mathematical conjecture" seems a bit of a stretch. It gives the impression that this would be comparable to Fermat's Last Theorem, the ABC conjecture, the Riemann hypothesis, etc. However,
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by a3_nm 10y ago
There is also YAGO, which serves a similar purpose. https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/databases-and-informa... https://gate.d5.mpi-inf.mpg.de/webyago3spotlx/SvgBrowser (Disclaimer: colleague
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The alternative would have been for Facebook to close the account in 2012, as the user wanted.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The identity challenge does not matter: you shouldn't have to confirm your identity to protest against the reactivation of an account you intended to close. The point still stands: OP intended to close their account in 2012, and are no
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Thanks for explaining this! I wasn't implying at all that the project was not being used. I understand that the syntax may be mature, but the lack of commit activity does not explain why there are still so many pending issues in the re
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by a3_nm 10y ago
This looks nice, with a much more legible syntax than LaTeX. I'd love to use this, e.g., on my blog. The reasons why I won't: - No server-side rendering. I don't want to burden my reader's browser with Javascript. (With
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by a3_nm 10y ago
There is a list of issues in https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o... -- also in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCx... , see Recovery
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The problem with uMatrix is that many sites that rely on third-party Javascript will silently fail (i.e., not load, or show a "loading" animation that never ends), so you need to remember to turn it off for such websites.

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