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by aerotwelve 8y ago
At state schools, the sharp increase in tuition costs over the last decade have had just as much to do (if not more) with a corresponding decrease in state funding. State legislatures all over this country -- starting with the 2008 recessio
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
It's almost like our health system consists of a small collection of companies playing fast and loose with each other's money, trying to extract as much from each other as possible, and the output of all of this graft (not includi
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
If you don't have a concept like obscenity -- even one that is as ill-defined as obscenity is after Miller -- you can't ban child pornography. Or the Human Sacrifice Channel.
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
If we're going out in the world of genre-spanning punk, Husker Dü, Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu, Wire, and (possibly if you count them) Shellac deserve a strong recommendation. The creativity and diversity in the world of post-punk
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
> I always forget how must support for communism there is here in HN circles... I always forget how libertarians think that anyone who holds views that don't completely conform to their ideology is necessarily a communist (or &quo
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Very interesting -- I had no idea this was a scholarly domain of study; thanks for posting this.
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Unfortunately, there's no business justification for any of them to do this. That is, the financial incentives just don't exist. Until we decide we've had enough of this and pass a real law that holds CRAs liable for the data
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
This is something we desperately need to do here, but I don't much faith we'll do it anytime soon. Bell got 50+ years to extract incredible amounts of cash from their customers (who had, quite literally, nowhere else to go). Then
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
The lower prices due to increased competition are on their way, America! Just wait a little bit longer for the consolidation synergy and those massive corporate tax cuts to really kick in.
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If we had a similar setup in the United States, we'd have much fewer wrongful termination tort lawsuits. In the long term, it would be cheaper in almost every respect. The problem with a system like Amazon's (or internal appeal pr
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
If these were real grievance hearings, both parties would be able to be present during each other's presentation, cross-examine witnesses, and present (and/or challenge) evidence used to make a decision on what to do with the empl
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
I haven't been able to read the opinion yet, as I'm on a phone, but often these types of thresholds or tests come from related cases that have been previously decided. Natural places to start looking in this case would be the Qui
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Fwiw - Obama didn't use an off-the-shelf blackberry; he used one that was modified such that it complied w/ with government security standards. http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/securit
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
I don't want to get into a political grudge match here, but I wouldn't say that Trump and Koch are polar opposites by any means. Trump's tax bill was a Cato (Koch funded) Institute special. If it turned out David Koch himself
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
What's the best way to circumvent this? Is it even possible? I'm no expert (which is why I ask), but I assume that blocking third-party cookies in your browser won't prevent situations like the tracker example the author pr
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
> The Democrats have publicly embraced net neutrality, but have done nothing to ensure it. Even in 2016, the Democrats official stated position was to do nothing I don't know where the "Democrat's official stated position&
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Would you have preferred the Democratic commissioners had voted for the repeal? I'm not sure what else they could have done here.
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
> the Democrats have only pushed the issue when they knew it couldn't pass or would go to court. Net neutrality was part of Obama's presidential platform, and the first attempt at codifying NN rules happened under his first FCC
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
The pre-2015 net neutrality rules you're referring to were put in place in 2010 by the FCC under then-chairman Julius Genachowski. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010 The key about the 2010
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
> This in turn, well, connects those people, gives them opportunities and access to knowledge they wouldn't otherwise have, and eventually opens them up to the rest of the Internet. The problem here is that the last part -- the part
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Not at all, they are your ISP! I absolutely expect VPNs to be the first to go; it's hard to do application-level throttling if everyone has access to a VPN. This is a goldmine for ISPs. Over the last five-ish years they decided to thin
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
What's the proper set of answer about the Dickenson passage? Does any interpretation count as correct? (I know this thread isn't about the methodology of literacy assessment, but now I'm really curious to know how they do it.
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
The day Linux goes MIT/X11 is the day it's gone. Lord help us if they ever succeed.
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
It's common when it's my (the speaker's) dead body, not someone else's body, particularly when you refer to them by name.
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Single issue voters, if they are a large enough group that can organize themselves effectively, can have an extraordinary impact on American politics. Look at the NRA. Yes, they won't have as much sway on the issues they aren't c
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> net neutrality... [is] a largely invented issue between those groups of corporations We've been discussing the concept of Net Neutrality for more than a decade; the 2006 Title I reclassification was the trigger that threw the conc
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Local loop unbundling was required under law wrt dial-up and DSL until 2006, when DSL was reclassified from being a Title II to Title I, service, correct? It was my understanding that Title I service providers, like cable companies, can use
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> ...There are some valuable services provided to them, like closed captioning, but only under passioned support from idealists and with profit incentive. It's worth noting that video closed captioning had to be mandated by law (Tel
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
This site has an impressive collection of in-game anti-piracy measures that is worth checking out [1]. From Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES): Checksum Verification - At the beginning of a level, a checksum is run on 544 bytes worth of code and
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by aerotwelve 8y ago
Eventually we as a society will finally learn that the whole outside Management Consultant/Efficiency Expert trend in business and government is a racket. Consultants don't care about your firm in the long term. If you want to sav

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