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by anon1385 12y ago
What makes you think a degree that is good for your employment chances today will still be relevant in 15-20 years time?
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by anon1385 12y ago
If everybody did that it would cause a demographic crisis. Who exactly do you expect to be looking after you when you are retired (growing your food, manufacturing your medication, diagnosing your ailments etc etc) and only 0.01% of the po
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by anon1385 12y ago
Somebody who wants to drive around without insurance calling others arrogant and obnoxious. You couldn't make it up.
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by anon1385 12y ago
That is some very weak whataboutery. If there was a civil war going on in the US and disrupting the internet was likely to lead to loss of life then we might have a comparable situation. That isn't the situation though. I am making a n
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's just the usual old American Exceptionalism. They believe they have the 'God given' right to disrupt the economies of other countries, destroy infrastructure, assassinate civilians, fix elections and fund military coups.
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by anon1385 12y ago
No. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/confusing-cause-and...
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by anon1385 12y ago
Mozilla have no plans to replace Gecko with Servo. Servo is a research project.
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's kind of fascinating how the supposed economic and social benefits of the open web that people spent 20 years or more evangelising are dismissed as 'far-left' once powerful incumbents have cornered the market. Suddenly a
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's always fun to see Google employees admitting that yes Google only exists to extract as much wealth as possible from the rest of the world and doesn't give a single shit about anybody or anything else. If only you were able to
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STAP stem cell co-author commits suicide(retractionwatch.com)
1 points by anon1385 12y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 12y ago
Research doesn't have to be funded by investors looking for a profit. Lots of medical research is funded by governments and non-profit organisations. For some diseases that is where the vast majority of funding research comes from.
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by anon1385 12y ago
>What was the original intended business model of Fotopedia? Get bought by Google, Facebook or Yahoo.
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by anon1385 12y ago
>The reality is that they realized a critical component of their security-focused project is broken and needs fixing, urgently They didn't 'suddenly realise' that it was crap. They have been criticising OpenSSL for a long
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UK definition of terrorism 'could catch political journalists and bloggers'(theguardian.com)
1 points by anon1385 12y ago|0 comments
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Pixel Perfect: Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML5(cseweb.ucsd.edu)
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by anon1385 12y ago
>people only get better off when net production expands This is a trivially false statement. Just look at any recession in history and you can easily find people who become better off even though net production shrank.
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Programming “aptitude test” canned for overzealous conclusion(retractionwatch.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
I can't believe these clowns are still using Google Analytics. Who the hell thinks that an advertising corporation in a foreign country that has no privacy regulations should be profiling and tracking my activity when I interact with m
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Another Silent Spring(monbiot.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
This just goes to show how broken the browser model is as an app platform. The fact you (browser vendors) have to decide which image formats to support should be a huge red flag demonstrating that something is fundamentally wrong with your
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by anon1385 12y ago
>applications that close all file descriptors (and you have still not named one) elinks: https://github.com/yggi49/elinks/blob/master/src/protocol/fi... https://github.com/yg
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by anon1385 12y ago
You are upset that people are using the wrong tone to make criticisms of OpenBSD? The same OpenBSD run by Theo de Raadt? You reap what you sow, as they say.
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Maybe you could use this handy open source Chrome extension And how exactly does that help me when a gmail user emails me (or replies to my email) without using pgp? Perhaps you meant to say "Maybe you could persuade every person
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by anon1385 12y ago
Now stop Google seeing your email: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec...
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by anon1385 12y ago
>I was not forced to be a user of Google products Well forced is perhaps a little strong, but it's nearly impossible to avoid giving information to Google if you use the internet. Not using the internet is increasingly not a choice
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by anon1385 12y ago
>several analytical and tracking software suites such as piwik automatically disregard the DNT setting on only IE10+, while respecting the ones on other browsers. This ironically makes IE the less privacy conscious browser. Similarly, by
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by anon1385 12y ago
Yesterday I noticed that DDG was no longer taking me to the https version of youtube and I'm fairly sure it did before. It looks like Google search results don't take you to https youtube either.
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Fracklahoma(tamino.wordpress.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
Of course pg hates the "middle brow" dismissal. Part of his schtick is Malcolm Gladwell style 'intellectual porn' essays that ignore facts and complexity to paint an aesthetically pleasing (but false) narrative to people
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Windows is a piece of crap when it comes to staying clean. If it wasn't, Microsoft wouldn't have to go after people like this. It doesn't help that Google is making money from infecting their users with malware. It's

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