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by hackuser 10y ago
Does Opera collect data on users? Also, what about Brave?
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by hackuser 10y ago
This Firefox add-on helps with one such issue, navigating tabs: * Single Key Tab Switch https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-key-ta... I configured mine to use Vim navigation keys (h for left
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by hackuser 10y ago
So how does someone not connected to a university get access to all this essential knowledge? Subscribing as an individual to JSTOR, etc. is far too expensive (thousands per year, I believe) and complicated. I don't want the administra
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by hackuser 10y ago
> They are concerned about being elected, that's it. ... / That's not to say they're bad, do no good, etc. Just that their incentives are such that they can't enact good policy oftentimes or possibly even tell th
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by hackuser 10y ago
> As usual, what you really want to do is read the paper: An aside: If you are not reading Nature you may be missing out on a lot. I would guess the same applies to Science. Only the back half of Nature is actual research papers, which o
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An HOA is a democratic institution; it's not rule by the wealthy or corporate executive.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Just have metered parking everywhere and have the cost per unit time reflect the local demand for parking. Now you've eliminated an externality. But that doesn't resolve the question of the supply of parking spaces - i.e., ho
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by hackuser 10y ago
>> Did humans live better before 1947? > In some ways, yes. Humans in the U.S. are far better off now in almost every way. Of course there are exceptions. > Democracy is effective at not rounding up dissidents in secret police r
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by hackuser 10y ago
Should citizens have a vote in what happens in their city, or should they be ruled by corporate executives? Also, a common and essential part of the free market is failure and bankruptcy. What happens when parts of the city go bankrupt? Wha
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I think cities would enjoy a nice efficiency boost from the decentralized, organic growth of a less bureaucratically-planned city (plus fewer budget problems). Consider the infrastructure costs in the article: Less centralized, less pl
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by hackuser 10y ago
I do think the market is a very useful tool and that some things are over-regulated and some are under-regulated. But I don't understand your point: All regulations are bad? Everything is too regulated? I know these ideas are trendy, b
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Yes, there are externalities and also other ways markets fail; that's why I didn't use the term. Maybe there aren't enough street parking spots for all the businesses, and then the market fails: No business wants to spend on
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Did the upgradeable PC ever really work, or did the vast majority of PCs sold go to the dump with exactly the same configuration as sold? IME, it never did. Except for techies, hardly anyone opened their computers. I remember seeing so
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by hackuser 10y ago
> As if, in a competitive market, those businesses couldn't figure out for themselves the optimal amount of parking to pay for to keep their customers happy. I don't know anything about Bend, but speaking generally ... There a
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks. And even those issues underplay the magnitude of the problem. Look up Deep Packet Inspection, for example. It doesn't take much to read and record the content, and nothing stops them from doing it in the U.S. (AFAIK).
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by hackuser 10y ago
From 2015
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by hackuser 10y ago
While I have no personal love for Backpage's adult section or their facilitation, if any, of sex worker trafficking, I wonder: What determines which businesses the government pressures into shutting down and which they do not? I fear i
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Lost Exile: The unlikely life and death of the Exile, Russia's angriest newspaper(vanityfair.com)
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by hackuser 10y ago
Yes, that's assumed in what I meant. Vendors that track their users, such as Google and maybe the NYT, by implementing HTTPS are basically saying: We don't want to share that data with anyone else (e.g., 'random coffee shop &
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by hackuser 10y ago
Without HTTPS, whoever owns the LAN you use, its ISP, and various intermediary networks can easily track everything that appears in your web browser by reading the same traffic your browser reads.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Does anyone know how this publication relates to Six Easy Pieces? Same thing now free? Different lectures? Same lectures but one is abridged? http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465025275
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by hackuser 10y ago
A good step forward. Does the NY Times itself track what its users read? Does it provide that information to others? If so, this change amounts to not protecting user privacy as much as insisting that only the NYT can monetize their users&#
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by hackuser 10y ago
> a few students that are afraid to "come out" as conservative. > That's very common, if you talk to conservatives on campus. This is the kind of situation where I feel the need is great for real data and not anecdotes.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The policy and political solution most widely proposed is a conservative one: Let the free market work out the solution, by pricing GHGs based on their true costs.
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's sad that you have turned a discussion into personal attacks; I'm not going to participate in that.
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by hackuser 10y ago
To respond to my own first question: > Have they become more liberal? Academia has long been called liberal; I don't know that it has become more or less that way. Also, liberal is a matter of definition and is relative to a degree;
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by hackuser 10y ago
I don't know Techdirt, but the others are outlets of the conservative ideological movement. I'm not sure what the Observer article has to do with the issue at hand?
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Please reread my actual words. That's not what I wrote.
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> it's been known for decades that academia leaned left Yes, but the question here is different: Has the proportion of conservatives diminished significantly? (tl;dr: Among 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S., according to
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree that people should not be discriminated against on college campuses for the ideology, only for bad ideas. But I don't know that conservatives are discriminated against or that their numbers are shrinking. I've seen no data

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