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by iand 10y ago
They are already in it. Google for verizon supercookie
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by iand 10y ago
Perhaps https://lobste.rs/ might be an addition to your reading habits?
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by iand 10y ago
Can you clarify the question? It sounds like you think UBI's problem is that it removes the "continual supply of low-paid unskilled workers [the businesses] want".
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by iand 10y ago
That will simply move the incentives towards publishers spreading their content over as many pages as possible to get more micropayments from you.
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by iand 10y ago
You wrote "What if there's no such a thing as <something we have studied and understood in detail for decades> and we've been observing interactions with <something we hypothesise might exist but we know next to noth
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by iand 10y ago
You'll be pleased to learn that the National Archives keeps an archive of all UK government sites, e.g. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403203037/htt... See http://nationalarchives.gov.uk
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by iand 10y ago
Don't you believe that there are degrees of obnoxiousness in advertising? How would you feel if this tremendous work of journalism was only accessible after filling in a 20 page lifestyle questionnaire? Do you think that's ok if i
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by iand 11y ago
When you put your money into a structured pension plan for your retirement then it's tax avoidance since you are avoiding paying the tax you normally would if you invested it in some other way. Tax evasion is where you break the law by
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by iand 11y ago
Don't forget Google's free hosting of Javascript libraries and webfonts. The cost of serving those is recouped by dropping a cookie on you. Also Google DNS can give them great insight into domain popularity.
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by iand 11y ago
Who is building an alternative to LinkedIn?
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by iand 11y ago
I think the article misses some important context about scale and economic efficiency. When you have 10,000 engineers then decoupling everything behind protocols and formats makes a huge amount of sense because the coordination costs are as
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by iand 11y ago
This paper from UK Parliament lists several examples of legislation that was enacted retrospectively, including new criminal liabilities in the War Crimes Act. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06454/SN06454.p
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by iand 11y ago
It's pixelated because the paper is a scan of a 17 year old paper. The Fermat's Library site is designed to allow people to annotate and comment on old classic papers, most of them from before digitisation of journals.
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by iand 11y ago
Usually it's to avoid accidentally promoting a product that competes with a sponsor or advertiser.
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Subtitle: "Go is not what I want it to be"
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by iand 11y ago
This might stimulate some progress in the UK which is under a legal stranglehold of the privatised post office address file. The licensing of UK postcodes infects all the derived sources meaning there is no clear path to constructing a free
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by iand 11y ago
The two sentences are consistent once you read that Go maps are not designed to be safe for concurrent access.
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by iand 11y ago
How do you detect the absence of a visit if all you have is a hidden pixel on a page?
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by iand 11y ago
I actually support your view but to play the other side of the argument for a bit: what you are suggesting is that the customer has to be an expert in tree health before they use a facility provided by the host. Do they also have to be an e
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by iand 11y ago
This well-circulated image shows that making everyone a winner has merit in some circumstances. http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-equality-justic... The left hand side is fair rules, the right hand side show
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by iand 11y ago
Midnight is before dawn...
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by iand 11y ago
Does it hold context for subsequent questions? For example can you ask "what city is the Brandenburg Gate in?", "which country is that in?", "what is its population?"
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by iand 11y ago
The main mistake in this article is the assumption that b := a makes 'b' an "alias" of 'a'. It doesn't. It creates a new slice that starts off pointing to the same array as 'a'. Also slices are i
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by iand 11y ago
In the early days of Java, there were tons of articles titled XXX written in Java. Just go look at some early Slashdot or JavaWorld.
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by iand 11y ago
This exaggerates the problem. There is more preserved data about people than ever before, just like there was more preserved data last century than there was the previous century. There is simply vastly more data collected. I speculate that
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by iand 12y ago
31 April is British Pi day
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by iand 12y ago
No, it's never written as numbers that way. But writing March 3, 2014 is fairly common.
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An implementation of Atmel's AVR microprocessor specification in Go(github.com)
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More likely the company had debts it couldn't service
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Be careful, this is how the Archbishop of Canterbury got picked in 1990. http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-george-care... On that occasion the Appointments Committee put forward the names of the

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