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by imran3740 8y ago
See my comment below.[1] Regulation tends to impose higher barriers to entry for smaller businesses. (See 'regulatory capture' for what happens to larger businesses.) [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284
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by imran3740 8y ago
I'd really like to see what he has to say in response to these events, if he has at all. This seems to be the weakest part of his overall argument. Anticompetitive violations _have_ happened in the past in the absence of Title II regul
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by imran3740 8y ago
I mean, that is what Pai claims to be doing here: reducing regulatory burden on smaller ISPs so that more can compete. "Monday, we are ending this flawed approach and allowing smaller internet service providers to focus their efforts o
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by imran3740 8y ago
The argument goes that ex-ante regulation imposes unnecessary costs in the form of regulatory compliance for smaller businesses, erecting a higher barrier for entry into the ISP market. Or something like that.
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by imran3740 9y ago
Or just, you know, February 9.
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Nvidia’s new AI creates disturbingly convincing fake videos(thenextweb.com)
19 points by imran3740 9y ago|0 comments
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by imran3740 9y ago
Here's one: Mastodon [0]. It's decentralized, you can deploy your own instance, and doesn't (necessarily) rely on advertising. [0]: https://joinmastodon.org/
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by imran3740 9y ago
You can disable Pocket. In about:config, toggle 'extensions.pocket.enabled' to false.
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Facebook's Not Listening Through Your Phone. It Doesn't Have To(wired.com)
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by imran3740 9y ago
When it comes to articles like this, part of me agrees with the whole "attention economy" problem. Companies want to suck away our time, etc etc. But another part of me also realizes that this problem is going to be very, very har
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by imran3740 9y ago
Another one that connects to your Google account and has a calendar pane for dated events: Moo.do. https://moo.do
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by imran3740 9y ago
Yes, because Windows doesn't play nice with Linux's permissions.
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Ingenious AI Converts Images of Food into a List of Ingredients(gizmodo.com)
2 points by imran3740 9y ago|0 comments
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Command line macOS update reportedly faster, allows use of Mac while updating(9to5mac.com)
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by imran3740 9y ago
The problem with Electron apps is that they're all running their own little Chromium-like instance, hogging up hundreds of MB of RAM, clogging up the process table with all its helper processes, using up CPU when idling. I get the easy
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by imran3740 9y ago
Really? I've been on reddit for a few years now and there's plenty of enjoyable content on the frontpage and now /r/popular. Sure, there's always something about politics, but I think that's always been the cas
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by imran3740 9y ago
As with voat.co, who's gonna switch to this? Really the only people who switched over to Voat are the people who felt reddit was restricting their rights by posting controversial/hateful material on reddit. So it tends to be full
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by imran3740 10y ago
Looks like Anonymous Pro. http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro