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by mahranch 10y ago
Episodes are filmed 6 months to a year ago. Would it be a 0-day at that point? I remember when 0-day actually meant brand new (typically a release on that particular day), but that was 15-20 years ago. Over that time, the definition could h
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by mahranch 10y ago
> There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure If this is the kind of anarchy you envision, you're going
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by mahranch 10y ago
So you're trying to blame the west? As if China cannot simply decide to clean the air before it leaves their factories? Are western businesses putting guns to the Chinese factory-owner's heads? I think not. They're in it for
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by mahranch 10y ago
Except India's CO2 emissions are less than a third of China's, despite having more people. End of story really. Per capita is a nonsense argument by someone trying to win on technicalities. Unfortunately, "the earth" doe
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by mahranch 10y ago
Per-capita is nonsense. It doesn't matter how much pollution is being released per person, we all live on the same rock. Though if you want to go that route, India trounces China on C02, despite having more people.
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by mahranch 10y ago
I don't think his point was that we should loosen our restrictions, but re-direct our attention on the biggest abusers. Right now that's China. And it's not even close. You would need to combine the emissions of the U.S, Indi
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by mahranch 10y ago
> gaining so much regional identity and independence that they want to do a Brexit of their own. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've wanted their own Brexit from day 1. At least Hong Kong does, and even Taiwan probably too. Especiall
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by mahranch 10y ago
Well up until recently, Japan had the number 2 economy in the world. China just recently passed them so now it's all about China. Due to their population size, there's a lot of potential but their economy is a giant mess. There ar
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by mahranch 10y ago
They're more like an escrow than like the PRC. China could halt trading or eliminate a stock permanently, th DTC cannot. Anything it can/could do to cause permanent damage could be reversed by regulatory bodies and/or the gov
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by mahranch 10y ago
> But, the only reason they can't do this is "contracts"? You make it sound like the contracts aren't a real barrier. If they break their contracts, they could face millions, nay, billions in fines, fees, and settlem
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by mahranch 10y ago
> I can still remember reading many blogs in 2009/2010 by hobbyist who just wanted to spread their experience with the hobby or craft. Most had no advertising. Those that did had the small, occasional unobtrusive banner ad. All of
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Interesting development considering Nordstrom's failure with the same experiment. Not really. I think the customer bases are different enough that it's an apples and oranges comparison. Not only do you have a different type o
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by mahranch 10y ago
That's all speculative & hypotheticals. The whole "pay to play" or "pay for what you use" model has failed time and time again on the internet. In fact, I can't think of a single instance of that working on
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by mahranch 10y ago
I really dislike this train of thought and where it leads. Sure, everyone hates ads and would do without them if possible. But people forget; ads subsidize most "free" content. It has been this way for 60+ years, probably more. Yo
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Google is mostly an advertisement company heavily relying on their search business. You're right that google is an advertisement company (87% of their revenue comes from their ad network), but I don't think that's entire
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by mahranch 10y ago
Eh, he has acted like a moderate on a few key issues; like not denying federal funds to expand medicaid as his peers in most red states did. He's also expected to sign the medical marijuana bill making its way through Ohio's congr
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by mahranch 10y ago
> wants to see Trump win simply to watch the fallout. I have those same strange morbid feelings but not about Trump. Because I know the damage would be too severe. It's like saying there's a sick part of me that wants to play r
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by mahranch 10y ago
This is something that isn't just unique to higher education in the U.S, it's pretty much standard practice back in China as well. It's all about rote memorization & tests. What you can't memorize, you find a way to
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by mahranch 10y ago
> The question in my mind is, why is this initiative coming from the Congress rather than from the President or from NASA itself? Because both the president and NASA's power pales in comparison to congress. Congress is responsible f
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by mahranch 10y ago
If you think it's not complex, then you simply don't understand the situation, or how cruicial/vital ads are to content production. If you'll allow me to be blunt; You're ignorant. Most of the internet is funded by
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by mahranch 10y ago
My percentange was incorrect, I was thinking of a different company. It's 89%. 89% of Google's revenue comes from their ads they display on their search results, and in their adchoices network. Source: https://www.quora
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Sorry, until your industry sets professional standards your crying has zero emotional pull for me. Oh, sorry if I mislead you. I'm actually not in the industry at all. I used to be a publisher though, had my own website until I so
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Life can be much _better_ without ads. It's more complex than that, I'm afraid. People don't create content or innovate for free. I'm sure there are a rare few who do, but most people hope for the promise of a finan
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Why do you think being afraid of malware is BS? I never said that. I said it's a BS excuse. I think it's perfectly fine to be afraid of malware. But you can run a couple of plugins (like noscript, and uninstall java) and solv
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Calling ad blocking to prevent malware infection a BS excuse is ridiculous. There are other (quite simple) plugins to stop any malware from running (like noscript, etc) while at the same time , not having an adblocker even installed.
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by mahranch 10y ago
>> but I love seeing big corporations, used to bullying their way around, finding out that their old dirty tricks don't work in the new world. The problem with that mindset is that people tend to think it's also OK to block
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by mahranch 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand your complaint. They only hold onto the patents for a short time before they become available to the public. It's not like they're holding them for 20+ years. I clicked on 5 random links from the new
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by mahranch 10y ago
Well history has shown it takes at least that much time. It took that much time for the republicans to push our country to the right as much as they have; it would take at least that long to push it back to the left.
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by mahranch 10y ago
> I know that it's all very "tinfoil hat" sounding, but there are a number of places where the disparity is highly suspect. It is tinfoil hat sounding because it is tinfoil hat territory. I'm sorry, but the internet
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by mahranch 10y ago
He's only defied expectations within his own party. The U.S consists of more than the republican party; You have independents, third parties and the democrats. So sure, he'll have those hard right neocons voting for him, but what

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