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by mahranch 11y ago
> All we are asking our Govt. is to adopt same Net Neutrality standards that exist in US and other EU countries. I understand that, and support it 100%. I am 100% pro-net neutrality. > Just because we are open, unlike China, doesn&#
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by mahranch 11y ago
If I was facebook, I'd tread lightly. India has a long history of reneging on deals. Once a deal is struck with most nations, that's it. Done deal. With India, they don't care - they'll do whatever is convenient for them
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> Can you comment on this story about Edward Teller? It's an anecdote of an anecdote. It's literally third person hearsay, with Teller saying "Oh, it "might" be possible". We don't even know he said t
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by mahranch 11y ago
> I don't think it's fair to lump those two together. Heh, I disagree. I hold almost the exact opposite view and believe it is perfectly fair to lump those two together. Cold fusion requires overcoming the Coulomb barrier at
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by mahranch 11y ago
Yeah, I don't get this. To overcome the Coulomb barrier at room temp (source: http://zidbits.com/2015/05/how-does-fusion-power-work/ ) is akin to claiming you built something which goes faster than light.
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> Actually, it's not. There is no criminal copyright infringement in New Zealand. How does that work? New Zealand is a signatory to the Berne Convention and also to WIPO. That means they agree to hold similar copyright laws and prot
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by mahranch 11y ago
The biggest relevant fact on that page is half hidden. China pumps out 10 gigatonnes of CO2 every year. India? Just 2 gigatonnes tons. In fact, you could combine the U.S, E.U and India's C02 annual output, and it still wouldn't
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Only at the bleeding edge, which you don't need to use in your everyday life. He means how do you know the speed of light is 186,000 mi/sec? Did you test it yourself? Or are you taking someone's word for it? It's on
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by mahranch 11y ago
Except the question remains unanswered. "Untestable" is basically a grey area. There's " untestable right this minute, but in 5, 10 or 20 years it will be testable ", then there's " we can probably test it
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> Read that, not so crazy. Unfortunately, I read the same exact thing about Ron Paul in 2008 & 2012. :) http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2011/1106/R... and http://w
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Some believe that, if the FCC were to have less power, it would be easier for more ISPs to come along and compete with the big guys Except, all the evidence throughout history has shown this never to be the case. It never, ever works
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by mahranch 11y ago
> I'm not sure who you guys think you're arguing against. Sometimes I forget that hackernews has a slightly more intelligent user-base. Unfortunately, I participate on reddit as well, and there, political supporters have a slig
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> he wins and becomes president, what could he do? Yeah, this whole thing about electing the right president who will somehow magically change all the wrongs of the world overnight is a fairy tale. If someone like Ron Paul or Bernie Sand
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by mahranch 11y ago
> grants the FCC significant amounts of regulatory power over private companies. How would net neutrality work without that regulatory power? The FCC needs teeth to do its job. Net neutrality without anyone to actively enforce it is the
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by mahranch 11y ago
> It boils down to Google HQ, especially the three founders, didn't grant much power to local team You sure it was that, and not China trying repeatedly (and successfully) stealing Google's source code? (Source: http:/&#x
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> Compelling argument there. I don't know if you're being facetious, but it's not an argument, it's a simple fact. If I create a painting, a movie or a song, and I don't want anyone to see those things, that&#x27
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> You do realize that the internet and even the web existed way before all of those companies, right? And just how popular was the internet back then? > And while you might not have been around then, it was great back then. I'm
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Not only is this a cheap emotional gambit Are you really suggesting or implying that the poor won't be affected by this? This is a huge issue and trying to claim the concern isn't valid by calling it "a cheap emotional g
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Enjoy your future of pay walls! I love how people say "I will!" For starters, most won't. These are people who tend to be ideological and naive kids who probably still have their parents paying their bills. Or they don&#
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Yes, thank you very much - that's the goal. I don't think you're doing much critical thinking here. You don't seem to realize just how much innovation is directly the result of advertisements. You get rid of adverti
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by mahranch 11y ago
> 1) When was the offer made. The moment you went to the website. It's like going to someone's house and knocking on the door. > ) When was the understanding of what the contract was about made? (aka "meeting of the min
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> If you have to make up a lot of points to make your argument, maybe you don't have an argument? Wow, I thought this was hackernews, where longer, in-depth comments were welcomed, not insulted. And certainly not used against the pe
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Not that I agree with the guy above you, but I also don't agree with your comment here: > What makes you think you have a right to run software on my computer? What makes you think you have the right to consume the content I worked
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> What a huge sense of self-entitlement. Your rights as a publisher do not extend to my computer But the content itself isn't yours. You are not entitled to view that content. The creator put it up with the expectation that people
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Ads are* a donation, not a purchase. I vehemently disagree. Ads subsidize the content you consume. Without ads, there would be minimal or no web content, end of story. Most of the web is directly or indirectly funded by ads. Just like
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by mahranch 11y ago
Yes. A 27 year old Austrian man became a Shinto priest in Japan. Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/06/10/our-lives/b...
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by mahranch 11y ago
> the US that forced Japan to demilitarize after WW2. Now we want to ask them to fight our wars? To be fair, the U.S has literally been asking Japan to change its constitution since 1968. They've been trying to get them to be actua
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> Although on the other hand it really doesn't stand a chance against China's nuclear arsenal. I beg to differ; According to the U.S government, Japan maintains a latent nuclear program. According to their assessment, Japan c
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by mahranch 11y ago
> then look for Alibaba to seek to acquire the rest of Yahoo Japan. Yahoo! Inc doesn't own the majority of Yahoo! Japan (believe it or not), Softbank does. Yahoo! is only a minor shareholder of Yahoo! Japan.
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by mahranch 11y ago
Precisely the type of ads we should be celebrating since they subsidize the content we consume. A lot of people either are oblivious to their actual importance, or just don't care. The internet simply wouldn't be what it is today

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