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One question; what protections are in place to prevent some of the problems which plague user aggregated links (which are selected/ranked according to votes)? Is there any anti-vote cheating mechanisms in place? Anti-Spam measures? One
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> Copyright doesn't prevent plagiarism; plagiarism can exist without copyright violation and vice versa. Well yeah. Murder laws don't stop people from murdering but that doesn't mean we should do away with the laws since p
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> Once people decided to monetize You have it backwards friend. Once people decided you could make money off the internet, innovations came at a breakneck pace. It was the money that fueled web growth. See: the previous internet bubble.
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> That's bullshit. Probably the first thing that would die would be the crappier part of the web - the one made to earn lots of money. Bye bye ad-sponsored clickbait image bullshit sites. No, it wouldn't. Because if copyright
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> If we could get rid of copyright If that happens, the web as we know it would cease to exist. Without a legal recourse to stop plagiarism and stolen content, people who are actually creating new content stop completely and move into ot
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> Two-thirds of them draw their subjects exclusively from the pool of U.S. undergraduates , according to a survey by a Canadian economist named Joseph Henrich and two colleagues. This is pretty shocking to me. I participate in these beh
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More than that, DNA evidence isn't that difficult to fabricate (Source: http://zidbits.com/2012/06/can-dna-be-faked/ ). If someone wanted to create fake DNA and leave it at the scene of a crime to frame s
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You're looking at this from a selfish, individualistic point of view. I'm looking at society in general - I'm looking at the bigger picture. Japan completely eliminated shooting deaths via guns thanks to their ban on guns (so
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Yeah, this is what I don't get about libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism. All it takes is one bad actor to ruin it for everyone else. Just a single one. And in a country with 300 million people, how can there not be one person wh
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> this articles makes it appear as if Japan was the outlier but the truth is that the US is. I think what makes Japan the outlier is their shockingly low violent crime rate, crime rate against children (abductions, etc) and one of the lo
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> Really? Are you ashamed of your government's cyber attacks on other nations? The U.S does minimal hacking and when it does, it's nearly surgical in nature. It's a precise target for a precise reason. This is unlike other
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> Facebook doesn't allow a "Coontown" group, and Youtube will take down a similarly themed video or channel. As far as I know, neither does reddit. They banned those communities a few months ago.
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> It's really not. I'm going to have to disagree. My point wasn't that reddit is becoming facebook or youtube, but that it is in the same ballpark as far as traffic goes. And if you're at a quarter billion unique hits
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> Reddit has major problems with its community and racism and sexism and the like Do they though? Reddit's getting 200 million unique views every single month. That's approaching youtube/facebook levels of traffic. Reddit
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> why does reddit get so much press coverage now? They're the 10th largest website in the U.S. I think the question should be; "Why does reddit see so little press coverage?"
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> You're paying for that byte to get from Point A to Point B. You haven't paid for the creation of that byte, though. I don't know why you were downmodded but this is absolutely correct. Just because I bought a car and pai
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> $ billions have been transacted as micropayments in social games Web content and gaming aren't remotely the same. Micropayments in gaming is almost akin to gambling for many games. Then there's the whole "pay to win&qu
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> that US foreign policy is so willing to snuff out such visionary leaders. You're kidding, right? Economic views aside, these men were monsters who, combined, were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not million
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> Just recently China started to sell US Treasury bonds (they have about $2 bln of them to sell) China didn't just "start selling US treasury bonds". You're implying that they're offloading their bonds, they are
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> Despite talk of the yuan’s rise, the primacy of the greenback is unchallenged. And it is just that, talk. People forget, as the Yuan rises, so does the dollar . The real question is, how much ground is the Yuan gaining on the dollar
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> MS is keeping software sales, but handing search, distribution, cloud, backup and mapping services to what is effectively a Chinese google? How exactly do they expect to make money from this? There's billions of people in China. I
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Also, the largest search provider in Japan is Yahoo! Japan (2nd largest is Google, which has been slowly gaining). Coincidentally, Yahoo! Inc does not own Yahoo! Japan. They are only a minor shareholder. Softbank is the largest shareholder
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Did you read your link? The numbers " were self-reported by shark fin vendors in the Guangzhou ". Hardly scientific and it's only from a single city in China. I'd trust NPR over that source. NPR claims that while shark
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> it went down by 70-80% IIRC. Not even close, demand dropped by 29% (source below). And the cause of the drop was the demand itself declining rather than anything China did. Their enforcement was minimal, the soup itself was just becomi
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> Is that a good thing? A very good thing, actually. For starters, nobody minds ads. They subsidize content. Without ads, the internet wouldn't exist in its current iteration. What people are against are malicious ads and the like.
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> Or you simply believe that the rapid growth of ad blockers will taper off fairly quickly and never constitute a significant threat. Possible but I think pretty naive. A third option that I think is the most likely (because it's al
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> None of that money goes to the people who are being abused daily by the onslaught of mental pollution that this "industry" produces. Why should it? They're the ones consuming the free content. They get to view whatever c
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I like reddit because they encourage people to visit the websites of the content creators by way of link aggregation. You go to /r/Worldnews or something, and it's a link to the BBC or Reuters. They don't host the articl
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> gold And they have ads, too: https://www.reddit.com/advertising/
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> I get what you are saying, but I don't buy it. I'm not sure how you "don't buy it". It's like not buying the fact that the moon orbits the earth. Granted, yes, there is poor content, spammy content, copyri

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