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> Ad blockers are not hurting the internet, ads are hurting the internet. The internet wouldn't exist without ads, kiddo. At the very least, it wouldn't be recognizable. It wouldn't be something that is ubiquitous to our d
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I didn't say it was "Destroying" the internet, I said 'hurting'. You can be hurt and still "chug" along just fine, forever. Being hurt just keeps you from reaching your full potential.
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> you think reddit's bad, try 4chan! I honestly don't think the two are even comparable. Moderating a large subreddit on reddit is infinitely harder and more complex than 4chan. Some of the larger subreddits see more pageviews
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> The public discourse on this sort of thing is controlled by media companies, most of whom make the majority of their money from ad revenue. Almost anyone who produces content and puts it on the internet makes money from ads. It'
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To clarify your point, they don't. They have a self-defense force. They lack any serious offensive power since they focus on mostly defensive armaments. There are also pretty big differences between Japan's SDF and a modern mili
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> And would the Obama administration really endorse this? The U.S government has been trying to get Japan to amend its constitution since the late 60s. So yeah, I believe every administration up to this point would have endorsed this.
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" Why the strong anti-China sentiment on HN? I don't get it. That's quite odd, I notice the opposite. I notice many pro China pieces here on hackernews. Whether it's talking about their green energy, growing economy, fi
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Man, I'd love to go poking around on the dark web, specifically those black markets just to look around and satiate my curiosity but am to afraid that I'll be put on some NSA watch list for doing so.
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Ad blockers can do what you suggest, but it's very rudamentary. What it relies on, almost exclusively, is blocking calls to known ad networks. In my experience, about 95% of ads are blocked this way. Even if it was only 50%, that&#x2
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> Why not? I think you missed the point, the plugin or program wouldn't have a distinct pattern or scheme since it would be coming from the website you're visiting. Say, for example, I want to show an ad for denture cream. Noth
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The author gets one thing massively wrong. So do the reddit commentors they quote. The quote: " Ad blockers could end up saving the ad industry from its worst excesses. If blocking becomes widespread, the ad industry will be pushed to
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Actually, China goes way beyond that. Where the U.S tries to nudge things one way or the other indirectly (by changing interest rates and the like), China has total control over their economic & monetary system (including the banks). An
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I think it's obvious he's talking about China as a country that has a capitalistic economic infrastructure with a communist social ideology & political structure.
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> What happens when the government is unable to meet its objectives ? It's going to crash. China's government has a more "hands-on" approach to their economy and to their financial situation so they can hold it off fo
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The title of the article doesn't seem to address the question it poses, but I didn't want to change it. According to the mods interviewed, it was supposed to be a different title and they changed it after the fact.
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We’re Reddit Mods, and This Is How We Handle Hate Speech(wired.com)
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To be fair, when it comes to financial regulations and banking, there are very few governments that would hold their ground and stand firm against U.S pressure. And those nations capable of standing their ground against the U.S (China, Russ
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"better moderated"? Isn't that a bit subjective? I left slashdot.org because I found their moderation to be horrible. Hell, in my opinion, the vast majority of reddit's mods are better than slashdot's mods. The issu
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> we'll be looking at the Obama foreign-policy record as decidedly mixed. Except his foreign policy doesn't exist in a vacuum and it's entirely subjective. Compared to Bush's 'big stick' foreign policy, for
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That's a bit misleading. It says there was no evidence of drugs but then goes on to say that the toxicology report would take 2-3 months. They probably just didn't see any drugs lying around. If he didn't have some sort of un
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> are basically the frameworks This is precisely it. The name "String theory" is a bit of a misnomer; it's a framework, not a scientific theory like evolution or special relativity despite the common perception. Sure, it d
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This is a great article (for laypeople, it's not supposed to be too technical) that explains it and makes it easy to understand: http://zidbits.com/2011/04/why-cant-anything-go-faster-than-... I'll quote
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I knew it would be S.Korea. The company I used to work for, at the time I left, was dealing with some particularly spiteful individuals from S.Korea who have been DDoSing their gaming platform and their separate video host. This was happe
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I think it depends on the context. If I'm a mod on reddit and I remove a submission because it's a clear rule breaker, am I censoring the person who posted it, or am I performing content curation? Which is the more accurate term t
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> They might, but it's really hard to tell (they're so opaque it makes detailed analysis impossible). This is actually one of the reasons why I think China is going to be worse off. More uncertainty means less foreign money com
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I'd love too, but that would expose who I am on reddit because I've recently recommended some of those tools to the admins. They're attempting to have yet another dialogue and I'd prefer to keep this account and that one
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Powermod and poweruser here. By that, I mean I mod 1 or more large default subreddit and have been on reddit a long time. We, the mods, have been asking for tools to properly manage our communities for upwards of 4-5 years now. Pretty much
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> rare earth metals have a very pollutant and energy intensive extraction process which in most cases is not accounted in the environmental cost of solar panels. Thanks to China overplaying their hand, this may be changing. Rare earths w
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> Are there any countries where the immigration system is not "broken" in this way? It's interesting because you'll often see people complaining about how immigrating to Japan is hard. It usually gets brought up when
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> The reason we don't realize the value is because we haven't concocted applications. Some of us realize the value. I just think it's impossible for most people to not take it for granted. If you're under 30, you inhe

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