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by mlinksva 7y ago
I don't see a link or reference to it, but I guess this is a slightly condensed version of https://andrewoswald.com/docs/AdvertisingMicheletal2019Easte... Tax ads! Added: actually it's in the reference list a
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Hardly. I suggest reading the paper. Here's the conclusion: > To summarize, our analysis of the association between cigarette taxes and adult cigarette use suggests that adult smoking is largely unaffected by taxes. At best, cigaret
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Yes, and it'll take collective action, i.e. politics, to fix those institutions. Positive example: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Relatedly https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/tax-facebook-goog... https://paulromer.net/faqs-on-targeted-ads/
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Czech Republic proposes the highest digital tax rate in Europe(bloomberg.com)
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Would enjoy a debate between these authors and the authors of https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whit... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738905
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by mlinksva 8y ago
thx - can you say more?
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by mlinksva 8y ago
The article does link to a couple papers which I have not read yet, but have added to my list. I'd love a link to the most current review of evidence on social media and crime. Surely there are some decent natural experiments by now. I
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Could the Internet Archive, specifically https://web.archive.org/ be the basis of an Open Web Index as proposed by the author? I'm sure there are tons of obstacles to that path, but it also would be far ahead of any ne
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Yes. Or rather the paywall journal version of that paper. :) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.03.007
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by mlinksva 8y ago
The week before that was even more incisive http://www.econtalk.org/jacob-stegenga-on-medical-nihilism/
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by mlinksva 8y ago
The press release mentions a previous 2015 fuel cell patents initiative. Press release for that at https://global.toyota/en/detail/4663648 ... stories about it were submitted to HN a bunch of times, to no discussi
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by mlinksva 8y ago
I agree, even wrote a quaint blog post on that long ago https://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/08/07/aolternative-histor... ... but partiallypro seemed to be claiming the close to the opposite, that open sou
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Imagine universe in which open source does not exist. Would the internet be less centralized? What's the mechanism?
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Also impact on use of Tor.
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Connecting reproducible deployment to a long-term source code archive(gnu.org)
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by mlinksva 8y ago
> We then gathered the most efficient (i.e. fastest) version of the source code in each of the remaining 10 benchmark problems, for all the 27 considered programming languages. I wonder if anyone has attempted to rate how idiomatic or ty
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by mlinksva 8y ago
The author's series on learning Rust, not linked in the OP https://blog.liw.fi/learning-rust/ I really enjoy the author's blog, which has been discussed here many times over the years https://hn.al
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Why not join rather than counter? Surely a deal could be wored out that would fit the theme, e.g., US could let China companies build and manage HSR, China could let US cloud vendors operate freely.
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Surely life in a tent or on the street is far more dangerous than life in shoddy but formal housing, like the complex the protagonists of this story were living in before it was condemned for being unsafe. Of course such a moral quandary sh
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by mlinksva 8y ago
This seems similar to how Firefox Directory Tiles worked, except when/where the ad was presented to the user (new tab page in the FF DT instance). I thought it was a good idea, and I'm pretty skeptical of advertising (tax ads is m
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Should Law Subsidize Driving?(ssrn.com)
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Free Press Calls for Tax on Targeted Ads to Fund Civic-Minded Journalism(freepress.net)
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by mlinksva 8y ago
I'm curious what makes you think EFF spends time on patent far disproportionate to the civil liberties impact? Out of their https://www.eff.org/about/staff of 80+ it looks like they have 2 attorneys and one analys
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Does adding standard extensions result in similar complexity for the resulting core with similar features? The authors seem to address this: > Fewer instructions. RISC-V has many fewer instructions. There are 50 in the base that are surp
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by mlinksva 8y ago
EFF advocates for civil liberties, not for Silicon Valley or the US. But for Silicon Valley and US, it's debatable whether trying to maintain continued dominance through stronger IP is a good bet. China and elsewhere are switching to p
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Cool initiative. IIUC it lowers the cost of asking for and vetting help, which can be substantial. Moving a project to a stewarding entity even more so -- actually I imagine easily matching/getting new maintainers on board could ease e
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by mlinksva 8y ago
I wonder if long term plan ought be to shut down and redevelop SJC. Has this been studied? I know that SAN relocation is periodically studied but not gotten far (too bad, I'd like San Diego better without the low flying planes). SJC is
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Of Non-Competes, Elizabeth Warren and Marco Rubio(tradesecretsandemployeemobility.com)
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by mlinksva 8y ago
Don't know whether high total compensation of programmers at some elite companies and locations is a bubble or not, but interested in flip side of question: how has and how will it spread? Have any of the many efforts to copy Silicon V

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