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by mlinksva 8y ago
Another recent writeup https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cents-to-deano...
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by mlinksva 8y ago
They've been at it for a long time https://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/Tax_Maze_Repor...
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by mlinksva 9y ago
They're comparing zip-code level Case-Shiller index based on distance from city center. Metro level (which is what is widely quoted as far as I know) does not get at what they're trying to characterize, which is relative demand fo
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> Today, for instance, we see that a majority of people who install an ad blocker don't actually do it to block ads (that's just an added bonus). They are actually doing it to block tracking. Is there any evidence for this at a
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Please write this up in longer form (or point out where you have already) if you get a chance! I'm vaguely aware that the French FOSS community is possibly the strongest (which includes having strong institutions like Framasoft) in the
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Or shorter version https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_Street_Ri... or podcast version https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern... Indeed it has been known for a
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by mlinksva 9y ago
It would shift more of the web to non-ad-funded. People would get more of their info from venues without ads carrying disinformation, from whatever source.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Or we could just do the straightforward thing: tax ads.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma... says now is the peak so far.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
The LICENSE file makes it explicit that Kactus is MIT licensed and copyright holders to at least some of the covered code include those listed. Good, that's what the license file is for when the license is MIT. It doesn't make the
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> Yet the most troubling examples of the exploitation of art for financial gain are perfectly legal. As Adam outlines, collectors and their agents have continually found creative ways to use their art holdings to defer paying taxes, incl
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Not to mention, Forbes "articles" are frowned on. It's a rewrite of https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-fastest-path-to-the-ceo-job-acco...
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Looks like the code is at https://github.com/kactus-io/kactus and GitHub Desktop is their upstream.
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GitHub joins amicus brief to protect sanctuary cities(github.com)
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> It’s not a coincidence that the whitepaper was published after the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Is there any evidence for this? Perhaps a statement from Satoshi that they were motivated to publish by the crisis?
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Support a Non-Aggression Pact for Amazon's HQ2(change.org)
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> Governments can pressure technology companies toward humane business models by including the negative externalities of attention extraction on their balance sheets What does this mean? I'm genuinely curious. Meanwhile, easier: tax
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Yet your dad (likely, I'm guessing, but many like him anyway) has a license and can legally drive. I hope one thing that criticism of computer driver outcomes leads to is conclusion that lots of human drivers should not be entitled to
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by mlinksva 9y ago
It's been under development for a long time. Not sure there's a better URL for it than https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... which might be out of date.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I wonder if http://www.darksky.org/idsp/communities/ can be discerned on this map? I can't at a glance, but of course it'd be hard to tell unless the difference were pretty stark and it's hard to te
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Nevermind collective bargaining; company-specific incentives should be illegal.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Are the apps and browser extensions 100% open source? I didn't notice anything in the text, but _maybe_ https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension https://github.com/duckduckgo&#x2F
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by mlinksva 9y ago
> can't really split any part of the company off from ads because that's revenue Sure you can, but in a different way: tax ads.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Thanks! I was just looking at it from a link in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zera_Yacob_(philosopher) Do you know whether Yacob's writings have been continuously studied in Ethiopia or "lost" and then f
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Now is an opportunity, perhaps first in ~100 years, perhaps last, to recover the streets for unaugmented humans: slow down cars in urban areas, increase qualifications for humans to drive, eventually ban human drivers entirely, leaving only
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Seems ridiculous to me that the researchers chose to abide by telco website dubious terms of service restrictions, resulting in less complete research. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16152194 is discussion of the rese
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Two basic approaches, not mutually exclusive: 1) make advertising expenditure non-deductible or weaker version treat as investment, make deduction multi-year reducing NPV 2) directly tax ad revenue, strength depends on rate. My motivation i
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Search for 'tax' finds one instance: > This allowed the platforms to centralize the internet, inserting themselves between users and content, effectively imposing a tax on both sides. Sadly this does not contain the obvious fix
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Alternative short article if RISC-V community is target audience: > [you/we have] an historic opportunity to “do security right” from the get-go with the benefit of up-to-date knowledge [so please let's do this]
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by mlinksva 9y ago
I don't really know, but maybe for one thing 2001 was still when x86 was destroying its RISC competition and getting much faster every year, and maybe before it was obvious ARM would be huge; there wasn't appetite for alternatives

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