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by pvnick 12y ago
Anytime a disruptive company appears which successfully provides the same or superior service to customers than the established players at a lower cost, the knee-jerk reaction is to squash it using the powers of government. We see the same
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by pvnick 12y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I agree that human history is filled with all sorts of atrocities, and slavery and race-influenced violence is among the worst. However, within the past couple decades, we are finally reaching a point wh
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by pvnick 12y ago
Indeed, what Brown did would have gotten any of us shot.
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Racism's trajectory is such that it is quickly disappearing. That is the case even in the deep south where I'm from (this is fairly profound considering our civil war defeat is still a big deal in the minds of many), but rather th
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by pvnick 12y ago
I hope what I have to say is not as controversial as I fear, but I don't think that individual racist beliefs are as big a problem as we have been told. To look at somebody and consciously judge them to be inferior based on their skin
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by pvnick 12y ago
> there is work from Florida University(?) about using Markov chains to reason while taking probabilities into about. You're talking about the work that Prof. Daisy Zhe Wang and her students are doing over at the DSR lab. Go gators!
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by pvnick 12y ago
Good call, meant to add this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsu...
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Shedding Light on the FISC: Findings from Our 2007-2008 Case(yahoopolicy.tumblr.com)
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Not sarcastic at all. Both seem to hold user privacy in high regard (especially Mozilla, obviously. It's one of their core missions).
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Considering both Mozilla and Yahoo [1] value privacy rights so much this can only be a good thing.
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Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double 'every week'(theguardian.com)
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Good for him. There is nothing "patriotic" about complying with unreasonable and out-of-control tax demands. I expect that this process will accelerate as income taxes continue to rise and more indirect income taxes are added such
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The thing about pervasive government surveillance is that we just can't trust that the judges who decide their legality haven't been compromised. That's what's so devastating about these programs - there is a distinct po
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Intercept editor-in-chief John Cook leaving to return to Gawker(firstlook.org)
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I agree, and indeed the Title II designation currently being pushed is particularly harmful for reasons among those outlined here: http://online.wsj.com/articles/obama-vs-the-internet-1415667... (paywall, search the ad
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Obama vs. Internet: Pressuring the FCC to exert political control over the Web(online.wsj.com)
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The point is that the upward trajectory of internet-providing innovations is steep, and only getting steeper, which makes federal ISP regulations unnecessary and harmful to the prospects of small innovative competitors.
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Add satellites to a quickly growing list of unforeseen options that includes google fiber, municipal broadband, etc. and collectively they will soon be enough to make slow/fast lanes a suicidal proposition for major ISPs. The whole rai
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All these new internet options are quickly chipping away at the ISP oligopoly. Tell me again why we need a ham-handed federal approach to net neutrality?
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Effective regulation requires trust. And the federal government has destroyed that trust with regards to the internet. Completely and irreversibly. My point stands. Not to mention that given a little time these problems will work themselves
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Yes, let's give the government control to dictate how we may use the most powerful system for free-speech and keeping governments/corporations in check that has ever existed in all of human history. Despite the US government'
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by pvnick 12y ago
Keep in mind that much of Facebook's purpose in buying WhatsApp was protection against it becoming the dominant player in social media. Facebook is always needing to protect itself against being overtaken by the Next Big Thing, so thei
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by pvnick 12y ago
Fyi the torrent can be found at https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/finfisher.torrent , and the encrypted archive which possibly contains the server software (which the author has asked volunteers to help crack. See secti
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by pvnick 12y ago
I just love the label they used for the No Recognized Terrorist Group Affiliation on that graph.
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Looks like it's back up, we can all be social again.
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Bookmarked. You may not see this comment, but I'm planning to travel and work remotely for a couple years after I graduate at the end of the year, and I think something like this will help a lot. Thank you!
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The cast of Firefly will reunite in the upcoming Firefly Online video game(time.com)
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Firefly's Whole Cast Will Reunite for Firefly Online(io9.com)
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What a cool idea! Great job :)
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by pvnick 12y ago
I agree with the conclusion, but the author could have chosen much better arguments to support that conclusion than rapid population growth, global warming, and the Koch brothers' political activities.

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