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by rjf72 8y ago
Thanks. Translate [1] seems to have done quite a remarkable job on the article. And I see absolutely no discussion about any sort of plans for national level censorship service along the lines of China. Perhaps a native speaker can chime in
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by rjf72 8y ago
Any sources on the quote in the article, "Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen
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When comparing one system to another you should generally do just that. Not compare one system to an absolutely perfect and flawless system. The NYT had a pretty solid article [1] on the fiasco that happened in Florida in their 2018 electio
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I think we often forget that each generation always thinks they are at the peak of technology except for what they are yet to discover or solve. That is of course completely tautological, but there is a point hidden in there! For instance p
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Yip! See those little triangles by this comment? Go look at something such as a phpbb site where topic ordering is driven solely by 'bumps' - the most recent topic to have a comment gets bumped to the top of the page listing. You&
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There's no particular reason it needs to be non-profit. School books, for instance, are sold for profit, at substantial markup, by private companies. Does make one wonder why there is (to my knowledge) not much of a market there.
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There's another, more simple, explanation. We have made some fundamental mistake which, due to its 'naturalness' was adopted as all but a certainty. You reach some point that trying to build upon things becomes impossible whe
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What would you propose would be the motivation there? I think there's every indication that the Great Leap Forward was intended to turn China into a socialist society which would eventually become a communist one ( in accordance with M
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You could test your local drain hypothesis pretty easily. Turn on voice activation of e.g. Google on an Android. This means your device is now listening to and analyzing every word to see if it ever recognizes 'Okay Google'. If yo
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I think this is one of the parts in law where you very much would need a specialized lawyer to begin to even grasp the law. There are too many confounding issues here. For instance I expect the paper will have some argument in the fact that
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Can you elaborate on your statement here? The Great Leap Forward was China aiming to create a socialist state, which is inherently totalitarian. And indeed it directly lead to massive famine, deaths, and repression as these efforts generall
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Apple is part of the PRISM surveillance program [1] operated by the NSA. Internal slides from the NSA indicate that said program is capable of providing "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information&qu
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The article was a play on words (in that it's quite literal) but interestingly enough there was a very recent study [1] indicating that millennials are more capable of recognizing songs from the 1960s-1990s, music created in many cases
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Perhaps the most important paragraph in the article: " Everyone is competing against everyone else. If one firm succeeds in making the market more efficient through quantitative techniques, then there’s less money left over for other p
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by rjf72 8y ago
Would you rather know nothing about something, or know something about it that is probably wrong? This should be a rhetorical question as the answer is self evident. The psychology replication crisis started off when it was illustrated that
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What do you mean class assignments? It may vary by university but at my school the studies we participated in were indeed being published. This also was not only for psychology majors but anybody who took 'psych 101' -- participat
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I'm not going to get into the subjectivity of what is or is not "sinister", but there's a more fundamental issue with the pattern you've described. Increasingly often today headlines are defacto articles. They get
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I'd completely agree with you here about the ideal of education being meant to expand your mind and teaching one to think critically. But this is where we might begin to diverge a bit. Is this really happening in modern times? Do you a
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by rjf72 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you find poorly designed about them? In my opinion many of these things are elegant to the point of self documentation. Switch case pattern matching in particular is just great: void foo() {
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I have a practical question about the seeming truism that a highly educated population is a good thing. Our educational attainment rates have absolutely skyrocketed. The number of people with a bachelor's degree or higher is now compar
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You can't say for certain since these things are quite opaque but I am fairly certain that taking calculus and other such classes in high school is not positively factored into admissions at elite universities. In general those would n
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by rjf72 8y ago
Brave is also making major progress here. It natively includes anti-fingerprinting, ad blocking, tracker blocking, HTTPS everywhere, and one-click in-session TOR windows on demand (similar to how incognito windows work for other browsers)
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You can see indirect evidence for this by looking at the exponential rise in ad-blocker-blocking efforts from a wide array of sites. 'Hi, we see you're using an ad blocker. Please turn it off.' That literally did not exist
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This is the whole point of globalization. Companies go and pay next to nothing for labor that would cost vastly more in developed nations. Ideally it gradually helps build up an economic system in the targeted nations at which point they mo
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I'm curious about peoples' views on something. It's clear that in the future we will be able to create fakes that are effectively indistinguishable from reality. The audio in this 'Trump speech' [1] is already remar
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While I completely agree, I think there's a more fundamental problem. Imagine Facebook's T&C said, "We will spy on you in any and all ways we can imagine. We will take every piece of information we can possibly collect a
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Yeah, this is a very good point. I never use Google anymore and assumed that going incognito would have been enough to get roughly 'bare' results. Perhaps a reminder that just because you don't use Google doesn't mean th
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Can you mention the results you're getting? I see 10 results on DDG. There are only 4 shared results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Main_Engine https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight&#x2
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I don't understand why people spread such fake news so readily. In this case you can TRIVIALLY prove this true or false. Did you decide to test this before stating it? No, obviously not. I decided to search for "space engine exhau
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Of course, but what you're requesting is science. It's a meta-analysis. A work that studies other studies and tries to provide aggregate data while controlling for whatever the meta-analysis creators determine to be relevant. Wh

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