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by rwl 12y ago
I think the author is probably talking about total wealth, not median income; by that metric, we're richer than in 1999 (though it is less equally distributed), according to this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
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by rwl 12y ago
My point was this: presumably, Spearchucker wanted this software because it was useful to him, not just because it might be useful to someone else. Getting it had a cost: the time and effort to develop it. He could either take on that who
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by rwl 12y ago
> After all the work I've put into this thing I'm selfish. I want to benefit from what I created... You are evidently aware of free/open source software, so I'm curious: if you thought that other people would be inte
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Data on quality of life in U.S. cities(onedscorecard.datadrivendetroit.org)
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by rwl 12y ago
> For example, a new user coming to emacs can't search for help on C-x C-f by invoking C-h C-x C-f That's true. It's C-h k C-x C-f. :)
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by rwl 12y ago
> The transparency issue is that a build-out requirement isn't denominated in dollars...If you institute a build-out rule, it does so without knowing the size of the costs; they are simply imposed silently. OK, I think I see. > T
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by rwl 12y ago
> The tax is not being levied directly on voters, but indirectly, by creating a monopoly that provides poor service, when they could instead have competition providing great service. But isn't the point here precisely that without t
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by rwl 12y ago
> An explicit tax on the company by the local government would still be better than a build-out requirement, since this would at least be transparent. I guess I don't quite see how it's more transparent. What information would
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by rwl 12y ago
> If you're really trying to help the poor at the (presumably managable) expense of everyone else, then subsidize the subscriptions of the poor households by explicitly taxing. Isn't this exactly what local governments are doin
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by rwl 12y ago
> The real question is what we can do to fight DRM. > Of course all this only applies to DRM content, and companies advocating it. Non-DRM offerings like gog.com, independent artists etc. are fine and should be paid for if used What e
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by rwl 12y ago
> How would content producers possibly deter copying without exerting control on the consumption hardware and software? The only answer there is standardized DRM. They could use the legal mechanisms that have existed in copyright law f
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by rwl 12y ago
Thanks for pointing to this. I am a grad student. My institution recently moved to Apps for Education and away from an in-house system, which I was not very happy about. Privacy for my data (including communications with the undergrads I
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by rwl 13y ago
> Very few (if any) fancy and well typespeced books by major publishers have been made with LaTeX. I know, because I know that industry. What do they use, then? (I'm actually pretty curious, because I am writing a dissertation tha
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by rwl 13y ago
Sadly, the big problem with inequality is not "feelings of inadequacy". The problem is that wealth buys power and influence, both socially and politically. Thus increasing inequality means political power is increasingly concent
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by rwl 13y ago
I have a hard time sympathizing at all with "publishers" who are hurt by ad-blockers. The vast majority of web sites, I would guess, fall into one of two categories. The first category are sites which are a labor of love: they ar
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by rwl 13y ago
From the article: > And getting into the Acceptable Ads program isn't easy. According to Adblock Plus, it rejected 50% of 777 whitelist applicants because of unacceptable ads; the overall acceptance rate stands at just 9.5%. It is p
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by rwl 13y ago
> This applies most of the the large-purchaser effect of a social program... Does it, though? That's what I'm wondering. Is there any evidence that the model followed by the Affordable Care Act is not significantly more expen
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by rwl 13y ago
Yes, I have a similar question. One of the major reasons to have social programs that buy things like health insurance is that governments have a lot more bargaining power than individuals (up to and including the legal authority to set pr
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by rwl 13y ago
Indeed! Or Org Mode[1]. 1: http://orgmode.org/
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Serval: mesh networking for Android(servalproject.org)
4 points by rwl 13y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 13y ago
This is exactly the same rhetorical fallacy that thecodeore made, and that I think is damaging and dishonest to propagate. Which government do you live under that subjects you to an "annual mugging"? Do you really not see a re
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by rwl 13y ago
Do I think our actual government could do a better job of figuring out what to spend money on? Yes. Are there things I wish it did not spend money on, and other things I wish it spent more on? Absolutely. Is it possible that, if the gov
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by rwl 13y ago
>As for all the stuff it does pay for, at best it costs exactly the same amount as you have to pay in taxes. But the government spends money on a lot of other things with your taxes that don't really benefit you. So you would save a
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by rwl 13y ago
OK, you're trolling here, and if I could downvote you for it, I would; but since I can't, let me try to raise the level of discussion: > I would prefer to pay for services I use I invite you, sometime, to think about which serv
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by rwl 13y ago
You may be looking in the wrong place. Faculty and other teaching staff are not usually paid directly by students paying tuition. At larger research universities, tuition might not even make up a significant portion of their salaries (whic
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by rwl 13y ago
The advice I got on the debian-users list for this particular issue was: use the "encrypt-to" option in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, e.g. for me: # encrypt to me as well encrypt-to CF6FA646 This adds your own key as
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by rwl 13y ago
Hmm, very interesting! > The tools to do this simply don't currently exist, but GnuNet has developed an approach to convergent encryption of keywords which points to how one might implement this in an email system. What you describe
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by rwl 13y ago
Thanks. How do you deal with the multiple copies problem? (Or is it all transparently handled by Mail.app?) Do you just not save copies of messages encrypted with someone else's key? keep your version in a special folder? etc.
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Ask HN: how do you manage encrypted email?
8 points by rwl 13y ago|11 comments
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by rwl 13y ago
> And this is why we all need to start encrypting everything. Every HTTP request, every email. There's strength in numbers and privacy in a crowd. And strength in numbers is not the only reason to do this. The more people expect th

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