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by sa1 11y ago
No, it isn't, if by full connectivity we mean a neutral net. There are ways to provide a neutral internet for free. See Mozilla's partnership with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. (You get 20MB of free data for viewing a ad). More deta
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by sa1 11y ago
Interesting question. Should foreign companies be allowed to create monopolies, because potential local competitors do not have enough capital currently? I guess the obvious answer is no, but its still an interesting line of discussion.
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by sa1 11y ago
This line of thinking is dangerous too, since Facebook has already changed the name. It's now called Free Basics by Facebook. However, it is still a limited internet because it runs on top of IP networks provided by existing ISPs, who
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by sa1 11y ago
I don't see how the people who don't have internet, are making choices in any way at all? They have no way to make an informed choice, or even to make a choice, and there is no media who speaks out for them. There is no wallet for
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by sa1 11y ago
Internet.org runs on top of existing ISPs. Anywhere it's accessible, other ISPs are available in the same region too. "No internet" vs "Internet.org" as the only two options, is not a choice anywhere at all. Those I
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by sa1 11y ago
> In my opinion, no internet is better than a limited internet. All of the proposed charitable objectives(as opposed to Facebook's own interests) would be served by just providing free internet with a limited data cap. Customers wou
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by sa1 11y ago
> I believe internet.org is better than no internet at all. Its not a binary choice. What would your reaction be if ISPs made Netflix traffic outrageously exorbitant, and made its own competitor free?
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by sa1 11y ago
If you can't open any other website other than the 50 or so provided by Facebook, then it is in effect a limited internet. Arguments that "saying it did not block or throttle services", tries to imply that "This is not t
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by sa1 11y ago
> They also do a lot of work to make sites offering health information, commodity prices, local job searches etc not only viewable (layout wise) on mobile but able to work on extremely slow networks and on low-end devices. None of this i
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by sa1 11y ago
Internet.org brings no new infrastructure. It is not easier to bring to the poor by alternative infrastructure. Free neutral Internet with a small data cap is much better than this, if you want to give 'some' Internet to the poor.
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by sa1 11y ago
Alternative and nuclear energy use is still energy use. It may not create the same pollution as coal or oil, but that doesn't affect the arguments from the article. Growth of energy use is unsustainable, and that may mean economic grow
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by sa1 12y ago
How is rust dealt with?
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by sa1 12y ago
Link to the source code? (iirc, it isn't open source, but probably the extension code can still be examined) The comment(by a competitor) says that DNTMe sends back data, but neither the comment nor the areweprivateyet.com website back
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by sa1 12y ago
Elaborate on the DoNotTrackMe part?
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by sa1 12y ago
Apparently they partnered with the TextSecure people https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/ to provide end-to-end encryption(Android non-group chat only for now). Apart from the fact that the client is still cl
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by sa1 12y ago
Well, even Bayesian inference effectively leads to a similar problem - We have x% confidence in a theorem because it has y% simplicity. Does it take away the need to conjecture new theories which may turn out to be simpler? Thanks for conti
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by sa1 12y ago
Thank you, that was very informative. I have read about Bayesian inference in epistemology before, but I need to study it in more detail. But that doesn't answer my original question. The problem here being referred to was people dispr
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by sa1 12y ago
>To pretend they're not relying on induction, people test "the null hypothesis", hopping to statistically disprove it. Popper himself doesn't say that disproving the null hypothesis leaves you with the correct one. Th
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by sa1 12y ago
Can you explain the part where you are criticising Popperianism to me?(honest question) From what I gather, you seem to be criticising logical positivism more, but I only have a layman's idea of the philosophy involved.
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by sa1 13y ago
It is only not good for crypto, it remains good for other scientific applications.
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by sa1 13y ago
It was made by the British rulers in 1861. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377_of_the_Indian_Pena... Sadly, while the British have since got rid of the prudery, it continues here. The government in power is k
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by sa1 13y ago
It won't ever be economical to extract water from 600km below the surface. Also, oil won't last forever.
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by sa1 13y ago
Also, Spreeder( http://www.spreeder.com/ ) has been doing this for quite some time.
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by sa1 13y ago
The release of Steam on Ubuntu was a precursor to this. Valve encouraged developers to port their games to Ubuntu and ported their own games. It is unlikely that they would do that again. This will likely be a linux system with gnu userspac
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by sa1 13y ago
The clang-complete is also a running process and gets spawned just once.
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by sa1 13y ago
I use this async version[1] for completion, it doesn't spawn clang everytime. [1]: https://github.com/Golevka/emacs-clang-complete-async
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by sa1 14y ago
You can use the PPAPI versions with Chromium if you want to. You just need to extract the so file from chrome package and use it for Chromium. There are readymade packages available in AUR for instance. Of course your point stands that offi
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by sa1 14y ago
He is talking about schools for childeren, not universities.
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by sa1 14y ago
Is the policy still applicable if it doesn't seem to be updated?