sigma2015
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Are you aware of the political and societal implications and surroundings of f.x. the cases around Jimmy Savile or Marc Dutroux?
Maybe you should watch some documentaries about that to realize that this is by the same token part of any "culture".
Comment · 11 years ago
The assumption that only pedophiles rape very young children is wrong - there is a "phenomenon" of substituting preferrred sex partners with what is available.
That's why there is a rape problem in prisons which is certainly not caused by gays ...
Comment · 11 years ago
On HN regularly posters demand the US not to impose their values upon other "cultures".
Then again - I don't believe this is part of Afgan culture at all anyway. I think that happens when survival bias due to war and destruction over a long period of time leads to very fucked up people climbing to the top of a society.
At the end of the day - or maybe rather at its start - the US is partly responsible for Afghanistan being trapped in a downward spiral.
Have a look at this (randomly chosen gallery) about Afghanistan in its 60s - I don't think that culture would be very fond of rapists.
http://www.upworthy.com/afghanistan-in-the-1960s-prepare-to-...
Comment · 11 years ago
why the downvote?
Comment · 11 years ago
both the guy and the gf are black - interestingly this is not mentioned in the text.
Comment · 11 years ago
What the article does not mention is that the guy and his gf are black ...
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223533/North-Caroli...]
Now one might righfully argue that this case is not just ludicrous but also racist.
Comment · 11 years ago
the overfishing problem you mention is also addressed in "Cowspiracy" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/) which I highly recommend. Since few days available on Netflix Germany.
Comment · 11 years ago
yes
Comment · 11 years ago
No need to leave Google for that purpose - just use Google from incognito mode in Firefox.
Comment · 11 years ago
Funny coincidence that according to that chart we are right now at an all time high.
Comment · 11 years ago
> the decent thing to do is mention that you are the developer behind said website
or just use a fake account ... like anybody else :D
Comment · 11 years ago
Bruce Schneier's PasswordSafe (according to this paper the safest of all those considered):
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Available for:
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
Comment · 11 years ago
There are so many premises wrong here - it hurts:
1. The majority of people in fact doesn't care about being tracked - "hackers" (and also myself) do care though - but that's a minority.
2. Most people like good advertisement.
3. It's wrong to just naturally assume that ads have to be annoying. A discreet, not-moving, not-animated ad is not bothering anybody.
4. Just as most people aren't willing to pay for content they aren't willing to pay for the maintenance of ad blockers - which is why the devs of those ABs will (and as a matter of fact) already offer whitelisting for money. [http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...]
5. More and more web-sites will simply deny access to their content if ad blocking is detected.
6. The HN people's perspective on ads is in each and every way not that of the majority of people potentially clicking ads. We are not the driving force.
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The equilibrium will be Ad Blockers that white list benevolent and discreet ads - advertisement as an income source will become less attractive but it won't go away.
Also Ad Blocking depends on detectable code or ad servers. If the ad dissemination technology shifts accordingly then Ad Blockers simply won't be able to detect ads any longer.
As a matter of fact even with a GPU rack it will take a hundred years or so given what you are up against by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXerV3f5jN8