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Are there no smaller, 'independent' ISPs which aren't part of conglomerates that are unlikely to remain net-neutral?

I don't see a problem. You can switch ISP if your current one isn't net-neutral. Why should you force businesses to operate in certain way? They're not breaking any laws.

This is hardly "inadvertently" revealing your location: (1) they've told you where they are (extra from the actual Tweets, not the photos) and (2) these places are all near well-kn…

What's the average age here? I feel like I'm in a no fun allowed zone.

An example of something similar that actually happened: tax in the UK was temporarily lowered from 17.5% to 15% or something and it cost more to reprogram cash registers and comput…

I think during the 70s LSD was being used to rehab alcoholics, it's a shame such practices and psychedelics in general are all illegal now.. but ignoring the law, from what I've re…

I never used Android Studio, only Eclipse, since it was what everybody else was using. This was my experience from around 2012/13 sorry for sharing it but it put me off Android.

Perhaps you're already aware of Eclim, if not, check it out. Really useful for doing Android/Java in Vim.

Part of why Android development is so frustrating for me is the tools we have to use. If I'm not bashing my head trying to understand fragments and layouts, I'm battling with Eclip…

I've emailed for the Matasano challenges three times from two different email address and never received anything. Is it okay if I ask somebody here to send me a copy?

Here's the problem summarized by an old-time female hacker: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software Whenever gender and software appears in a discussion, the same bs…

I wonder how much input Will.i.am has as the "director of creative innovation" at Intel. In general, are these just extended marketing schemes or do they think bringing actors/musi…

There's nothing wrong with this submission and it has actually raised an important discussion on whether they need better marketing or not.

>It slows down positive growth If we ignore race, this model of 'aid' (at this particular stage of development) seems to hinder growth and can not lead to self-sustained communitie…

If you're interested in something more scholarly, read John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism .

As usual arguments against free market ideologies are based on misunderstanding. They don't assume an idealized market model and don't derive conclusions from it. I don't see why I…

So you just disproved free market economics with "very simple" reasoning along the lines of "their assumptions are wrong".

The funny thing is women and minorities are rarely offended by these sort of things but the White males of HN seem to think everyone else is a damsel in distress in dire need of th…

This could be abused and will render the whole thing pointless for everyone: make private repository, write bot to commit every day... now you have 4000 useless commits on your pro…

Is opposing affirmative action programs, which have historically proven to be largely failures, being a "sexist asshole"? I'm looking at this from a purely economical perspective b…

What's with all the Academic credentialism? I've just read the entire thread and there are an incredible number of people who seem to think whether a person should be taken serious…

This is going to sound like an is-therefore-it-ought-to-be fallacious argument but it makes sense to me that there are more female nurses simply because women are better suited to …

Adding "This isn't rocket science" or equivalent at the end of a post doesn't make you right by the way, it does make you sound arrogant though. There are reasons to believe that s…

I definitely felt a sense of bitterness towards the rich: >But it’s too much to ask bankers to justify the bonuses they sucked off the public teat. >A culture that forbids employee…

>they do want more men involved. Why is it so important in modern society that every area has an even split of men and women and the right quota of every ethnicity?