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> There will not be an internet without ads The internet existed without ads perfectly fine. You can stop spreading this FUD bullshit. > The very vast majority are fine with advert…

> Advertising is necessary No it's not.

> Progress will be defined by decreasing the amount of obnoxious advertising, until we see that there is no progress and this is all talk. uBlock Origin does a good job of that :).…

> How many payments from Comcast to New York Times happen per year? Hint, the number rhymes with buck mall. I'm not good at rhymes and I have no fucking clue. Riddle my fiddle. > O…

> ISP are providing access/transit, not content. If you want to go that route, then none of the advertising companies, or companies that make money from advertising are providing t…

No I prefer everything to be free, open source, organic, and made by volunteers. You can stop pretending that there are only two options.

> What if the solution is ads blocked for a fee? The day I have to pay to not have manipulative bullshit spammed at me is the day I say goodbye to the internet. Fuck right off.

> The fact is that advertising pays for much of the internet content you consume for free. I've never had free internet... which ISP do you use? > It's because of perverse incentiv…

> most of us agree that there is no level of groping that's acceptable; whereas I _think_ that, even among those of us who would like a web with no ads, the position that there is …

This whole initiative (acceptable ads) came out of Google paying off Adblock Plus. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboo...

Fuck off ABP. Use uBlock Origin.

Professors and other high-ranking academic nerds: get your students to design your websites, cause you always fuck it up. Lol.

I can't really think of any good forms of 'security through obscurity'. Is the elimination of buffer overflow vulns and sql injections a form of obscurity? Is SSL a form of obscuri…

How does it make the system easier to game? > Or that could be another downside if the answer is "the moderators". To me it seems like an upside if we know when moderators are gami…

> There's simply too much data that isn't public. Make it public?

> There's no way around the need for moderator intervention on a site like HN—the clue is in the word 'moderator' itself: left to its own devices the system runs to extremes and it…

> What do you do with a conscript who never wanted to be there and possibly fundamentally isn't suited to military life anyway gives up? Threaten them with legal action? In some co…

Static typing is great. My point is that whether a language is statically or dynamically typed has no bearing on whether it is functional.

Type-checking doesn't really have any bearing on weather a language is functional. Functional languages can be statically or dynamically typed.

Wait, so you say 'that is patently ridiculous', then completely agree with me while trying to add your own little spin on it? Okay bud.

^ That's called ideology.

He`s not talking about policy. Most capitalistic businesses are anti-competitive regardless of policy.

You still don't get it buddy.

> I don't think he has a problem with government spending as long as it's towards corporations instead of people. That's exactly what every right-libertarian and ancap thinks and a…

You don't get it. Calling them 'liberal premises' makes you look like a dumbass.