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>> Unfortunately, desktop Firefox does not have multi-process architecture yet. I personally hate Chrome for creating a process per tab. It adds a little bit of security, but it ma…

Chrome is very fast on my 4.8Ghz Windows PC with literally hundreds of tabs open sometimes. Almost as fast as Waterfox. If it slows with a few tabs my guess would be the OS is swap…

Try Cntr + Shift + Esc next time ;-)

IMHO GDP, dollars, etc. have nothing to do with this problem. Currently there is a huge overproduction of food, clothes, shoes, etc. for the US citizen. All that huge ads industry …

Very interesting thoughts. IMHO the basic income will have the opposite effect. A business may currently be able to find a loo cleaning employee for $X/h, but with a basic income t…

Getting a bank (i.e. money printing) license is probably the hardest thing to do in the developed world. The guys/families who got them must be the best adopted to the complexities…

> Those leeches are the least of our worries. How about long turn demographics? There are racial and religious minorities, that have 12+ children in an average family. A basic inco…

> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage. Do you have…

Yeah, right. And all the technical books on design patterns, functional programming, algorithms, etc. are out there just to teach programmers how to type faster ...

“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing...”

>> that's something else entirely, completely separate to what I'm discussing. Aha I see. The NSA and Stasi are collecting vast amounts of data on everybody living in their countri…

Isn't it obvious that the official task of a totalitarian agency can be different from the actual job it's doing??

Different missions? Both have exactly the same mission - keep the current elite in power at any cost.

I personally use a commercial ad blocker - AdMuncher. Blocks more ads than ABP and I know I'm the customer, not Google. Only supports Windows unfortunately, but on Linux I run an X…

NSA is much worse than the Stasi, because there is no free world out there.

The F# compiler does that.

Because we live in the information age, when information is the ultimate power. Those ad networks can get to know you as well as the NSA ...

A human would never make "glaring design flaws".

Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

>> I simply don't understand why you would want to browse the web without JS enabled Security, performance, JS ads ... >> Every single common-use browser on the Internet supports J…

Total surveillance has nothing to do with the security of the average citizen and all to do with keeping and extending the current elite powers. We're slowly transforming from a de…

Excellent arguments. Total surveillance is one of the many tools, that the political elite uses to prevent the majority from changing the system.

Of course it is, if for some weird reason you think that assembly = R&D ...

No, you're right. It's so much better to have old, ugly military guys take all the important decision, spy on, detain and torture people they don't like, without any courts. This i…

I guess the HN admins have read that chapter very carefully. Anybody who dares to express an opinion against the elite here is immediately hell banned.