qybaz

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by qybaz 5y ago
Were roads legislated before they existed? Did they serve the public interest (as in, did everybody benefit from them) when they were starting to get built? That's precisely what will happen with what I proposed.
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by qybaz 5y ago
You could ask yourself the same question about all the public infrastructure that exists. I mean why even have roads, legally or morally??
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by qybaz 5y ago
In this day and age of censorship, I feel the same about web hosting. The American government should provide their citizens with a small space of hosting to share their thoughts.
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by qybaz 5y ago
You should learn that this is what would have happened to you if you had not worked hard during your education years. Now you can pass that lesson on to your children. :P
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by qybaz 5y ago
Imagine the amount of disease, death and suffering we could prevent if we lived in pods like in The Matrix.
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by qybaz 5y ago
The "unfree" participants could choose not to visit the websites, thus not receiving the content/services they want.
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by qybaz 5y ago
>Why should I care? Market changes, adapt or disappear. This is not the market changing, it's a law crushing a free market that already existed.
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by qybaz 5y ago
Given that the sites wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for the ad networks they use to feed their editors, it seems justifiable to me!
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by qybaz 5y ago
I don't have a problem with accepting some ToS when I sign up to a service. My problem is this new law where you have to accept the ToS of every single website on the internet before you can use it, then the ad networks, the analytics
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by qybaz 5y ago
Thank the Lord reality (still) does not have cookie banners.
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by qybaz 5y ago
The average Joe in the West doesn't get absolutely any news directly from China, so I'm not sure of what you mean.
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by qybaz 5y ago
>Also, some high end hotels did provide unfettered access to the Internet for some reason, so I guess anyone could go there and browse Facebook for the price of an expensive coffee. Practically everybody who is knowledgeable with compute
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by qybaz 5y ago
You should be sceptical of all the news about China that come from the West.
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by qybaz 5y ago
I hadn't watched it and it was on my TODO list, but whatever.
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Can't We Talk?(web.archive.org)
5 points by qybaz 5y ago|0 comments
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by qybaz 5y ago
I think Opera also had a mail and blog service, and a quite lively community. They are trying to replicate it, I assume.