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This basically negates half the privacy though. And given most of the mail you recitative will be sent from gmails servers anyway...

Only tangentially related but hey:

There is an interesting trick that was common for a time and still gets referenced by magicians where even the worst chess player can guarantee that they will win at least half of n chess games where n is any even number. They will also be able to appear to need very little time when they get to each table.

The trick of course is just to play each player against another. The magician acts as a proxy and makes the moves of one player against another. Of course it takes a little practice at memorisation but magicians are often practised at mnemonics anyway.

It is interesting that you argue fairness should be the goal. If diversity results in a universitiy doing better overall (which some studies suggest it can) then presumably it is akin choosing high GPA students in that it is done for the purpose of achiving their goals as an institution.

Put another way: If fairness is your goal what about the kids who don't have a high GPA score? What happened to their fair chance to go to Harvard?

The $12 one has mp3 playback and micro sd support though. Those are some pretty big features.

The metaphor is widely used in lots of other areas though. Education, Science, Research, Business and so on.

Where else did you imagine their money coming from?

It looks like they bought a VPS on a hetzner box. The reseller was probably a lot less picky about their money source.

I think users of reddit still approach it like it is composed of outsiders (even though it isn't). For example plenty of people I know use the site but people don't talk about it like they would twitter. Using twitter is a sort of normal social network. Reddit is treated far more analogously to a tv show that some people like and others don't.

Of course I can't really back this up with anything as it is just a feeling.

Which book?

I recently used ddg at uni without adblock and it is horrible. They have no problem serving phishing sites just above legitimate ones with very little indication that they are adverts.

I agree with this. In 90% if cases where it actually formats anything on reddit it basically gets it wrong in terms of the users intentions.

There is no need to speculate. Smoking in public is banned in many countries and it hasn't caused that. It has caused people to give up smoking.

Diminishing returns.

For me it gets to 100% and then nothing happens. (Firefox nightly though so I guess I am probably asking for it)

If they don't change course it seems unlikely it would have been less efficient to have a small tram like operation. Or am I missing something?

This is a known potential problem. The solution is long term reputation and also a relatively high initial bond to the site to make an account.

In terms of circles of buyers and sellers they can use all the algorithms that people like ebay have been perfecting for years. Not a new problem.

Obviously not water tight, but it seems to be working well enough for these sites to function.

It seems pretty implausible honestly. Most people order their stuff from people in the same country as them as otherwise it risks being caught at the boarder. This means the product is probably still crossing boarders in the same way it always has. And that generally means cartel /organized crime played a role.

It seems far harder to believe that both fair trade sources and conflict free delivery systems sprung up than the idea that anonymous dealer is telling fibs.

Did you read the linked page?

Sure but for a Government being able to function depends on you being able to take their word to have at least some value. They have committed to this. I think it is reasonable to assume they will stick to it. Yes governments break promises, but I think this is one they will stick with.

The government isn't going to change before the referendum.

The current UK Government has agreed to honor this referendum.

It seems pretty underhand to not be explicit that they have u turned on this issue. Especially when it is at a point where it benefits them.

Not as pretty but http://kiwiirc.com/ is a more mature web irc client that you might want to check out.

It is not as clear as that what Spain would do. García-Margallo later said Spain would have “nothing to say” if Scotland got independence.

Why do users need their own subdomains at all?

This is actually a pretty minimal effect historically:

http://theweebluebook.com/assets/images/uk-govts.png

People would just release versions with the adverts cut. What do you think goes on with HDTV releases at the moment?

They do not have fantastic uptime.

I remember reading rumors that this happened to some random user when the site went a bit wrong and they posted the information to the SR forums. I think it then got deleted fast.

Could that have been the source of the ip leak?

I find it infuriating on reddit. The fact it follows markdown indentation rules is completely unintuitive to someone who hasn't read the markdown specification. Given how little people actually want to do complicated formatting I think markdown is actually the wrong choice for reddit.