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zacketysack3 commented on India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi   globalcitizen.org/en/cont... · Posted by u/SimplyUseless
masonic · 9 years ago
Is their claim factually incorrect?
zacketysack3 · 9 years ago
I think it might actually be factually incorrect. I looked up the Times Of India article that OP's article was referring to [1], and could not find a source on the biggest plastic polluters in the world.

Then, after searching around, the articles [2] and reports [3] that I found all put Indonesia (not India) in the top 5 polluters in the world. They refer to an authoritative source from Science [4], but I'm not able to access this due to the paywall.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Surely the Times of India hasn't confused "Indonesia" for "India", right?

[1] http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/all-forms-of-disposable...

[2] http://www.audubon.org/news/these-5-countries-are-biggest-pl...

[3] PDF! http://www.oceanconservancy.org/our-work/marine-debris/mckin...

[4] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768

zacketysack3 commented on UK votes to leave EU   bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic... · Posted by u/dmmalam
lossolo · 10 years ago
Unfortunately nationalism and populism won another war. Now watch Scotland make referendum to leave UK and after leaving they will join EU.
zacketysack3 · 10 years ago
As a free market supporter it is horrifying that protectionist sentiments reign supreme in the UK. Hopefully this does not foreshadow the US congressional and presidential elections in November.
zacketysack3 commented on Coursera shuts access to old platform courses   reachtarunhere.github.io/... · Posted by u/reachtarunhere
akg_67 · 10 years ago
Are there any successful ventures with such "pay-what-you-like" pricing strategy?

Having unsuccessfully tried such a pricing model myself, I have serious doubt about it's viability. Majority will not pay anything, very few will pay reasonable amount, and some will pay very little but will be very high maintenance.

Payer: God dammit, I paid for your service and I want one hour of your support time. Company: How much did this payer paid? 50 cents! We need to hire someone who will take 30 cents to support this payer for an hour.

This is one of those pricing strategy that sounds good and people will claim to support but in reality wouldn't.

zacketysack3 · 10 years ago
Bandcamp?
zacketysack3 commented on Reddit quietly updates 16 day old post: you are now tracked even if logged out   voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnRedd... · Posted by u/temp
whistlerbrk · 10 years ago
Seriously? A post from Voat on HN? This is what you get when you search for voat on Google http://i.imgur.com/RnjbJTu.png
zacketysack3 · 10 years ago
While Voat used to have some users that focused on privacy and anonymity, today the bad parts of Voat far outweigh the good parts.

Voat is now a hub for intolerant hate-based communities that have been banned from Reddit. The site as a whole is anti-Reddit, anti-immigration, anti-LGBT rights, heavily racist, anti-feminist, and white-supremacist.

To add to this mess, Voat has also turned into a gathering point for Child Pornography users, with their primary image host, Slimgur being banned multiple times by their hosts for hosting CP. Voat users like to say that "the SJWs planted CP to get Slimgur removed! conspiracy!" but one look at the google search results for Voat should disprove that.

Finally, multiple users on Voat have been doxxed, with the site owner Atk0 deciding to not do anything about it.

Voat does not have a single redeeming feature at this point.

zacketysack3 commented on Reddit quietly updates 16 day old post: you are now tracked even if logged out   voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnRedd... · Posted by u/temp
vintageseltzer · 10 years ago
That's not the nicest way to ask for additional information, but see:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting

> The site you are visiting may choose to analyze your browser using JavaScript, Flash and other methods (just like Panopticlick does). It may look for what types of fonts you have installed, the language you’ve set, the add-ons you’ve installed, and other factors. The site may then create a type of profile of you, tied to this pattern of characteristics associated with your browser, rather than tied to a specific tracking cookie.

zacketysack3 · 10 years ago
Browser fingerprinting is really scary, but AFAIK there are no major websites using it yet right?

It should be fairly easy to detect if something you Google in an different browser session suddenly turns up as an ad on Reddit after you've deleted cookies and cleared history. Also it seems unlikely that Reddit would implement something like this after considering the outcry over the possibility of the Facebook mobile app recording audio. Especially since Reddit has a large technical userbase who are aware of privacy concerns in fingerprinting technologies.

E: why is this being downvoted?

u/zacketysack3

KarmaCake day11June 5, 2016View Original