This in turn means that Redis Cluster does not have to take meta data in the data structures in order to attempt a value merge, and that the fancy commands and data structures supported by Redis are also supported by Redis Cluster. So no additional memory overhead, no API limits, no limits in the amount of elements a value can contain, but less safety during partitions.

For the record, far as most people have been able to determine, most of what happened to me long ago was triggered by a blog comment I made that said “I’m not moderating my blog comments, but I support those who do and here’s why.” That’s right, Blog. Comment. Moderation. Just a tiny hop, really, from that to full-blown DMCA takedowns. Easy mistake.

Some of those who seek to stop and/or ruin you are misguided/misinformed but well-intended. They actually believe in a cause, and they believe you (or rather the Koolaid you’re serving) threatens that cause.

The very best/worst trolls can even make the non-sociopaths believe "for the lulz" is itself a noble cause.

Ask.fm hosted open discussions regarding the practicalities of getting to Syria or Iraq.

Details on the EU dinner are sparse. But there is increasing concern over the role social media plays in disseminating extremist propaganda, as well as being used as a direct recruitment tool. However, there is also a significant worry that placing strict controls on social networks could actually hinder counter-terrorism efforts. "The further underground they go, the harder it is to gleam information and intelligence," said Jim Gamble, a security consultant, and former head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). "Often it is the low level intelligence that you collect that you can then aggregate which gives you an analysis of what's happening." Mr Gamble was formerly head of counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland. There were, he said, parallels to be drawn. "There's always a risk of becoming too radical and too fundamentalist in your approach when you're trying to suppress the views of others that you disagree with. "In Northern Ireland, huge mistakes were made when the government tried to starve a political party of the oxygen of publicity. I would say that that radically backfired."

Users would influence authorization by supplying a custom authorization policy that might deal internally in "principals", but needn't do that if it's unnecessary (if there are no group memberships). We would move the ACL checking code to a library of some kind that would be used by authentication policy implementers as necessary, and we'd supply a default authorization policy that just didn't consider group memberships at all.

If the user wants to control the horizontal and vertical of authorization, they have to override both the authentication policy and the authorization policy because both rely on persistent storage local to the application itself. This is bad.

Why, exactly, are these choices wrong? The "groupfinder" is a "knob on a knob". A Pyramid authentication policy is already replaceable wholesale; you can write a custom authentication policy and use it as necessary. However, because writing a custom authentication policy no fun, the default authentication policies themselves have become miniframeworks by allowing (really, requiring) a user to pass a "groupfinder" function. This is a common source of confusion. It would be much better if there was only one "knob" for a user to turn: registering a custom authentication policy, rather than two (allowing a custom authentication policy or allowing them to use the groupfinder miniframework with stock authentication policies). But for it to be feasible for a nonexpert user to create an authentication policy, the contract of the policy itself needs to be simpler.

Even though everyone knows Israel has the bomb, if you have a clearance and want to keep it, stick to discussing Israel's stockpile of strategic kumquats.

The researchers linguistically coded job descriptions found in a U.S. Department of Labor database that were predominately populated for masculine-themed words such as active, ambitious, analytical, competitive, dominate, challenging, confident, decisive, determined, independent, leader, objective, etc., as well as feminine-themed words such as committed, connected, cooperative, dependable, interpersonal, loyal, responsible, supportive, trust, etc. The results confirmed that job descriptions for male-dominated jobs contained more masculine-themed words associated with male stereotypes than job descriptions from female-dominated jobs and vice versa.

What level of knowledge of rap and understanding of its complicated conventions is a defendant-speaker to assume, in advance of communication, that a hypothetically reasonable person possesses in order to properly understand a rap message? Because the answer is anything but clear and because a speaker’s First Amendment rights should not hang on what amounts to guesswork about an audience’s hypothetically reasonable knowledge of a complex artistic and political genre of expression, the actual subjective intent of the defendant-speaker must be considered in both the First Amendment and statutory true threats analyses.

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Avoiding ads doesn't help much either. Because brand images are part of the cultural landscape we inhabit, when we block ads or fast-forward through them, we're missing out on valuable cultural information, alienating ourselves from the zeitgeist. This puts us in danger of becoming outdated, unfashionable, and otherwise socially hapless. We become like the kid who wears his dad's suit to his first middle-school dance.

You can see such hope glimmering whenever someone admonishes you to "think critically" about advertising.

If I decide I want to be more outgoing, I could just print a personalized ad for myself with the slogan "Be more social" imposed next to a supermodel or private jet, or whatever image of success or happiness I think would motivate me the most.

So why do brands limit themselves to one central message?

Admittedly Chevron does attempt, in the US, to carve out a brand image for itself, but the brand is largely based on a promise of quality rather than an arbitrary emotional or lifestyle association. The argument I'm making is that, if inception actually works, then we would expect to see a lot more of it in the (rather large) market for gas stations.

Q: Have you ever seen an ad for bed sheets? Can you even name a brand of bed sheet? If ads work by emotional inception, wouldn't you expect to have seen at least a few ads trying to incept you with the idea that Brand X bed sheets are going to brighten your day?

So if an ad works by inception, we should expect the value (to the advertiser) to scale linearly with the size of the audience. On the other hand, if an ad works by cultural imprinting, we should expect its value (to the advertiser) to scale more than linearly with the size of the audience.

Unlike inception proper (which I don't think actually exists), cultural imprinting is fully compatible with the Homo economicus model of human decision-making. It leaves our goals fully intact (typically: wanting the respect of our peers), and by imprinting itself on the external cultural landscape, merely changes the optimal means of pursuing those goals. The result is the same — we buy more of the products being advertised — but the pathways of influence are different.

Similarly, internet search ads and banner ads are inimical to cultural imprinting because the internet is so fragmented. Everyone lives in his or her own little online bubble. When I see a Google search ad, I have no idea whether the rest of my peers have seen that ad or not.

Any product enjoyed or discussed in the presence of your peers is ripe for cultural imprinting.

Cultural imprinting is the mechanism whereby an ad, rather than trying to change our minds individually, instead changes the landscape of cultural meanings — which in turn changes how we are perceived by others when we use a product. Whether you drink Corona or Heineken or Budweiser "says" something about you. But you aren't in control of that message; it just sits there, out in the world, having been imprinted on the broader culture by an ad campaign.

The same way an engagement ring is an honest token of a man's commitment to his future spouse, an expensive ad campaign is an honest token of a company's commitment to its product line.

If Disney were ever to violate this trust — by putting too much violence in its movies, for instance — consumers would get angry and (at the margin) buy fewer of Disney's products.

First, a lot of ads work simply by raising awareness. These ads are essentially telling customers, "FYI, product X exists. Here's how it works. It's available if you need it." Liquid Draino, for example, is a product that thrives on simple awareness, because drains don't clog all that frequently, and if you don't know what Liquid Draino is and what it does, you won't think to use it. But this mechanism is pervasive. Almost every ad works, at least in part, by informing or reminding customers about a product. And if it makes a memorable impression, even better.

All Palestinians are exposed to non-stop monitoring without any legal protection. Junior soldiers can decide when someone is a target for the collection of information. There is no procedure in place to determine whether the violation of the individual’s rights is necessarily justifiable. The notion of rights for Palestinians does not exist at all. Not even as an idea to be disregarded.

But when their martyr's death never came despite several decades of opportunity (and after Ti died of cancer), Do did what any self-chose second coming would: Cover a manifesto in word art, stick it on the internet, and SEO the shit out of it.

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Aerospike supports SSDs from Intel, Micron, Fusion-IO, Violin Memory, Samsung and others, but some work better than others.

Fast restart. If a server is temporarily taken down, this capability restores the index from a saved copy, eliminating delays due to index rebuilding.

Unlike other databases that use the linux file system that was built for rotational drives, Aerospike has implemented a log structured file system to access flash – raw blocks on SSDs – directly.

I think that the nature of the psychedelic experience is challenging to the rationalists’ basis of Western ideas.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that trans activists are so fervent and vocal in their fight for their rights and recognition when we see mainstream publications like The New Yorker giving page space to arguing about whether we even exist. While our situation is improving slowly, every single bit of progress is fought bitterly for; with few protections in place for us, trans people are still engaged in a fight for survival.

Considering how little of the essay Ms Goldberg devoted to the words of trans activists, undermining the credibility of one of the few she does quote with unnecessary references to her sexual history is disgusting and unprofessional.

Well-designed, peer-reviewed medical studies have demonstrated significant increases in wellbeing for trans people undergoing transition, and very low levels of regret.

Of course, the radical feminist position that masculinity is natural and healthy, and femininity artificial and harmful, is also inherently sexist

In contrast, she mentions and quotes a total of four trans women (zero from books), and two of them are quoted to supporting the radical feminist position.

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First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

One thing that was happening at that time was the media was portraying punk as this extremely self-destructive, nihilistic kind of sadomasochist kind of nonsense. Which then really created a lot of unpleasantness in terms of straight society towards punks. But even worse, people who were really into nihilistic and sadomasochistic and self-destructive tendencies said, “Oh I must be a punk!” and started coming to shows.

"The police department told us flat out, 'You're foolish, and you'll regret it,'" says Jerry Santilli, American Paradigm's co-founder.

How can any acrobat or fire spinner compete with a guy who can endanger all the world’s money?

At a recent gathering in Berlin, we considered the idea of attaching a suggested action, like a petition or campaign, to web articles. The hope was to facilitate action at the moment people encounter issues online.

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The Summary Card can be used for many kinds of web content, from blog posts and news articles, to products and restaurants.

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Usage-based pricing, where you pay for the capacity that you use, would properly incentivize ISPs to support net neutrality

At each consensus round, a single validator is chosen to propose a block. Any deterministic algorithm based on the existing blockchain history can be used to compute a total ordering of validators, but we want one that gives more priority to those with more voting power such that validators with less voting power have less chances to disrupt the responsiveness of the system.

// calculate sorted list of validators: sortedValidators = nil for each block: for each validator: validator.accum_power += validator.power if sortedValidators != nil: sortedValidators[0].accumPower -= validator.power sortedValidators = sort(validators, fn(v) f v.accumPower g )

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Like the algorithm as proposed by Dwork et al, it can tolerant of up to 1 = 3 byzantine voting power.

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Bonded coins cannot be used in any transaction except for an unbonding transaction, afterwards the coins remain locked in the unbonding period of X blocks.

A transaction is valid if it follows the rules of our protocol (e.g. sufficient funds to send, etc). Valid transactions are grouped into blocks. A block is valid if all the transactions in the block are valid. Validators are users with accounts that have bonded coins. We say that a validator has voting power in the amount of the bonded coins. Validators are good if the validator acts according to the protocol. Other validators are considered byzantine . Blocks are proposed and then committed into the blockchain by validators using the consensus algorithm. The network is responsive if transactions that pay sufficient fees get committed in a timely manner.

Other protocols (e.g. proof-of-stake protocols) have been proposed by the cryptocurrency community to solve this problem, but they typically suffer from the fallacy of false choices; nodes have nothing to lose by contributing to multiple blockchains, so consensus is not guaranteed. Unless there is actually “something at stake”, all participants would be incentivized to sign any block that they encounter to earn fees. Yet other protocols suffer from assumptions of good behavior on the part of some participants, but these assumptions don’t hold when the participants are financially motivated.

The little-discussed fact is that it’s super uncomfortable to be loved when the feeling is not mutual (see my song Please). So uncomfortable, in fact, that many of us would rather act like callous, cold-hearted assholes than be in the same room as the person who loves us. We panic, we get distant, we deny any interest or care for the other person, we stop returning their texts. But that’s not an aversion to love, or to the lover; it’s the attachment and expectation being hurled in our direction with such intensity.

Justice Kennedy’s advice for atheists and others who object to such prayers is “just leave the room.” My initial response is that anyone who takes their faith seriously and takes prayer seriously should also consider leaving the room.

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Crockford, perhaps the foremost authority on the lingering questions raised by the Boston bombings, sees the FBI’s failure to look into Tamerlan’s journey as part of a larger institutional problem. “Millions of people are listed in government databases as potential terrorist threats,” says Crockford. “The FBI has the legal authority to approach anyone for an interview, at any time. Tamerlan’s case confirms what we have long suspected: The databases are so large that they are practically useless. When everyone is a suspect, no one is a suspect.”

Israel, the Jewish State, is predicated on a decisive and stable Jewish majority of at least 70 percent. Any lower than that and Israel will have to decide between being a Jewish state and a democratic state. If it chooses democracy, then Israel as a Jewish state will cease to exist. If it remains officially Jewish, then the state will face an unprecedented level of international isolation, including sanctions, that might prove fatal.

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Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual.

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The latest ordinances—and the increased police force—were bolstered by a wealthy community looking to preserve the cultural epicenter they’d paid through the nose to live in, missing the point that the original community existed solely because of a lack of such ordinances.

California-headquartered Google also owns VirusTotal, a website that analyses files and websites to check for malicious content.

The types of fear our society (and parents, and friends) inflict upon us—fear of being the last single friend, fear of being an older parent, sometimes just fear of being judged or talked about—are the types that lead us to settle for a not-so-great partnership.

It seems that millennials are individualists who have confidence in their own futures and an aversion to relying on other people for their own success.

It’s almost too easy to point this out at Wisdom 2.0. Most of the workshops offer lifestyle and consumer choices that are meant to help people heal from the harm, emptiness, and unsustainability associated with living under capitalism, but it does so without offering an analysis of where this disconnection comes from. The conference presents an evolution in consciousness of the wealthiest among us as the antidote to suffering rather than the redistribution of wealth and power.

The city doesn’t keep track of how many people live in these apartments, but the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project estimates up to 3580 residents were no-fault evicted in 2013.

The invisibility of the crisis in San Francisco right now is reminiscent of that of the AIDS epidemic.

I’d rather see a culture in which we get paid a reasonable fee for things that we enjoy doing, than one in which we get paid poorly to do things we hate.

To some, a financial exchange cheapens the transaction; in my view, it enables it.

Ultimately, whether or not you see “renting" and “sharing" as mutually exclusive depends on how you define the terms.

I even offered airport pickups for an extra fee.

Airbnb represented something important: a way to quantify the transaction. It didn’t change the fact that we still treated our guests like friends, shared dinner and drinks, and welcomed them into our social lives. Many of them still kept in touch with us after their stay.

how can I, an advocate of communal living and the Burning Man gift economy, support an industry that seems predominantly capitalist at heart

The amount of computation Eve needs to do this depends upon how uncertain she is, and on the nature of the clues.

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We need an authenticity infrastructure when there is no way to have advance knowledge of what SSL certificate a client should expect to see, but your app knows where it will be connecting, and it knows exactly what it should expect.

Google is already doing this. They have an “app” called Chrome, and when their app makes SSL connections to their own services, it checks to make sure that the certificates it sees are the ones it knows Google is using. They call this “pinning,” and you should do it for your mobile apps.

A day of lost work pursuing the wrong solution is something that is acceptable from a learning point of view.

But staff at Georgetown University, which sponsored the Tuesday cybersecurity forum, took the microphone away from a Guardian reporter who attempted to ask Alexander if the NSA had missed the signs of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine, which appeared to take Obama administration policymakers by surprise.

Second, the fact that radical nationalist components were among the beneficiaries of the Kiev revolution left no doubt about Ukraine's future foreign and security policy and its domestic policies.

Do you tell them what tactics to use when fighting oppression?

God is not a behavioral psychologist.

It's important to understand the problems your customers are experiencing, and this is a great way for everyone to get a good handle on that. But it's also important for everyone in the company to understand how the product works - something that non-technical members of the team might have less of an understanding of, as they're not in its guts day in and day out. By ensuring that everyone takes support phone calls (if you take calls) and emails, you ensure good product & customer knowledge throughout the team.

As the technical lead, you have a lot of responsibilities and pressures on your shoulders. You need to make sure your product or service is technically as good as it can be. You need to ensure that the technical side of the operation is able to meet business objectives. You need to be a product manager, ensuring that . You need to be a software architect, and an infrastructure architect, and a technical designer, and a lead developer. As you grow, you need to be a product manager, ensuring that everyone in the engineering team understands the business goals, and ensuring that everyone in the business team understands the technical challenges (and progress).

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#meetingname Provide a friendly name which can be used as a variable in the filename patterns. For example, you can set filenamePattern = '%(channel)s/%%Y/%(meetingname)s.%%F-%%H.%%M' to allow #meetingname to categorize multiple types of meeting occurring in one channel.

They don’t lead to better hiring outcomes as Google learned. Its senior vice president for people operations, Laszlo Bock, said last June in an interview with New York Times

When the user is at the center everyone benefits, including content creators whether they are publishers or marketers.

The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Where I differ from Peter is in my belief that if you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Dr. Weisman knows how to bridge the gap between science and marketing.

Innovative Science Solutions, a consulting firm that specializes in “product defense” and strategies that “give you the power to put your best data forward.”

Security and privacy are also issues where annotation systems should meet user expectations.

This is the contradiction of the Google Bus, and it’s one that should resonate across the country. The Google Bus is the embodiment of a system that indemnifies the actions of corporations while increasingly criminalizing and punishing individuals. Google and its ilk have always known that they could break the law right up until the day they were invited to make new laws. That is the power of corporate wealth, and in San Francisco as in the rest of the country, it rules supreme.

Far from recovering money lost to free riders, the enforcement program is actually a huge money loser – the POWER study found that in 2009, the enforcement program cost $9.5 million and only recovered $1 million in revenue.

Let’s create a fund, where everyone agrees to put, say, 25 percent of their annual bonuses into it, and we’ll use that to help some of the people who actually need the money that we’ve been so rabidly chasing. Together, maybe we can make a real contribution to the world.

I recently signed up for the TSA pre-check program, and I think the increased level of surveillance is totally worth it in return for more pleasant air travel.

an event remarkably well attended by women and minority programmers

Inevitably at such an event, in such a venue the conversation often turned to the future of the library.

Many of the projects that sprang up chose to use Hypothes.is or Annotator in some fashion, and I walked away with a ton of feedback—most notably the need for better documentation on the API, an authentication API, and a request for a groups API that would allow 3rd party applications to easily create groups for social reading applications.

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And that’s why I welcome doge, and LOLcats, and every other atrocity visited upon the English language by the Internet. They’re anarchic. They’re juvenile. They’re a horrific mess. And they make it clear that we can and do shape the language however we want, rather than being shaped by it, for the sake of greater beauty, truth, and endlessly repetitive ironic comic gold.

It still has its place — Wikipedia, say, and a few other sources whose pretensions of authority are still deemed acceptable, like maybe The Economist — but it is not the standard mode of our ongoing online discourse. It is out of place there. It is incorrect.

I submit to you that, increasingly, this is how Clinical Standard Written English sounds to the Reddit-reading masses: orthodox, lifeless, soulless, a parade of pale impersonal zombie words drained of blood by some linguistic vampire, if you’ll pardon the mixed horror-movie metaphor. I’m not saying it actually is, necessarily; I’m saying that even well-written CSWE is, to many, fatally undercut by being CSWE.

This is the weird thing the Internet has done to language: Standard Written English — or, at least, its most fundamentalist form, Clinical Standard Written English — has actually become incorrect in most online contexts.

And nowadays — this is where things get interesting — people who write in CSWE actually mark themselves as untrustworthy by doing so.

But study after study has shown that no one is immune from the motivating effects of acknowledgement and thanks.

Forget the empty platitudes

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The NSA’s director, General Keith Alexander, told CBS that granting Snowden amnesty would reward the leaks and potentially incentivize future ones.

I mean, if MDMA (for instance) genuinely helps to make us into better, more compassionate people

Perhaps, instead of giving in to the frantic us-or-them discourse proffered by the media (Funeral selfies! Handshakes! Ted Cruz!), it's time that we acknowledge that conservative and liberal politicians spend more time together, and have more in common with one another, than we’d like to believe.

This would be more persuasive, however, if, as Justin James has highlighted, so many open-source developers weren't paid to write open-source code.

This of course makes the life of someone writing Emoji-handling code more difficult, as pretty much all the boilerplate you’ll find out there assumes a single UTF-8 codepoint per character glyph (since after all, this was the problem that Unicode was supposed to solve to begin with).

The irony that the very raison d’être of a university—education!—is also its most disposable aspect seems lost on everyone (perhaps because nobody studies English, philosophy, or French anymore, so nobody recognizes irony or knows what a raison d’être is).

Here I would like to interject a prayer: Please don’t use email for sharing links anymore unless you know that’s the recipient’s preference. Email is designed for communication. We usually deal with it using specialized communication tools. It’s not a good place to read articles, and it’s an especially bad place to discuss things, because conversations there can’t be left or muted.

Let’s be real: most people use their profiles to talk about themselves, but they also share links there that they think will support or inform community relationships. When they’re right, I think some of the best online discussion of reading material happens in this forum.

Well-intentioned (and grammatically correct) though it may be, changing pronouns has very little impact on inclusivity. When you’re starting from a default position of exclusivity, when people automatically associate you with the tone-deaf cringefests that are one of open source’s worst problems, when people see your community and your leadership and find very few diverse participants, when your actions don’t illustrate how people can play a role if they won’t prove themselves better coders than those already involved, hanging up a sign saying “no one is disallowed” is not going to be enough. Saying you want to be inclusive does not create a culture of inclusivity.

I do not maintain any big open source projects, but in talking to people who do it’s become my understanding that the bulk of the work is sifting through issues and pull requests, not actually coding. The former is the thing they consider hardest, the thing that burns them out, their most overwhelming responsibility.

The Blob (possibly the worst movie ever ever ever)

Clearly, Meyer’s sentence variety is lacking compared to Collins and Rowling. But in her defense, repeatedly starting sentences off the same way doesn’t mean the prose is bad—it just means it’s repetitive. Hemingway uses the same 50 openings (“There was a,” “He did not”) in 5.3 percent of all sentences in The Sun Also Rises.

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Do we really want a world where the Internet works like cable TV?

Three things are required to fully guarantee a repeatable installation using requirements files.

Much as it is not the criminal defense lawyer's place to judge their client regardless of how guilty they are, it is not the doctor's place to force experimental treatment upon a patient regardless of how badly the research is needed, and it is not the priest's place to pass worldly judgement on their flock, it is not the programmer's place to try and decide whether the user is using the software in a "good" way or not.

The privilege-pushers have a view of structure (thus of patriarchy) that is so vague that some of them dismiss the notion of a structural view of oppression as at best, academic bullshit, and at worst, a way for an individual to dodge examination of her own privilege.

True, it would be more altruistic to donate to the schools of poorer children, but it is human instinct for parents to support the education of their children.

If you were to make an annotation of the HTML wouldn't you want to see that annotation when viewing the PDF, and vice-versa? Unfortunately, this won't work if you are following the tried and true pattern of querying for annotations only using the URL that you happen to be looking at in your browser.

The annotation support in Mosaic was not to be, but twenty years on we can see a vast proliferation of annotation services that use its key insight of grouping annotations by URL. The simple act of copy/pasting a URL into your Facebook status box, entering some text, and hitting post, creates an annotation by you, about the Web resource with that URL. The same applies to URLs you use in Twitter or App.net status updates, or when you save a bookmark with some tags, or a brief note in Pinboard, Digg, Delicious or Connotea. Of course, the Web would be a better place if all these services shared annotations in a compatible way, with agreed upon standards. But it is remarkable that Web architecture has allowed this ecosystem of annotation to grow organically, with little coordination, using the very simple concept of annotation by URL.