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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by sharmi on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:37PM (#14119029)
I am sorry, but I do not get the reference? What does it point to?
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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by zitterbewegung on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:50PM (#14119069)
U of C has the most people that have won the Nobel prize historically which points toward people part of the university to win more Nobel Prizes.
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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by nyolfen on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:25PM (#14119195)
is that because of the psuedo-nobel for economics? i don't think that should count towards the tally, and in any case i would have guessed it was the manhattan project

edit: for those who are downvoting, you might not be aware that the 'nobel' for economics is not issued by the nobel committee but rather the swedish central bank, using the nobel name to appropriate prestige from the better-known prize presented by the norwegian nobel committee. it is not affiliated with the nobel peace prize.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by zb on Saturday April 15, 2017 @09:23AM (#14120623)
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is issued by the Nobel Foundation and chosen by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, just like the Physics and Chemistry prizes. The difference is that it was not endowed by Alfred Nobel in his will, but later by the Sveriges Riksbank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by Nullabillity on Saturday April 15, 2017 @07:52AM (#14120397)
> edit: for those who are downvoting, you might not be aware that the 'nobel' for economics is not issued by the nobel committee but rather the swedish central bank, using the nobel name to appropriate prestige from the better-known prize presented by the norwegian nobel committee. it is not affiliated with the nobel peace prize.

There are more Nobel prizes than just the economics and peace prizes, only the peace prize comes from Norway.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:25PM (#14135316)
Wasn't Alfred Nobel the son of an arms dealer, himself an industrial arms dealer who made a fortune out of wars and killing ? IIRC he was dubbed the merchant of death, and he got shunned by this woman he loved because she was a pacifist and refused to be with someone who makes (tons of) money on war and killing.

Trying to PR himself into having a good reputation after his death does not change the fact that he is responsible for countless deaths and made a huge profit out of it.

So a pseudo nobel is imho way better than an actual nobel.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by em500 on Saturday April 15, 2017 @04:20AM (#14119903)
Maybe the downvoters think you're Dick from the internet http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02
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