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it seems like reverting from "Web Applications" back to "Web Sites"

I want to push back against this idea that "Web Applications" represent uniform forward momentum for the web, while "Web Sites" are somehow archaic. This seems to be a fairly common perception, but it strikes me as a false dichotomy.

Both are distinct and useful things. Static site generation isn't a good solution for interactive applications – conversely, React is a poor choice for building low-interactivity web pages.

EDIT: Improved blockquote formatting.

* Request stuff from arbitrary URLs without a CORS proxy

I think OP probably means a proxy server on your domain which can make arbitrary requests to a third party, in order to get around CORS restrictions:

  browser <--[XHR]--> my-server <--[HTTP]--> third-party

I've found http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com by Michael Neilson to be an excellent resource.

I keep seeing this John Oliver segment brought up in threads related to Snowden & the NSA - it's a comedy show! While interesting, it is not statistically significant proof that "most of society apparently couldn't care less." 0.33% of the US is more than 1 million people. They show ~8 tourists in Times Square on a cold morning in April.

Additionally, being able to identify Snowden is not necessarily indicative of public awareness and concern around issues of civil liberty, privacy, etc. When you do go looking for these numbers they of course vary wildly based on the poll source, questions asked, etc. As a quick example, these two pew reports[1][2] can be interpreted pretty differently.

Does anybody know of any great analysis that's been done in this space?

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/07/14/nsa-opinion/country/unit... [2] http://www.people-press.org/question-search/?qid=1858375&pid...

Likely they were writing the essay in a desktop editor and are referring to the size of the file on disk (potentially including references, revision data, etc). In plaintext the essay seems to be ~36kb.