adeeds

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by adeeds 1y ago
I think it is fraud but a) Is the current FTC going to care? b) The tricky part is probably proving a business relationship. Otherwise someone could be a jerk and start shilling for their competitors just to get them fined.
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by adeeds 1y ago
The smaller niche subreddits dedicated to a hobby or type of product are actually some of the worst for astroturfing from what I've seen. It only takes a few shills to start building consensus. There's a really interesting pattern
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by adeeds 6y ago
I think it goes to show how easy it is to get reddit karma. I wrote a bot that uses 2 regular expressions to generate reddit comments. In the 16 days since I created it, it's amassed more than 7k karma (despite substantial downtime due
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by adeeds 7y ago
If you call it something more verbose like <x>ian day, people are just gonna shorten it in conversation to "day" and then you end up with confusing ambiguities.
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by adeeds 7y ago
or relativistic travel
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by adeeds 7y ago
big fat disclaimer: I'm about to start working at a competitor to DDG However I've found that DDG has a really hard time when you have minor typos in your query, or when it includes really common words When I type in semi-remember
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by adeeds 7y ago
I wish I had come across this article when I was looking for a dock for my MBP (connected to a pair of 4k monitors). It was a pain to try and figure out if I'd be able to get 60hz video from a particular docking station. I went with th
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by adeeds 7y ago
I tried using the new 1558 model on the headlines of news articles and the results were surprisingly decent. Maybe 1/5 of the articles were plausible, and 1/5 were comically awful (Things got pretty zany when I plugged in an LA Ti