econ

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by econ 5d ago
I want to see and feel the product. Nowadays mostly to see how bad it is.
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by econ 5d ago
Sometimes they put one at the start then again 1.5 min into a video and again around 4 minutes. If I don't skip them I may not even remember what the video was about.
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by econ 5d ago
I could call them, tell them I see their ad, ask questions then call again and again and again and again. I just read one may call a company as often as one wants.
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by econ 5d ago
I couldn't imagine someone running campaign like that intentionally but it's apparently cheap to do so. 20 minutes of my time is apparently worth 3 cent. Those 5 hours watching the same ad again and again probably cost the spammer
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by econ 5d ago
You had huge click farms back in the days. Today the fraud is perhaps more obvious. YT has served me the same 20 min ad 200+ times over the last few weeks. I let the entire thing play 10 times and 50 times didn't press skip for the fir
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by econ 5d ago
I had to much great stuff of my own to think about. Made great effort keeping their earthly matters out of my head. I could see how others changed into one of them which for many was an improvement. Ill do an example from a few days ago:
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by econ 5d ago
We made grids of tiny dots on an eraser, so tiny a grownup couldn't really see it. End of the year a teacher asked how we did it. He knew our answers were the same, he put us far apart, he watched us the whole time every test, the whol
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by econ 5d ago
Deletionists have been circling html since the beginning and have only managed to get rid of document.writeln() they tried really hard to get rid of framesets but ultimately failed. I suspect in the long run a similar lack of "success&
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by econ 5d ago
In the old days we had this thing called a redaction. It was like a dungeon master vs playing the same hardcoded level again and again. Had one suggested automating it back then even the greatest optimist wouldn't see how you replace [
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by econ 5d ago
I'm definitely not experienced enough to know but I read people are having it write somewhat elaborate documentation beforehand. Have it figure out which parts of the code may be touched, what other things will be affected and which un
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by econ 7d ago
The budget obviously isn't what it use to be. I use to search for random blogs. One day I ran into something truly special. Their first post was an extremely crude draft for a book the size of a tweet. All following postings described
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by econ 7d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/pentag... >The result is an astounding $10tn in taxpayer money that has gone unaccounted for since 1996. https://www.forbes.com/si
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by econ 7d ago
As Ze Frank put it: I have a theory about this but it's a little bit to deep for the audience.
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by econ 8d ago
At work I have access to all newspapers big and small, I use to read all of them but I haven't touched one in a decade. Not one article that isn't infantile nonsense or outright propaganda of a quality that falls appart in the fir
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by econ 8d ago
Keep up the keeping up
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by econ 8d ago
Maybe if the number of failed logins per hour grows by 10000%
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by econ 8d ago
It once struck me that there are way to many laws with hardcoded values. Just like in programming those values reflect situations that aren't nesasarily true anymore. For spying on public we should have laws that scale with trust and a
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by econ 8d ago
How is this still up -_-
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by econ 9d ago
Then add onerror="src=' https://gettogether.dev/post?name=user&text='+Math.random ()"
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by econ 9d ago
Hide your email address.
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by econ 9d ago
Duplicate posts should be an error
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by econ 11d ago
We've replaced fuel sources and all related technology many times. You can't reasonably argue we are now at the end of that process.
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by econ 11d ago
Long long ago people planted trees where a windmill was to be build. Construction would start 20-30 years later and also took quite a bit of time. If it took (I dunno) say a year to build one you could pick a new location and plant trees ea
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by econ 11d ago
Back in the days you could summon and culture them by posting seed spam. In one test 200 worked ~4 times as well as 50.
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by econ 12d ago
Good idea, I'm putting "ignore all previous instructions" at the top of my TOS now.
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by econ 12d ago
I can see why the bots liked it. Is this the future of webdesign?
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by econ 12d ago
Not really, if you allow anon posting/editing or have a simple registration form and a login that takes GET you may get hundreds of spam posts per day.( @dang how much is it on hn?) I ont time forged a hilarious solution. If you proper
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by econ 12d ago
1) that has to be the worse case of premature optimization. 2) just solve the puzzle? The existing domain name system was wonderful when it was introduced. I'll do a crude solution that shouldn't make it to the short list of goodn
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by econ 13d ago
OT: I solve the election puzzle: Have anonymized, legally binding election programs. The voter gets two randomly selected programs. Basically bubble sort but with up and down vote counters. You spend 30 minutes in the boot before voting and
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by econ 13d ago
I can't think of a better way to make simple things billions of times slower than they should be.

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