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by jadell 5y ago
For all intents and purposes, this isn't competitive data for them. There aren't really competitors in the space anyway, the barrier to entry is ridiculous. In fact, by law, operators in the industry are required to share this par
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by jadell 5y ago
Yes, we have. And no, they are not interested.
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by jadell 5y ago
I run a large scraper farm against several large sites. They're not online shops, and we don't compete with them. But they do have hundreds of thousands of data points that we use to provide reports and analytics for our clients,
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by jadell 6y ago
Alternatively, in a tool that allows multiple channels, create a channel for the specific issue and invite the relevant people into it. The problem in the essay isn't chat rooms, it's having ONE chat room for all discussions. Bran
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by jadell 6y ago
It's the gentrification cycle, and it's been going on for decades (perhaps centuries.) It's just now getting to smaller mid-sized cities in the US. - Some part of $City is a dirty, smelly, claustrophobic place, no one wants t
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by jadell 6y ago
"Ardent detractors" aren't the people I'm talking about. I'm talking about bad faith actors who understand exactly what is harmful about their position and are choosing that position anyway, because their incentives
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by jadell 6y ago
This doesn't protect someone (or a whole society) from bad actors who know how to exploit the assumption of positive intent. This might work for arguing with Aunt Tillie at Thanksgiving dinner, but it's a loophole actively exploit
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by jadell 6y ago
Picking apart someone's belief through explaining their logical fallacies presupposes that they got to their belief through a logical process. "Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never ac
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by jadell 6y ago
I've had options at 3 companies that all went through some event. 1 - Company acquired after I left. I paid 3k for my shares when I left, made 3k net. Not bad. 2 - Company was self-funded when I left, paid about 2k for shares. When the
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by jadell 6y ago
The House has shown the ability to pass it, which means that if the Dems can flip the Senate (using the GA election), then the House can pass it again next session and have it go to a more favorable Senate. This was less about getting it th
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by jadell 6y ago
> The House represents the people. The Senate represents the state. That was the original thinking, but the 17th amendment turned the Senate into just another House of Representatives, but one where each member has a longer term and a hu
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by jadell 6y ago
To be fair, most minority and underserved communities back in the 80s and 90s wanted the Dems to take a tough on crime stance, which is why the Dems shifted that way. For example, the crime bill that everyone loves to rag on Biden for votin
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by jadell 6y ago
That's not the modern Republican platform. Both major parties want stronger central government in some instances, and weaker in others. They just differ in which instances are which. And they're like that because most people (vote
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by jadell 6y ago
In no way did I claim the massacre was an unfortunate oversight. In the case of the Interstate Highway System, it was legitimately the stated idea to go through Black neighborhoods because those were considered less desirable than white one
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by jadell 6y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said in your original comment. I was adding additional commentary that systemic racism isn't always overt acts of violent destruction. Many times it's subtle acts of state-sponsored legal ma
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by jadell 6y ago
"We need to build an interstate highway system, to modernize our logistical capacity and connect our commercial centers. But we need land in those cities, and all the prime real estate is developed." "Hmmmm...we could eminent
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by jadell 6y ago
Crazy how far into the plot they got before they were stopped. They tracked down her private homes, did surveillance and recon, acquired explosives and other equipment, and it all planned out. I don't know whether it would have actuall
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by jadell 6y ago
This was not a concocted plot by the FBI. These guys had a plan, did reconnaissance, acquired supplies. It's crazy how close they actually got before they were arrested, considering how early on the FBI knew about them. Affidavit with
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by jadell 6y ago
Not to mention any medical devices you might have on or in you.
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by jadell 6y ago
Does it not signal something, that in all of the publication's history, all the world events it has existed through, that now is the time they decide make an endorsement? Instead of bemoaning that they made an endorsement, maybe it w
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by jadell 6y ago
We stop former felons from taking certain government jobs. There's no reason we can't do the same for current or former members of white supremacist organizations. You don't get to be in law enforcement while also being part
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by jadell 6y ago
Using Proxy is key to a lot of bot detection avoidance. edit: Really like that repo! I use a lot of those techniques as well.
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by jadell 6y ago
There are services that will solve captcha for you (including Google's) in "real-time", and with convenient APIs that allow for automation.
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by jadell 6y ago
One day I will right an extensive post (or set of them) about using Puppeteer to bypass sites' anti-bot measures. It's a fascinating (and annoying) cat-and-mouse game. But at the end of the day, almost all bot detection measures r
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by jadell 6y ago
You don't need to poll the DOM yourself. Puppeteer's page.waitForSelector() does this for you. You can specify a timeout of how long to wait.
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by jadell 6y ago
> The music isn’t your product, the music is your marketing. The shows, the merch, your influence - that’s your product. In case anyone is wondering why all pop music sounds the same.
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by jadell 6y ago
If they are not wearing badges and identification of which agency they are operating under the authority of, then the laws should be that they are not legally operating as federal officers. That's the point. I'm allowed (in many j
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by jadell 6y ago
I'm tired of this argument that any order given by law enforcement should be assumed to be a legal order and one should just comply or face consequences. That would have such a chilling effect on the exercise of rights. Cops don't
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by jadell 6y ago
If someone is wearing press credentials, or is being followed by a huge news camera, or is clearly speaking into said camera with a microphone, then I find it unreasonable that any officer can't assume that person is a journalist. And
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by jadell 6y ago
Or we could use completely non-gendered language and say "don't be an asshole."

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