reefoctopus

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by reefoctopus 7y ago
What makes it unethical? Why should I be treated differently than search engine spiders? If somebody doesn’t want their site scraped then they can let people know with robots.txt. Get off your high horse.
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by reefoctopus 7y ago
Teach your students to ensure there’s a delay between requests so they aren’t hammering anyone’s server, and follow the rules in the robots.txt. I’ve scraped more than a billion pages without any issues.
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by reefoctopus 7y ago
One of the best parts about having the freedom of speech is that I’m free to label those people genocidal racists.Freedom of speech doesn’t protect you in any way from being shamed for holding disgusting beliefs.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I rematch with people all the time. I literally rematched with someone in my last game just a second ago playing 10/0. Are you the sort who refuses to resign even when you have a hopeless material disadvantage?
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
They’re spoofing the numbers so that would likely cause apple to blacklist numbers belonging to innocent people.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
That’s not at all why this is a big deal. Sessions recused himself from overseeing the special counsel. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has been conducting honest and principled oversight to the dismay of republicans. Now that
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I have uptimerobot.com send me an email when it’s down. That email is forwarded to my cell phone via text using [phonenumber]@txt.att.net.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Most people still ignore crypto.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Isn’t that sort of debate pretty common when it comes to history books? The entire point of the book was to write about history from the point of view of those who “lost.” Of course it’s biased in that respect, and it was on purpose.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I read that, and it isn’t exactly a scathing critique. He appears to recognize at least some value in it. Do you by chance consider yourself a conservative?
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I googled around a bit, and it appears that most of the criticism comes from those on the right who aren’t a fan of the narrative.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_Unit...
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
There is an aclu app called mobile justice that does this. There appears to be a different one for each state. I was previously under the impression that it uploads the video if you shake your phone, but I found some articles that suggest i
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Do you have any evidence to support this? I’ve never heard of anybody being sued for that reason.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I’m addicted to fifa, and EA just announced that the ultimate team web app comes out on wednesday. It always comes out mid september.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I know the answer! https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I’m aware. That set of characteristics is more straightforward than other definitions I’ve come across. Umberto Eco’s definition is commonly used but requires more context. There’s actually an entire Wikipedia page devoted to different defi
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
>During former FBI director James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Comey was asked whether the FBI had ever received the DNC’s hacked hardware. >He said they did not, but obtained access from a review of the syst
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
> He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories. >"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Dutch intelligence watched them do it. They were able to watch people coming and going through a security camera. https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Fascism doesn’t start with torture and death. The word has certainly been misused, but it is an apt description of the ideology guiding the trump administration. The most common definition includes these 14 points: 1. Powerful and Continuin
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
The book mentioned at the bottom of the page with the broken link should point here: http://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
You’re doing mental gymnastics to justify cruel and dehumanizing behavior.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Pretty much any news organization that doesn’t have to register as a foreign agent would be ok.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Russia uses fake American social media profiles to astroturf every website with a comment box with extremist propaganda. See how that’s different than a private news organization being a little too obsequious?
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Please list specific examples, and I’ll explain the difference.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Russia is hostile to western democracies and is actively attacking them. We should shun them and anything that comes from their country - especially media.
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Russia Today is propaganda. You couldnt find an article from a legitimate news organization?
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
Who was it? Also, where did you get the data? Was it free?
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by reefoctopus 8y ago
I had this happen recently. Not only did they want me to do unpaid work as part of the interview, but that work was directly related to their business. They requested that I do this before they had even spoken to me. I responded that I was

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