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by rtb 6y ago
Thanks! I think he should make that a lot clearer in the "results" table.
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by rtb 6y ago
What are the "grep" and "wc" lines doing in the results? I can't find them in his git repos. Does he have a solution for the problem using grep, or is he just including "grep x <input" as a reference po
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by rtb 6y ago
Amazing. Needs multitap support for more than two players!
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by rtb 6y ago
No mention of the ethics of this, except in a single dismissive comment? He is deliberately land-grabbing domain names in the hope that he gets in the way of legitimate users enough that they pay him off? Scummy. People try to distinguish b
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by rtb 6y ago
> The pressure waves from both the unwanted exterior noise and manufactured anti-noise reach occupants’ eardrums at exactly the same time and cancel each other out. What happens if your ears are not exactly where the system thinks they s
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by rtb 7y ago
The alternative is to not show ads. Yes, Google Analytics has many of the same problems. The alternative to that is to analyze the server logs or to simply not track your users' behaviour in detail.
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by rtb 7y ago
I think they understand it fine. As you say, the website is using Google's ad server. So it is sending detailed identifying info about each user to Google. Just because that has become normal for "the online ad ecosystem" ove
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by rtb 7y ago
US law has a very similar approach. See e.g. https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html But I don't think that's relevant here, as a) this isn't a copyright case and b) HiQ are not attempting to recr
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by rtb 7y ago
Yes, coal heating was banned around that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956
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by rtb 7y ago
Great list. Re advocados: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1c94s3/why_do_a...
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by rtb 7y ago
A quick search for "send letter online" shows there are at least 2 or 3 companies that offer this currently.
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by rtb 7y ago
Surely this is just fraud, i.e. obtaining money by deception? Do they really need a new law to ban this, or do they need to enforce the existing laws better?
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by rtb 7y ago
I agree. I find it heartbreaking that the brightest minds of our generation are working on better ways to get spam into people's mailboxes. He more or less worked himself to death just to "enable our customers to deliver a highly
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by rtb 7y ago
No-one is claiming that stress synthesizes bacteria, that is a laughable strawman. We are surrounded by bacteria at all times. If stress were to weaken your immune system, then you might be more easily infected by them. This seems completel
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by rtb 7y ago
There are two economists – one young and one old – walking down the street together. The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, “Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!” Without even looking, his older and wiser coll
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by rtb 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill
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by rtb 8y ago
The author doesn't mention endemic rape in US prisons because he is writing about UK prisons. All Americans should be ashamed of the state of their prison system.
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by rtb 8y ago
Why $5 Starbucks gift cards and not $5 cash?
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by rtb 8y ago
*principals
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by rtb 8y ago
"Brian Vecci, technical evangelist at Varonis, elaborated on what he saw as the downside of the zeal to crack down on data brokers. “Entire business models could be declared illegal and have to be scrapped if these com
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by rtb 8y ago
I still have no idea what this is about
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by rtb 9y ago
Does anyone know why the fat doesn't get broken down by bacteria; why doesn't it just rot away?
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by rtb 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
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by rtb 9y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law
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by rtb 9y ago
Because people don't think they're being watched. ... so it is deceptive to watch them.
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by rtb 9y ago
Maven is no longer maintained, and has many long-standing bugs that may never get fixed.
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by rtb 9y ago
It is discussed in the book. You should just read the book if you want to consider this seriously. If you're just looking for a summary: there is very little point writing things in a list if you don't read the list, obvs. The key
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by rtb 9y ago
I got a plain 504 the first time I tried. I refreshed, and got a Cloudflare page with a banner at the top saying "This page ( https://www.reactpwa.com/ ) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare&#x
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by rtb 9y ago
> Would those be thrown out if the A/B test was a fail? It sounds like it, yes. > there are legal, ethical and moral obligations. From the evidence in this article, Trivago don't give a shit (or didn't)
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by rtb 9y ago
Because you can't prove damages. If you suffer loss that you can directly link back to Equifax, and you manage to get your day in court, you'd get damages just like if you had a faulty steering wheel. The problem for the law is th

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