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by scrape_it 7y ago
I might be generalizing and basing this on anecdotes but often people that work in the drug trade are users/addicts themselves, including the ones who are drawn to positions where it grants them the illusion of unlimited power & ma
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by scrape_it 7y ago
seems to be a quite desperate time for north korea supposedly undergoing another famine....how long can this tyranny last I wonder....
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Building Scrape.it in 2019 within 24 hours(medium.com)
5 points by scrape_it 7y ago|0 comments
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by scrape_it 7y ago
I am considering laying off the ganja for a while. but I need it to meet deadlines, to do the work the market demands at the best possible time to the best possible consumer, I am the invisible hand that keeps pushing me, in this struggling
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by scrape_it 7y ago
Ah yes! Pleasantly surprised you'd follow up on here. Does Estonia offer any anonymity through its e-residency program? A lot of us have stereotypes towards EU regulations as being restrictive, wonder if you could address this one glar
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by scrape_it 7y ago
This reminds me of the Estonian business startup thing that BBC covered, has anyone actually used this to a success? What would be the point of starting a business in countries like Czech and Estonia vs the US?
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by scrape_it 7y ago
is it possible to somehow buy this off-line in person in mass quantities? seems like it takes ages to ship from alibaba, also I'm afraid of the Chinese government tapping my phone (as I suspect happened on WeChat I foolishly installed
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by scrape_it 7y ago
Hope the best for you guys, I really do! If realized, this could be too seductive for foreign governments that depend on importation of oil and polluting their air to support export industries. Cleaning up the air AND mining the skies for g
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by scrape_it 7y ago
You really hit the nail with those simple percentage, its clear as day to me now. So it seems to me that Groupon really makes sense for businesses with fixed & low variable costs, thick enough margins to come out ahead and either repeat
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by scrape_it 7y ago
I see so the primarily utility of Groupon is that businesses can pay for a chance of repeat customers and/or extra spenders? I think the theater is a good example of the latter. Then the question arises, why can't businesses do th
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by scrape_it 7y ago
Very promising but I'm going to hold out until I actually see this being applied in places like South Korea, literally suffocating from a combination of both local and foreign smog from Korea's favorite neighbor. You can't re
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by scrape_it 7y ago
So the retailer is forced to provide a deep discount, even if it forces them to sell at a loss? Who gets the final say here, might we assume Groupon? If so, why would retailers continue to utilize Groupon if it ends up being a net negative
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by scrape_it 7y ago
> It's a very compelling illusion of actually understanding the topic. I've seen less coherent responses on Stack Overflow and, dare I say it, Hacker News. I think you've highlighted a very interesting angle. A lot of writ
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Ask HN: How does Groupon make money?
3 points by scrape_it 7y ago|9 comments
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by scrape_it 7y ago
yeah my original idea was a sort of a Google Freebase P2P Strikes Back Like KaZaA Imagine a structured gigantic tree data where relational, tabular data of any data is available? You can see why I was seduced by this idea of an all out li
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by scrape_it 7y ago
oh yeah forgot about that....its a great template, everything all one one html...many thanks. I will swap out the drawing.
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by scrape_it 7y ago
I'm working on it as I speak.
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by scrape_it 7y ago
It uses a sort of a DSL that I came up with, and removes a lot of boilerplate. Headless yes. You write WSL (Web Scraping Language) to scrape 2 pages of HN: GOTO news.ycombinator.com | EXTRACT {.morelink, 2} {news: .storylink} (you
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by scrape_it 7y ago
yeah I've actually had a sudden change of heart - implementing a p2p/decentralized theme is quite a bit more work than I anticipated, mainly syncing problems. originally planned on releasing 3 weeks ago....this p2p is taking up al
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Show HN: Web Scraping Language (WSL)(scrape.it)
11 points by scrape_it 7y ago|10 comments
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by scrape_it 7y ago
I often wonder when reading articles on African American news, whether it's more than a concidence that areas with high concentration of African American population is lacking the same access to public institutions as the rest of Ameri
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by scrape_it 7y ago
Oh, my beloved devotchka and droogs of HN!
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by scrape_it 7y ago
can't believe the first one didn't result in a ball of fire... the second was even more shocking, all of a sudden it looked like he was trying a Cobra maneuver until he ejected! that's insane.
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by scrape_it 7y ago
huh? interesting, do you have more info, I love reading stuff like this. I don't know much about the Gripen but it is my all time favorite after the F-16. Off topic but here's a neat youtube video of Gripen jets undergoing rapid t
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by scrape_it 7y ago
Well, to support the top parent's comment, here's what John Carmack had to say about SAAB's fighter jet: > The fly-by-wire flight software for the Saab Gripen (a lightweight fighter) went a step further. It disallowed both