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by thinkloop 7y ago
Or Twitter could share the ad profits a la YouTube to incentivise all kinds of innovative niche ui's. 3rd parties are not the enemy to be managed. They are a blessing - free engineers who managed the impossible of building a product wi
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by thinkloop 7y ago
> A third-party Twitter client might be prettier and more functional than Twitter’s own client — shout out to Tweetbot! — but it certainly would not be more profitable. I never understood this, why can't the API/firehose serve
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by thinkloop 7y ago
> A third-party Twitter client might be prettier and more functional than Twitter’s own client — shout out to Tweetbot! — but it certainly would not be more profitable. I never understood this, why can't the API/firehose serve
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by thinkloop 7y ago
> Doesn't help that legislators are absolutely clueless here. You're a world-leading computerist and you had no clue either (nor I), how in the world are legislators supposed to do this. It's a fundamental problem. And onc
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by thinkloop 7y ago
What's the counter argument? A phone is a smaller Google home running the same software and hardware. It's like bolting all the doors except the front. It'll stop a criminal attempting to enter only through the back, but does
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by thinkloop 7y ago
The problem with this discussion is the definition of "hard". Is pushing a rock up and down a mountain easier or harder than getting a degree in computers? For me it's the former, studying cool stuff in cafes seems "easi
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by thinkloop 7y ago
There is no bigger lie than hard work = prosperity. It is literally the exact opposite. Think of the hardest shittiest jobs and they are almost always the least paying. The richer you get the less hard work is, until you're able to rea
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by thinkloop 7y ago
There's another piece to it too: they are able to legally sell trade secrets between organizations. They update their "knowledge base" every engagement and become "specialists" in the field.
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What is there besides sessions?
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by thinkloop 7y ago
From the paper [1] > A core value proposition of LN is that Bitcoin users can execute payments with negligible transaction fees. This feature may be cherished by payment initiators, but in case of insufficiently low network traffic, it c
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Ask HN: Is API scraping more common now than page scraping?
4 points by thinkloop 7y ago|2 comments
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You could have a locking mechanism that is activated when in bar mode.
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by thinkloop 7y ago
Why doesn't apple make the touchbar out of keys? The keys could be flat on top and seamlessly adjacent to one another to make a "bar", for sliders and such. But pressable like regular keys to make great buttons (most common u
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by thinkloop 7y ago
> forcing foreign financial institutions to tell the US government about any American-owned assets on their books This is another interesting part. How can the US "force" a sophisticated wealthy sovereign nation that culturally
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> in the hypothetical situation where classes are added just for styling OK, a style-based class naming system > is it a given that the correct way to name it is a way that stays the same when the styling changes Not with a style-base
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by thinkloop 7y ago
The real issue with css is that there is an enormous amount of code re-use while at the same time almost no code-reuse at all. The author's example highlights this perfectly: he has a "media-card" representing both the "
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by thinkloop 7y ago
> wouldn't you say that when naming things for the purpose of targeting them with styling, what they look like is indeed what they are? What do you mean? A "comment" is likely to stay a "comment" forever, whereas
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by thinkloop 7y ago
What forces led protonmail to require some form of identification? Are they regulatory?
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by thinkloop 7y ago
It's unfortunate that this is a reasonable question. I've been surprised to learn how conditional being treated like a human being really is (location, citizenship, etc.). It would be my preference for my country to treat all peop
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It's much less than half now, that was at the ultimate peak - was the point he was making.
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Isn't there an implied undercurrent with all this that genpop are idiots? I personally am not saying this, but if people say that "money buys elections", what do they mean exactly? They do not mean that massive election f
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by thinkloop 7y ago
Wait, why is it useless? At minimum there is the example cited in the article of checking file length without having to download the actual file, but more generally, if headers have any value, and they must since they exist, why can't
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by thinkloop 7y ago
Does WhatsApp have ads?
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by thinkloop 7y ago
The entire cdnjs is one dude plus some "core" maintainers with no access? Amazing.
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If "almost all" the transactions are fraud, are mobsters just trading with each other? Seems odd. Seems you need to have a minority of fraud for the fraud to work.
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> one of the reasons why political ads are so bland and content-free I'm not sure I would describe them as bland: https://youtu.be/LcjEe9guEIA?t=435 . I bet the bland ones are by choice. > a question of whether o
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Ask HN: Reliable scraper service that returns title, image, blurb for given url?
3 points by thinkloop 7y ago|3 comments
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It's temperature would have to be maintained around absolute zero to compensate for the transmission loss, for that we would need a continuous source of cheap, clean energy.
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You can disable gif autoplay
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The other issue is that everyone defines "smart" differently and select with bias based on their definition. So in some sense they're all also right.

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