thinkloop

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by thinkloop 6y ago
There's a big practical difference between owning an original and owning a print. People have discovered secrets behind paint or canvas before. New technologies often allow us to introspect qualities of the art that we previously didn&
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by thinkloop 6y ago
It's none of anyone's business! I generate one password for the password and a second password to break into 4 char random chunks for the security questions which I record in "notes" of the password manager.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Someone uploaded a "virus" to OP's domain and Google crawler found it and blocked said domain? Is that the mechanics?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
There is no way it would be effecient to perpetually store 1000X your regular demand just to upsell in an unprecendented crisis, regardless of price gouging policies.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
dppx always gives me 1
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Mobile has some unique characteristics that don't fully allow agnostic design, namely: - viewport changes size due to soft keyboard - address bar hides/unhides during scroll down/up For certain types of apps, like games, it&#
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> FWIW, doing that is actually possible these days with all the GDPR data export options, just a little tedious It's tedious to the point that it is something else. The same reason the web is scrape-based rather than api-based today
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by thinkloop 6y ago
You can't imagine reasons why people would want to keep their data? Which includes posts, photos, likes, etc. Many people aren't that scared of their spouses :D [1] [1] "So my spouse can keep an eye on me?"
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Instead of giving your contacts to facebook, why can't facebook instead operate directly on them in your personal data store? Why does youtube know which videos I've liked but I don't unless youtube allows me? Why is sharing
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by thinkloop 6y ago
The interesting feature is being able to avoid heavy sites without having to visit them - but doesn't that: A) Leak privacy by first having to check urls against a centralzied db? B) Add slowness to every site due to having to request
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by thinkloop 6y ago
An AI researcher, by definition, is one who spends their time researching AI, so they would have no time remaining to get operational experience.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
The trust is supposed to be in their legal system and politics.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Npm is great, but it's not ideal to structurally depend on a centralized service for normal functioning.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
You're right, my mistake.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Agree. Maybe there are many small ones now rather than few huge ones. Would be interesting to see total dark market transactions by year.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
How did you find out it wasn't the original? I didn't realize bitcoin magazine did that. The quotes in the title should be around "world's largest" only (since they're about the inability to fully know what&#x2
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by thinkloop 6y ago
In theory it is possible to run a bitcoin tor marketplace anonymously, but in practice, given a long enough timeline, mistakes will happen and chances of getting caught approach 100%. I wonder what mistakes were made here.
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German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'(barrons.com)
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by thinkloop 6y ago
The wealth inequality debate is about Bezos and wall street ceo's type thing - I don't think many people have issue with some making $50k and others making $200k.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
It's to exit your crypto positions without the costly process of going into fiat.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> Then I block them on WhatsApp, so I don't relapse That's the key move, it takes guts
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by thinkloop 6y ago
What's the issue? Is it very hard making video codecs? Or is it a network effect issue? Why can't any one of these companies take a few months to make one alone and release it and be done with it?
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> Why shouldn't workers seek to capture as much of their labor as possible? That is not a fair framing. Labor is not the sole cause of profit. Imagine a company that spent billions to automate every process requiring only a single h
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Interesting that we have to install a massive privacy leak to deal with privacy protection.
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Somehow my $8 pizza always ends up $20
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by thinkloop 6y ago
How do you decentralize the audit trail? Would need something like ripple
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> "more is always good/better" stance It might be the ultimate endeavor. Right now we live in relative scarcity, so resource gathering dominate our culture. But imagine a thousand years from now when robots produce everyth
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by thinkloop 6y ago
Phone cameras are extremely wide-angle so everything is in focus and there is no natural bokeh. To add bokeh, you have to separate the subject from the background, and then also determine how far different parts of the background are. This
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> "complaint from the Department of Health (DOH) regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system which is part of an emergency alert system, to be used for emergencies only" > "Ms. Jones refused
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by thinkloop 6y ago
> a manner that protects the officer the most I doubt this is true. To me it is clear that their demeanor and behavior increases the liklihood of escalation and an incident.

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