w_s_l

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Show HN: Try Web Scraping Language(scrape.it)
7 points by w_s_l 7y ago|0 comments
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by w_s_l 7y ago
I think it has backfired already. The leadership is getting desperate. They cannot contain the protests and the spirit of Hong Kong. What did they expect after a long period of democracy and western rule of law and capital wealth, that hong
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by w_s_l 7y ago
so communism is but an ephemeral and insignificant given the lengthy and turbulent history of China. It's only been around for roughly 70 years compared to the backdrop of many millenias. Democracy has been in America for well over a 1
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by w_s_l 7y ago
I don't understand what a privatized prison system has to do anything with the rest of your argument which seems to be more of a rant than anything. Democracy isn't new its older than communism. Democracy also took time to develop
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by w_s_l 7y ago
im quite surprised that they would be willing to take such a risky bet. but after seeing Crimea get a pass from the West, more and more countries with authoritarian regime have become emboldened further more with the US in political disarra
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by w_s_l 7y ago
really worried for hong kong. CCP is shoring up support at home for an escalation in physical violence.
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by w_s_l 7y ago
The index word suddenly gave me an idea: the entire internet transformed into tabular data, searchable and open to public. Even if we got Google's data, there's a whole lot of scraping to transform irregular and disparate. Typical
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by w_s_l 7y ago
isn't there like a google sheets user cap that severely limits this for production?
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by w_s_l 7y ago
I would love to get a hands on the source. Hook it up to an API like https://pokr.live and then basically build a computer vision poker bot. The trick is how to create natural mouse click movements or keyboard inputs. This is th
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by w_s_l 7y ago
will you release the source code?
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by w_s_l 7y ago
;)
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by w_s_l 7y ago
if you look at various surveys comparing countries outside of north america countries with no rapid colonization and urbanization like in the America, or East-Asia, people report feeling happier and less isolated. But difference between NA
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by w_s_l 7y ago
For one I would love to have an SGI workstation, I still have CG magazines from this era and its plastered everywhere in the ads, and I'm still amazed at the graphic output (so smooth) and what we had in the 90s. https://www
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by w_s_l 7y ago
oh man....so ALL of my gmail gets banned? this is FUCKED. its aking to holding my youtube and google play accounts hostage.
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by w_s_l 7y ago
> You probably know this, but you can burn CD-Roms of most games and play them in the Dreamcast, super easily Guards! Guards! /s I will be sure to agree to play ONLY the games I own as back-up...in my imaginary jury panel.
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by w_s_l 7y ago
Yeah I've always thought it was sad. I love SEGA games, they have that signature, clean, fast, simple feel across their characters to game design. Sega SATURN was a major flop, even though it is an interesting system none the less. See
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by w_s_l 7y ago
is that USD? seems to be around that range still for a high quality one. yeah I might pick one up....I always wanted a Dreamcast.....and I still do I realized! Give me Shenmue 1&2, Phantasy Star Online, Omikron + Bleemcast + Gran Turism
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by w_s_l 7y ago
You know this reminds me of a bad taste that Google Sales team left when I asked for some of my billing that I was unaware of running after following a quickstart guide. AWS refunded me in the first reply on the same day! GCP sales rep just
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by w_s_l 7y ago
this is awesome. I ended up paying like $99 USD just to have a custom domain pointed to it. When I asked if I could switch the domain they said "that will be another $99 USD please" ...I don't even know why I am writing on me
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by w_s_l 7y ago
oh man I remember the hype around this game in magazines back then! It's AI would "adapt" to your inputs and that was a 'wow' in my mind back then. all in all Dreamcast, imho, was the perfect console. You could emul
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by w_s_l 7y ago
is there any security concerns with the pi itself? say your computer is infected with a really bad malware. it takes over your host, ignores your right to block out noise, and then the idea that pi-hole will be able to as a last resort bloc