wendsday

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   by wendsday 14y ago

   Like I said, it's relatively easy today. But how about going forward? There will be lots more bots and lots more usages. Things might not be so simple. For example, some sites might exclude all search engine bots except a chosen few des
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   by wendsday 14y ago

   The solution I often contemplate is to address the process by which the data is created. (Let's assume we're talking about data you would find on the web.) That is, why don't we impose rules on that process? Why can't we "mandate" that th
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   by wendsday 14y ago

   "Benign"? What would a malignant dictatorship be like?
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   by wendsday 14y ago

   I could not agree more with your comment. There's not a problem with text. Why do people pretend there is? They often only achieve making other people's jobs more difficult. Text is what people can read. People do not read binary. Whe
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   by wendsday 14y ago

   A company that relies on a bot that accesses others' resources to make money and at the same time relies on reCAPTCHA to frustrate other bots from accessing it own resources. It may be easy to do today, but, going forward, how do we determi
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   Ask PG: Have there ever been any YC startups that used Lisp/Scheme?

   6 points by wendsday 14y ago|8 comments