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   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   Everything is considered harmful. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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   Dopamine fasting probably doesn’t work(psychcentral.com)

   2 points by IndexPointer 6y ago|0 comments
3. 63.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   That was in 2009 apparently. Maybe it made sense then.
4. 64.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   >Could you describe the process in few words? Not really, I wouldn't know how to describe it. I just have an intuition of when a movie is "promising" according to my taste. An intuition that gets better the more trailer an
5. 65.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   Only you can know what you like. The more movies you watch, the better your intuiton for predicting if you'll like the movie by watching the trailer will get. I found imdb scores are good to have a general idea. Eg I probably won&#x27
6. 66.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   So, another Bing API wrapper to add to the list?
7. 67.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   My conspiracy theory mind tells me this is just brands doing a show of power to end up paying less for ads. Plus scoring a PR win. The bad part is that it encourages Facebook and others to do more aggressive automatic moderation, which has
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   The Internet’s most important–and misunderstood–law, explained(arstechnica.com)

   2 points by IndexPointer 6y ago|0 comments
9. 69.▲
   by IndexPointer 6y ago

   We all use ad blockers but most people don't.
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    Small America vs. Big Internet(npr.org)

    1 points by IndexPointer 6y ago|0 comments
11. 71.▲
    by IndexPointer 6y ago

    Can't you scrape / download a bank statement? Or if you use a credit card scrape the card pdf statement.
12. 72.▲
    by IndexPointer 6y ago

    You can always try selenium to download it programmatically if they don't let you. Or make a script to download it.
13. 73.▲
    by IndexPointer 6y ago

    Quantity before quality, essentially.
14. 74.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    Could be related to bitcoin. Most people with bitcoin have it because they expect it will be worth a lot more in the future, so they never spend it too buy stuff. Even if it was practical to buy things with bitcoin, they'll keep using
15. 75.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    Well now I want to spend a few hours using it to solve the peaceable queens problem: https://youtu.be/IN1fPtY9jYg
16. 76.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    Of course it isn't, you couldn't have arbitrary binary files if one of the 256 possible bytes was reserved. That's why getchar returns int and not char; one char wouldn't be enough for 257 possible values (256 possible
17. 77.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I'll wait for next week to see if that's true before adding it to my list.
18. 78.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I would really like to see that. I've heard it so many times and I'm sure it's wrong memories.
19. 79.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I'm not sure I understand what he means by meta game. Is it adapting to rule changes? Or simply focusing on abusing the rules instead of just being good at the fundamentals of the game?
20. 80.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I hope someone comes along and makes a less hostile alternative to reddit soon...
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    The Crypto Queen (Planet Money)(npr.org)

    2 points by IndexPointer 7y ago|0 comments
22. 82.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    The text in their help is confusing, but it kind of implies that their crawler is for answers only, and that web results come from Bing and yahoo (which is powered by Bing).
23. 83.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I believe most phones are OLED now..
24. 84.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I believe it's only Bing and yandex for web, and other sources for the other things, but I don't have a source right now.
25. 85.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I don't know why they would, though. They get paid and it doesn't steal traffic from them. Unless Bing releases its own anonymous mode and DDG becomes a competitor. Then they could charge more or force DDG to display "power
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    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    I remember reading that it uses only Bing for web results and their crawler for Wikipedia only.
27. 87.▲
    by IndexPointer 7y ago

    This. I'll never understand the hype about bangs when you can do the same by typing a letter and tab your browser. en. <tab> to search on English Wikipedia, etc. Having to do ! seems awkward, plus you have to remember the letter