MicahKV

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by MicahKV 4y ago
Huh, well I guess there goes my theory about the incentive. What a bummer. I would have thought that at least with search engine scraping, they would stop expending the effort once the results dried up.
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by MicahKV 4y ago
Well what I'm suggesting isn't about blocking the bots, it's about removing the incentive. So in this case, I think the more obvious it is the better. I would want them to realize as soon as possible that they are 100% wast
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by MicahKV 4y ago
I'm not so sure about this. The spammers goal is to build up as big a list of link spam targets as possible. If one spammer chooses to only scrape minor engines and another only major engines, the one scraping the major engines will
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by MicahKV 4y ago
That would probably help, but it's also a continuation of the cat and mouse game. There are plenty of captcha breaking services out there, it only cost about $1 to programmatically solve 1000 captchas.
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by MicahKV 4y ago
So spammers have latched onto your search engine because they are getting useful results. They are able to systematically discover websites built on certain platforms that allow users to post content containing links, which they can target
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by MicahKV 5y ago
Been a while since I read up on this, but I think the problem is the energy cost of extracting CO2 from sea water makes it a wash at least in terms of CO2 reduction.
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by MicahKV 5y ago
I don't see the bizarre part. Wikipedia says Barron was born in 1927 when we were still figuring out the basics of aviation, and just a few decades later he was making these plans in the midst of the space race. Considering the rate
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by MicahKV 6y ago
I like to think that advanced alien life may already be established in our solar system, and we just haven't detected it yet. Unlikely as that is, the solar system is a big place and we are still just scratching the surface in terms o
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by MicahKV 6y ago
The date becomes ambiguous, it just says "September 2020".
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by MicahKV 6y ago
I contributed to this spike. I wanted to make sure I didn't mangle the spelling in my FB & reddit posts regarding President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. In case anyone is wondering, the gist of my posts was this: "For al
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by MicahKV 6y ago
When I switch to 30 days, the results appear to only be current to the 29th of last month.
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by MicahKV 7y ago
> If you don't like it, you move somewhere else. Yes, and if you don't like existing regulations you can just move to another country with different laws. No big deal, right? I do operate my own site in addition to selling on
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by MicahKV 7y ago
I do host my own website and manage all of those things, but it's not a question of the cost it's the fact that I can't opt out. It impairs my ability to predict & control my expenses, and it forces me to subsidize Etsy&
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by MicahKV 7y ago
They are not a surprise, no. I have wondered before what marketplace sellers could do in the way or organizing/unionizing.
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by MicahKV 7y ago
I'm one of those sellers who is being forced into Etsy's new ad program. It is frustrating and obnoxious, but I can't say it is surprising given the policy changes they've been rolling out the past few months. It seems
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by MicahKV 8y ago
The Apple in my classroom was also never used for the most part. And with no hard drive and no spare floppy disks, I couldn't save any of my work anyway which made it hard to learn past a very basic level. But it planted the seed, an
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by MicahKV 8y ago
Wow, what a blast from the past. My introduction to programming was on an old Apple II with BASIC and LOGO. I was in the 6th grade at the time, and never did anything as complex as looping to draw spirals - I basically used LOGO like an e
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by MicahKV 8y ago
I've been reading about VC and all it entails for years now, and it always leaves me with a sketchy feeling. Pouring so much time and effort into chasing capital, and then giving up so much ownership and being on the hook for big retu