OkGoDoIt

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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I used Pidgin on Windows for years. Ah, the good old days...
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Alternatively, could this be some sort of Folding@Home model where a variable number of users can train actors for whatever learner they partner with?
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Yeah, I uploaded a picture of my Chinese friend with a phone and it said “I thought you’d be sick of that after so many years at the factory” and “The space between your eyes could fill the entire great wall of China” It does seem quite rac
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
That’s my experience. Every time I go through Chinese immigration/customs they have these rating smiley buttons but even when my service has been slower than normal I never press the frown button because the person is right there in fr
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I’d join in a heartbeat if you supported Windows. Why do almost no VPS providers support Windows?
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. My parents, who are both in their 60s and not the least bit affiliated with technology, are both aware of Amazon’s headquarters search and brought it up with me when I was visiting over the holidays.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
So do employees of companies: income tax and sales tax and property tax. Even if Amazon gets a fairly large tax break, but net effect is overwhelmingly positive. The main downside of increased local wealth is higher overall prices and gent
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I always assumed DRM would eventually factor into this. I’ve only ever read about it in the context of media, but I’m assuming there’s ways to use it creatively for fingerprinting and blocking scraping as well. Do you have any links with in
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
It definitely locks you out after a few requests. In the past I built a LinkedIn profile scraper, but they are really really good at locking down their data. If you even somewhat appear to be a bot, you’re blocked.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Bank of America credit cards have this, they call it ShopSafe. My old Citi card had that although I can’t verify they still offer it. I believe Capital One has virtual credit card number capability as well.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I wish more people in the bay area understood that Microsoft has a really awesome development and server ecosystem.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
That has been my impression. Sometimes people find little ways to insulate themselves (I know a guy who doesn't put his license plate in the right place so his car can't automatically be tracked when he drives around the country)
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Correct. In theory I could get an EIN for my own company and use that instead, but that's more hoops than I'm willing to jump through and I'm not even 100% sure that would solve my problem, as they may tie it back to me anot
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Mysterious explosion of a deadly plague: a sugar in ice cream(arstechnica.com)
4 points by OkGoDoIt 9y ago|0 comments
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
It always seemed to me that was sponsored content that probably subsidizes the gas station a bit. Kind of like the crap software that comes preinstalled on PCs to give a little extra kick back to the bottom line for the manufacturer.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
The article at https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863912/senate-ed-markey-... has a more informative writeup but I linked to the source tweet from Senator Ed Markey.
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Senate will force vote on overturning net neutrality repeal(twitter.com)
2 points by OkGoDoIt 9y ago|1 comments
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I'll believe it when I see it as far as playability, but if it works as well as they claim then this is really cool. I use a 12" macbook retina because it's super lightweight and tiny but obviously I can't do any real g
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now app can transform your cheap laptop into a gaming PC(theverge.com)
3 points by OkGoDoIt 9y ago|1 comments
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I've tried. Sure I can create new accounts but Google is very good at tracing accounts back to the underlying person. Especially with AdSense, you've got to enter your SSN, which even if your email, address, phone, and whatever e
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I did use a different account, but Google is very good at tracing accounts back to the underlying person. Especially with AdSense, you've got to enter your SSN, which even if your email, address, phone, and whatever else are unblemish
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I agree. Over a decade ago when I was a freshman in college I participated in an AdSense click ring with my dormmates. We made $200 or so each, which was cool at that age. Within a few months we got caught and banned from AdSense. Now I hav
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
But in reality the bonus and RSU's are a very significant portion of compensation. I know several people in their late 20's in SF with salaries around $150k but after adding RSU's and annual bonus and other oddities like rec
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
In theory you’d want the algorithm to determine how rational someone is likely to be, assuming that is correlated with debt repayment. If you can say with some degree of confidence that a person is likely to act irrationally and that peopl
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
“On a scale from 1 to it's-literally-the-worst, how much do you hate giving out your email address? How often do you open up your inspector tool to bypass annoying shit on websites?” Clever, that made me smile :-). But I’m still not gi
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Yeah, I just spent a week driving to a few different cities throughout China, and the tolls are unbelievable! Just one leg of my trip cost a $50 toll for a half day of driving (not sure about the exact distance). And that’s US$50, which is
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Thanks, this is news to me. But then again I haven’t looked at Google cloud platform in years. I guess I should check it out again and see how it’s evolved.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
The specific projects I’m working on basically process data from an SQS queue. I have a bunch of spot instances set to launch at the minimum prices. If the prices jump (which they very rarely do) I simply have less throughput until the pric
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
Thanks for the head’s up, I had not heard of that. Then again GCP is not an option for me until they support Windows and C#.
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by OkGoDoIt 9y ago
I kept wanting to make something like this but I’ve always been too lazy. Thank you! Does it still work? I haven’t used shopsafe in years but I remember it being a pretty crappy interface

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