PostOnce

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by PostOnce 7y ago
Can thedrive.com/the-war-zone please stop calling stuff "mysterious", "shadowy", and "secretive"? 80% of everything on their site is one of the three. "New laser turret" doesn't have the sam
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Greed has a ceiling, eventually the customer will unsubscribe entirely. Maybe we could also measure by wifi how many phones are present and refuse to play video until the # of viewers in the room has dropped to the contracted level. Maybe w
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by PostOnce 7y ago
"Perceptual hashing" it's sometimes called.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Who are we armchair generals to determine what is the needed amount? For all we know, they have a stockpile of thousands of zero days, or more! Plus, if "attempting to prevent nuclear war" isn't a responsible use of these zer
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Regardless of what the actual situation is, I wonder what people think it should be, and how far towards either direction (anarchy and whatever the opposite is) we'll go. For example, What if you sell someone some pencils and they stab
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by PostOnce 7y ago
The results are largely the same, in my test searches, all the tops results on ddg match the top results on google.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
You can't beat Google by trying to be Google without having Google level money, and even then, you still probably can't, Microsoft and Yahoo tried. So, do something different. It's possible to grow by endearing yourself to ge
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by PostOnce 7y ago
It's one of the most popular sites on the internet already. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com It's also built into browsers. So, whatever they're doing, it's working.
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Australian government proposes face scanning to verify porn users are over 18(businessinsider.com.au)
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Star Control 2 is free now (and on many platforms): http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ It will probably surprise first-time players with its depth and breadth and non-terrible UI (which you might expect in an early 90s game). Save
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Light pollution doesn't have to be nearly as bad as it is, we're just cheap and callous people. We could have cities and still be able to see a few more stars than the half dozen you might see now. I wonder how many people have ne
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by PostOnce 7y ago
We need a law where if they want to use those at night, they need to cover them up somehow (has to be retractable, because they'll still want free natural sunlight in the daytime). That'll never happen though. "It costs too m
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by PostOnce 7y ago
And they wonder why we block ads. If I search for medicine, maybe they'll show me an ad for homeopathy. Maybe I'm gullible. If I search Reliable Product X and I get an ad for Garbage Product Y... Eventually, doesn't this de-v
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by PostOnce 7y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5688760/the-navy-built-an-... They do make a fairly substantial effort.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
It would be nice if there was a way to manually enter location, since the location API on desktop is for me inaccurate by hundreds of miles.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Dynamic pricing means the company is trying as hard as possible to give you the worst deal possible, and people resent it because it's insulting. Basically, instead of "thank you", it's "fuck you".
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by PostOnce 7y ago
this reminds me of a story from Jason Scott's podcast about a hidden garage for high end motorcycles that appears outwardly to be a residential apartment, where he muses about how many other interesting things must be hidden in our cit
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Direct democracy and representative democracy are both forms of democracy.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I'm not calling our history the best case, it's a bad case, but it's not the worst case. Nuclear is completely safe in the best-case scenario. Nuclear is safe if nothing goes wrong, if the weather is fine, if the people follo
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Lowest death toll in the best-case scenario, but what about the worst-case scenario? It's not like a fluke once in a lifetime event, we've had meltdowns and partial meltdowns all over the world from the US to Switzerland to the So
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by PostOnce 7y ago
It amuses and pleases me to see that pg will continue to play around with lisp presumably forever, regardless of how wealthy he becomes. I hope I'll never stop coding passion projects myself. John Carmack talked about this on Joe Rogan
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Microsoft not only is still around, it has a 25% higher market cap than Google.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
It may be sinister, but its a damn fine design (interesting, and intimidating in a thriller movie kind of way), isn't it? Beats the crap out of boring bureaucracy. Wonder what other cool logos / unit patches / etc I am not aw
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Microsoft sells ads, too. They're integrating them into Windows. Microsoft sells everything that Google sells and more. If Microsoft could have grown Bing as big as Google by doing everything Google did that you distrust, they absolute
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by PostOnce 7y ago
You're happier broadcasting everything back to Microsoft? What's the difference?
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Everything is a hassle. Building permits, operating licenses, legal compliance, etc. All those things arguably exist for good reasons, but it's a huge hurdle to doing anything useful. I can't have a 20 foot radio tower in town, I
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by PostOnce 7y ago
You're complaining that a general purpose computer can be used for... general purposes. Computers should do what their users tell them to. I wouldn't appreciate a smartknife with a blade that only extended when something I was aut
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by PostOnce 7y ago
50 year copyright term extended to 70 years
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Win wars and wealth, lose wars and wealth.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
"Our system matches keywords to clipart" seems like a more accurate description, it's not really designing anything, is it? If I try to make a coffee shop logo, it won't design me a brand-new cup or bean graphic, as far

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