SnorkelTan

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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I did a Software Engineering bachelors instead of a C.S. degree. Looking back I wish I did a CS degree. Most of the business of software you can pick up on the job as you go. I wish I used the free time in college to pursue the more mathy a
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Looking at the table above and your linked article the numbers don't add up. My gas guzzler has an 18 gallon tank. Looking at the taxes we see: 1. CA State Tax - $9.72 2. Fed. Excise - $3.31 6. Local Taxes - ($2.00/gal * .037) - $
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Are the local road taxes that EV chargers pay equivalent to gas? I don't own an EV, so I don't know. If EV doesn't include the same taxes then it seems like the majority of the cost benefits of owning an EV amount to simply a
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Test cases can be a good place to start because they are usually clustered around business critical functionality. Or problematic legacy code that needs to work :)
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
One reason I could think of is that real humans only read a certain number of tweets per day. Showing ads to users that "read" large numbers is showing ads to robots which, sadly, do not convert very well.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I hear this refrain most often from non-technical people. My response is always that it's a waste of resources and unnecessary to listen to your conversations. Advertising companies can infer what you talk about with other people base
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
ID verification of submitter s similar to crypto/adult sites.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
My thought as well. A refundable processing fee for uncontested take downs would eliminate 90% of the problem.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Unlikely they download them. Video embeds ads not copyright infringement as far as I understand since they give the tube site permission to display their work and broadly show it wherever they want. Still got dmcas.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
the dmca takedown services are awful. They just do exact text match on titles of videos and submit dmca requests on behalf of the content owner. If you embed a video widget from the content owners official YouTube page on your blog for exam
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Responding to and complying with DMCA take downs and making efforts to ban repeat infringers probably. Also a large enough client that their head of sales/revenue would notice if they suddenly disappeared.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
There was a link posted a while ago on hn: https://stylometry.net/ Methods like stylometry make ip correlation largely unnecessary for finding alts.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Also, the revenue was there for some nice side income (~40k/mo), but not enough to support a company around it. I could have probably used services from an AI/ML startup doing this but it would have eaten into the margins.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I had a side project I worked on for 6 months several years ago to do something similar albeit slightly less shady. When I was working on it there was a business on their that was using it to do human transcription of retail store receipts.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I think Windows is a pretty good example of why just a set of software libraries can be a pretty formidable competitive edge.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Brian’s newsletter is one of the few I actually subscribe to. Thank you for these links. From the posts it actually looks like you’d probably pay more if they were botnet shenanigan’s.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know these were a thing. Have you done any research into them? It seems like with these sorts of ventures a lowly techie like myself doesn't have a lot of ways to validate if what they say in their marke
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
If you created your own accounts instead of buying them, you would know that this format is the username format reddit automatically suggests for you :). Also residential proxies are overkill unless you're doing crime. They also likely
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Why spend millions when you can just shut off their api access?
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Companies can fire people for insubordination. Just replace them with people willing to work from the office.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
China used to be known for cheap low-quality products. Building manufacturing capabilities from scratch seems like it would be incredibly difficult and take time. I'm sure those countries will get there. It just really depends on the p
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
It's more complicated than that. I'm not a finance insider, but I'd imagine the real damage from this lies in the derivatives market. Finance is to tightly interconnected these days. Something as bedrock the U.S. defaulting o
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
The less edgy, pithy, probably correct explanation is that the over-worked developer wasn't aware of the standard.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Do people actually replace the battery in cars once it dies and continue to use the car? Former Coworkers old Prius had the battery stolen out of it and insurance totaled the car. Wondering if the lifetime between ice and ev is valid.
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by SnorkelTan 4y ago
Not everybody on this forum went to Stanford/MIT/Harvard, has multiple offers to choose from, or is independently wealthy from selling their last startup. I think levels.fyi is pretty cool because they actually go and validate tha
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by SnorkelTan 4y ago
SQLite has write ahead logging as well https://sqlite.org/wal.html
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by SnorkelTan 5y ago
Also mentions the incredible journey they are on... Reminds me of https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/