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by air7 7y ago
In recent years we, conscious consumers, shot down several viable business models that could have replaced ads such as data collection for trend analysis and crypto mining in the browser. They were met with outright hostility. Perhaps justi
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by air7 7y ago
> Where my personality was called into question perhaps my working-class background, my northern accent, and my Asperger's could be a reasonable explanation. It's quite likely that ones background and developmental disorders s
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by air7 7y ago
That's a very powerful point. Every treatment (nay every thing ) is a one-way door: You do something, and there's no going back. With general medicine you can at least infer some knowledge based on other people's reaction to
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by air7 7y ago
Good question. I'd also assume that re-identification chances would always be of the form 100/k (k being the integer number of people who fit the bill)
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by air7 7y ago
This is an annoyingly contrived headline and article. First of all, the "World Wars" were centered around a European /Asian conflict. In both cases America entered the wars several years after they had started, and fought awa
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by air7 7y ago
Interesting to compare this to religious morals: "Thou shall not steal" has nothing to do with the the victim, only the actor. In secular morality, things are more nuanced and the wealth/likeness/actions of the victim he
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Sparkpost breaks promise to grandfather free accounts, deletes own blog posts(reddit.com)
6 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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by air7 7y ago
Context: In 2017 Mailchimp decided to let go of its transnational email service, Mandrill. They made an agreement with Sparkpost in which Sparkpost would "take on any departing Mandrill users and to honor Mandrill’s pricing for those u
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Sparkpost breaks promise to grandfather free accounts, deletes own blog posts(twitter.com)
2 points by air7 7y ago|2 comments
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by air7 7y ago
This is also a good argument for obesity. After all, a pound gained is a pound sequestered. [/s]
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by air7 7y ago
I'd say that regardless of the effectiveness of recycling you shouldn't be doing it. The (arguable) utility of your recycling vs. its cost to you is obviously very negative. And not just on purely selfish level: I don't k
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by air7 7y ago
Rationally, there is no difference what-so-ever between your ability to assess how another human feels pain, and how the robot feels pain (or any other "life" form in between). In all cases, you can only observe behavioral respons
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by air7 7y ago
An interesting ethical question is who in the supply chain is responsible for the chum content, and how much. Lets assume an ad is an out-right scam of some sort. The advertiser is obviously guilty, but is the ad aggregate to blame (outbrai
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by air7 7y ago
How are they different from Adsense?
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by air7 7y ago
Anything you put online can potentially leak. This is common knowledge for us tech oriented people but with time (and stories such as these) it is (hopefully) becoming more and more general knowledge. Personally I'm ok with it: If I us
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by air7 7y ago
How do these pirates make money? It seems like so much work is/has gone into their operations that it can't just be for karma points. Edit: I'm referring to the content ripping groups. Apart from the technical and legal chall
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by air7 7y ago
The original business model for software is selling compiled binaries. This is a self-hosted PHP script with no server side functionality. It's similar to a product shipping with it's source code.
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by air7 7y ago
This is an interesting business model: Sell code for a one time fee. I'm guessing the code has no DRM or phone-home code. I'd be afraid that the code would just be posted somewhere and I'd lose a big chunk of revenue.
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by air7 7y ago
Me too. What a humbling slap-in-the-face, no? Sometimes when an idea sounds silly, and comes from a less technical person, one might disregard it even though it's easily testable/provable.
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by air7 7y ago
Anarchy vs. BDFL
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by air7 7y ago
> my full-time job is in the speedrunning community Could you elaborate? This whole world is new to me.
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by air7 7y ago
If your site goes down, all the links go broken. To use a clone I'd need to manually copy a part of a dead link and append it on the clone url. The links are actually just data stores in need of a renderer. Why not use an html file ins
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by air7 7y ago
That's what I thought he would aim for. This is actually safe from being taken down whereas op's solution needs op's website to decode the url.
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by air7 7y ago
That's in interesting point. It's not so much that the sense of fair play is lost, but that it changes. Somehow, we lose track of the human factor when we don't see it and focus solely on "logic" or our own self int
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by air7 7y ago
Firefox extensions are nowadays (since Quantum) web-extensions and are almost identical to chrome's so porting should be quite simple.
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by air7 7y ago
If the code was 20-40-60 and the "enlisted help of experts" failed to crack it, then said experts are not really up to scratch.
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by air7 7y ago
This is a good question, and the "answer" avoid it by essentially saying "it can't be zero." Why does boot time take ~10 seconds? CPUs run in GHz, meaning 10^9 operations per second. That means that booting takes ar
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by air7 7y ago
> The landfill was opened in 1948 as a temporary landfill but by 1955 it became the largest landfill in the world Indeed.
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Your comment made me smirk, but on second thought, it actually does!
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I really love reading threads like that (or dropbox launch etc). It's really humbling.

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