benp84

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by benp84 13y ago
I don't expect there to be much debate about conditions like "they gave you their email address on your website and your email has an unsubscribe link." It obviously wouldn't be a perfect system, but neither is any reput
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Ask HN: Is there a blacklist of careless spam-reporters?
2 points by benp84 13y ago|3 comments
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by benp84 13y ago
Hack the gas station by driving off!
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by benp84 13y ago
Great idea. I'm not sure about the pricing though. I'd expect anyone who reaches 1000 submissions per month to probably make the effort to get their own form handler. I'd make it 100/month or maybe 1000 submissions total
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by benp84 13y ago
This is a great idea. You should build it!
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by benp84 13y ago
I await the day when a single article is published with a proper unit of power or energy. If it's not a 54 kW battery it's a windmill that generates 3 MW per year.
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by benp84 13y ago
Keep in mind that users are logging on and off all the time, so it has to be an online algorithm.
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by benp84 13y ago
I can't think of any other way off hand. I'm assuming you don't like cells because of edge cases where two people could be near each other but in different cells? If the cells were carefully selected it might not be too big o
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by benp84 13y ago
Congrats on the success! I'm curious: the condition of <1 mile proximity isn't transitive, so wouldn't users be seeing only one half of a lot of conversations? Like if A was close to B, B was close to C, but A wasn't
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by benp84 13y ago
I got a job offer from Google that started from them finding my LinkedIn profile. That said, I despise them more than any other major website. Their entire business model is holding the information for ransom that you provide them to make a
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Why So Many Women Think They’re ‘Bad With Technology’(fairgroundmedia.com)
3 points by benp84 13y ago|0 comments