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by benregenspan 2y ago
AI crawlers have changed the picture significantly and in my opinion are a much bigger threat to the open web than Cloudflare. The training arms race has drastically increased bot traffic, and the value proposition behind that bot traffic h
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by benregenspan 2y ago
Would expect to see research focused on compounds that increase Reelin expression too, in addition to direct supplementation. A mouse study a couple years later showing nicotine increasing Reelin expression: https://pubmed.ncbi.n
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by benregenspan 2y ago
I would agree with you if minification delivered marginal gains, but it will generally roughly halve the size of a large bundle or major JS library (compared to just gzip'ing it alone), and this is leaving aside further benefits you ca
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by benregenspan 2y ago
Very nice write-up, I like that you covered all the steps including initial research that led you to the target *.googleapps.com site.
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by benregenspan 3y ago
Domestic violence is higher where poverty rates are higher. (I am not saying that poverty is the sole determinant, but it closely correlates). You will find pockets of higher domestic violence throughout the US. I don't think you can r
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by benregenspan 3y ago
The most interesting part of this (the bypass itself) involves executing a Javascript challenge. It's very convenient to do that from Javascript (the author mentions that Python implementations need to add a Javascript interpreter). Be
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by benregenspan 6y ago
As long as the stove isn't a gas stove, since that's probably another one we can add to the list of things that we'll likely look back on with regret :)
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by benregenspan 6y ago
The "3 kinds of ice cream in Poland" example runs counter to your argument, because it's actually a case where consumers benefit from choice. Consumers do not generally have choice of who tows them, and the OP article hints a
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by benregenspan 7y ago
> Zuck has his net worth tied to FB. Corporations are no angel, but they are accountable, and as such they are more trustworthy. There is no scenario where Zuckerberg's net worth is reduced to an amount that one person is capable of
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by benregenspan 8y ago
And indeed, the full survey results (linked on the bottom of https://harrisx.com/2019/02/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-supp... ) show that once they were asked about subsidies, most respondents (and 74% of those with
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by benregenspan 8y ago
It's not freebooting, it's more akin to hotlinking. Which is arguably worse - they're using the author's IP and hosting infrastructure without offering sufficient credit or so much as a heads-up. This could quickly mak
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by benregenspan 9y ago
Because it is hard to know the implementation details of every search engine and what reasons different markup could result in a subtle difference in ranking, I think the best way of answering this question is looking at the markup differen
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by benregenspan 9y ago
It's 200KB minified, 60KB gzipped, so not quite that bad but still quite large. It definitely does more than you'd expect from the documentation on a page like https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins&#x2F
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by benregenspan 10y ago
Gizmodo Media Group | New York, NY | Full-time | Senior Frontend Developer I'm a frontend developer/engineering director at GMG, where we're looking for a strong frontend engineer to help build new features to support a high-
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by benregenspan 10y ago
Fred Hiatt has run the Washington Post editorial page since 2000 and this editorial is entirely consistent with his past work. He's always pushed neoconservative positions and taken the word of sources like the House intelligence commi
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by benregenspan 12y ago
(That said, they should definitely use POST here!)
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by benregenspan 12y ago
Exactly -- where does something that is designed for "state transfer" get you when the goal is to only temporarily modify a state/send a command that modifies internal state for X amount of time, not really "transfer&quo
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by benregenspan 12y ago
AirBnB went to a lot of trouble to make their Backbone app render on both the client and server-side, without need for building different views for each: http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-open-sourced-rendr-run-your-bac... . Thi
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by benregenspan 13y ago
I'm tired of your elephantsplaining.
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by benregenspan 13y ago
RebelMouse - New York, NY (REMOTE OK) - Senior Front End Developer http://blog.rebelmouse.com/talented_javascript_developer-245... . • developer@rebelmouse.com RebelMouse is a social CMS that allows for easily creating beaut
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by benregenspan 13y ago
RebelMouse - New York, NY (REMOTE OK) - Senior Front End Developer http://blog.rebelmouse.com/talented_javascript_developer-245... • developer@rebelmouse.com RebelMouse is a social CMS that allows for easily creating beauti
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by benregenspan 13y ago
The whitepaper proposes to handle this by having nodes join separate clusters once their databases reach a certain size.
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by benregenspan 13y ago
According to the New Yorker piece on Lavabit yesterday ( http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l... ), the owner was willing to add code tailored to tracing only Snowden's (o
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by benregenspan 13y ago
While the security granted by this may be imperfect, "no real security" seems like a bit of a stretch. This eliminates the main pathways by which governments obtain access to email (subpoena of the service provider and straightfo
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by benregenspan 13y ago
It can be made a decent amount more difficult with some simple changes like obfuscating the source and also encapsulating all the object definitions and state in a closure, instead of putting it all in global variables. Of course I think th
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by benregenspan 13y ago
"Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (MSFT) and other software or Internet security companies have been aware that this type of early alert allowed the U.S. to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments, according
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by benregenspan 13y ago
I don't see what's wrong with speculating about this. It seems to be a completely valid concern given the recent news that Microsoft has, in the past, shared 0-days with the NSA. It is not an outlandish conspiracy theory to think
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by benregenspan 13y ago
(But to compromise many users, there might not be a need for a complicated, expensive large-scale attack -- if you can infect someone with malware, it renders whether or not they are using Tor moot).
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by benregenspan 13y ago
Tor is open-source and its developers and supporters include the EFF, Jacob Appelbaum, and others who (if you can trust anyone at all) would not cooperate with government surveillance. But again, it's open-source and lots of security e
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by benregenspan 13y ago
And indeed, that's why they've hired at least one behavioral psychologist. ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1940668,00.... )

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