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by calibas 6y ago
Wow, nobody's scolded you yet for breaking site guidelines. I'm amazed the subject of vote manipulation is so taboo on this site, especially when half the people here know how easy it is to do, given the proper resources.
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by calibas 6y ago
These isn't something vague, we're talking about a specific authoritarian government who's already been caught manipulating social media. https://about.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china&#x2
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by calibas 6y ago
As if advertisers don't have enough influence over media already...
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by calibas 6y ago
Seeing the same results on my end for that query. I'm a little puzzled, when I use the same query but with != instead of = to produce a 1.6 trillion row result, it's about 3-4ms execution. I don't know why it's taking 10
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by calibas 6y ago
I abused LEFT JOIN to create a query that produces 224,964,999,650,251 rows. Only 3.68ms execution time, now that's impressive!
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by calibas 6y ago
There's a whole subculture of the internet obsessed with "gang stalking" and they're usually dismissed as just being paranoid. I wonder if at least a small number of cases are actually occurring, and we should be taking
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by calibas 6y ago
I understand the need for Cloudflare in this case, I just didn't realize it was being used at first and got rather excited about the prospects of self-hosting. I don't mean to insult, I just got a false impression and wanted to ma
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by calibas 6y ago
I was impressed by the performance, especially with ExpressJS, and started digging deeper until I noticed "cf-cache-status: HIT". What I'm seeing is not really a "self-hosted website", but a Cloudflare-hosted cache
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by calibas 6y ago
Google invents new metric, web shifts to accommodate new Google metric, people learn how to abuse metric, Google invents new metric...
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by calibas 6y ago
I'm not convinced all the recent research on "conspiracy theorists" is objective science. It seems politically motivated to me. What bugs me the most is that authoritarians will use this as "scientific proof" that p
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by calibas 6y ago
What are you talking about? This thread already had multiple comments about how fast it disappeared, I just responded to one of them. I like HN, and I'd believe abusing the flag system is hurting the site. I see people talking about th
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by calibas 6y ago
Too bad this post has already been removed from the front page of HN. It barely survived 30 minutes.
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by calibas 6y ago
I already have. So far it's been ignored entirely. You can talk about manipulation of any other social network here, but suggesting HN is being manipulated is oddly taboo.
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by calibas 6y ago
Which makes talking about manipulation of HN on HN very difficult.
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by calibas 6y ago
I've noticed that if you even try to talk about the manipulation of HN, things like abusing flags to get posts buried, the comments get downvoted. Certain posts disappear very quickly, and there's almost always a clear political r
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by calibas 6y ago
When people don't use extra namespaces and everything is consistent, Atom 1.0 works great. And I understand why namespaces exist, but they create this system where each site speaks its own language and that fundamentally undermines the
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by calibas 6y ago
Where's the source of "excess mortality is way up"? I didn't see it in the article, though it does suggest there may be fewer heart attacks and strokes because of "a decrease in air pollution and fewer high-fat rest
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by calibas 6y ago
In those few days it began spreading internationally, I'm not sure I'd call that "lucky". In the WHO's defense, China was actively trying to cover up the outbreak. People were starting to panic because more people w
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by calibas 6y ago
Was the fact that it kept spreading not strong evidence of human to human transmission? It seems they just went with the Chinese government instead of asking why people kept getting infected.
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by calibas 7y ago
A former Verizon lawyer received unanimous Senate support for an FCC position back when Obama was president. That's what set this all up, I blame both parties for exactly what they did. You can't put industry insiders into top reg
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by calibas 7y ago
Big businesses learned long ago that if you back both sides you always win.
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by calibas 7y ago
What bugs me the most is that the government either doesn't really want to know who's interfering with the democratic process or they know and they're not telling us. The former implies extreme ignorance, the later implies ag
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by calibas 7y ago
Apologies, I should have explained it differently. 0.999... implies a number infinitesimally smaller than 1. You wouldn't use 0.999... in a hyperreal system because you can represent it directly. I shouldn't have mixed different s
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by calibas 7y ago
And this is why I prefer hyperreals. 0.999... = 1 - 1/∞ We talk about infinity all the time in mathematics, teachers use the concept to introduce calculus in a way that people can more easily understand, but using infinity directly is
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by calibas 7y ago
What I don't like about the GDPR is how it handled cookies. We could have much tighter control and explicit consent at the browser level, which makes sense because it's a browser feature. Instead of something useful like that, we
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by calibas 7y ago
This story seems to be dropping off the front page a little faster than it should "naturally".
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by calibas 7y ago
Works great in Chrome, but many of them aren't smooth in Firefox. It doesn't seem to like diagonal lines, the display is inconsistent. I'm guessing it's a bug in Firefox with sub-pixel rounding.
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by calibas 7y ago
>As a photographer, the comparison to "raw" results without color balance or noise removal seems somewhat deceptive. Huh? At 1:40 in the video that's exactly what they do.
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by calibas 7y ago
I maintain sites with thousands of CSS rules and over a dozen style sheets, some of which are hosted on external domains that I have no control over. Having to manage CSS rules based upon order would be a nightmare. It does seem that specif
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by calibas 7y ago
Not surprising, seeing as how Disney just took over National Geographic...

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