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by costco 3y ago
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/201905210181 says a guy named Thomas Mather was a director. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/board_decisions... is some government appl
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by costco 3y ago
There's not really any benefit, I was just surprised that after deleting most of the lines it still worked.
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by costco 3y ago
A little surprised that there's no mention of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has been doing basically what the people described in the article have been doing for a much longer time and on a larger scale: funding smart peop
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by costco 3y ago
Friendly reminder that grub-mkconfig generates unnecessarily complicated grub.cfg files and that they can be as simple as this (which allows me to boot custom kernel, default kernel with initrd, and Windows): default=0 timeout=3
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by costco 3y ago
Yes, as far as I can tell terms of service violations resulting from things like scraping/using unofficial APIs are not CFAA violations and certainly not criminal unless you are not supposed to have access to the data in the first plac
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by costco 3y ago
"Startup"? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what your plan is but you should know that you are legally not allowed to take money from these people. Every major cartel and their leaders are designated under the Kingpin Act or as T
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by costco 3y ago
If you want to meet policy people just go to think tank events about anything related to this issue. Researchers at places like the United States Institute of Peace or journalists may actually know low-mid ranking members, but they are pro
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by costco 3y ago
Those domains are all registered through MarkMonitor (which stubhub.com also uses) which has a 5 figure annual minimum spend so it is almost certainly StubHub. I'm not sure why they would try to hide that they are buying tickets thoug
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by costco 3y ago
I think this exists: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise... but it is rumored to be absurdly expensive. Unless prices come down to at least the same order of magnitude as scraping I
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by costco 3y ago
Warning: long somewhat related story that is basically humblebragging, but the summary is that bypassing Twitter ratelimits is not very hard. I didn't feel like playing around with Twitter's annoying certificate pinning so I just
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by costco 3y ago
There's definitely some overlap in the backends because https://www.threads.net/t/C is the first Instagram post but on Threads with the exact same amount of likes it has on Instagram yet https://www.thr
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by costco 3y ago
To add some that haven't already been listed here: - The Billion Dollar Molecule: story of Vertex pharmaceuticals and their new approach to drug design - The Double Helix: story of the discovery of the structure of DNA by one of the pr
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by costco 3y ago
Serpapi.com has been around for several years now, in fact if you pay extra they agree to indemnify you against lawsuits by Google regarding scraping (as far as I can tell none have happened yet).
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by costco 3y ago
I use https://www.pingproxies.com/isp which is like $3/IP/month and unlimited bandwidth (I assume if you used a ridiculous amount they might charge you). Luminati pricing is extortionate. I have no idea how anyo
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by costco 3y ago
But then you have to contend with this: https://github.com/bogdanfinn/tls-client ... Just used this to bypass a Cloudflare check! I've never scraped Twitter but Elon said there was a large scraping operation from
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by costco 3y ago
This is just the latest variation of the forex and binary options scams which have been around for more than a decade now: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_fraud and https://en.wikipedia.or
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Seeing the world from the hills: A study of the United Wa State Army(frontiermyanmar.net)
2 points by costco 3y ago|0 comments
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by costco 3y ago
Don't states already sell this info to private investigators? I guess this breach would include social security numbers but half the country as already had theirs leaked anyways. https://www.vice.com/en/article&#x
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by costco 3y ago
Maybe another factor is that (almost) no one is optimizing to be at the top of the Bing results.
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by costco 3y ago
There is a reason the typical company on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t... is half as old as the typical company on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Europ
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by costco 3y ago
The Founders at Work book interview with Bricklin was pretty cool too. Lots of interesting stories and details on their development problems and design choices. > I had it make a sound every time it recalculated a cell, but it turned ou
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by costco 3y ago
I think Strauss argued that there is hidden meaning in many of the philosophy classics. But a lot of people think his theory is bullshit.
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by costco 3y ago
Don't you just visit https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and press "create application"? I did this a few years ago and it was instant.
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by costco 3y ago
"Going dark" is a scam - https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... for instance found that there was no difference in conviction rate for cases involving E2EE encryption vs those that di
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by costco 3y ago
See https://buyaccs.com/
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by costco 3y ago
smspva.com does exactly this. Phone verification (assuming you enforce non-VOIP and block certain countries) raises account creation costs by a decent amount, email verification not so much. The sad reality these days is that a T-Mobile p
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SEC drops 42 enforcement cases after employees accessed restricted records(wsj.com)
3 points by costco 3y ago|0 comments
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by costco 3y ago
What pricing changes? As far as I can tell they've all been coming down for the past few months. Currently the cost is pennies per day with gpt3.5-turbo. Though I probably would be using one of the locally runnable models if I didn&
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by costco 3y ago
That's true. I guess I'll just abandon that account. But it doesn't respond to comment replies anyways so those responses to it are pointless.
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by costco 3y ago
I did a whois on the IPs I was given and found they were owned by one ISP and were all in a similar range so there's that. A lot of ISPs (especially T-Mobile) lease IP space out like this too: https://rasbora.dev/blog&

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