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cycrutchfield
13y ago
>that's what Google does, is harvest and aggregate your personal data in order to sell it to advertisers and the NSA I can't hear you over the crinkling of your massive tinfoil hat
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
No, of course it's not wrong. You can argue until you are blue in the face. Go right ahead...
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
If those are your terms, it's up to the customer to decide whether they would accept those terms in exchange for the water. I don't see the problem
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
What are you going on about? I don't think you have the slightest idea about how Google's ranking algorithm, or for that matter any ranking algorithm, actually works.
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
"it's impossible to compete in the organic rankings against them." Isn't that precisely what rapgenius had done (affiliate linkscam notwithstanding)? They were already the top result for many lyrics queries, they just g
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13y ago
>When I google "rapgenius eminem" they don't appear in the results. That's pretty close to censorship. You can also go to rapgenius.com and search for eminem yourself. Or navigate a few pages in the search results un
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13y ago
Adwords spend is completely unrelated to search ranking.
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
Yes, but those sites have more sense than to trumpet their affiliate link scams on Twitter
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cycrutchfield
13y ago
"This is the equivalent of censorship." How is penalizing them for engaging in shady SEO tactics considered censorship?
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13y ago
If you think that liability issues pose a significant barrier to entry for self-driving cars getting to market, just wait until you consider robotically automated surgeries.
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13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Applicat...
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13y ago
Why should 1/0 be +Infinity? Think of 1/x at the limit as x->0 from the left and from the right
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13y ago
Not even at all close in terms of strategy and tactics.
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14y ago
If this was an exam for a freshman/sophomore course, I might believe it since lower-div classes at Berkeley have an exceptionally wide audience with non-uniform levels of prior mathematical experience. However, if this was an upper-div cou
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14y ago
There are a couple of steps that a carrier couple could take in that situation: * IVF-PGD (like the couple in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnos... * Use a donor egg or sperm * Adoption * For certai
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14y ago
They are using EC2
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cycrutchfield
14y ago
For Computer Science: A-tier: MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, CMU (in no particular order)
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cycrutchfield
14y ago
Rudin's Analysis book is very good, so is Lang's Algebra. In college I found I learned much more from the textbook than from lectures
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14y ago
iPod came out in 2001
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14y ago
Seriously? Installer link is on the homepage: https://gridspot.com/
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cycrutchfield
14y ago
This is incredible and the pricing could be a game-changer for distributed compute