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by daenz 4y ago
The cat and mouse game of bots vs captchas has been going on for a long time and has become increasingly sophisticated. "Just use a captcha image" is a 10 year old solution, if not more.
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by daenz 4y ago
How is he expected to know whether Twitter knows if their bot% number is accurate? You're suggesting he should know more than Twitter does about their internal data. And it's the internal data that is being disputed.
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by daenz 4y ago
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams
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by daenz 4y ago
That image gave me flashbacks of gnarly shader debugging I did once. IIRC, I was dividing by zero in some very rare branch of a fragment shader, and it caused those black tiles to flicker in and out of existence. Excruciatingly painful to d
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by daenz 4y ago
The GP post wasn't describing a method for stopping fake accounts, they were describing how to sample what percentage of accounts are fake.
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by daenz 4y ago
People also said Trump didn't really want to be president, so it wasn't going to happen. Don't underestimate what people say they're going to do. It's usually better to take them at their word unless you have eviden
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by daenz 4y ago
There's a number of comments here poking fun at the "conspiracy theory" aspect of this. Do people really believe it is a "crazy idea" that ultra rich amoral people would fund research into controversial life and hea
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by daenz 4y ago
The show Silicon Valley had a small story arc that involved this kind of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo
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by daenz 4y ago
Nobody is forced to climb Mount Everest, and doing so can be deadly. But do you blame the mountain for being "too attractive of an achievement" when someone dies trying to reach the summit? Know your limits and set your boundaries
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by daenz 4y ago
>But those who have received the meme tend to understand "republic" as having a far more specific definition (centering on Birch Society political philosophy) This is not how I used the word, so please don't speak for me.
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by daenz 4y ago
>51% winning just means you get the fewest number of losers That's the wrong thing to optimize for.
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm not sure how this is relevant to my point, please explain.
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm using "republic" here to point out that a district is acting like an elected representative.
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by daenz 4y ago
>Congratulations, you've now created a totalitarian one-party dictatorship! The blues hold 60% of every district, so they win every district, so 100% of the national legislature is in the control of the blues, even though they only
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by daenz 4y ago
Don't be too hard on yourself. As long as you learn from it and use it for the next encounters, it is a net gain. What happened with your startup btw?
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by daenz 4y ago
Should have just walked out. If you take the role of someone who will be humiliated like that, then you will be treated that way. You made the most of it by using it as practice, but you also painted yourselves as people who were desperate
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by daenz 4y ago
>Hehe, that's such a macho way of thinking. I have a little tingling sensation that we could use more women in positions of power in tech. If you look up the origin of the phrase "shit test", you will find a lot of irony i
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by daenz 4y ago
If a project is too stressful, why didn't she say "no, this is too stressful, let me work on something else." To me, it reads like they went along with the stress, knowing it was going to be stressful, and acknowledging that
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by daenz 4y ago
>If you’re building a product that billions of people will be stuck with, however, this can lead to a little stress. The history of the web is littered with bad APIs, ill-considered specs, and tangled piles of security vulnerabilities. S
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by daenz 4y ago
Sounds like a "shit test", as in "how much shit will these people take." It's a blunt way to understand if someone will be pushed around. I don't know if this was his purpose, but you don't want to invest
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by daenz 4y ago
Specifically, it says "unsecured creditors" who get paid after debts to secured creditors. The "credit" is the contents of their wallets.
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by daenz 4y ago
This isn't about an individual declaring bankruptcy. It's about Coinbase declaring bankruptcy, and users' wallets being used to pay Coinbase's debts. That's why people are upset.
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by daenz 4y ago
Page 83[0] 0. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001679788/89c60d8...
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by daenz 4y ago
Interesting that this and all other Coinbase articles are dropping off of the front page. Why would anyone flag these?
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Ask HN: Predictions on Crypto?
4 points by daenz 4y ago|8 comments
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by daenz 4y ago
Did Coinbase seize users wallets?
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by daenz 4y ago
So it refers to enough cash/credit to weather a storm?
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by daenz 4y ago
What does "how well capitalized your company" mean?
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by daenz 4y ago
It cannot be tolerated because people are willing to commit and support acts of violence against those that use repugnant free speech. Whether it can be tolerated is orthogonal to whether or not it should be tolerated. I am merely commentin
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by daenz 4y ago
I think I miscommunicated my point. I agree with you, I am merely providing my perspective as to why they no longer hold those principles: because it "cannot be tolerated" in the modern era. We're still in an era of "pun

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