danbower

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by danbower 8y ago
https://www.wits.io/writer says 85% but https://www.wits.io/contribute still says 50%.
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by danbower 9y ago
Well the situation does seem quite bad when you see people who leave fake reviews become brazen enough to actually advertise their services on Amazon itself [1]. I reported this review about 10 days ago and it's still up. The email add
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by danbower 10y ago
419 eater is a site dedicated to exactly that. The general idea is to act totally clueless about everything. They want a scan of your passport? Request instructions on how to use a scanner and do everything wrong. Some people take this a lo
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by danbower 10y ago
I managed to register a Yahoo account when I was a child with the password of 'poo'. Login still works although unsurprisingly I do get a notification of suspicious activity on the account.
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by danbower 11y ago
I didn't downvote you but I'll give my thoughts. Firstly there's been quite a few articles posted to HN that aren't even technology related, let alone being of proper substance, yet are still of interest to HN readers. F
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by danbower 11y ago
> Very weird, not sure if a bot puts these together or if there's human involvement. It'd be easy enough to source a list of company names and owners of the companies then generate possible domains and possible email addresses
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by danbower 11y ago
Whilst on the bus earlier this week I was waiting for it to depart when I heard a loud thud on the roof. Shortly afterwards I heard another thud. It turned out that a crow had a large seed in its mouth, seemed to be a plum seed, and was div
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by danbower 11y ago
It's the IP address of a proxy server owned by Ooredoo. Their telecoms group had a monopoly in Qatar until 2006 so a lot of traffic has gone through it. I'm not sure why this IP is prominent enough for its own page though. There w
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by danbower 11y ago
There's overshooting and there's asking over an order of magnitude the going rate. That suggests a lack of moral fibre to me.