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by davidcbc 8y ago
Just because someone says what they are doing is legal doesn't mean it is. IANAL so I don't know but the source files have Blizzard's copyright warning in them
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by davidcbc 8y ago
This seems legally questionable given that all of the source files have a copyright notice from Blizzard indicating distribution without written permission is prohibited.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
You looked up 1000+ people on LinkedIn?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
How do you know whether someone was African American based on their resume?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Obtaining your list of friends is not the factor that makes switching social networks unattractive, it is the friends themselves. The list doesn't help if your friends aren't on the other network. HN loves to come up with technica
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by davidcbc 8y ago
> You should not be blamed for assuming, when talking to Google, that the O(n!) or O(n^2) solution is not even worth talking about. If the naive solution is O(n!) then describing an O(n^2) solution is perfectly acceptable.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
If I could do everything I wanted to do by talking to a bot I'd love it. Imagine being able to cancel Comcast just by talking to their bot, that sounds fantastic to me.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Why do you get to choose how I communicate?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
How does that differ from a human having the same conversation? If I call a restaurant and say "Can I have a reservation for 6 at 8:00" and they write down a reservation for 8 at 6:00 without repeating it back I won't know un
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Sure it would. People using Twitter still need to change their password even if it is the only place they use their password.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
This only works if you automate every possible code path. If you're logging passwords during some obscure error in the login flow then an automated login very likely won't catch it.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Is there any evidence that Google has a shadow profile for people? I know that it was revealed that Facebook did/does and everyone assumed that Google probably does too but I don't think I've ever seen evidence that this is t
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Your original post comes across as “I’m super cool and popular so I don’t need Facebook. Everyone should just be like me.”
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by davidcbc 8y ago
>Of course the makers claim this is so you can watch from anywhere, but a lot of those old "dumb"(?) IP cameras could be configured to upload video to a remote server if you wanted, and one under your control. The average consu
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Having completed the Duolingo Spanish tree a couple of times, I found that it gave me enough of the basics to work my way through books and follow some basic plot of TV shows with closed captioning. It hasn't done a whole lot for my li
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Typical Business Insider
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by davidcbc 9y ago
What protections are in place to prevent an internal takeover of the organization by a political party? Let's say the Roger Ailes of Germany finds his way to the top of German public media and uses that position to tilt coverage to be
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by davidcbc 9y ago
CNN isn't great journalism, but it isn't the only source of information. The problems with Fox News and Sinclair aren't based on advertising, they are based on ownership. State sponsored media isn't going to be any bette
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by davidcbc 9y ago
You don't see the potential problem if the only media that is able to exist is that which is state sponsored? You may be happy with the state sponsored options now, but will that always be the case? Would you feel the same if you livin
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> Would you attribute the recent Toys R Us bankruptcy to individual owners? I wouldn't attribute it to the owners of individual stores, but the CEO? Absolutely > Or if your favorite startup goes under and has to declare bankruptc
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by davidcbc 9y ago
The GP was talking about not understanding what all the fuss is about with kids these days and their phones and social media and I'm the one being dismissive? Your comment makes more sense under the GP, not me.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
So your solution is to have people work a second for free with the hope that maybe they'll get a job after a while?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Why does the average Facebook user care?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Facebook's killer feature is the people, not anything else. Everything else is worthless without people and nobody is going to unseat Facebook with some technological solution unless they can convince people to use it and make it dead
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Those kids these days with their new fangled gadgets and social media. In my day we walked two miles uphill each way to share pictures of cats with our friends.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
That page is about crosswalks. The person who was hit was not in a crosswalk.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Scam artists aren't a protected class
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by davidcbc 9y ago
The video specifically mentions that they are fully electric. It isn't a gasoline powered aircraft.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I'm over 30 an have gotten offers from 2 big companies in SV in the past year
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I just don't see the behavior the op is describing. I tried searching for the last 5 or 6 books I've read, in every single case the results that came up were Amazon and Wikipedia, but also Goodreads, the authors website, at least

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