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by dorgo 7y ago
>That group of thought has not yet managed to prove to anyone that if you catch it now, you'll be immune to a mutated strain. Isn't our current approach of social distancing also vulnerable to mutated strains? Except, of course
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by dorgo 7y ago
I think tragedy of the commons will prevent this. Why should I hold back if I know that others won't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by dorgo 7y ago
I did just that. I couldn't concentrate on work in a big office. I'm canceling meetings (or changing them to video conferences). I think I can get away with it for a week or two. And in two weeks I expect my employer to order home
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by dorgo 7y ago
What is the difference to answering 10 to 20 "Allow/Deny?" question on each website? The website just won't work until you figure out which 3 of the 15 requests are needed to render the website properly. Most of these do
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by dorgo 7y ago
Idea for an addon: delete popups, delete overlays, fix scrolling ( which is often broken after deleting popups ). Is it possible to earn money with addons?
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> but until we have a good story for fuel and waste processing then this is a nonstarter. Waste processing in space? Just give it a slight push in the direction of the sun (or whatever the right direction is taking in consideration gravi
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by dorgo 7y ago
site:github.com | site:stackoverflow.com keyword
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by dorgo 7y ago
On the other hand noobs are more likely to score by pure luck. In poker there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_beat
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by dorgo 7y ago
> you can't just make more land. Sure you can. Other planets, moons, habitats... It's just expensive. And the prices are not nearly high enough to justify the investments.
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by dorgo 7y ago
> And how often can you repeat this The sky is the limit. Or is it? When prices rise high enough everything gets possible.
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The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.
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by dorgo 7y ago
What about a company which grows every year but never pays dividends and can't be sold for more than $0? Would you want to buy it for $1? ( I prefer to use $1 because $0 has the problem of indifference ) Even if this company owns the w
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by dorgo 7y ago
Wouldn't a user script be enough? Just hack all the APIs javascript has access to to return random or default values before the first website script is executed.
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If I disable Javascript (or don't enable it) I see everywhere 'NA' (except for HTTP headers) and no similarity rates are shown. Are you sure your Javascript is disabled?
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We are living in the best of all possible worlds. Without shitheads we would be vulnerable and wouldn't even know it.
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To stop computationally intensive or security related or otherwise sensitive operations when charge level is low? Save the state / synchronize more often when charge level is low to prevent data loss?
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by dorgo 7y ago
> I wonder why Google shows a Q A placeholder used if the algorithm thinks the favicon is not appropriate for some reason.
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by dorgo 7y ago
afaik even the driver may drink. But he is not allowed to be drunk (measured by some test).
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by dorgo 7y ago
Assuming the universe is infinite in some sense. Otherwise the exponential growth has to stop at some point. So base your cryptography around computational power beyond physical limits and you are safe.
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by dorgo 7y ago
I guess you get (infinite?) many results which all have the same hash and one (or more) of them will be shorter than the hash.
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by dorgo 7y ago
Assumption: cost + savings = income 3 * income - 3 * cost = 3 * ( cost + savings ) - 3 * cost = 3 savings Is my assumption wrong? Otherwise it's 3x and not 5x.
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by dorgo 7y ago
> if people frequenting a tech forum are not aware of the privacy benefits that Firefox has been pushing for a long time now Maybe it's because this is a tech forum. I take care of cookies and third party (and even first party) reso
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by dorgo 7y ago
>They make cross-site requests all over the place (to weird servers like "some-huge-name-that-obscures-the-host-name.atl-pass.net", and even some third party servers!), tons of Javascript and css for basic features, etc If you
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by dorgo 7y ago
> the original sin of online advertising: measuring an ad's success through the number of clicks it gets The measure is often the number (or even the value) of conversions an ad gets. I think it is a good measure for everybody. I wo
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by dorgo 7y ago
> I was interested in whether a HNer had a creative workaround There is still fingerprinting. If you take that away also then it gets trickier and fuzzier. But hey, if I can recognize you by the way how you walk then it should be even ea
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by dorgo 7y ago
> It used to be that Flash-based cookies were pretty solid, but now there’s no more flash... But there is so much more available today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
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by dorgo 7y ago
So you would agree if I store a cookie with a (randomly generated) ID in your browser to remember what you liked, what you bought, how you interacted with my website etc.? Also, I can sell this data to third parties and show personalized ad
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> You are not allowed to make personal discounts for each customer for example It is surprising. Couldn't find anything about it in a quick search. It would also make flea markets illegal, wouldn't it? I think that some forms o
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Why is price discrimination bad? It is about charging the highest price the customer is still ok with. Sure, if a merchant knows how badly you want his product he can increase the price. But, on the other hand, he will decrease the price fo
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by dorgo 7y ago
Google uses 1000000 as multiplier in their APIs. Edit: And they forbid equality comparisons for rationals. For some reason even >= is not allowed.

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