dorgo

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by dorgo 7y ago
And how does the timing change things? You want to look at first comments/posts to determine whether it was spam or not?
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by dorgo 7y ago
What about the wikipedia solution for this: rel="nofollow" ?
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by dorgo 7y ago
The few times I couldn't avoid Recaptcha, I spent 5 minutes randomly clicking on image tiles. Sometimes I got through by this strategy. If it didn't work, I tried a less random approach.
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by dorgo 7y ago
I'll buy too. I spend hours every day using firefox. It's worth almost every price they could demand. But I still hope they give me some freedom back I had before quantum.
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by dorgo 7y ago
on the other hand, if nobody had corrected my use of "loose" I wouldn't know it.
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by dorgo 7y ago
Wow, that definition is counter-intuitive. Ive expected the false-positive-rate to be the number of false positives divided by the number of all positives. Isn't it how "rates" are usually defined? No wonder everybody is conf
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by dorgo 7y ago
>There is very little space left to write a story that is interesting and compelling if one wishes to respect the bounds of what is scientifically plausible. Are we living in the same world? Quantum mechanics, relativistic effects, mathe
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by dorgo 7y ago
Wait, maybe it's not incompetence but strategy?
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by dorgo 7y ago
Inflation? Afaik, new constructions have to comply with more regulation (noise insulation, materials, environment protection etc) than before, which makes them more expensive. At least where I live.
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by dorgo 7y ago
Or just show different prices to different users. Iphone users usually pay more.
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by dorgo 7y ago
How do you determine whether a price is targeted/individual? Do you check in different browsers / on different devices?
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by dorgo 7y ago
On the other hand, end users/customers/employee's don't care about schareholders either. Sounds fair to me.
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by dorgo 7y ago
> what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us? Maybe pay me some money for my attention? In exchange you get all the data from me: how much money I spend on X. How often I do Y. Whatever helps you sell your product to
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by dorgo 7y ago
what is the difference between blocking and disabling? The result is the same, right?
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by dorgo 7y ago
It took me years to train my brain to not read outdoor advertisement. I can't stop it from seeing/interpreting images, but I can successfully ignore text/letters which are less than a meter in size.
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by dorgo 7y ago
Rest assured that advertisement works with and without spying. Spying just improves efficiency somewhat.
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by dorgo 7y ago
Of course, nobody tries to only "improve the livelihood of warehouse workers". Isn't the idea behind economy that if everybody tries to improve their bottom line then everybody wins (even if it was not intended)? And this sto
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by dorgo 7y ago
Recently, I got 3 tasks. I quickly redefined one task to be esentially equal to an other and one task beeing low priority. Got everything approved and found a library which could do the one remaining task. I wrote zero lines of code :P
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by dorgo 7y ago
There are "naturals", who are authentic and have a good sense of humor without doing anything for it. Everybody else needs more work/practice to get there. Basically, fake "authenticity" until you are "authenti
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by dorgo 7y ago
>A url-shortener using AWS lambda - JUST lambda I expected a lambda, which compresses/decompresses the url. This would also work without storing anything.
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by dorgo 7y ago
One solution would be to have a dedicated computer which is considered compromised from the start. Don't store importent stuff there, don't do money related activities etc. This way you have a convenient browser for 99% of the tim
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by dorgo 7y ago
Let the computer you used for encryption and uploading at home.. Take an empty/new notebook/smartphone with you to show at the border? edit: place a big random data file, which looks like encrypted data on your alibi notebook. Ref
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by dorgo 7y ago
An open, transparent, convenient, anonymous protocol for micro payments, with good cost contol build into browsers.
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by dorgo 7y ago
"dealing with other people" = ticket inspectors, beggers, crying babies, random conversations 50 cm away from your ear, drunk people... you don't have this in your car.
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by dorgo 7y ago
In my opinion, you try to make a distinction where is none. What is the difference between showing off and helping others in the context of technical questions on blogs/forums? Yes, you help others by providing solutions/advice fo
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by dorgo 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by dorgo 8y ago
For me, it's not about environment or what people think. It's the same situation as with SSDs. - it is new - it is gonna to replace the old - it has better karma / feng-shui - it has some improvements in user experience - eve
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by dorgo 8y ago
But add a counter to detect recursion and break..
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by dorgo 8y ago
I use ublock in advanced mode ( broken web by default + white lists ). I have no experience with the non-expert mode and for this reason tend to recommend / install ABP to friends / family. Somehow, my intuition is that ublock is
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by dorgo 8y ago
Also from germany. CS degree = 75% mathematics + 5% coding + 20% other theory. Fresh out of university i hardly could write code at all and had zero experience with databases.

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