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by dorgo 8y ago
"duplicate content" is a problem for both, the original site and the copycat. But the copycat doesn't rely on SEO in this example. It just buys traffic in AdWords. So the duplicate content penalty would harm only the original
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by dorgo 8y ago
>All profit is derived from economic friction. I had the impression that profits are derived from the reduction of economic friction. The more efficient a process is the more profit it can produce (compared to a less efficient process).
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by dorgo 8y ago
But never forget: Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent
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by dorgo 8y ago
Germany considers to ban diesel cars from cities to meet polution requirenments of EU. I consider to buy a new car at the moment. My favorites are electirc or petrol. I don't even consider hybrids. I see no benefits. They have no upsid
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by dorgo 8y ago
> As a public company, we are subject to wild swings in our stock price that can be a major distraction for everyone working at Tesla...
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by dorgo 8y ago
Once, I implemented an interpreter/compiler for a toy-language in Opal (a functional language developed and maintained by my prof). A compiler for Opal was only available for Linux. I had zero experience with Linux and no intention to
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by dorgo 8y ago
Paying for porn without revealing identity
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by dorgo 8y ago
Limiting believes
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by dorgo 8y ago
I had a problem with this too. But actually the problem can be stated as an NP problem: Compute a round-trip shorter than k. If you have an algorithm to solve the NP version then you can use it to find the shortest round-trip by repeadly ap
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by dorgo 8y ago
One more reason not to use Steam and friends..
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by dorgo 8y ago
As a rougue engineer I would expect at least an increase in my bonus which is proportional to the one of my chef. There is little reason to be a roughe engineer otherwise.
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by dorgo 8y ago
I think chargebacks for credit cards are needed, because their model is based on trust. You give your credit card number to the seller und you have to trust that he pulls only the amount he promised he would pull. For Cryptocurrencies on th
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by dorgo 8y ago
don't co2 certificates work this way? You can reduce your co2 output or buy certificates instead. If government wants to reduce co2 output they just increase the price of co2 certificates.
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by dorgo 8y ago
>An ideal outcome would be a huge push toward open source (and also toward free software) how much does open source improve security? (And does it at all?) In my experience nobody reads the source code before executing it. Maybe the situ
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by dorgo 8y ago
to save some clicks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox Moravec's paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level r
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by dorgo 8y ago
So I am allowed to collect and store personal data for my toy project without consent?
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by dorgo 8y ago
So, a pragmatic approach then. Everybody violates the laws a little (maybe without knowing) and regulators pick big violations first. Software developers like to handle each edge case up front - which is not possible on this scale I guess.
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by dorgo 8y ago
Examples of neglected children (Jungle Book style) are problematic. Learning won't work if their psyche is broken. Better example would be: loving parents who never teach their children anything useful - if something like that ever hap
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by dorgo 8y ago
Why do rich people want to pay more taxes? Why not directly invest in improving the situation of the poor? This way they remain in control of how money is spent. Tax money will just be spent for more wars.
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by dorgo 8y ago
Is Snowden a good guy? My government did enough stupid things for me to not want them to have sophisticated military toys.
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by dorgo 8y ago
That's what I would do: quit Europe. FB is part of life of millions of people. They would cancel this GDPR thing in a day to save their FB experience. Or at least add an exception to GDPR for FB.
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by dorgo 8y ago
Thank you. Seems like you associate objectivity with popularity. Like in if all/most people consider something good/evil then it is objectively good/evil. I wasn't aware of this view. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by dorgo 8y ago
can you expand on this? How is good or bad not subjective?
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by dorgo 8y ago
If I buy a smartphone on amazon, guess what they try to sell to me next? I'm constantly disappointed by tech giants ability to do their job: selling things to me. They don't even need these fancy machine intelligence stuff. A &quo
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by dorgo 8y ago
forget all this. They steal my attention/time which is an orders of magnitude greater offense.
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by dorgo 8y ago
I have java, flash and javascript disabeled by default and still feel not save enough to visit that site :D
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by dorgo 8y ago
I think it's pretty easy to detect adblockers and hide content for users with adblockers. Some sites do so and I leave immediately. It's not like their content is valueable for me. Usually I got there by accident (clicking random
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by dorgo 8y ago
Amazon makes 1000€+ revenue from me bying stuff there and still shows ads and tries to sell me credit cards.. Do you mind if i hide all this shit while bying stuff on Amazon? I use about 5 non-commercial services which may show ads (don&#x2
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by dorgo 8y ago
I have an extension (Block site) which stops me from visiting some sites by accident (SERPs or links).
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by dorgo 8y ago
What are the intentions of mozilla? Is it "let's take away control from users", or is it "we don't care about what our users want"? What a fail..

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