jadell

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by jadell 7y ago
There are some issues that don't fall neatly into the "50 laboratories" theory. We tried that with slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights/desegregation, gay marriage, and a host of other things. California or New Y
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That's the "all lives matter" argument. The problem with it is that rights are not distributed equally, they are biased towards the privileged. Making special accommodation for someone with a disability isn't giving them
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by jadell 7y ago
As a followup, if you have the ability to modify the Chrome/Chromium command line arguments, using the following option completely fools the detection: --lang=en-US,en;q=0.9 You can prove this with the following Puppeteer script
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by jadell 7y ago
The detector still thinks it's headless even if you spoof the user-agent.
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by jadell 7y ago
It seems he's doing something with header detection. I used Puppeteer to play around with the site and various configurations I use when scraping. In headless Chrome, the "Accept-Language" header is not sent. In Puppeteer, on
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by jadell 7y ago
To the siblings wondering about reaching out to the sites and offering to pay for the data: I'm not parent poster, but where I work, we absolutely have reached out. We've even offered to build and maintain the systems/APIs&#x
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by jadell 7y ago
I agonize about this every day, since a large part of my job is aggregating data from many sites that seem hell-bent on not letting anyone access it without going one-form-at-a-time through their crap UI. The thing is, we would gladly pay
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by jadell 7y ago
The "You are/are not" message seems to be included in the page source before any Javascript runs. Is it possible there are detectable differences in the original HTTP request itself?
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It doesn't seem to be using the Javascript. Looking at the page source, it has already made the determination before the Javascript runs. If I load the page source in Chrome, it already includes the "You are not Chrome headless&qu
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by jadell 7y ago
It's an old joke, but relevant to the discussion: Woman: Do you drink beer? Man: Yes Woman: How many beers a day? Man: Usually about 3 Woman: How much do you pay per beer? Man: $5.00, including tip Woman: And how long have you been dri
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by jadell 7y ago
"Somewhere between Hospital and Jail" was supposed to exist. When mental institutions were essentially dismantled in the 70s and 80s, the promise was to move towards a more community-oriented system of specialized housing, counsel
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by jadell 7y ago
Fast and Furious Supercharged is a terrible ride (and according to a friend of ours who works at Universal Orlando, the employees agree.) King Kong, also at Islands of Adventure, is the same ride type, and even uses the same vehicle, but is
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by jadell 7y ago
That is a distinction without a difference in this context, which is about the Senate abdicating their constitutional responsibilities. They didn't hold public hearings before 1916, that is true (the history of why they even started ho
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by jadell 7y ago
Changing the battery in a phone isn't a job that needs to be done by professionals. Normal people do it with their other battery-powered devices all the time. The only reason to make it any other way is so you can make more money off o
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by jadell 7y ago
> he wanted the devices to be appliances you sell when you're done with, and buy a new one Appliances used to be repairable. People kept things like ovens, fridges and washing machines for decades, repairing them when needed. Compan
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by jadell 7y ago
I'm curious why you think SCOTUS would find the Compact unconstitutional? If anything, with the current makeup of the court, I believe they'd be more likely to rule that the individual states are free to choose their electors as t
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by jadell 7y ago
It's the Senate's Constitutional responsibility to advise and consent the President's SCOTUS nominations. What is the procedure when they abdicate that responsibility? Remember, the Senate didn't tell Obama "no, we
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by jadell 7y ago
When a party can use their gerrymandered position to block eligible voters from getting to the polls, then "Vote either way" is especially useful advice. In North Carolina, the GOP used their ability to draw the districts in ways
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by jadell 7y ago
It appears it didn't change their pre-existing ratings of those sources. From the article: The study, published today in the journal Palgrave Communications, showed the perceived reliability of real-life fanfic before playing the g
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by jadell 7y ago
It is completely illegal for a police officer to pretend to be an attorney; it's actually illegal for anyone to pretend to be an attorney (in the situation of a suspect asking for an attorney.) The cops can lie to you about a great man
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by jadell 7y ago
If you want to compete in the highest tier dog shows (with the largest cash prizes) or use your dog to breed other purebreds, in the US at least, you must be registered with the American Kennel Club. It's probably the most important or
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by jadell 7y ago
It sounds like you've never worked in a grocery store. I did for 6 years (all of high school and 2 summers during college.) When we weren't on the register, we were almost constantly mopping from spills and broken jars. In a store
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Durham Pathfinder Free-School: Self-Directed Learning(indyweek.com)
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This was basically the plot of the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel" [0] We need to give kids more space to discover their own limits, and to get hurt. I look at the kids in "Stranger Things" riding their unsupervised acro
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by jadell 7y ago
What if we're not talking about strippers or porn actresses. What if we're talking about some random person who let a partner take photos/videos of them, in confidence and in private?
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You're in a relationship with someone you trust. It's enough trust that you one day let them (or maybe even ask them to) photograph or film you having sex with them (or even just nude photographs, the level of explicitness really
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by jadell 7y ago
My wife can't go through these scanners, as she has a medical device that the device manufacturer has warned have not been certified to go through them, and will not be liable if the device stops working (which in this case would mean
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by jadell 7y ago
The definition of BBQ in North Carolina varies depending where in the state you are. Eastern NC-style is vinegar-based sauce with whole hog pulled pork. Western-style (also know as Lexington-style) is thicker tomato-based sauce, the meat is
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by jadell 7y ago
We keep ours in the trunk of our car. Makes it easy to do unplanned grocery shopping. Take them in, unpack, hang them on the doorknob to bring back to the car next time we go out. Haven't lost one yet, and we've had the same 5 for
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by jadell 7y ago
People used to say that about IE6, before Firefox and Chrome came along.

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