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by mda 5y ago
Why? "A huge fuck up while trying to be seen as champion of protecting children" perfectly explains the situation
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by mda 5y ago
Eeh not really. People cares more of their houses definitely, the maintenance funding of mosques and hospitals are also entirely different. I don't think your assessment is realistic.
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by mda 5y ago
Well, maybe Bing team is reading the complaints and improve stuff a little for ddg users.
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by mda 5y ago
Well it did gave geoundbreking results, it is weird to see people dismisses it as "Not groundbrraking enough".
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by mda 5y ago
I think it was a satirical comment.
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by mda 5y ago
Do a few more tests, especially complex queries, you will see a pattern emerges. In my tests, It is definitely using the Bing index (not necessarily same ranking / filtering algorithms or the same version of the index)
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by mda 5y ago
So, what percentage of ddg's results for queries come from bing? like a ballpark estimate. Is it like 10%? 50%? 80%? Because in your answer you still carefully avoid giving any actual numbers. I still say (by looking at the results fo
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by mda 5y ago
They also mainly use bing for everything else.
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by mda 5y ago
Completely disagree, there is probably 100x more content now compared to 10-15 years ago, sure garbage also increased but excellent content is there and internet of today is better overall.
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by mda 5y ago
"doesn't rely on bing" but actually mostly rely on bing, they want to create this illusion to hide this ugly fact.
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by mda 5y ago
Duckduckgo mostly uses bing index.
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by mda 5y ago
Because it is pure speculation and is honestly not backed by any evidence?
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by mda 5y ago
"The advertisers, gov agencies and corporations can freely purchase your search history from Google" I hope you have some information backing this claim.
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by mda 5y ago
Driving a car tank full of gasoline or thousands of lithium batteries is also dangerous, there are ways to reduce risk.
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by mda 5y ago
I think search results 20 years ago were laughably worse than today.
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by mda 5y ago
Blink (Chrome's renderer) is based on webkit. A browser has many components.
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by mda 5y ago
Well, we are out in the field with torches and pitchforks at hand, do you really expect us to read anything?
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by mda 6y ago
In Turkish, "Musmula suratli" = "Medlar faced" is a common and funny expression to describe someone with an ugly / grumpy /sour face.
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by mda 6y ago
Musmula is this fruit. Mentioned in the article as well.
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by mda 6y ago
lichess notifies when it is your turn, quite useful. There are many legitimate uses of this feature especially business environments.
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by mda 6y ago
And as I explained on a different comment, performance of many different language / compilers for this particular benchmark are almost same "If" they use the same technique ( C, C++, Java, Swift, Javascript and Dart.) But the
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by mda 6y ago
Spectral norm is an interesting example because on single thread and without using SIMD, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Swift and Dart shows very similar performance characteristics (5-6 seconds). The loops are tight, there is not much to do for
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by mda 6y ago
Why? I also said I mostly disagreed with "yield to reason" part. Ok, sure, the let me say it again then, I fully disagree with "we all" and mostly disagree with "yield to reason" and "in good faith" p
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by mda 6y ago
This is what you said: "But we all argue in good faith and are willing to yield to reason" I am in disagreement with this sentence. "we all" is definitely wrong and I haven't seen many "yield to reason" he
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by mda 6y ago
Of course it matters, What I am saying is that; here is a program written in language A, which uses all the tricks in the book to solve this particular problem, here is a another one written in language B, it uses a completely different tec
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by mda 6y ago
I knew hundreds of muslim woman and many do it by choice. So what now?
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by mda 6y ago
Because it is a complex cultural issue and banning it probably harms woman further from an already oppressed state. In some cases basically imprisoning them into their homes or forcing them to relocate. No one bothered asking those woman ab
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by mda 6y ago
"argue in good faith"? "willing to yield to reason"? Please.
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by mda 6y ago
Hey, "But only in public!" Are you really defending imprisoning Woman to their homes by maybe robbing them of their few privileges? I am utterly disgusted how they frame this bs.
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by mda 6y ago
Non trivial queries are answered from Bing index. So it is not really "much more than" it.

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