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by retube 9y ago
What's your training set?
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by retube 9y ago
Solving the important problems ;)
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by retube 9y ago
In some parts of the world a lot of people make do with a spot on the floor. I stayed at a guest house in India recently and the staff all slept on the roof or in the kitchen. Some places in the world are poor. Better that than on the stree
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by retube 9y ago
In some parts of the world a lot of people make do with a spot on the floor. I stayed at a guest house in India recently and the staff all slept on the roof or in the kitchen. Places are poor.
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by retube 9y ago
So I have blocked my mother's PC updating from Windows 8 to 10 because it broke everything for her - so I rolled it back. Have prevented the upgrade auto-occurring again by specifying we are on a "metered" connection, which s
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by retube 9y ago
Re 3., tell me one problem that blockchain solves that a regular db and authentication can't?
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by retube 9y ago
I think you're going to have to accept that what you are doing is disliked and considered unethical by the majority.
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by retube 9y ago
Sky in the UK have trialed ultrasonic beacons in adverts, so it is definitely possible
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by retube 9y ago
cough youtube cough
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by retube 9y ago
Both Sky broadband and 02 mobile are blocking this domain saying it's dodgy
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by retube 9y ago
> A better method is to trade single asset retail CMBS bonds Could be hard to short though, you got to find someone willing to lend you the bond, and this paper is not liquid
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by retube 9y ago
you always "talk your own book" in the hope that other people will be persuaded and take the same position - moving the market in your favour.
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by retube 10y ago
> No comments needed Except that, you know, not sure how impartial the World Socialist Web Site is likely to be!!
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by retube 10y ago
This page doesn't load for me (IE behind corp firewall). How does one drive/automate a headless browser? What kind of API is there?
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by retube 10y ago
This will be tricky for banks and hedge funds etc. These firms typically, in London at any rate: - never quote a salary (or even a range) for a job opening - following many interviews any offer is always based on prior "comp", of
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by retube 10y ago
See here for common tracking techniques. https://www.howtogeek.com/115483/htg-explains-learn-how-webs... In terms of what ads to show you, AI not really necessary. Often it's just for stuff you've searched fo
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by retube 10y ago
> An example: if you do a Google search for "Amazon <some book>" then you'll almost always get an ad from Amazon. So Amazon pays for a click that would have happened anyway This is absolutely understood, and in fact
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by retube 10y ago
> I mean, what 400,000 sites do you think Chase was advertising on? Ones that really have to do with banking? Hang on: ad placement is not based on page content but the viewers profile (constructed from search and browsing history, facil
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by retube 10y ago
right. so basically a greasemonkey script is scoped to the current page? Is there any scripting solution that is not scoped to current page? In chrome maybe?
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by retube 10y ago
so can you use greasemonkey to follow links, load new page, parse new page, just like a headless crawler?
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by retube 10y ago
yeah I find any cursor hijacking to be very frustrating, and always results in a "worse" user experience. A big one is Google search results, where a down arrow increments a step through the result list, and not an immediate page
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by retube 10y ago
Isn't there a really simple work-around to these dns-hole adblockers? Ad links just need to use actual IP address surely?
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by retube 10y ago
Yeah.... you know I bet there's a lot of 30bn companies out there you've never heard of, or have never used their products. Society is BIG, 7bn people in the world.
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by retube 10y ago
US tax law is bonkers
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by retube 10y ago
Sounds like there's a pretty simple work around, just use mobile Internet not wifi. (You shouldn't use corporate wifi for a personal phone anyway)
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by retube 10y ago
> For the first time ever the entire world is being tracked, monitored and observed in real time, that includes every movement and car journey you make, every city, every field, every expanse of ocean – everything This patently alarmist
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by retube 10y ago
because both water and carbon have very specific, near-unique properties at both the molecular and macro level that make them unique candidates for forming the basis of life. Silicon and ammonia share some of these properties, so they poten
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by retube 10y ago
These are engineers who have reached very senior levels in large industrials, have prob 20-30 years experience, are responsible for large operations or assets, and are known for significant achievements in their domains.
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by retube 10y ago
Maybe the best "gratitude-ware" page you know but am not convinced their communication extends to the front page. No idea what it is this service is or does.
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by retube 10y ago
Yup. It's frustrating to hear people wailing about how shit everything is when in reality they are living lives of comfort and safety unparalleled in human history.

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