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by the_biot 4y ago
You cannot solve a thoroughly human problem (compulsion, addiction) with a technical solution. I suggest you find a way to build up your willpower to resist using those sites.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Not really, they just need to point at the trademark registration. There is nothing to explain or be embarrassed about.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> Looks like this OSS project was launched and cancelled in a single day. Touché :-) However the idea of a federated search is some measure of protection against that. If it ever happens.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yeah, but they're still providing a dataset that's just plain bad. It's hardly relevant how many sites link to some other site, if it's dead.
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by the_biot 4y ago
By what possible criteria are these the "top" million sites, if 10% are dead? I'd start with questioning that data.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Believe me, not everybody is a fan of giant multinationals, let alone Google. I think TFA has insufficient information to even work out what happened. She "asked about holiday pay", her "behavior was unacceptable" -- tha
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by the_biot 4y ago
I'm surprised to hear that, what's the point of keeping stuff they don't make available? What sort of stuff is this?
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by the_biot 4y ago
I think the idea of federation of domain-specific search engines, possibly tied together by one or more front-ends, is a brilliant idea. I think it's similar to how Google's search works internally, though I doubt the separation i
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by the_biot 4y ago
Add to that the likelihood that Google will just randomly cancel the product one day. Why invest time in this Google product?
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by the_biot 4y ago
Like so many questions of this type, I think the Internet Archive is the answer. They are not a warehouse of stuff stored on media/formats that are forever becoming obsolete -- they store data, keyed by timestamp, sometimes with metada
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by the_biot 4y ago
If you've spent any time on YouTube, it's painfully obvious much of it is not worth archiving at all. Clearly if you had some critera to select videos that are worth preserving, this task would become a lot more doable. But what c
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by the_biot 4y ago
All it does it get that video more views. Are you so far gone in the horseshit the guardian peddles that you're willing to defend their cheap practice with arguments you invented yourself? Can you really not see how their aim is exclu
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by the_biot 4y ago
You think viral exploitative TikTok videos that cater to the lowest intellect are the worst thing in media right now? You'd be wrong. Writing articles about those videos is outright the lowest rung on that ladder of shit. Another low f
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by the_biot 4y ago
Pump and dumps of securities are illegal. I can only assume the SEC doesn't consider cryptocurrencies securities, or Elon Musk wouldn't have gotten away with his utterly blatant bitcoin pump and dump. He did it in public on twit
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by the_biot 4y ago
This, so much. There are a few Youtube channels I used to follow, that over time degraded into shameless shilling for completely irrelevant (to the channel) crap, and sometimes outright infomercials. I've tried engaging with the chan
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by the_biot 4y ago
I get your point, but the fact is these (except maybe for Brontë) commonly get spelled without the diacritics.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Your first point is kind of negated by the fact that he specifically says he used a second-hand battery from a scrapyard. Indeed, what he's doing is a very good way to keep it away from any environmentally unfriendly process. I expect
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by the_biot 4y ago
From TFA: "If some random guy did all of this with < $200k... To what extent could you manipulate a larger coin if you had billions?" https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/nouriel-...
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by the_biot 4y ago
What you're saying makes sense, though I'd only add that it's not "now", it's been going on for ages. EA's endless series of franchises tells you everything you need to know about both EA and their custome
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by the_biot 4y ago
I think the solution to this terrible behavior by Ubisoft, EA etc is what I said -- people need to stop putting up with it by not buying these games in the first place. You can't throw a law at every shenanigan these companies throw at
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by the_biot 4y ago
No, there should not be a law that forces anyone to give away their property. That's just complete nonsense. You should draw your own conclusion as to what you spend your money on, and possibly you might conclude that "buying&quot
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by the_biot 4y ago
If Russia uses this to disable another country's satellite passing overhead, is that an act of war, worthy of retaliation? What about if that other country, in retaliation, uses similar technology in a satellite to destroy this Kalina
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by the_biot 4y ago
"You are not just arguing your position, but performing it to your audience, and to your opponent’s audience." That is so well said, and it defines so much of what makes social media so toxic.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Cisco may have been slow to take advantage of the commoditization of these switch chips, for obvious reasons: it was in large part their market that was being commoditized. I would argue this is even more pronounced on the lower end now, wi
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by the_biot 4y ago
I can assure you that's entirely plausible. There are many big vendors like this, with a rather smaller set of vendors that sell switch chips for them. High end network switches are effectively a commodity now, and often are not much m
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by the_biot 4y ago
That sounds reasonably logical, but by what measure of logic is overpaying for Twitter, of all assets, a good deal? There are surely better companies to do this sort of thing with, and end up with an actually valuable asset at the end of
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by the_biot 4y ago
Don't knock it as a business model: cloned hardware and pirated Cisco software is how Huawei got their start in the networking business. I don't know if they did malware/spyware in the beginning, but the assumption that they
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by the_biot 4y ago
What I've never understood is the type of person that tries to convince people they've worked with for years to sign a document like that. How do you baldly screw over somebody you know? Just because your own boss told you to? I w
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by the_biot 4y ago
That doesn't matter in a duopoly. I expect the other half of the duopoly does the same thing, since they tend to move in lockstep.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> FYI: Some torrent search engines are blocked by ISPs in Europe, at the DNS level And some of those now resolve the IP addresses of popular torrent sites, and block their IP addresses -- or rather, redirect connection attempts to a loca

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