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by throwaways885 5y ago
What makes you think this problem isn't being tackled? Every year Twitter and Facebook talk about how they detected and removed XXX million bots from their platform. For example, the spam problem has been rapidly iterated on [1] to lit
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by throwaways885 5y ago
http://mars.google.com is fun, too!
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by throwaways885 5y ago
https://goomics.net/335/
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Okay, I'll bite. How do you break up a website? Whichever Baby G ends up with Search will create it's own Ads department, and things will be back to the status quo in no time. The best I can imagine is breaking it by country lines
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Tim Pool literally has to self-censor in real-time to avoid the robot bans. It's creepy as hell and has no place in a free society (regardless if you agree with him or not).
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by throwaways885 5y ago
There's two reasons IMO. The first is that being in-person is valuable to many companies, enough so they're willing to pay a significant premium for it. If you're remote, then you get less. The second is that it's all ab
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Because children were pressured by society into going to university, on what possibly was false pretences.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
How does a group of citizens get a motion tabled to repeal mass surveillance laws in the EU? Just by sheer scale, it's harder to get the attention of the EU than it is the UK government.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> Brexit was a slim non-binding referendum run ammock for party-internal politics of the Tories. Absurd from start to finish and now you want to blame the EU for the consequences? I'm not saying that I agree with how things have tur
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> What would you expect should happen, that UK should be allowed to use Nothern Ireland as backdoor to send unchecked goods to the EU, imported from say the USA and Australia and re-exported into the whole EU market with no border checks
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing are all using 1P scripts.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
As somebody who was somewhat in-favour of Brexit (not popular here, admittedly), my view is that it's easier to fight for privacy against just the UK government, rather than the entire EU bloc. I think if an entity as powerful as the E
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I believe GP is referring to the EU 'forcing' the UK to put a border between Britain and Northern Ireland, because the EU wanted a hard border somewhere and wouldn't budge on that.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Legitimately terrifying that a new surveillance state can be announced and nobody knows if it's satire or not.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I'm fairly sure Android crash reporting is all manually done, and even zips it up for you to inspect. But some of these are impossible, e.g. how do you localize a stack trace?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
As a layman, can you explain to me why a very accurate (i.e. small error) model wouldn't still lead to catastrophically incorrect results when projected across a long timespan?
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> Or the search query you did use was shared to the data broker and now whats going viral to you already matches what you would have looked for This sounds like a conspiracy theory. Search engines generally aren't sharing your queri
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Comparing blockchain to electricity and nuclear science is just depressing for me :/
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Deep learning is here, today. Not really vapourware.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
It's not the same thing. GH Issues firstly requires a GitHub account, whereas anyone can sign up to a mailing list. The model is just worse for general discussion too.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Mailing lists are great. Better than a slack for long-term discoverability.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I think you're conflating kindness and niceness. People are nice to protect the feelings of others, whereas kindness has a more logical component, e.g. being honest when the truth can hurt. You can be kind without being nice. But I bel
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by throwaways885 5y ago
Aside: That old version of BBC News is an absolute gem of history. Especially looking at some of the recommended sidebar stories: > Britons 'baffled over euro rate' > Wireless internet arrives in China > Mobile spam on th
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by throwaways885 5y ago
It is possible, much in the same way that making friends at school does not require you to be glued to a textbook all day. But it requires self control and thoughtful boundaries.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
You have to be careful, because work friends can suddenly vanish when you change jobs, but anyone with a bit of social awareness can navigate this. WFH has changed work from a social experience into something boring. I get it, work is wor
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by throwaways885 5y ago
No, they do. And you can see the aggregate scores of everyone in the company on a dashboard afterwards.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> so unless historians dig deep in third-party archives, they'd never understand where that belief came from I expect future historical tooling will exist to solve exactly this problem. Assuming Archive.org and the like nabbed it, t
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I've only ever heard the term ldap from Googlers, to mean, "username".
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by throwaways885 5y ago
I suspect there are many users here that visit 4chan regularly. It's got a lot of hate, but some of the content there is entertaining enough.
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by throwaways885 5y ago
> The critics are talking about Software Engineering (~1/3rd of the company?) It's closer to 2/3.

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