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by vntok 4y ago
It could be only hidden characters, but it could also be (and it most likely actually is also) a few commas instead of full stops, words like "many" replaced by "a lot of" or any other kind of substitution really.
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by vntok 4y ago
I mean it doesn't really take much time at all to find counter examples, does it? There's even a detailed page at Wikipedia with concrete examples, if you haven't ever heard of the concept of a limited or special edition: ht
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by vntok 4y ago
Twitter has 396.5 million users globally today. That's about twice what Whatsapp had at the time when they had 50 employees. Yet catering to twice the users takes Twitter 150 times as many employees. There's a huge gap spanning tw
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by vntok 4y ago
> The model employed by artists in the West, in collusion with collectors, was to create an artificial scarcity of their own products on the market. Thus they introduced editions that gained in importance with the appearance of video art
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by vntok 4y ago
In Feb 13, exactly one year before Whatsapp sold to Facebook for 19 billion dollars, they had about 200 million active users and only 50 staff members. Firing half of the 7500 Twitter employees (most at $100k+ comp', lots at $300k+ com
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by vntok 4y ago
Yes that was insane. Exactly one year before Whatsapp sold to Facebook for 19 billion dollars, that is in February 2013, they had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. And not all of those staff members were developers I imag
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by vntok 4y ago
How would you trivially abuse this?
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by vntok 4y ago
No it certainly is not. Here's the Canadian jurisdiction against SPAM: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-1.6/index.html > An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian eco
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by vntok 4y ago
> To find notes that are helpful to the broadest possible set of people, Birdwatch takes into account not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different p
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by vntok 4y ago
This is a feature.
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by vntok 4y ago
There isn't enough time in a no-sleep 24h day to verify every single piece of content one is reading/hearing online that same day. Just go to any major news site's homepage; there's at least 40 articles there, plus video
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by vntok 4y ago
> How to save some cash: 1. Fire your staff, 2. outsource their work to the general public. Brilliant! What are you talking about? This program has existed at Twitter for years.
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by vntok 4y ago
Paying some of those people to manipulate reviews wouldn't really work at scale. See here how Twitter automatically ranks reviews: https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/diversity-of-perspective... > To find notes
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by vntok 4y ago
About 20% of the generated postcodes are absurdly wrong.
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by vntok 4y ago
Also pets, objects, ideas and parodies.
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by vntok 4y ago
NO update in 2+ years and no support for chart types beyond the most basic, for a start. See here for a list of supported features https://chartscss.org/development/supported-features/
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by vntok 4y ago
It really was a non-event.
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by vntok 4y ago
What do you mean? The website would literally be broken by the user's miconfiguration of their browser.
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by vntok 4y ago
Well no, not really. Half of the examples don't work at all, see here https://chartscss.org/examples/ And the documentation pages for those chart types read "This chart is still under development. It's n
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by vntok 4y ago
> It's gonna depend a lot on your visitors and what kind of website you have. HN will have more users than average with JS disabled for example, as it's a very technology oriented user base. The amount of people who log into HN
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by vntok 4y ago
You are in no position to decide what people need or what they should spend their money on. On the contrary, micro-transactions is the ideal way for regular folks to support content creators in a way that does not take too much from them. N
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by vntok 4y ago
Users regularly do "pay for their own costs and have an ad-free experience", for example on Youtube, Netflix or The New York Time (5 million paid subscribers in Q2 2021). Users regularly do "give gas to publishers in response
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by vntok 4y ago
Why does it assume that no bombers would be downed en route? Why does it assume that no missile would be intercepted?
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by vntok 4y ago
Their parents are consenting.
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by vntok 4y ago
This is a TOS breach for sure. One day you'll find yourself banned from all Google properties. Is it worth a few monies per month?
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by vntok 4y ago
Here you go: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604... > What I found were dozens of requests, which loaded nearly 16 MB in data. Lets break down what I saw. > I also reviewed Google Ch
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by vntok 4y ago
How about not assuming malice and not jumping to conclusions without thinking a second or two about what it would mean for a company that aims at securing Internet traffic to... decide not to secure Internet traffic?
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by vntok 4y ago
Those "not that many people" would have been very angry and very vocal though.
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by vntok 4y ago
No, they really are free.
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by vntok 4y ago
Flag it and move on, this is fake news.

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