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Huh, well I guess there goes my theory about the incentive. What a bummer. I would have thought that at least with search engine scraping, they would stop expending the effort once…

Well what I'm suggesting isn't about blocking the bots, it's about removing the incentive. So in this case, I think the more obvious it is the better. I would want them to realize …

I'm not so sure about this. The spammers goal is to build up as big a list of link spam targets as possible. If one spammer chooses to only scrape minor engines and another only ma…

That would probably help, but it's also a continuation of the cat and mouse game. There are plenty of captcha breaking services out there, it only cost about $1 to programmatically…

So spammers have latched onto your search engine because they are getting useful results. They are able to systematically discover websites built on certain platforms that allow us…

Been a while since I read up on this, but I think the problem is the energy cost of extracting CO2 from sea water makes it a wash at least in terms of CO2 reduction.

I don't see the bizarre part. Wikipedia says Barron was born in 1927 when we were still figuring out the basics of aviation, and just a few decades later he was making these plans …

I like to think that advanced alien life may already be established in our solar system, and we just haven't detected it yet. Unlikely as that is, the solar system is a big place a…

The date becomes ambiguous, it just says "September 2020".

I contributed to this spike. I wanted to make sure I didn't mangle the spelling in my FB & reddit posts regarding President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. In case anyone is wondering,…

When I switch to 30 days, the results appear to only be current to the 29th of last month.

> If you don't like it, you move somewhere else. Yes, and if you don't like existing regulations you can just move to another country with different laws. No big deal, right? I do …

I do host my own website and manage all of those things, but it's not a question of the cost it's the fact that I can't opt out. It impairs my ability to predict & control my expen…

They are not a surprise, no. I have wondered before what marketplace sellers could do in the way or organizing/unionizing.

I'm one of those sellers who is being forced into Etsy's new ad program. It is frustrating and obnoxious, but I can't say it is surprising given the policy changes they've been rol…

The Apple in my classroom was also never used for the most part. And with no hard drive and no spare floppy disks, I couldn't save any of my work anyway which made it hard to learn…

Wow, what a blast from the past. My introduction to programming was on an old Apple II with BASIC and LOGO. I was in the 6th grade at the time, and never did anything as complex as…

I've been reading about VC and all it entails for years now, and it always leaves me with a sketchy feeling. Pouring so much time and effort into chasing capital, and then giving u…