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crawlcrawler

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    Comment #24587668

    Because someone else in the meeting might say "I'm working on X, I'm stuck and I need help" whereby you might say "Hey, I've worked on X before, chat me up after this meeting and I…

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    Comment #24548950

    I love Brian Regan but I have to say, even though I'm probably ruining one of his best jokes [0], that the plural form of "box" is not "boxen". [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

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    Comment #24548591

    >> Not sarcasm Alright, that's good, because I would really love for there to be a service that would streamline the way I request data from service providers or request the deleti…

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    Comment #24547580

    For a decent browsing experience I'll take a plain ol' HTTP POST that causes my browser to reload the whole page giving me as a user a clear indication the app has understood my in…

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    Comment #24547437

    Successful/rock star athletes spend 99.9% of their time honing their athletic skills and the rest on advertising deals. Google on the other hand spend 99.9% of its time on making p…

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    Comment #24547237

    What to me _seems_ to be much more likely though is that multiple cookies are connected to a classification ID that multiple other users may also be connected to and that to identi…

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    Comment #24547055

    Is this comment and that website [0] sarcasm? What exactly are you automating? The theft of my PII or the opposite? On this matter your privacy policy[1] confuse me. Sorry if I'm b…

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    Comment #24546798

    Yes indeed! Can we also agree that we don't need JS in order to produce a decent experience on the web?

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    Comment #24546396

    Businesses have a tendency to optimize for making money so if the only way for them to do so is by having people click on ads, guess what they'll eventually become great at.

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    Comment #24546338

    >> were If you meant to say that Google's top engineers _used to_ work on the search engine but nowadays they work on making people click on ads because that's were the money is, t…

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    Comment #24502211

    >> find an old recording of Haitian voodoo drums give it a listen using good headphones with your eyes closed, and after about twenty minutes you will enter an altered state I foll…

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    Comment #24228848

    Prostitution should not be an option for anyone. How is: "I was so poor I had to sell my body so as to not starve to death but selling my body made me depressed and so I spent all …

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    Comment #24202340

    >> Our response was better than Europe's. US's response to covid-19 was better than all countries in the whole of Europe? Or, did you mean to say the US's response was better than …

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    Comment #24123105

    Sars-COV-2?

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    Comment #24085745

    May I offer my apologies for saying the USA act violent and dominant. You're not all violent and dominant. I'm sorry. Friends?

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    Comment #24085693

    Wouldn't that lead to USA having more influence, in the world? When it comes to such things as surveillance, I'm not sure they're any better. Behind, yes, but not by choice and not…

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    Comment #24079873

    What are the benefits? In this context they are not clear to me. "If you punch me in the face then, later, I'll punch _you_ in the face". This type of behavior may be par for the c…

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    Comment #24079735

    >> I see this ban as a late but fair move. A late but fair move to achieve what, exactly?

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    Comment #23892803

    Make $country great again, as a service. "Hire me as president, I have great connections, beautiful even, to the US, Russia and Djina". Surely, this will never happen.

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    Comment #23778708

    >> search literally prints money Citation is needed. A counter-point to yours would be how Amazon's search is horrible, because horrible search prints money.

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    Comment #23778699

    >> it probably lacks the 10000x growth potential VCs are looking for :/ Avoiding eternal september sounds like a killer feature to me :P

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    Comment #23758467

    >> how many online businesses will simply not get created How many online businesses [that aim to quietly collect PII for their own monetary gain] will simply not get created? Hope…

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    Comment #23758394

    Not much chance of us seeing an improvements in Fourier transform implementations, then.

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    Comment #23758348

    There is at least one way that I know of to realize your dream. First, disable "do-not-track" header in your browser. Secondly, lobby for organizations to honor the "do-not-track" …