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Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!

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I don't think pile is the correct collective noun.

Why do they need to be Indian? Sure the data would reflect that a plurality of global low wage workers are from India, but there are also plenty of low wage workers who are not ethnically Indian or geographically based in India (such as all of the Americans working on r/beermoney).

Because it is assumed that the lowest white collar wages are in India.

By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.

I 1million% agree with giving the money to the worker in need, and I myself would opt for the Indian as well if quality is the same.

But, my suspicion is that everyone on beermoney actually has no other income :(

Did you really just belittle my 60+ hour work weeks and 45 minute commutes as some frivolity?

Do I have a choice about whether or not I have to hold down a job? No. No I don’t.

Do I have a choice about the level of competition I must bring to the table to simply tread water? No. No I don’t.

If I had a choice, I’d never program another piece of code again, but hey. Yeah, beer money. Like I have a life whereupon I enjoy it enough to drink beer.

I did not interpret matte_black's comment as belittling at all, the post being responded to literally talked about people on the r/beermoney subreddit.

My guess is you can just use EXIF metadata and/or picture resolution/sharpness to easily sort old Vs. new. Cameras have come a long way in ten years..

As has internet privacy. Any social site keeping EXIF intact will pay big in their bug bounty to hear about it because that's a GDPR nightmare

Facebook most certainly keeps exif intact. Just because they don't publish it doesn't mean they don't retain it as metadata.

I dont know what you think gdpr is but it's not a magic wand which prevents companies from gathering data.

My response was in the context of a third party using the data

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