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Nailed it!

I wonder what the chances are of it bumping off something and eventually crashing back into earth in a few hundred/thousand years.

I have always though a complete analysis of the entire list of absolutist words would be beneficial to everyone.

People are constantly using these words without totally understanding how they sound to others. This paper is full of interesting statistics that all people must be made aware of. Now that there is a link to suicide and depression nothing could be more important than sharing this with your whole network, every person.

I absolutely recommend reading the paper in full. It will definitely change everything about the way you speak. I’ll completely change the way I speak and never ever use these words again.

Well, except “constant” which I have to use to refer to software constants.

They were terrible, man.

And Waze will add an “Avoid Non-Vegan Routes” option.

No one is going to label the streets.

But maybe those people just want you to shut up?

I have plenty of vegan friends and a small set of them beat the drum constantly.

I’m not going to be vegan and if there was a meat prohibition, I’d be an outlaw.

The thing that particularly drives me nuts about this kind of vegan is that they will bring cookies to a party and after everyone’s has eaten them point out that they were vegan and that everyone enjoyed them.

A. Carrots are vegan. I can eat stuff without meat, too.

B. No shit, Carl. You made them we assumed that.

C. the cookies sucked and people weren’t going to be rude at a dinner party where someone already went out of their way to make you a vegan dish.

D. They dipped them in milk because they were dry AF

E. If I went to a vegan party and made vegan cookies and fed them to everyone and told them in the end there were pig eyeballs in them everyone would get pissed.

I don’t do that because I’m not a self righteous asshole.

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Also, Carl sucks.

Cows are in car tires, asphalt, and drywall.

I suggest people moooooove on out of town if they want to be militant about their veganism.

It runs its own parser. Which means mark is a big silly ol string until you parse it.

var obj = Mark.parse(`{div {span 'Hello World!' }}`);

I’m pretty sure they were making a Giorgio joke.

I’ll have to get a boat then.

I’m lucky my wife has Kaiser through the CA school system so our kids will be cheap. It sucks for people that aren’t as lucky.

If we would have used my insurance we would have to spend a Honda Civic. Maybe even a pre-owned Accord.

I’m gonna upvote that because you’re right, but I still feel there is a better word than “crisis.”

Words still have meaning.

Except “literally.”

Do you know any coyotes that can smuggle Californians in?

Crisis...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Until you see someone do it with buying gift cards. Those people are bastards. In that case using a service that helps detect fraudulent card usage is bueno.

My point is you’re not detecting the ones that you should be the most concerned with.

I think they meant, since they can't afford the API, they'd just keep crawling your HTML. Combo move the API and putting your stuff behind auth and you solve a lot of the problem.

You've gotta get that good yummy content publicly accessible for google though, so you'll rank. So, that's a balancing act.

Build a revshare API.

I assume the people that can't afford it are using it for non-revenue generating purposes. I don't know that I'd care about those people if they aren't taking away from my bottom line.

Caveat to my wasted effort comment:

Your'e an e-commerce site that has a problem with people buying goods (especially virtual goods, ebooks, gift cards, etc)[1] with stolen credit cards. You need a solution.

The hardest thing I've ever had to crawl (as I mention in another comment in this thread) has been linkedin and Facebook. Why? Because I have to be logged in to get the data I want.

If you want to stop crawlers you can also put the good stuff behind auth, but you need a solid auth mechanism. You can't just do email verification because I'll use shit like https://www.mailinator.com to generate a ton of fake emails to sign up for your site.

[1] Why virtual goods? You can't stop shipping or track down the person once the card is reported stolen.

Blocking crawlers is dead simple:

Find a way to build an API for your data that allows you both to make money.

Any effort besides that is wasted.

Honey pots links? Great my crawler only clicks things that are visible. See capybara.

IP thresholds? Great I have burner IPs that hit a good page of yours until I’m blocked (am I time banned, captchad or perma) and then I back that number out across my network of residential IPs (bought through squid, hello or anyone else) and a mix of tor nodes ( I sample your site with that too) to make sure I never approach that number. But then I also geolocate the IP so it’s only crawling during sensible browsing hours for that location.

Keystrokes detection? yeah I slow down keystrokes so it looks like Grandma is browsing

Mouse detection? looks like Michael j Fox is on your site (that’s an old Dell or Gateway Commercial reference don’t be mad)

Poison the well? I get a page from multiple IPs and headless browser combinations on different screen orientations and if I detect odd changes in data I flag that URL for a turk to provide insight/tune the crawler.

I keep the screenshot and full payload (css,js,html) that I use over time to do more devious shit like render old versions of your page behind a private nginx server so I can re-extract pieces of data I may have missed.

Stop trying to stop the crawling and figure out how to create a revenue stream.

What site?

I’d guess LinkedIn or Facebook.

I’ve had to make a lot of fake accounts to get just a decent amount of data from them.

I’m willing to wager it’s regular old floating point and it just draws the repeating bar over the repeating decimals.

I’ve been carless in LA for a year. I walk to most things I need and work from home, so I’m lucky. Otherwise I bike or Uber/Lyft based on price.

I also have an Amex platinum which gets you $200 of Uber credit a year.

The one thing you’re missing from your calculation is parking tickets! In LA it can easily creep up on you :)

Also, no time spent parking and you can do work emails while someone else drives.

It was one of the first I listened to, then I went back and listened to them all. :D

coin check

99% Invisible did an episode on this a while back that’s a pretty good listen.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...

That’s interesting. I mean it drives me nuts sometimes but it’s also the natural progression of spoken language right?

I have a question for AI/NLP experts (and I might use the wrong terms).

When our voices are processed in systems like these are the results compared to a corpus of our own speech, a local (geo) population, or language speakers as a whole?

I’ve been curious how slang and people with poor grammar affect results of other users. Will we start seeing “thicc” instead of “thick” and “dat” instead of “that” over time?

One of the reasons I’ve been pondering this (anecdote alert) is that I frequently see iOS dictation spelling bizarrely.

So I’ve got a question for you legal scholars. If it’s unconstitutional does that mean the people behind it broke laws or is this simply the court citing why the map was rejected?

Thats a pretty good idea!

I’ve been curious about this. I’ve thought about it (inspired by event sourcing), but am not familiar with the Blockchain enough to know if it’s feasible from the trust/security side.