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sgtmas2006··on Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
It can, but you can also find some that sell the accounts themselves, allowing you to falsify a network. Think taking accounts and re-purposing them from being a modern, pop-culture following network to one that is tech-oriented, or more obscure. If you're planning on inserting yourself in this method, you really need to be in control of it all yourself. Follow the major people in your industry, with added randomness to remove following some, while adding randomness to extend the network further.

Keeping the network healthy is one of the more interesting topics. Simulating a real network is the biggest thing. It's very easy to embed yourself, unless it is that closed of a network.

sgtmas2006··on Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
On the Xbox 360 you mean? I recall it there, not on the original Xbox.
sgtmas2006··on The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius (2012)
Oh dear! I've just realized that she was sustained by her religion, I thought her religion was creating the poverty!
sgtmas2006··on Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test
I presume it's the logic that goes along with the pulse oximeter that is making the test important.
sgtmas2006··on The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius (2012)
I wouldn't so much say a happy ending. The article about her returning speaks about her desire to not burden anyone in her life with her physical pain and instead suffered through poverty.

"Unable to work because of it and subsequent injuries, she had long lived in poverty, sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade."

I wonder what religion this is. One is quick to think Scientology, but to make such an assumption is too quick and heavy-handed I fear. It seems to be the best outcome, but not one that is pleasant at all.

sgtmas2006··on Neural scene representation and rendering
Towards endless stars, bound to be pulled in by another
sgtmas2006··on Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
Do we know this?

It is not possible truly to know one way or another at a complete level, although it is unlikely. Saying they are not this powerful is, well, simply not true. It is not possible without creating a huge skunk-works internal project binding people to secrecy.

Google doesn't have the power to bind people to secrecy in the same way that say, the CIA, FBI, or NSA do. It does not mean that they do not have the capability of doing these things.

sgtmas2006··on Neural scene representation and rendering
What if we're flying up and not down?
sgtmas2006··on Ask HN: What comes after BitTorrent?
I've had Spotify show me an indie label artist with <1000 listens on Spotify, and <1000 views on Youtube. It was the absolute best thing I've ever seen.

And yes, if content isn't on Spotify for me, it basically doesn't exist. If it's on Bandcamp maybe I will download it.

Spotify allows you to see songs that you have added that have been removed from availability as greyed-out names.

sgtmas2006··on Vice Media: A Company Built on a Bluff
I love what VICE was ~2005-2010. VICE and what it has become today (see: VICELAND) is... nothing what it used to be. I love their documentary style from the 2010 range. The NK documentaries on YouTube were my favorite. They've turned into like you said a buzzfeed-tier garbage.
sgtmas2006··on The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC
It would, I wanted to do emotion analysis on them but the way my friends and I speak within discord is representative of a conversation, with convenience and spelling variances to declare the dialect something is supposed to be read in so it didn't really work out.

  [5:35 PM] zsh: sopranos in a bit?
  [5:38 PM] Adam: probably
  [5:57 PM] zsh: when
  [6:00 PM] zsh: ?
  [6:04 PM] Adam: whenever tuhe f8uclo i FEDEL LIKE
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im ready
  [6:04 PM] zsh: whenever
  [6:04 PM] Adam: ye thats cool
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im actually going to kill u
  [6:04 PM] Adam: gimme 5 i guess
  [6:04 PM] Adam: idk i just dont feel that hyped to watch it rn
  [6:05 PM] zsh: we can play bf1 idc
  [6:05 PM] Adam: ye i think play bf1 for a bit
  [7:45 PM] zsh: too much effort to get up
  [7:45 PM] zsh: no

  [7:56 PM] Adam: fucking mullinyan kids
  [8:24 PM] zsh: varsity athlete won
  [8:24 PM] Adam: rip bobby
  [8:26 PM] zsh: the bacala man stands true
  [8:27 PM] Adam: bacala vs a gun
  [8:27 PM] Adam: 
  [8:38 PM] zsh: yes
  [8:45 PM] zsh: my estimation of John sacrimoni as a man had plummeted
  [8:45 PM] Adam: what sort of don gets cancer
  [8:46 PM] zsh: the same one that cries
these are surprisingly common examples, being of lesser extremes. Varying capitalization and new lines are used as ways of carrying on a dialogue, instead of writing entire bubbles of text at once, producing the feeling of a conversation instead of reading e-mails. The second being an example of 'soprano-posting,' in which you use references to The Sopranos in an ironic manner. The first being a common conversation. Looking into the idea of trying to extract emotion from this accurately seems... impossible. Most of our writings are extremely foreign to those that aren't 'in the know' and seem almost hostile to one another, while in reality they aren't.

I'm curious if there has been analysis on this type of writing in general. It feels so much more efficient than 'traditional' writing styles.

sgtmas2006··on The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC
Are people not logging Discord servers as well? If you can read message history you can use a fake client to export a couple hundred thousand messages in 5 minutes. This is how I got old messages. Now I just run it daily. CSV output.
sgtmas2006··on NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
Somebody wanted it to be.
sgtmas2006··on RuneScape Classic: Farewell
I thought OSRS was going away for a minute. Had me sweating.
sgtmas2006··on In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever
Is this true for all versions? If it's a 2nd or 3rd hand-me-down iPad as stated, chances are it's on a lower version.

I forgot that this was even a feature.

sgtmas2006··on In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever
I wonder if you created a network with an SSID and password that matched the original if it would pick it up and update the date? This is what I did with my TV when I lost the remote, so I could add a phone as a remote.
sgtmas2006··on Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]
Senator Wyden is extremely well regarded within the US with regards to technology. If you haven't seen it, he's in the documentary for Aaron Swartz.

Here are his words about the death of Aaron: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Senator_Wyden_Remarks_at_Aaro...

sgtmas2006··on A megathread on breaking away from Google
I just use youtube-dl, it's simple and can be automated easily. Toss a URL at it and get a nice quality version. I really wish people would start publishing videos elsewhere for download, with high bitrate versions. I can (and do, as we all) live with the artifacts, but I don't mind some bandwidth. Even if it were patreon exclusive (to offset the costs for hosting) I would become a patron for that alone.
sgtmas2006··on Ask HN: What are some technical topics I can blog about?
why exactly are cryptocollectibles relevant? They seem pretty pointless barring very few uses.

I'm genuinely curious, I would probably read something about it. They seem useless for the commonplace at surface value.

sgtmas2006··on Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room
I've never felt the need to run "git blame" fast enough
sgtmas2006··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
I would love to read this if you come across it.
sgtmas2006··on Ask HN: What business would you start in 2018?
A data firm within the US. (which is what i'm doing)
sgtmas2006··on A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
This controller is going to be wonderful for far more than just disabled people, I can't wait to use it for more interactive possibilities.
sgtmas2006··on Completely Silent Computer
I can be tabbed out and hear when I get into the plane in PUBG from the increase in whine. It's quite nice actually.
sgtmas2006··on Traditional TV Is in Trouble
I mean, I connect with the majority of my friends via Discord. I don't think I'd trade those experiences for anything.

I suppose that's not the same as Facebook.

sgtmas2006··on Life as a stepmother
Being positive at all times is how my stepdad was. Even when my father hid in a bush outside of my house and he had to pull a gun to get him to leave (father was armed as well, brandishing wildly while on meth) he still never said a negative word to me. No matter what I'd say either, he was always passive regarding the topic.
sgtmas2006··on Traditional TV Is in Trouble
Man, this is literally my Plex library. <15 shows that I ever enjoy watching (ATHF, Mr Robot, The Wire, Sopranos, GoT, Squidbillies, House, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, Buffy, Futurama to be exact.) They still take up a full 1.5TB because I like to get the highest quality rips possible.

Some shows like House I have edited personally to create 'binge versions,' with the intro and outro cut out, with only special episodes that have special endings or intros included. Saves a good chunk of time with House and The Wire when I rewatch them. I wish a lot of other people did this as well. Instead groups stick to following scene rules that leave us with ugly formats, poor management and naming schemes and more. They were created for a different era.

Maybe I'll try to put it out there.

sgtmas2006··on Traditional TV Is in Trouble
I rarely use my phone either. I keep it to send the occasional snap, use Discord, Google Maps, Notion for business, Email, and Chrome.

The majority of time on my phone is for a hotspot or to read an article while waiting somewhere. Now to apply it to my PC, couldn't do it.

sgtmas2006··on Traditional TV Is in Trouble
Either way, I only own a TV in general because every now and then I like to clean with music on, and rarely watch a movie. Most everything I watch is on a monitor.
sgtmas2006··on CentOS Linux 7.5 (1804) Released
Yes, it is.
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