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This makes zero sense.
Same, in Paris we've encountered the same hour-long "where's the waiter"
This doesn't make sense.
My last trip to Paris was 1 year ago and it was pretty bad compared to NYC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for the average tourist - especially at night.
Source? How does it not sound plausible?
It has nothing to do with credit card processing fees, or data-mining.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile want you to connect a bank account to further tie an identity to a phone number / account.

This comes at request of the government. They do not want anonymous cellular users.

Re:The Ptrace Anti-Re Trick on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:07PM (#37289251)
No he is referring to happyware.
Re:Threads.net Can Go to Hell on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:36PM (#37254864)
The funny thing is Product Marketing Managers, to boost sign-up numbers, completely omit this step in certain regions like India, Eastern Europe, etc.
Agreed, it literally looks like a slot machine app...
Correct, COINTEL pro techniques that are used by many organizations (political super pacs, governments, etc.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20221215015113/https://pastebin....

It's a boilerplate response for pro-China comments.
Re:Kevin Mitnick has died on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:53AM (#36799742)
Rest in Peace Kevin, I read your The Art of Human Hacking in 7th grade after learning about you from The Screen Savers TV show.

Too young

CSS selectors has been common for the scrapers I've been using for years.
This honestly is standard web scraping but these projects always catch my attention.

You're bound at the mercy of rate-limiting firewalls (so you'll have to rotate proxies if you intend on using this heavily) on top of the standard CloudFront bot detection recaptcha, and div-obfuscation (a good example of this is Facebook).

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:44PM (#36558025)
Agreed, it's fud - and there are professional botnets on HackerNews to amplify what they want.

What I've noticed is there's little technical discussion, and more so emotional-provoking replies.

Your mistake is the assumption I'm translating it into salary. That $1,000 a day can go towards additional employees (coverage area) and marketing.
Well here's some logic for you. Before entering enterprise tech (8+ years), I managed a finish-construction company warehouse. Being good at web development, I helped a buddy start a locksmith company and have a small portion of equity for doing all his marketing/SEO (since 2012). He makes close to $1mil/year and lives out of a warehouse... Spare me with your "ridiculous piece of your worldview"...
Independent plumbers/local plumbing businesses can easily earn $1,000/day with 2-3 service calls. Not sure how universal healthcare, PTO, immigration, and more pay have to do with this.

Edit: Thank you for all the downvotes for me calling out the weird correlation between tech benefits/politics and plumber skill-shortage + high-reward wages. Your wokeism will forever benefit society.

Re:Email Marketing to Developers on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:47PM (#34141690)
The problem is Marketing departments are typically ran by boomers who want these things cranked out. Easy goals for them, they're not graded on the performance past open rates.
Good. Amazon doesn't allow AliExpress links in their reviews.
Re:Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:48PM (#33974688)
TikTok had a sharp decline in quality content anyway, it's a dying platform like Vine.
Re:You're Being Lied to About Electric Cars on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:33PM (#33949340)
Did you really just try to do an SEO boost here...
I think you read one story about a pizza and really clung to it.
Yep, it grabs the latest price of Bitcoin for each invoice. A flat, non-dynamic price was cool when Bitcoin was under $100 (so "Starting at 0.1₿/mo")
It's funny to watch how crazy Bitcoin drives everyone.

Bitcoin was the hottest thing on IRC in 2009 because of the 2008 recession. The USD (and all other currencies) were becoming questionable in terms of stability. Bitcoin was meant to be a world-currency not tied to one government. Simple as that.

Don't like Bitcoin? Don't believe in it? Don't use it or accept it at your business. I'll continue to use and accept it because I like the concept.

Re:CSS Dig on Saturday October 22, 2022 @08:21PM (#33303415)
This is neat.

For Properties, can you add a high/low sort for parent and children? That would be useful.

Couldn't have said it better.

Luckily, this gives people (like me atleast) a great shot at launching a solid product since I won't have an annoying product manager.

The typical product manager today just reads customer feedback and misinterprets data signals. They almost never have a development background where they creatively built something themselves, they always come from some wonky unrelated field... the MBA type.

Re:Americans Are Too Fat to Donate Their Bodies to Science on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:04PM (#33216515)
Thank you, here's more information about Mexico's obesity problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico

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