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Re:How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:48PM (#17105528)
The 'free eth' business is booming cuz twitter is too inept to ban domains that spam its site and ppl are too stupid to know better.

https://medium.com/@robertyusert/there-are-free-ethreum-spam...

How can a website detect thumbprint?

Awhile back I signed up for a free service.Because it's free, for obvious reasons they put a cap of one account per person. I tried to evade this by doing the following:--Anonymous proxy--new browser (Firefox instead of chrome)--cleared out cookiesyet somehow they were able to detect I already registeredBut shortly after registering on new computer and different ISP worked.How would this have...

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Buying followers is a good idea actually. There are fewer restrictions on Twitter accounts that have a lot of followers.
Re:Why the Dow is a useless market index on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:46PM (#14074021)
That is what the S&P 500 does. No one stopping anyone from buying the individual stocks of the Dow in a market-cap weighted manner
Re:Why the Dow is a useless market index on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:34PM (#14073961)
Not sure how this got to the front page. This is not new information or even that interesting.

Literally, hundreds of articles about this exact same thing

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

another brand new site up-voted to the font page...created in 2017 and only 8 very sparse articles

erikrood.com

Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discrimination

Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discriminationMillions of Americans don't have cell phones . Either they are too expensive or the are disabled or other reasons that prevents them for having a mobile phone . Cellphone service is very expensive ,requires decent credit and many poor and disabled people cannot afford it

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Re:Grey hair linked with increased heart disease risk in men on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:25AM (#14067356)
Sigh...another fake copycat news site created in 2017. Flagged

for example: “Atherosclerosis and hair greying occur through similar biological pathways and the incidence of both increases with age,” said Dr Samuel. “

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CAtherosclerosis+and...

Re:Ted Talk Review Why people believe weird things on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:28AM (#14041056)
this is a low-quality submission of a site that was created just a month ago and filled with affiliate links.
stop spam and automated sign-ups
I think it's safe to say people have noticed

IMHO, it would have been solved sooner had more people been working on it. I think only 5 or so people had or were working on it?

Re:G.K. Chesterton on AI Risk on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:42AM (#14017538)
lengthy and dry, and although it was intended to amuse, it overstayed it welcome. sorry.
Re:Why are browsers so slow? on Friday March 24, 2017 @08:57AM (#13948579)
Too many scripts and plugins. A typical website has hundreds of pages worth of JavaScript that must be rendered
good question ...it would be very easy to fix such a problem.

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