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doomjunky··on RSS is undead
This is exactly how i use RSS. It's so convenient to have one place instead of checking dozens of blogs that only get updated once in a while.
doomjunky··on Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
I remember that Blizzard had secretly watermarked WoW screenshots.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505584

doomjunky··on How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base
"non-dictionary" is 14-characters long
doomjunky··on What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
> I assumed to trigger a keyword match, the video title or description would have to match it. This turned out not to be the case.

Does Youtube extract the keywords from the speech in the videos?

doomjunky··on Show HN: A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications
How did you implement the academic email filter? Where did you get the domain list? I just have registered my account with a none .edu email address.
doomjunky··on How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
I see a problem in the US system, the insurance companies have two options to make profit, (1) drain the insured people and (2) negotiale the the medical providers. This puts insurance companies in a very privileged position. This is why the insurance companies are the problem. Germany for example has a national "public" health insurance system and a private insurance system. The national health insurance system is based on an tax-based insurance font. For the public insurance sector this font is the only one (!) allowed source of income for the insurance companies. This means the companies can not drain the insured persons, they have to negotiate prices with the medical providers.
doomjunky··on I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil
This is called Beamforming. Look it up.
doomjunky··on A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
Every heuristic algorithm needs a tollerance

    peopleKilled() < ε
doomjunky··on Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project
Her first blog post was on: 2014-12-16

Her last blog post was on: 2015-03-31

This doesn't look like an sophisticated engagement.

doomjunky··on Competitive Self-Play
Genetic algorithms are too slow.
doomjunky··on Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin suddenly so popular?
Crtl + f "bubble" => 17 matches

Since no one mentioned it yet - deflation.

The total amount of bitcoins is limited. Although the last bitcoin has not yet been mined, the available amount of bitcoin has stabilized, because the bitcoin-mining-process has slowed down and is in parity with the bitcoin-got-lost-process.

doomjunky··on Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte
You can fix the encoding problem on your site with:

   <meta charset="UTF-8">
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