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I'm sure they're done electronically in some places: Your passport details are appended to the shared Google Spreadsheet...

I'm only half joking: I used to work in payments, hotels didn't care about PCI. Full card numbers stored everywhere.

I was only thinking about detection evasion. The indicators listed would stick out like a sore thumb.

I think the items listed under "What astroturfing would look like" were a pretty narrow scope. If I were designing a ~spam system~ astroturfing solution, I'd engineer out these four simple indicators as soon as I could.

* Those accounts naming one brand almost every time they name any. * Thin accounts: few comments, low scores, no real standing in the subreddit. * Young accounts, or accounts with histories that are hidden or wiped. * Links to a store or an affiliate page.

I believe it's urine based.

Either way, the constipation would affect different users at different times, so I don't think it would matter to the data. In other words, your idea stinks ;)

I don't know, but I imagine the compute spend is less than the marketing spend to get similar headlines.

That's pretty understandable, and I've no particular issue with it (although I'm now aware I broke quite a few photo- and video- laws when I was last in Berlin ;) )

That's an important caveat. We kind of have something similar, in that if you install CCTV, and if it captures an area where people would expect privacy (ie, looking through a window, or into someone's back garden ... which has its own caveats around being a public place or not) you have a right to have that area removed from video coverage.

Putting Security aside, do you know how this might complicate bot detections that use GPU or canvas indicators?

> It's illegal to record people in public spaces in Germany.

That's wild. In Ireland, there's no expectation of privacy in a public place, so you can record without issue.

Having watched the video, this hardly meets the standard of 'harassment' or bullying. This is a vox pop, that people can (and do) walk away from.

Thanks. The table & xml file should be pretty useful.

Cheers! This looks like the Sheldon Brown [1] of computer optimisation :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechani...

Thanks. Is there any convenient tool you'd recommend for watching those registers?

I've said in another comment that any optimisation I'd be doing would be looking at the entire stack, and CPU/GPU optimisation would only be as a learning exercise. I'm a tiny bit familiar with caching and instruction pipelines thanks to college, and branch prediction thanks to Spectre-class bugs. I want to find some time to dive deeper, now.

Thank you. Does workload optimisation usually refer to the CPU/GPU alone, or would it include disk or network IO? Or would that be more accurately called something else, like profiling?

Hindsight remains 20/20, though.

For someone who has never touched workload optimization, can you share a little about how you measure this? Does IPC mean inter-process communication in this context?

I know nothing about workload optimization, and I'd like to know more - right now I feel like the Good Burger gif. "Yeah, I know some of these words".

Copper theft is definitely an issue in Ireland.

I believe that some of the DNC (and other hack & leak) documents were tampered with. Does anyone remember if that included pdfs?

I can't find the quote any more, but when some internal bank workers were done for laundering money (possibly the Estonian branch of Danske Bank), one of the messages between the defendants read "There's always photoshop" :)

OP shifted from "no one considers them a cult" to "no one I want to believe considers them a cult". I'd engage with that in mind.

I feel I addressed this in my original post:

> don't have to involve threats or violence to be coercive control. Threatening to take away someone's community for a lack of belief is controlling.

This is also without getting into how many institutions in Ireland were (and many still are) faith based, requiring you to be a member of the church to, for example, attend school.

We can agree or disagree that being shunned from your community and denied opportunity because of a belief is controlling, but it's what led to my belief the Roman Catholic Church is a cult. Though to me a lot of it was simply not being allowed to leave.

This 'specific part of Catholicism' was the papal aligned Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. No unusual interpretations, no sects.

I feel like your comment here is a 'No True Catholic' style fallacy.

> No one calls the Catholic Church "a cult"

> No one considers Catholicism, or Protestantism, or Baptism cults.

Speak for yourself. I was coercively and forcefully added to the Roman Catholic church when I was baptised. Attempts to record myself as removed (the 'Count Me Out' campaign) were met with familial and attempted Church pressure. I was asked to visit the church to discuss the 'impacts of my decision'. I was not recorded as leaving, and the church updated its rules so people in Ireland could no longer request to leave the church.

The ways cults control you can vary, and they don't have to involve threats or violence to be coercive control. Threatening to take away someone's community for a lack of belief is controlling.

I did too, but it went away after some refreshes.

Ramzi Yousef, famous Irish Republican terrorist.

Speaking for, and possibly misunderstanding, the situation in Ireland:

> But you have a head of state

Yes! Our president.

> who can, in theory, remove the head of government at their own discretion

Ah. No.

Is Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness a bunch of independent cells held together by an ideology... or is it just an ideology?

There have been some posts here lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854

I know that, as time goes on, it feels like we have less hours in the day, but time is also linear.

This was a deliberately poor phrasing of the "10 foot wall, 12 foot ladder" adage.