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[flagged] Someone who can build spaceships can distinguish scrapers from legit users (twitter.com/paulg)
5 points by redbell on July 2, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments


For those unable to access the tweet, here’s the full content:

“Surely someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.”


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I assume because this is posted on HN, it means Twitter isn't down for everyone? Though I get the same


I assume it is because I don't have a Twitter account and thus cannot (choose not to) sign in to Twitter.


pg changed his message; a while ago he was telling everybody that musk was a genius and we just couldn't see it.


Indeed! Fortunately, we live in a digital world where everything you say in public will saved, bookmarked or even screenshot-ed.

Check this: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1675256010313965568...


People and their opinions.


Space is tough but there's no intelligent adversary trying to break our solutions to problems.


pg demonstrating his spiritual leadership of HN there by doing one _hell_ of a "how hard could it be?"


Flagged; hard paywall.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are paywalls ok?

>It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.


Hard paywall.




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