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www.economist.com 9mo ago

Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns

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www.economist.com 1y ago

A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks

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www.economist.com 2y ago

China is the West's corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Protein test can detect 18 early stage cancers, scientists say

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www.economist.com 2y ago

Why aren’t more people being sacked?

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Is the Global Housing Slump Over?

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Where did woke ideas start to spread?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Best way to stop bot traffic?

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Alzheimer's-slowing drug labelled historic

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

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www.economist.com 4y ago

The rise of 3D-printed houses (2021)

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www.economist.com 4y ago

Which housing markets are most exposed to the coming interest-rate storm?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Best open source icon SVG pack?

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www.economist.com 4y ago

How to bring sex work out of the shadows

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www.economist.com 4y ago

Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

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www.economist.com 4y ago

Wages are surging across the rich world

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Which Password Manager are you using?

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www.eclipse.org 5y ago

Newest version of Google Chrome blocks me from downloading Eclipse installer

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: I'm hiring my first employee – literature recommendations?

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1. Bots are more than half of my traffic right now and they don't provide any benefits except using my bandwidth and distort my statistics. 2. Strange behavior + technology 2a-c. Could be a part of a solution. 3. Good idea

The purpose of this thread is to gather ideas and experiences. A silver bullet would be great, but since it's not realistic, all ideas are more than welcome.

In my case I am concerned about false positives since visitor experience is a higher priority than blocking all bots. Cloudflare, in my experience, do generate too many false positives when it's too aggressive. A very nice idea though in other cases.

Most of your suggestions would cause other problems. The root of the current situation is seemingly a lack of supply which in turn is mostly due to government regulations.

For instance, here in Sweden, it's very bizarre since we very much don't lack land suitable for new homes. Nimby regulations together with construction laws have however created a situation where prices for new homes have skyrocketed. Demand is overshooting supply by a lot (for the last decades), when there is nothing but government regulations keeping the market from beeing able to supply this demand.

It would have been true if the supply side of the market was working. Low interest rates have increased demand but the market has not been apply to increase the number of available homes to meet the demand, hence existing properties have increased in price.

I think you should be wary of your semantics, there is seemingly a consensus that the virus is not man-made - the question is if the virus "escaped" from a laboratory in Wuhan (originating from nature, however studied in a controlled environment).

The link you provided does discuss the probability of the virus accidentally leaking from a laboratory, however the reasons provided does not really provide much facts, seemingly more speculation (except for facts regarding who we think is patient zero):

"The WIV, and Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi’s lab group, are extremely well-respected in the virology community. As well respected as many US scientists.

● All the WIV’s sampling of bats and the genomes that they find in bats are publicly available information. Why isn’t SARS-CoV-2 on any of those lists? We would know.

● This doesn’t look anything like any laboratory accident that we’ve seen before.

● The evidence we have points to Patient Zero being nowhere near the City of Wuhan." (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAHSEx9-eIyVIahczH8itHaUm9j...)

Thank you for providing that link. That would explain the error. I don't have any extensions changing the url, I am however in Europe (Sweden) which probably allocates me towards different mirrors.

I will make sure that the mirror url provided by eclipse is not affected by anything on my setup, and if that's the case report it to the Eclipse foundation.