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After that, everything will be click-bait instead?
(Not clicking that.)
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May I please inquire how do you navigate / utilize internet if every link is considered dangerous?
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He didn't said dangerous, he said click-bait
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Apparently I do not understand the importance of the distinction. Wikipedia reports the term as a misrepresentation. Ok. But so what. That merely alters the inquiry. If the bait is swallowed one will find no misrepresentation only numerous brief humorous articles re/ internet from which the title is quoted.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: numerous brief humorous articles re/ internet
You could add that as a synopsis in the post as to why someone (not me) might want to click the link.
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Jumping to conclusions is dangerous.
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Unfortunately it is not an Olympic event.
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spam[^] will never be solved, it's contents remain a mystery...hence the term mystery meat.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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On similar lines :
- "It is impossible for heavier-than-air machines to fly" - Lord Kelvin in 1895.
- "Everything that needs to be invented has been invented" - Commissioner of the US Patent office in 1899.
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re/ the 2nd Wikipedia provides some discussion.
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Amarnath S wrote: Everything that needs to be invented has been invented
Absolutely correct.
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With perhaps the exception of zero pollution manufacturing honest politicians and of course teleportation from my cozy home in Antarctica to my job on one of the moons of Jupiter.
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Amarnath S wrote: "Everything that needs to be invented has been invented"
Problem with that one is:
a) Everybody's needs are different
b) As things are being invented, new needs will invariably arise
I agree with that one being short-sighted.
OTOH, I would also agree that more and more "inventions" nowadays seem dumber than ever.
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dandy72 wrote: I would also agree that more and more "inventions" nowadays seem dumber than ever
Myself I don't see much competition now with 'Ronco' gadgets of the past.
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Well, you simply can't improve on some things, like the Pocket Fisherman[^] for example. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Don't believe anything Clifford Stoll or Robert Metcalfe says.
Half of the predictions are by them and they're all very wrong 
The last one about snow being a thing of the past is slowly becoming truth.
We used to have snow every winter when I was younger.
We now have it maybe a few days per year and not nearly as much.
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Filtering on some properties, I mean.
I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through.
Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives.
I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities?
Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
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Amazon search drives me crazy.
When you try to search for something very specific, you get a pages of crap that is not relevant.
For instance, I remodeled the master bat and built a walk in shower and tiled the walls with a decorative tile that was uneven. So I searched for a shelving unit that could be installed with screws. Instead I get pages and pagers of units that use suction cups that will only work on smooth surfaces and then not very well. But if you don't use their search engine you get better results.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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Whenever Amazon's own search fails me, Bing's or Google's rarely does - searching Amazon's own site ("site:amazon.com [same keywords]")
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bing's search is so anally insane as to be an embarrassment. Google is not far behind. Amazon is just elephanting stupid.
I *think* the problem is that both track your history and cookies. I don't have time to test this, but when I get a chance, I'll google or amazon search things from a clean VM. Hell, they might even be tracking my IP so that might not work.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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But Bezos knows best!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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He's rich enough, he doesn't need my Tithe.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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Sponsored links seem to take prime spots on Amazon. (No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription).
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