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		vmttmv 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the L... but... how? when the author ran the numbers, the rough estimate is solving the challenges at a rate of 10000/5 min, on a single instance of the free tier of google compute. that is an insignificant load at an even more insignificant cost.

guappa 2 days ago [–]

That's insanely slow compared to how fast they normally scrape.

verteu 2 days ago | [–]

As mentioned in the article, mining one token gets you unfettered access for 7 days.

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