RoyGBivCap

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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Devil's advocate: What if they gave a comment the publication didn't like (but readers would) and hid it? Publishing what was said is more "just the facts, please" than editorializing the response, as shitty PR-speak as
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
FTC, if they weren't captured.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Full disclosure, I'm an author who has self published a few things on Amazon and setup author stuff on amazon and goodreads. > as demonstrated by the fact that it hasn't done anything. There are links between the two. You can
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I can't speak for him, just relaying the information. But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I've had zero issues all day. Didn't even notice there was a problem, but I'm logged in.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas." https://tw
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Yeah, in advertising there's supply side and demand side. So even more parties can get screwed!
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Didn't you hear? It's now EAT VERIFICATION SANDWICH: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/get-diablo-4-early-beta-ac... They're doing another promotion for cosmetics too. And it's not even per sandwich
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Using the Brave browser on iPadOS at least, YouTube will just refuse to served HD content after one video. Enjoy your 4K video downscaled to 360p.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I know this isn't exactly the same, but I used to work at an adtech startup and my boss was very savvy in the industry, and right in front of me did some quick napkin math showing that Hulu probably makes about $20 a month off of peopl
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I realized a truism years ago: Anytime there are 3 or more parties involved in a business deal, at least one of them is getting fucked. And it's usually the least powerful party, which 99% of the time is just the ordinary user/con
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> To those men in their oddly similar dark suits, their cold eyes weighing and dismissing everything, the people of this valley were a foe to be defeated. As he thought of it, Dasein realized all customers were "The Enemy" to t
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> “What’s intriguing is that, unlike the case for light of any wavelength, in neutrinos, the universe outshines the nearby sources in our own galaxy,” says Francis Halzen, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Think about who has time to go to public meetings.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; I think this is one thing a ton of people don't realize. Apple doesn't want to sell you individual devices. They want you to sell an entire elec
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
FYI: yt-dlp is more up to date and faster, AFIK: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp I download and save it as 'ytdl' for convenience, but I use it all the time on twitter too.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
EVE has been called "spreadsheets in space" for years, so this is hilarious and the devs know it.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I think more accurately, you can't assume you've broken it, or that it works because you can't test it. It's just an unknown. Which is bad enough, IMHO.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
They went from alive, to clouds of molecules faster than humans can perceive. So effectively, yes.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
An attempt at an ExplainLikeImFive answer: In a sizable volume of gas the air molecules have a lot of room to bounce around. Moving molecules and them hitting things is heat. So suddenly having a lot less room results in much more frequen
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Implemented by IBM using Oracle, for some reason.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
The server is running on my local network. It was blocking watching content on my local network from within my local network because it couldn't phone home. That's broken by design.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> It's that they're being a jerk. People define others whose opinions they don't share as "being a jerk" when they're just saying something they don't like, all the time.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> There will always be people who just want to show up in a space and act like an asshole, then cry "censorship" when they are asked to leave. Who is an asshole is an opinion. And no one likes being censored. One man's
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
https://communities.win has been around since reddit banned The_Donald. But it allows right wing views, so probably not what 95% of HN is interested in.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Admins going rogue? Admins are employees of reddit.com. I think you're talking about moderators, who are the volunteer petty tyrants that have always been the worst thing about reddit, and they are the ones "going rogue".
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Like three people went to mastadon.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
My ISP went down. Nothing I could do about it.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
And it doesn't require internet access to watch things on your local network. That was the last straw for me with plex. Having to log into a server on the internet to access local content isn't just bad, it's broken by design
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Isn't the rule of thumb 1/9/99 where 1% post, 9% comment, 99% lurk? Or something like that.

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