funstuff007

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by funstuff007 3y ago
Yes, your examples make sense in their own context, but are not relevant to the case of scraping publicly available data. In short, who's getting put out of business for redisplay or derived data uses of publicly available data?
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by funstuff007 3y ago
Who's getting bankrupted by legal fees over scraping these days--which has time and time again be declared not illegal.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
Additionally, the CFO position at Tesla has had noticeably high turnover the years.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
> a service exposes some capability without authentication, ergo you're authorized to use it How is this different from scraping publicly available websites? i.e. why would you get in trouble for one, but not the other?
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by funstuff007 3y ago
except that person(s) you gave and received the cash from know who you are.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
> Terms of service for various companies and other long and boring documents. OK, fine. Do you have a working example of this? e.g. he's a contract, and please find me the unfavorable and / or non-standard terms. People have
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by funstuff007 3y ago
Please don't give the marketing team any crazy ideas. ESG + AI = Aladdin!
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by funstuff007 3y ago
> Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business. This statement undervalues the lock-in Salesforce has. One should probably make migrate-from-Salesforce to
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by funstuff007 3y ago
> This floored me. One because in my mid Atlantic area nearly every house has a heat pump. When house shopping many years ago we never saw a listing that didn't have one. Is this really possible? Is every house in this area less th
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by funstuff007 3y ago
> but it doesn’t seem to be good at extrapolation. This is true to varying degrees for every statistical model ever.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
I agree, it's impressive. But still not at the level of useful. For example, I would never use any of these generative art images in company ads or marketing materials. They're not in the uncanny valley, but closer to that than
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by funstuff007 3y ago
We use other signals as well: time of day, ip address, new cookie logs out old cookie. At the end of day we are dealing in probabilities, but we can definitely find the most aggressive sharers.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
This is beyond crazy. I can't image even trying to be a farmer without spending a good portion of my time repairing my tools, fences, etc.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
We use web fingerprinting and adjacent methods to crack down on ID sharing for our SaaS that charges (per person). I make no apologies for this practice.
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by funstuff007 3y ago
I'm reminded of the Chris Rock joke about Lululemon and their $100 no-hate yoga pants. But given that price they actually hate poor people.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
The Ghost Map, by the author, is one of the best popular science books I've ever read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map It was quite satisfying to see someone solve an epidemic, rather than make things
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Janet Yellen doesn't seem to appreciate or care about the incentives she and leadership have set up by choosing to make all SVB depositors whole, but not committing to do so for all banks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I agree that it's a reasonable approximation to say the Republicans are the bad guys, but that in no way makes it true that the Democrats are the good guys. In fact, the more odious the R's behave the worse the D's can do sa
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I guess, but you can grep JSONL just like you can a regular log file. As such, you don't need any sophisticated tools as discussed in this article. > 2. Each Line is a Valid JSON Value > 3. Line Separator is '\n' http
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Anyone who's generating multi-GB JSON files on purpose has some explaining to do.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I hear you what you are saying, but the counter argument remains: The only way you can get ESPN is purchase ESPN (plus the rest of basic cable). For the most part, you can buy basic cable over the top (sans ESPN). So given the state of p
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Really? I've always felt it was the ESPN viewer subsidizing the rest of the cable universe. ESPN is basically the only premium service you can't go over the top on. However, Iger says he's considering it.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
So tell me Johnny, why did you leave Amazon? My boss told me to go back to office, and I said no f'ing way--fire me! And they did. Probably not a great conversation to have on your next interview.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> We’ve included diagrams, illustrations, challenges, and over 600 new interactive examples. 600! It's hard for the competition to keep up with that.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
They were probably under a lot of pressure to start making some progress on this as soon as possible. Fast resolution is a strong indicator of strong financial markets. Goldman is just more nimble than the competition.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
in the same way repealing Glass Steagall did not make sense.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Without increasing student to teacher ratios, this problem is effectively unsolvable. It's Baumol's cost disease writ large. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I guess we know who was buying all the 1% yielding 10Y notes now.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
but not really too much. t-bills settle t1. i.e. you can get all your money into cash in 24 hours.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> good old regular banks doing what they do best: making customers deposits disappear. One of the more inane comments I've read here.

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