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RoyGBivCap

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    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 editorializ…

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    Comment #36576670

    FTC, if they weren't captured.

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    Comment #36576632

    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 anyth…

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    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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    Comment #36544351

    I've had zero issues all day. Didn't even notice there was a problem, but I'm logged in.

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    Comment #36544337

    "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 st…

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    Comment #36543138

    Yeah, in advertising there's supply side and demand side. So even more parties can get screwed!

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    Comment #36539960

    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…

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    Comment #36539788

    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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    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 …

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    Comment #36539610

    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, w…

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    > 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, Dase…

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    > “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 profes…

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    Think about who has time to go to public meetings.

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    > 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 individua…

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    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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    Comment #36450386

    EVE has been called "spreadsheets in space" for years, so this is hilarious and the devs know it.

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    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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    They went from alive, to clouds of molecules faster than humans can perceive. So effectively, yes.