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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 …

Who's getting bankrupted by legal fees over scraping these days--which has time and time again be declared not illegal.

Additionally, the CFO position at Tesla has had noticeably high turnover the years.

> 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…

except that person(s) you gave and received the cash from know who you are.

> 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 unfavora…

Please don't give the marketing team any crazy ideas. ESG + AI = Aladdin!

> 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 …

> 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 r…

> but it doesn’t seem to be good at extrapolation. This is true to varying degrees for every statistical model ever.

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…

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 aggres…

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.

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.

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.

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 e…

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 al…

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 odiou…

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 V…

Anyone who's generating multi-GB JSON files on purpose has some explaining to do.

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 basi…

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 s…

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…

> We’ve included diagrams, illustrations, challenges, and over 600 new interactive examples. 600! It's hard for the competition to keep up with that.

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 …