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How do residential proxies help? Scraping would effectively be bitcoin mining, which costs resources without shortcut.

> is a problem that can be mitigated server-side No matter what you do, this will cost server infra. That's Musk's argument for disabling access altogether. Therefore it would make…

You can still get a login and have no delay. For non-auth use, I rather wait for 1 second than not have any access at all. Which is the current state of affairs.

> And PoW doesn't sound reasonable because it sets mobile devices against the scraper's servers. Scraper servers and mobile devices have different access patterns though. I I'm rea…

> He's been somewhat critical of OpenAI. Specifically the part about it pivoting to a for-profit business. Because it was thereby starting to compete with his own for-profit. He wa…

One that's slowly ageing away though.

This could easily be solved by making the unauthenticated access hard for machines to consume, like introducing delays or some kind of captcha or even just proof of work (reverse s…

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I think you are missin the point. The typical website is so bloated that a latency of a single roundtrip is not the root cause. They may load quicker if roundtrips are faster, but …

That's exactly GP's point, right? No matter us-east-1 or not, what makes things slow has nothing to do with DC location. That latency is insignificant.

> using an esp32 > super easy to setup & 'just works'. Yeah right. Please tell my mom again how super easy to setup an esp32 is and that it 'just works'.

It's really not that much equipment. Drumset, keyboards, a bunch of guitar amps. Perhaps some horns if your music has that. The rest is local sound and light equipment that is alre…

4. sell all that user data for tons of $$$. Not going to do that? Not until you got the first VC investor, and if you refuse then you get replaced with a CEO with more flexible mor…

Difference is that the examples you gave don't have the expectation of being free. Online news articles do.

> I guess everybody wants to fully own the platform, But this is not about distribution platform. It's about the payment platform. They can all distribute in any way they like, as …

> I just wanted to mention airthings. Turn key, cloud enabled, and "just works". Cloud. As soon as it's in the cloud, it's not yours. Just a matter of time for the next round of cl…

> "Have you always been so sensitive about being a N**?" Please don't. You severely misquoted by using the ** here. The original word was "Negro", not what many peoplr (including m…

> Why is the top ranking comments in this thread not even about the original article? In short: Because it got the most upvotes. Sounds trivial but there is a deeper point to it. "…