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I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.
One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports. No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.
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I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.
One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports. No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.
Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
Access logs often include the HTTP Referer header, which would make it easy to see that all the traffic is coming from Hacker News.
Even so, if I were the one to submit the URL to Hacker News, I'd probably make the URL path something like /showing_404_page_to_Hacker_News so it's impossible for someone reading the access logs to wonder what's going on.
Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
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One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports. No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.
Do you remember what they were called?
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One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports. No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.
Do you remember what they were called?
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Other google domains serve different 404 pages on different URLs sometimes, for example: - https://www.youtube.com/djhjwhfkffs - https://www.youtube.com/varz - https://www.youtube.com/abortabortabort
https://twitter.com/jeffdean/status/1282882643277656065 seems to explain it - "varz" is one of the "z pages" (a convention that by now has leaked outside Google), so it's handled by the Google web server infrastructure, not by the YouTube app. And "abortabortabort" and a few others are commands that are restricted at the load-balancer level.
Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
I was thinking the same thing, but that engineer should have a really short investigation as to why it's happening. Access logs often include the HTTP Referer header, which would make it easy to see that all the traffic is coming from Hacker News. Even so, if I were the one to submit the URL to Hacker News, I'd probably make the URL path something like /showing_404_page_to_Hacker_News so it's impossible for someone r…
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Do you remember what they were called?
Probably a Bloomberg terminal.
The analysis industry is fascinating, you're essentially paying gobsmacking amounts of money to a single journalist to follow 1 stock.