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BlewisJS··on California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services
Yes...?
BlewisJS··on Plain Vanilla Web
This is a completely unhinged response to the idea of getting pizza delivered...
BlewisJS··on Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games
Sorry to be pedantic but Rozman isn't a GM
BlewisJS··on Eric Schmidt's influence on U.S. science policy
Stock buybacks: https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/stock_buyback
BlewisJS··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
What is legitimate to a user is not the same as what is legitimate to a site owner. The legitimate way would probably be to use the Twitter API.
BlewisJS··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
I agree it's a strong word, which is why I said borderline nefarious. However, it's not that far off from a DDOS tool.

At least in the United States, sounds like the jury is still out on the legality: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-supreme-court-revives-..., but my perspective was more from an ethics standpoint anyway.

BlewisJS··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
Unrelated to the article - is it just me or is this scrapingbee product borderline nefarious? From the homepage:

> Thanks to our large proxy pool, you can bypass rate limiting website, lower the chance to get blocked and hide your bots!

> Scrapingbee helps us to retrieve information from sites that use very sophisticated mechanism to block unwanted traffic, we were struggling with those sites for some time now and I'm very glad that we found ScrapingBee.

BlewisJS··on Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data
Sorry to be a pedant, but pedant, not pendant.
BlewisJS··on NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
This kinda already exists: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
BlewisJS··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
Is it amoral to turn the volume down during radio ads?
BlewisJS··on No More Google
> "You can also sign up with your email or SSO."

https://coda.io/signup/email

BlewisJS··on Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]
If you know you have the flu (or COVID-19), surely you know you are likely contagious and can spread it to more vulnerable people. Yes, it is your fault and you deserve blame if you knowingly spread it to others through negligence. Stay home if you're sick.
BlewisJS··on Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
What could they possibly call the cops about? "This man keeps accepting our offers"?
BlewisJS··on Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
Are you implying people hate Android and that iOS is way bigger in terms of market share?
BlewisJS··on Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
I made a repository to track what I consider to be the best Node libraries: https://github.com/blewisio/hqm. It's just a readme and directory (for now), but serves as a handy reference when trying to find a good library that does some particular task.
BlewisJS··on WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism
WeWork has dual class shares so it won't be included in the S&P 500 at a minimum.

Reference: https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/wework-ipo-s-and-p-500/

BlewisJS··on BlackBerry announces a new quantum-resistant code signing service
They pivoted to making software.
BlewisJS··on North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots
In a stroke of irony, the author generalized the entire population of a country. I have no clue how they came to the conclusion of "most Americans" assuming the crying was fake.
BlewisJS··on Twitter’s updated Mac app wasn’t made by Twitter
I don't think you understand what at-will means. They can fire the employee for no reason at all, alcoholism or not.
BlewisJS··on When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
The article states that 6 months earlier, the board turned down a potential sale valued at double the eventual sale price.
BlewisJS··on When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
You can't presume that they exercised early voluntarily. If you leave the company, you typically have 90 days to exercise options or they are forfeited back to the company. In other cases, they actually just expire after enough time passes, which again forces employees to exercise before a liquidity event.
BlewisJS··on The JavaScript Trap
Can someone explain what the "evil" is this article seems to be talking about?
BlewisJS··on You Should Write Blogs (2005)
Are you the CEO of a large tech company? No? You could be blogging.