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I doubt their API would handle 100k requests per second. That math was roughly indictive of what the cost to send 100k requests per second would look like. He did mention that that was assuming the target didn't have rate limiting, either intentional or just pure limits of the hardware.

You don’t even always need a third party. My wife works in HR for the government and part of her job is literally to contact neighboring counties and send them requests for their salaries for various positions and levels while filling out salary requests from other counties.

Of course, being government, it’s all public information anyway so collaborating in this way is seen more of a performance increase vs manually accessing each counties salary information but it’s the same premise.

There’s nothing wrong with genetics and nothing wrong with stores having their own brand.

We just need regulations to ensure that vertical companies are engaging in arms length transactions. If Walmart charges a company $10 per linear foot of shelf space on the third row, then they need to internally bill the generic brand division the same rate.

How is it clearly anti-competitive if they are providing a better value for the consumer?

When a name brand has market power and charges a premium for a basic product, then another company entering the market and undercutting them is great for the consumer. We can make regulations to ensure that a distributor, advertiser, retailer and the product owner engage in arms length transactions but there’s nothing inherently wrong with a store brand offering products comparable to name brand at significantly reduced prices.

We are a social species, but we also heavily compare ourselves to others.

The quickest solution might be to remove yourself from others so that you don’t mentally make the comparison. The best long term solution might be to form the social bonds.

And sometimes you need to tackle the short term solution to change your mood in order to enact the long term solution.

Having a SAHP is always a difficult thing to compare to todays world. A lot of people can’t have a SAHP because their peers don’t have a SAHP. When your peers are willing and able to spend more on housing and cars… then you have to get the second income to keep up with them or accept a lifestyle more in line with lower income people (except with a SAHP).

People tend to underestimate the cost of living in a high demand place.

You could make top 10% incomes globally, but if you are living in a top 1% location then you are being priced out by the 9% of the population making more than you.

If you want to live with a certain lifestyle of cars/vacations/personal services etc then you can’t be spending up on the other parts of your budget like housing location.

I would be cautious how much of your frustration is because of the US changing or not meeting your expectations vs you happening to make major life decision right when there happened to be major world changing events. (Covid, Russia/Ukraine primarily.)

Since you aren’t in your old life anymore, you don’t know exactly how good or bad it would have been had you stayed.

Moving on beyond that, some places are definitely worse off than others within the US. Housing where I live is getting more expensive, but incomes are also going up substantially. And they are building thousands of new housing.

You mention being a top 5% earner. Unless that is top 5% locally, you are probably using up a lot of that top 5% income to live in a top 1% location.

> Reddit finally finds a way to possibly become profitable and everyone calls them scumbags focused on profit?

If the numbers shared for the API costs is what it takes to be profitable, then it’s not a site that will be profitable and Reddit will go under.

Uh what?

Quick google shows that a Hyundai Ioniq gets around 4 miles per kWh. An average US household uses 886 kWh per month. You’d have to drive 3,500 miles a month to have the electric car use more energy than the entire household.

Yes, there is an energy cost in building the car, but there’s also an energy cost in building the refrigerator and dryer and washing machine etc in the house.

I’m sure some electric cars are worse than the Ioniq, but they’d have to be considerably worse to equal the energy used by a household.

What is the purpose of copyright in other countries?

> By temporarily defacing the Sega website

I may have missed it but what did they deface?

I see a proof of script execution in what appears to be an uploaded file of a random string of letters and numbers .htm address.

So if don’t correctly there is a near zero chance of any public user stumbling into the site.

I mean, that’s why the person had to be kidnapped by a non-family member.

If a family member kidnaps them the it follows the usual formula of who cared for the kidnapped person for half the year plus a day.

I use default safari on iPhone and was able to hit the x to hide the timeline and then another x to hide the donation banner.

In short, using IRC for your free software/open source (FOSS) software project is a very bad idea. Ease of use matters — that’s why you’re writing code, after all. To make peoples lives easier. Using IRC partitions your community on either side of a walled garden, with one side that’s willing to use the complicated, archaic client, and one side that isn’t. It sets up users who are passionate about ease of use — i.e. your most self aware contributors or potential contributors — as second-class citizens.

> This way the big players can just carve out a bigger market for themselves.

Or it’s because there is a near infinite number of domains so it’s relatively simple for spammers to avoid bad rep blocks by grabbing new domains and starting fresh.

What’s the difference between a student loan that can be discharged in bankruptcy and a personal loan?

Sure, the student loan can only go to a school but neither has any collateral which makes them the most similar loan products. So go get any 18 year old to try to get a $20,000 personal loan without any credit and see what the rates are and if lenders would even give it to them.

The issue with notes is when the solution changes because of an update. Using Google and grabbing recent solutions gets you updated answers if and when things change.

> The ethical problem is that you can't do research on people without their consent.

But can you do research on a business without the businesses consent? Or do I need a businesses consent before sending out identical resumes except one has a stereotypical minority name to attempt to judge discrimination?

Because websites aren’t people. Websites are businesses. A lot don’t make money or fail. They may have a small staff managing them. They may not be ‘for profit’ but they are still businesses.

That’s my issue with the complaints about the study. They blow up and claim to be unwitting participants of human subject research, drawing mental parallels with the Tuskegee experiment when it’s a closer parallel to research performed against companies who were never notified like when researchers sent out identical resumes except for their names.

The researcher definitely could have worded the email better so it didn’t come across as an ominous legal threat. There are valid criticisms against the research. But claiming to be an unwitting subject of a human research experiment is incredibly misleading.

Websites aren’t sentient beings, but they are more similar to commercial entities than people. Even if not intentional, websites gain traffic and can display ads. They have Google ranking. They have an audience and can get paid to share information with their audience.

Would there be an issue if they sent out letters to businesses asking how they comply with a California regulation?

> Cluster berries, from raspberries to pineapples, are never poisonous.

I know nothing but that still seems too generalized that it doesn’t have an exception somewhere in the world.

Because your contract here is with the subscription service, not the bank.

Just as you can’t cancel your brothers subscriptions, the subscription service has no reason to accept a cancellation request from your bank.

Even if the service was no longer able to charge your card, you would still owe the money. The debt you incurred monthly is separate from your choice of how to pay that debt.

> Nobody talks about the larger effects of the traffic in US cities

I always assumed truckers took mandatory breaks during rush hour. Here in Charlotte, traffic is minimal except during rush hour.

This is kind of ignoring that we don’t have high unemployment and our labor participation rate is nearly recovered as well.

So anyone who wants a job, basically has one. A company raising wages isn’t going to create new labor by hiring an unemployed person, they are going to move labor by hiring one of their competitors employees. This doesn’t reduce the markets labor shortage.

I think this is completely different than having a credit score.

I’ve never ‘needed’ a credit score unless I was requesting a line of credit. I’m which case a credit score is better than the alternative where I need to personally know someone that the lender already trusts and trusts their ability to trust other people.

You don’t ‘need’ a credit score but if you want a line of credit then it’s good to have. Otherwise you get the products that they offer to high risk individuals which costs a pretty penny.

There’s an ID verification service, at least in the US, where you go to webpage A who wants you to confirm identity, A then redirects you to the service. The service asks a bunch of questions like ‘which of these cars have been related to you’ or ‘which of these addresses belonged to you when you lived in town x?’

That generates a score where the service determines if you are who you say you are and returns the result to the calling web page.

But I assume it uses background check/credit check information which may be limited to the US and is a paid service as compared to phone validation.

Compare the generated project file between the two.

I noticed for a time that some projects created in rider had a different project type than those created in VS which caused some issues at my company. Was a simple change to the proj file though.

I’d answer that if I knew what they did. But I’ve only used git for 3 years now, so still a novice I guess.

I did read but it assumes people know what a liquidity pool is.

So what is a liquidity pool? Example one indicated that a person could withdraw coins using tokens he got when he deposited coins.

So pools are something you deposit coins into for LP tokens and later can surrender the tokens for coins.

In example 2, they say that coins received from a liquidity pool swap cannot be traced. Why not? When the liquidity pool received the coins could it not associate the coins with where it came from?

Even if not, then the liquidity pool itself is the source of the coins. When it gets coins, it needs to know who sent it, and when it sends coins it needs to know who it’s sending it to.

All of this is possible. Just because they currently don’t track this information doesn’t mean it’s impossible to track. It would just require adjustments to their business to make it in compliance with regulations.

I feel like focusing on who owns the data is unnecessary.

If there is an API that grants access to data by passing in a valid auth token, then it doesn’t matter if it’s called from a SPA app or postman or curl.

As long as you are using the public API and haven’t forged an auth token then it doesn’t matter how you call the public API.