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I've been a happy user of Fabulous.com for almost 2 decades now. Pretty happy, but it's designed for large domain name holders. I don't recall getting any ads ever. Easy to manage a lot of domains and if you qualify for low pricing, it's fantastic.

So gambler wants house to cover his losses because his friends and him won't be able to continue gamble if they lose.

I've used shutup 10 on multiple machines and was pleased.

So everything being done for free except for Google taking all the profits?

Are you kidding me?

People need to make a living, creating good content isn't easy. Sure a few folks do it for free, but wholesale trying to kill off everyone who does it by making it financially non-viable is long term idiotic. What are you going to train on once everyone stops writing or letting your scrape their data to train from?

Search engines scraping your content is an agreement that they can look at it and use it, and send you traffic if it matches well with a user. Why would anyone subscribe to a deal that there is literally zero benefit except training some AI which will repurpose your knowledge.

After doing web hosting reviews for over a decade now... 99.9% of the people do any form of review are lying or manipulating things for affiliate commissions. The few that aren't, most don't actually know what reviewing/benchmarking/testing well looks like.

It's atrocious. And Google just pumps this garbage. I need to finish writing about all bullshit from big brands doing these reviews. CNET is just one easy example.

CNET has been publishing garbage content for a while now. Look no further than their 'reviews.' I work with web hosting reviews and look at what they disclaim “While we didn't test the services, we did carefully examine each service's offerings and ranked them according to essential web hosting features.” (source: https://archive.ph/UtlsB )

They are writing reviews with no experience? lol.

Who/what order do you have?

I have to imagine AWS is first. Azure? Who is maybe third above them? Oracle? Alicloud?

As someone who has organized many friend trips across the world over the last decade, I don't see the appeal.

Maybe it's the style of travel that doesn't fit? The trip is often as simple as, let's go to <place> and maybe there is <activity> we want to collectively do. But planning each day and filling it with activities sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. That just seems like work. Am I strange or is this how most people plan their group trips?

Sounds nice in theory, but when the outcome is people behaving like this and using it as a justification it rings hollow. The idea seems centered around making the most money possible as a core tenet. That alone is a pretty corrupting thing to build your whole ideology on judging from how we've seen humanity behave for thousands of years.

From an end user perspective, CoPilot has made my coding life dramatically better than any other tool I think I've ever used. The next closest being a good IDE which added code completion, documentation for functions, etc.

What it's functionally doing is incredibly valuable and I want to see it succeed. Figuring out how to navigate licensing effectively is an important step, but as someone who writes open source, I am happy my code is helping potentially make other people's code better too.

I think they are with donuts now, so it's same as many other registries. EPP is stupid and terrible though.

It seems like a self fulfilling prophecy for Google products. They have a reputation for killing them off, so users don't want to invest and get committed to them. Then the products don't match their expectations and get killed. It just further fuels the cycle.

At some point I wish Google would take a stand and believe in some products. If they said we have a 10 year commitment to making Stadia a success and will not close it before that, no matter the cost. I might be willing to consider giving it a try. I don't want to buy into something that's going to just get shut down, especially when there are high costs involved.

The chart of how much money is still left waiting to be invested in crazy. Looks roughly that 2021 and 2022 have as much money waiting to be invested as 2012 did total. Each year has added that much.

So valuations need to come down dramatically is the argument, but the amount of capital trying to get spent is going up astronomically. How does that mismatch resolve in an actual marketplace? Do we assume there are suddenly 4x as many good investments to make from 10 years?

These guys have ties to the same group trying to uncap .org and push VeriSign's agenda maintaining a monopoly.

They don't have regular users' best interest at heart. They represent the big companies.

As a counterpoint, if we look at the world of sports. I follow hockey quite closely. In hockey the term generational talent gets thrown around and assigned to kids, sometimes as young as 13-14. There is even an official recognition in the Canadian Major Junior system at 15 with "Exceptional Player Status" where a 15 year old is given eligibility to play in the league (normally 16+).

Some of these prodigies do level out, like you say. Often on account of their size being caught up to. But some truly remain remarkable into adulthood and actually hit that Generational talent level (Connor McDavid for instance). There's only been a handful of kids granted this status in the past 20 years (~7). The oldest 3, two turned into superstars (Tavares/Ekblad) and McDavid is generational, simply the best player in the world, full stop. The next is a bust, Sean Day, who at 15 was 6'2 when drafted into the juniors. That would be your everyone catches up example. The others are still too young to say, one is 22 and just beginning (but not looking like a superstar), one was just drafted this summer and likely will play his first game for Seattle this season. Another is the projected 1st overall pick next summer.

But there are definitely the handful of prodigies that pan out at least in the sports world and instead of being called a prodigy - they earn themselves superstardom or get talked about as GOATs (greatest of all time, for the unfamiliar).

If we also look at who are in the generational talent conversation (go in reverse), in the past 20 years all the players who might be mentioned (Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid) were definitely prodigies as well. So much so that the next generation of prodigies is compared to them, McDavid being called the next coming of Crosby. We may see the next coming of Ovechkin in a young russian player named Matvei Michkov who has been a prodigy in the russian league. Sadly, we may never find out given the political situation and Russia seems more intent on keeping home grown talent in Russia more and more.

Maybe the issue isn't prodigies disappear, it's that in many fields we don't compete like children often do and get recognition? None of my friends have a GPA at work or a spelling bee to win. If all careers were like sports, maybe we would continue to recognize prodigies into adulthood?

I think it's shorter the list of TLDs people might actually appreciate.

com/(net)/org are clearly the dominant trio.

National TLDs in countries with a culture of using them: co.uk, .de, .se, etc

National TLDs which have been rebranded and in some places are 'cool':

io - popular with startups/tech

vc - popular with finance/money

co - for people who can't afford an 'M'

ai - for AI

gg - popular with gaming

sh - popular with hackers

New gTLDs, these mostly haven't gotten any traction.

xyz - One of the hotter ones at the moment seems to be xyz. Alphabet (Google) is using it. Would you believe it if I told you there's been 5m in sales compared to .net's 3.4m sales in the past year?

Source: work for NameBio.com which has the largest domain sales database.

As someone who has been doing this for over a decade with Twitter data in a specific niche (https://reviewsignal.com - for web hosting) it's interesting to see this getting so much attention. I played with Reddit data years ago as well but never moved forward with it. The volume really wasn't there for my needs. Why the volume mattered is exactly the reason you are kind of touching on, fake reviews. You need an overwhelmingly large sample size to drown out fake reviews.

I am also curious what sort of spam filtering mechanisms you have in place? Just the spam filters before content ever hit sentiment analysis or relevancy analysis was 98% in my data. I imagine Reddit is better than Twitter, but there is still is going to be spam. What measures do you have in place and do you determine them?

Do you take upvotes into account with weighting reviews? That was/is a concern I had when working with reddit data. I used retweets as a proxy for sorting popularity, but not any other weighting.

I'm definitely interested in this segment as I've been doing it for a long time, if you want to talk please reach out my contact is in my profile.

If you're interested in something managed and curious about performance, I just published https://WPHostingBenchmarks.com this week (with 2022 data - 33 companies, 79 hosting plans benchmarked for performance). There was one company on there that offers a command line tool to stand up WP servers on your own Digital Ocean account as well.

They aren't the only hosting company using GCP. GCP has been very aggressive targeting hosting partners.

Kinsta: https://status.kinsta.com/

SiteGround: https://twitter.com/siteground/status/1270492907078914052?la...

Both having same issue

Because Nissan is a car brand with trademarks.

If you owned apple.com and sold apples, all good. If you ran ads for computers and phones, it's a problem and infringing their mark.

Trademarks are supposed to protect a brand in the category they operate in. Using their name and profiting off ads for the same category is cybersquatting. He operated in a somewhat gray area trying to run a computer repair shop with ads and got forced to stop. There is a reasonable argument that running car ads on nissan.com, one of the largest known car brands could cause brand confusion.

He wasn't as innocent as portrayed. The problem was he ran car related ads on his site: https://web.archive.org/web/19991122224115/http://nissan.com...

If you look at his site, when it was a computer shop, fine. Then he started running ads (really trying to profit off nissan motor's brand) related to cars. Then he got taken to court. He played off like a victim forever.

Did he have a legitimate reason to buy the domain originally? Absolutely.

Did he infringe on Nissan's trademark? Almost surely, which is why he was forced to stop.

No real good guy in this story.

What's my background on this? I helped build the most comprehensive database for domain name legal cases (https://udrp.tools) and tend to be involved in areas regarding domain name registrant rights. IP lobby is already way too strong, picking something like Nissan.com as the rallying call really isn't the right move. There is going to be some balance.

If you want egregious, lookup france.com

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/supreme-court-wont-...

The french government intervened in a case and took france.com from the owner claiming sole right to using 'France'

That is bullshit. ICANN is also trying to take away domain name holder's rights to even go to court at all, in case it's an IGO (https://freespeech.com/2022/05/18/icann-igo-working-group-ch...). IGO thinks your domain infringes on your rights? You have zero recourse, and they want to grant immunity from the legal system.

There are some real fucking injustices happening in the domain world that nobody is paying attention too. Nissan.com isn't one of them.

It shouldn't delete and make it inaccessible in the meantime. From their email, they can limit it, while not taking away my access. It was deleted with no recourse, that sort of automated system seems broken.

I can guess why it happened, it's just fubar.

Update: finally got an email from Google:

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"Your file "<filename>" contains content that violates Google Drive's Phishing policy and hence, some features related to this file may have been restricted. If you think this is an error and would like the Trust & Safety team to review this file, request a review below.

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I got access again. And now it's actually being reviewed. What a terrible experience, it disappears and is inaccessible for an entire work day with no recourse. Not sure if this post caused the review/notification.

I'm glad I thought about the cached trick on phone sheets. But loses all underlying formulas because I got a PDF (which may be out of date), but at least it's better than nothing.

I tried, no luck on any of the links I could find.

The metrics were all domain name related, I also work for NameBio.com, the largest database of domain name sales. We also do a bunch of other things in the domain name space including owning icann accredited registrars.

My spreadsheets are full of domain names and metrics from all over the place.

Not sure where the claim about taking immigrants is coming from, according to the OECD: https://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?datasetcode=MIG&lang=en

Germany takes more and this is raw numbers not adjusted by the size of the country. Germany is less than a third the size of the US and taking more. Spain takes 60% as many immigrants as the US and is roughly 1/7 the population.

The discrimination against different learning styles is a bit off-putting. Just because some folks can just read and self learn everything doesn't mean everyone can. It also doesn't mean those people aren't capable.

I am not a parent, but I've definitely found as I've gotten older it's harder to self learn sometimes. Having structure and some guidance can make a world of difference.

A good example I had not too long ago was having to go back into Java, something I hadn't written in many many years. Syntactically, I could write basic logic. But I didn't have any feel for how a project should be structured, what sort of libraries exist, and a lot of other things I know implicitly from languages I am working with regularly. I had a friend (who actually happened to be a bootcamp teacher in a previous life) spend a couple hours with me just going through the basics over a screenshare/voice chat. I picked up more in those 2-3 hours than I did in previous 2-3 weeks because I had someone who knew what they were doing, could answer questions, could anticipate what I might be thinking next and could guide me.

A good teacher can be infinitely helpful to learning something, even for someone experienced (I've been writing code for over two decades now). I can't imagine how much more helpful a good teacher could be for someone who is just trying to start learning. We shouldn't be discouraging this style of learning, we should be seeing how to make programming accessible to everyone interested in learning.

AI for me, not for thee.

Google shouldn't be the arbiter of what's ok or not on the internet. They use AI to take away all human recourse with the company but want to tell others not to use it? It's a pretty laughable position. Good luck trying to detect GPT-3 and the like when you compare with non native speakers of languages. Are you suddenly going to just block them too?

If an AI can generate high quality content, why is that any less than human generated content. Human generate a ton of trash content, it's not inherently better.

Those same models on copilot are generating useful and often good code for me on a daily basis. If someone told me it's not OK to use any copilot generated code as unethical/wrong I'd laugh in their face. It's basically saving me a google search to find snippets/examples of things I wasn't sure of.

Maybe that's the threat? If we have access to AI directly (ala copilot) then I am googling less.

I've found Quora to be just full of spam these days. They don't take the problem seriously at all. And they keep trying terrible and spammy incentivization tactics to keep people engaged.

I haven't tested the product, but watching you work with it felt like a document editor in terms of layout. It felt like you were constrained to that view and it seemed designed around delivering documents in that view. A dashboard I feel has a different layout and I would be logged in to see/manipulate it to get what I want.

Prebuilt reports vs interactive custom data exploration

Does that make sense?