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Good luck convincing anybody that moving crypto through their bank is going to enable them to avoid taxes.

Their has always been a shadow economy, and it runs on cash.

I'm interested to know more about this. I've used about five different e-commerce solutions and they all make API calls to shipping providers. What was different here?

That's very true on Facebook, and it's true that Facebook is the dominant online destination so far as numbers go.

There are still regular old forums for a lot of hobbies and interests though, and even on here people can use handles. Reddit and Twitter as well.

I will confess to having multiple alt accounts on Facebook.

There is room to experiment still.

This is unfortunately the truth of the situation. I spent way too much time writing scrapers for Zillow and Redfin to guide home purchasing decisions, only to find out half the stuff listed for sale had been under contract for weeks, places listed with garage that had none, homes with pictures of pools and no pool in the data fields... just tons of errors in the data that no amount of vigilance could clean.

When people started trying to pressure me to use Venmo, my research at the time led me to the conclusion that it offers no guarantee of fraud protection either.

Just like PayPal before it, it's not a bank and doesn't have to follow any of the rules.

How it's legal to operate in such a fashion is beyond my ability to understand, but that's my understanding of the situation.

I thought the atmosphere was mostly carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. What makes it potentially high value?

Advertisers can choose to advertise to customers that fall into various buckets.

Income, gender, location, recent history of viewing specific types of pages, etc.

This is what I mean by limited form of access. Advertisers do not receive user information, but are granted the ability to use it when setting up ad campaigns.

They don't sell the golden goose. They rent a limited form of access to it.

That's probably accurate, but if 20 people apply for a position and one gets hired, is it not accurate that nobody is scrutinizing some list of 19 reasons why 19 people didn't get the position?

These kinds of things seem like there is no way to enforce them.

I don't even know if that's a thing, health insurance being more expensive for companies with older employees or whatever, but just in general. "You can't fail to hire such and such type of person because it's illegal," doesn't seem to actually have much practical ability to influence a hiring process if it wants strongly enough to not be influenced.

I haven't done any research on this and could be completely off base. Just have the same thought when I see this mentioned in general and started typing this time.

I don't have the link handy, but I also remember their team posting about how the process of creating the underlines for their hyperlinks and thinking how interesting it was to see all the thought and process they had out into it.

I've been thinking about putting something out there as well. I'll probably end up using Pelican since I'm a Python fan.

As a side note, I can't believe how many people are salty that you don't want to use node. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Not OP, but asking for a static site generator implies simplicity. Node is pretty famous for generally having large dependency trees and churn with tooling.

It doesn't seem that strange to want to avoid it for such a project.

I am feeling suddenly inspired by this idea, so thanks!

Somebody somewhere is probably running a calculator as an electron app that takes 10 seconds to open.

Similar here. I have no interest in contemporary startup culture, just visit for the occasional interesting technical nugget and discussion.

Nah. Google doesn't even let people log into their own email with alternative browsers, and they are doing fine.

Most sites don't subtract it from inventory until it's on a completed order.

The main exceptions I can think of are venue and plane tickets, and hotel rooms. These might put a hold on a specific piece of inventory for a short time. They usually tell you when they do.

I used to build and manage ecomm sites. We had several manufacturers/brands that we had to agree not to openly display a retail price below a certain amount.

Incidentally, for almost every brand in our industry, that number was 1.8X listed wholesale.

We could sell for less, but not list a price of less. Implementing "add to cart to see price" was good enough at the time to keep them happy.

The advertisers don't obtain the data. The articles that discuss this are always careful to use phrases like they "use" the data.

They set up an ad campaign in Facebook or Google or another similar network, and they have to decide who to "target."

Google and Facebook, and other networks to a much lesser extent and perhaps through other apps that people wouldn't expect to be related, have tremendous data troves about people.

This includes phone location data and history, and data from partners about things like what types of purchases a person makes on their credit cards, whether they are a homeowner and their home value, income... things like that.

All the advertisers actually get is the ability to say something along the lines of "This ad should show to people who were at or near X location and make less than X amount of money."

They don't "get" the data or have it "sold" to them. They are able to "use" the data in a very indirect way.

Agree that there's a big difference between the error happening at compile time vs. happening at run time in prod, but I personally find the python stacktrace much more descriptive of how we got to the error than a lot of other languages.

A certain amount of it is probably a familiarity thing, but I do usually find myself able to parse it to the point of what line in which file things started to go wrong.

These kinds of pieces are sort of accurate. I have run a lot of ad campaigns on Google and Facebook (I don't do this kind of work today), and if this kind of thing comes up in conversation, I like to say that anybody can set up an ads account with Facebook or Google and see how it actually works.

Yes, you can create an ad and set it up to target people live within a certain area or have visited a certain area (and/or a number of quite creepier feeling criteria), but that's it.

They are not "selling your data" to advertisers. As an advertiser, all you get is some statistics about who your ads got served to, and they are pretty shitty and vague.

"You said you were willing to pay $10.00 USD per click for people who have been within (LAT,LNG of XYZ hospital) within the last 30 days. We declare that 150 of the 200 ad clickers have indeed visited that location. That will be $1,500 USD plus some lesser amount for the other clickers that we somehow served your ad to. Let's call it $1700, we'll take it out of the prepaid account you had to set up before we even ran the campaign. Thanks for advertising with us, and if you don't like it, good luck finding another ad network with anything approaching the same exposure."

Yeah Python has its points where it doesn't shine, but the stacktrace does a consistently good job of telling you exactly where the logic broke down.

As a person who chooses Python whenever it seems reasonable, I agree.

Go, the language, is simple. Hard to argue with, and sounds great.

The code I have to write though, it's quite simpler to do it in Python more often than not.

Is this especially a problem for GitHub, though? I had never suspected that people would use the site in this way.

I regret only that I have but one upvote to give.

Fast, cheap, good. You can only ever choose two.

Google already has a bookmarking service at https://www.google.com/bookmarks/

I have stuff saved in there dating from 2007 to 2015. Used to use a Firefox extension to load them in the sidebar.

why does that need to get sent to Utah and back, though? Why not a good old radio signal to a nearby device that displays the temperature?

Most people I talk to or see online discussing their Digital Ocean usage just use their VPS.

Yes they offer managed databases and kubernetes, but these are newer offerings. I of course don't know how well used they are, but I never see or hear anybody talking about them.

I use them for all my stuff when I'm not on company time, and the reason is because I can just be like "spin me up a Debian box," which I cannot easily do on the things folks typically describe as cloud providers.