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Partly because no one wants to be dependent on another company. Look at what happened to Reddit apps when they began charging for their API. Netflix with a monopoly and their own movie production would be an impossible negotiation position for production companies in another 15 years.

Causation and correlation.

The dating argument seems outlandish but it's a legit problem that Android phones ruin group messaging functions that iMessage offers so they'll be left out.

It's almost all stock with an estimated fictional value. As stated in the article.

This common argument seems like a misunderstanding of how Reddit works. Mods aren't unpaid workers for Reddit, but rather, mods get access to a free platform to create a community on the condition that it follows the rules. That's the compensation. In contrast, one of the forums I'm active on just did a donation run to keep their servers running for another year.

This feels like a strange collaboration. In my view, GOG is all about owning the things you purchase. Amazon on the other hand, has a reputation of randomly banning people when you trigger any of their algorithms (such as the shipping company losing your package at their terminal). You lose all your purchased digital content as well as any existing balance.

I get that in this case you'll still have your GOG content at GOG (hopefully) but Luna still seems to require an Amazon account. I would go out of my way to avoid having any dependency on Amazon.

I guess it's neat until it isn't though.

Not much details in the original source:

> Additionally, companies in the technology industry own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. For example, on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims. As we face increasing competition and become increasingly high profile, the possibility of receiving more intellectual property claims against us grows.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

It's just another case of "spaceman bad". Even his recent comment about Microsoft requiring a user account for installing Windows seemingly made some people make a 180 just to disagree with him.

You make it sound like anyone can pay $33 to shut down a site. They brought the case to a judge, seemingly proved copyright infringement, showed how they had made numerous attempts at contacting the owners, and the site owner had the opportunity to plead their case. The judge ruled on available information.

One can, with all rights, argue that banning a domain is wrong but I don't see much difference in how the case was handled versus any other civil legal dispute.

With the exception of Apple Vision Pro and maybe AI, all of those are mature and examples of previous successes. OP is asking for the next thing. Like joining Twitter in 2006 or Vine in the beginning of 2013.

Not sure if satire. It's a terrible user experience for me. For future readers:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com

> Turns out that a Python program with ~500 threads will start to chew up memory over time.

Anyone have more info about this issue? I've got a scraper myself in Python with a few hundred threads which seems to eat a lot of memory. Any workarounds or is the only solution to rewrite in another language?

The stores I visit usually have 10+ self checkouts. It swallows a lot more people so you don't have to queue like in a regular store. It also allows people with fewer items to bypass the people with a full shopping cart because there are 9 other checkouts.

You also save time by putting the scanned items directly into your bag instead of putting them on a band for the cashier to scan, before you can put them into your bag.

So my experience is that it's faster most of the time.

Spotify works in offline mode for 30 days. So it will stop working 30 days after the apocalypse but it's a downside I'm willing to accept to have almost any music available in my pocket up until then.

Rwanda always rubbed me the wrong way since Sweden (among others) is handing them millions in financial aid every year only for them to use the money to be a shirt sponsor for Arsenal FC.

I assume people would do this to get a powerful machine and not comparable with one of the cheaper Macbooks?

> None of that sounds normal and makes me think there is more to the story.

It's a reader-contributed column. I give that as much credibility as the fiction on AITA and similar subreddits.

I haven't followed this case but I found the blog posts doing the initial investigation quite interesting. Not only due to all the errors in the data but also because it gives some insight into how Excel works behind the scenes:

https://datacolada.org/109

https://datacolada.org/110

https://datacolada.org/111

https://datacolada.org/112

https://datacolada.org/114

I'm confused by her suing and her argument in court though. Is her argument that they didn't catch her in front of the computer so someone else might have fauxed the data or is her argument that no data was altered? Because it seems undeniable that the data was altered to align with the hypothesis.

Yes and no. It seems you're required to be on a meal plan. First-year students automatically (you might be able to downgrade) get a plan for $4019 which includes 400 meals and $75. Meals vary in price though.

So if you max out on dinners ($14.97), in theory, you can get 405 dinners which would cost a total of $5974. In other words, a meal plan saves you $1955 vs buying individual meals. If you eat all three meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), the average meal would equal $12.19. In other words, you'd get $4951 worth of food for $4019.

To summarize, it seems the meal plan saves you money by giving you a discount. The problem (I assume) is that some students don't make use of their 400 meal swipes.

https://dining.tufts.edu/your-meal-plan/your-meal-plan-optio...

I think you're just getting too close to regular grants for research and development but with more losers. For example, Vinnova is handing out $5m for AI projects this year. Why participate in a contest when I can just get $100k from them by writing an application? In total, Vinnova handed out $300m last year with no follow-ups. That's just one organization.

It's partly a different issue.

In the first one, you have someone registered at your house despite not living there. Getting notified about it doesn't solve it though. You still have to report it as a crime and then they will investigate before fixing it. Due to all the bombings, they implemented a speed track a few years ago when gang members are involved (so they don't blow up your house during the process) but I still believe it takes months to solve.

In your case, you have physical squatters. Then you need to take it to court and prove that they shouldn't have access to your house. It takes many months to sort out and they can claim that they have an agreement with you. This was major news in Sweden about 5-8 years ago when waves of EU beggars were making camps on people's land that cost a ton of money to clean up afterwards.

> the fact that you can pretend to be a journalistic endeavor

Isn't that the core of the issue? Who decides what is journalism?

MrKoll is mentioned in the article but there are identical databases that originally were used to track the political opposition and are now partly accessible for selected "journalists", among others. Should those databases exist because they make their own rules on who is a journalist? What about a user posting a comment on Reddit or Flashback that used MrKoll for the information? Is that journalism, making MrKoll a journalistic database?

This legal battle might have a major impact on Swedish newspapers.

Hosting company? He's still free to upload his show on X.

What they did was to cancel the collaboration after the pilot because they deemed it subpar and just a rehash of CNN which is losing a ton of viewers. This is common in the media industry and why we every year have speculation on what shows will be picked up after their pilots.

As Seinfeld would say: do you even know what a tax write off is? Hiring someone to burn money just to pay less tax makes no sense. You don't get back the money you burned.

* of mobile apps with subscriptions

It has been the main view since at least the 80s but then we got a low carb high fat movement around 00s-10s that argued that carbs are a poison. Partly because if you stopped eating carbs, then you basically couldn't eat high caloric fast food.

So although common within the science community, many in the general population still have a negative view on carbs. I assume this article is aimed towards those.

Extra so considering they are already boasting about expired data not getting deleted in the past.

I understand that people dislike Netflix (price hike, account sharing, political content) and want to draw conclusions based on this, but one should remember that these awards are still pay-to-play. It didn't disappear with Weinstein. A win probably says more about the people involved than the movie itself.

> And if I ever get falsely accused of a crime, my Google location history, combined with my Google Photos’ metadata, could serve as my alibi.

Or the next government change what constitutes a crime and use the information as evidence.

As shown by Bud Light sales plummeting after them getting more publicity than they probably ever had?