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by blantonl 2y ago
Agreed. It's kind of like when a non-profit organization argues that they are entitled to someone's data because "we're not making a profit off of it." That's ridiculous. Try asking a startup for free softwar
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by blantonl 2y ago
I’m confused as to how you think you can even “own” data to begin with. It's actually very simple. If I'm in a position to restrict access to the data, then I own it, unless there is some legal authority that has jurisdiction
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by blantonl 2y ago
It's completely perpendicular, not parallel. Public safety communications are radio waves that are broadcasted and the ability to passively monitor them is enshrined in United States law. That is a massively key difference. If I w
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by blantonl 2y ago
They volunteer to provide the data to us. Every single last one of them. Nowhere in our business model did we make the conscious decision to say "hey, look at that business, they have something, and I'm going to take it."
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by blantonl 2y ago
Remember the OP article is about a system that is designed to completely and directly circumvent protections. If an organization puts a series of processes in place to prevent scrapers from wholesale taking data in violation of terms of ser
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by blantonl 2y ago
Why is that hilarious? We developed an entire community, infrastructure, system, architecture, everything, from scratch, and provide access to something that never existed in the first place on the Internet. That's a significant ke
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by blantonl 2y ago
I don't care if you use Web scraping to solve the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. You're not entitled to anyone's data, computers, services, etc because you've decided for altruistic reasons that it is appropriat
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by blantonl 2y ago
Do you think you have a moral claim on ownership of (presumably unpaid) user-submitted information? You damn right I do. I own, develop, and maintain the entire system that enabled the body of works to exist in the first place. Do you th
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by blantonl 2y ago
I'm not going to disagree with your use case here. But I'm going to assume that you have some level of a conscious and you don't really mean you could give 3 shits about someone else's hard work so you can have some sati
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by blantonl 2y ago
What makes you think putting data on the Internet all the sudden means I unilaterally surrender the rights to my intellectual property? If I choose to make my data available to some businesses to make discovery of it easier, and I choose to
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by blantonl 2y ago
I can commit a code change in 2 seconds that would directly tell the most used website in the world to stop scrapping and sorting my data, and they would honor it and that would be the end of that. I'm under no illusions that they woul
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by blantonl 2y ago
If that destroys someone's business, I don't actually care. Maybe it's selfish, but my right to re-format data for my own convenience outweighs their right to make a profit. Exhibit A
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by blantonl 2y ago
No. The foundation of why I dislike it is simple. If I own some data, then I get to dictate the terms of how that data is used. Period. “Hustle culture types” is simply a little anecdote about the types that would look you in the eye and te
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by blantonl 2y ago
This tends to be a very unpopular opinion around here, but in almost all cases I find Internet scraping to be unethical and downright malicious. I'm not saying all cases, but I'm saying almost. A lot of the actors involved tend
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by blantonl 2y ago
You described the scam perfectly.
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by blantonl 2y ago
"support" is one of the biggest scams in enterprise software today.
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by blantonl 2y ago
Proxmox was the big winner here. Small little guys managing their own little clouds in their home eventually become CTOs. Vmware is going to learn an important lesson here. Oracle is generally and universally hated. Welcome to that club,
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by blantonl 3y ago
I'm wondering if this might have been a result of wireless internet traffic being overwhelmed with everyone in the areas of totality uploading pictures and video... actually using internet bandwidth at the exact same moment? The resu
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by blantonl 3y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing GEOS weather satellite images of the shadow crossing the united states here: https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/
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by blantonl 3y ago
That will connect right up with DB/2 probably, no problemo. You'll just need the right Java JRE - exact version.
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by blantonl 3y ago
we also had to periodically "refresh" the site by rebuilding the static site with all the new links Oh god dammit that's where you finally pissed me off. Lol.
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by blantonl 3y ago
So that was six months of my working life >> /dev/null
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by blantonl 3y ago
Dogged a bullet for being blamed for something that probably would have never left the ground anyway. Or, missed opportunity to develop and sell the next Rocket Mortgage Platform.
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by blantonl 3y ago
Consulting: If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem.
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by blantonl 3y ago
Data brokerage is big business, and the revenue share is significant enough for many businesses to hold their nose, turn their head, and sign on.
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by blantonl 3y ago
Telnet is still an invaluable tool to connect to memcache and redis instances for debugging and quick remote management. I still chuckle when spinning up a linux instance and trying to use telnet command only to be told it's not instal
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Show HN: Broadcastify Calls, a full-featured managed radio calls ingest platform(broadcastify.com)
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by blantonl 3y ago
This was almost loss transaction. That 12% ROI easily got eaten up in fees.
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by blantonl 3y ago
Then if markets are always non-efficient, but they "work", I'd argue that they aren't irrational, they are simply quite rational in doing their overall job over time.
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by blantonl 3y ago
Spoiler alert: there's a decent argument to be made that the market has never been irrational either. It's just a matter of timing to allow the markets to adjust. A market in of itself is never perfect.

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