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by jhall1468 7y ago
They already had the ability to opt-out of Google scraping their articles. They already had a choice, just like they did in Germany. And the German news organizations realized views plummeted after they did this ( https://searchen
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Less clicks. Much less. It's exactly what happened in Germany. They "won" and then saw their Google click-through rate plummet, which was a significant % of their click-throughs.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
If that was their purpose, then they failed miserably. At least they'll find that out soon enough, as page views to those news sites are almost certainly going to plummet. And when they do it will be even more clear that Googles "
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by jhall1468 7y ago
That last paragraph is a great summary. I wanted to add: This was done with the intent of preventing USPS from being competitive. The law that forced it to pre-fund retirement also put enormous restrictions on its ability to increase prices
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by jhall1468 7y ago
I'd assume because this was an attack specifically on Amazon Care when that is an industry-wide problem. It's the equivalent to ranting about how bad a tv show was because it has commercials.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Full Disclosure: I work at Amazon. Everything you've said here is effectively worst-case scenario and you are treating that pessimism as skepticism when they aren't the same thing. So let's be clear on a few aspects of this t
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Amazon isn't a warehouse company, it's a retail company. Actually it's an IAAS company. Soon it may be an advertising company. And that's exactly why this isn't as cut and dry as it seems. Fintech is definitely more
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by jhall1468 7y ago
The problem here is dirty isn't well-defined. You are playing the moral superiority card without knowing what your particular moral/ethical line is. Seems HN is primarily comprised of people without families that can just quit the
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by jhall1468 7y ago
If that was your take away from what I said, I'd guess you could read my comment infinite times and fail to understand it.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
I made no mention of my personal ethics. I said vetted legally. Rest assured your principles almost certainly do not align exactly with the law. You may do something illegal without the knowledge you have. You may have contributed to some i
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by jhall1468 7y ago
There is an enormous difference between making ethical decisions and being prosecuted which this advocated for.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
[Citation needed] I think you are crossing a sea of assumptions to get to "pretty good".
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by jhall1468 7y ago
I read that by the fact that you only talked about punishing engineers. And I'm not misreading your comment on purpose, trust me I had to read it 4 times just to make sure I wasn't crazy and I was actually reading what I thought I
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by jhall1468 7y ago
I would say it refers to the corporations, encompasses all of the company. Only engineers were called out by title.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
The moment you open that door you have created the ultimate scapegoat in every corporate decision. Now every engineer is personally responsible for corporate decisions. It's easy when you look at VW and Facebook, but the more nuanced t
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by jhall1468 7y ago
They also rarely read TOS, freely give out many pieces of identifying information without reading privacy policies, and, as you said, do virtually no research on a company or their ownership. At some point consumers have to get some of th
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by jhall1468 7y ago
You mean, IBM does quite a good job of making sure IBM COBOL is supported long term. They are maintaining their compiler, which is exactly what PSF is doing. They are maintaining their interpreter, which is Python 3.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
> I am just criticizing collecting data under the veneer of security or creating a dependence at this point. This isn't a veneer. It's a signature check to ensure a package is what it says it is. Have you seen the hassle npm ro
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by jhall1468 7y ago
You are free to setup your own DB if that's a concern for you. It's a totally justified concern, but this is just concern-trolling. Most people would use this either way. People with strong privacy concerns may setup their own DB,
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Fundamentally, Firefox is forcing the addon vendor to overwrite the users.js file without the users permission. What's more, these users only got this overwrite by explicitly allowing it. So on one hand the reviewer is saying modif
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Whole Foods sold itself to Amazon because they were starting to see a market that prefers alternatives. Prices had to come down for it to survive, and you can't lower prices on expensive product. And that's assuming product qualit
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Fair use is a defense. You, at best, get sued, have to pay a ton of money in attorneys fees, on the chance that you "bet" it's going to work. Tough sell.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
AWS is their business and it certainly scales. Their goal in retail is market dominance through convenience and that still costs a ton of money. AWS does not cost a ton of money.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
Comparing a high-cost consumer electronics company with market dominance but little growth projection to an online retailer with enormous growth makes absolutely no sense. Comparing their P/E makes even less sense.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
There's an enormous difference between accessing a public endpoint, and accessing one that isn't intended to be public. To use addresses as an analogy: Going to www.nytimes.com is roughly the equivalent to driving in front of some
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by jhall1468 7y ago
I would argue they are intruding in that they are accessing information from my browser that they shouldn't have access to. If their website allows me to read an article they don't want me to by going to "www.nytimes.com&qu
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by jhall1468 7y ago
That's literally what it is when your self-taught. You generally don't get a programming job then learn to program.
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by jhall1468 7y ago
No, I'm speaking about human nature. Most people don't learn things they dislike because it fills a knowledge gap. How many people do you know with hobbies they hate? It's natural to gravitate towards things that interest you
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by jhall1468 7y ago
No, and my post never implied anything like it. On the contrary, my point was that I was forced into it by degree requirements. I'd know nothing of compiler design or implementation today without being forced to learn it. It's a v
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by jhall1468 7y ago
My point assumes people bias their learning towards their interests. That isn't an opinion, that's just human nature. That's not to say you can't learn things that don't interest you, but if you aren't going

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