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by notatoad 3y ago
> How a fund can manage this relationship correctly based on view counts is beyond me. nobody other than the publishers is trying to say the money should be based on view counts. tying anything to view counts is obviously a dumb idea.
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by notatoad 3y ago
"scraping" usually refers to unauthorized access for the purposes of using that content for something else. what google does to generate search result pages is usually called "indexing", and websites go out of their way
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by notatoad 3y ago
>to appease google the only reason they have to appease google is because they had given up on worrying about navigation or discovery on their own platforms, and ceded that to google. which is dumb. google's not forcing them to do
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by notatoad 3y ago
and they should pay for scraping. but that's not what this is about, this is about charging for linking to news articles.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>I have sympathy for news publishers i have very little sympathy for news publishers. I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism, but news publishers have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolute
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by notatoad 3y ago
Somewhat amusing to see this headline on deezen, the site that usually celebrates a "strong focus on aesthetics" above all else.
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by notatoad 3y ago
ah, authors get the email address of subscribers but not followers. that's the peice i was missing, thanks.
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by notatoad 3y ago
I don't really understand the problem here. "following" doesn't give the same content as a paid subscription, it doesn't make sense that anybody is cancelling their paid subscriptions to follow instead. a follow o
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Which begs the question: why buy it? he spent half a year in court trying to get out the deal, and lost. so you probably shouldn't assume actually buying twitter was really his plan. he bought a smaller stake first to get some infl
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by notatoad 3y ago
even things that are easy (or maybe, especially things that are easy) can benefit from having a review to make sure you didn't miss something obvious. nothing more dangerous than "oh, that's easy, let's push it straight
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by notatoad 3y ago
Elon is slowly learning why all the policies that twitter used to have existed. In this case, twitter previously used to have clear content policies and would take down content that violated their own policies, and governments would general
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by notatoad 3y ago
yes, the key is to always have some sort of migration happening so every problem can be addressed by saying "this will be resolved after the new ERP is rolled out"
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by notatoad 3y ago
>The CFO and some senior leadership erroneously blamed it for their shortcomings/used it as a scapegoat the key thing to understand about ERP systems is that this is their primary purpose. anything else they claim to do is secondar
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by notatoad 3y ago
it is, but typing "no, `--do-x` is not a valid option, please only give me real commands" back into a chat window is a hell of a lot less frustrating than sifting through docs that may or may not even exist.
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by notatoad 3y ago
one earth second per earth second, or one lunar second per earth second?
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by notatoad 3y ago
if you limit it to desktop browsers, opera is 3% to firefox's 6%. i suspect the mobile stats include opera mini, which is not really the same thing.
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by notatoad 3y ago
i don't think you can say it's a kneejerk reaction. Brewster Khale's reply doesn't really address the concerns in the original post - if anything, it seems to validate those concerns. specifically: "The Archive is
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by notatoad 3y ago
> small in what world is stealing ~$8bn a "small" crime?
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by notatoad 3y ago
there doesn't need to be an excuse, and there frequently isn't. "i'm the president and i can do this" is the only excuse necessary
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by notatoad 3y ago
I don’t think you’re likely to see a significant change to the flying experience (at least not for the better) as long as most customers continue to prefer the cheapest, most terrible option. Maybe somebody succeeds with a delta-wing design
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by notatoad 3y ago
>any digital payment app provided by a card issuer from this line, it seems like the author here and gruber are kind of arguing beside each other. Birchler says that google and samsung pay work the same way. gruber says bank's own
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by notatoad 3y ago
a huge portion of car trips are made with only one person in the car, so it's still a fair comparison for all those trips.
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by notatoad 3y ago
is round-trip bus or train fare into the city higher or lower than $15/day? it seems like if they can just make the car a higher marginal cost per day than transit, that should do a lot.
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by notatoad 3y ago
we need twitter community notes for science
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by notatoad 3y ago
>We don't need to invent ways to make luxury travel by the rarified few ever more expensive and damaging. you do if you're the Saudi government and you're worried about finding way to prop up declining demand for fossil fu
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by notatoad 3y ago
When normal people talk about a city, they're talking about an urban area under the jurisdiction of a mayor and city council. that's exactly what "greater london" is, so when people talk about a city called London it&#x
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by notatoad 3y ago
the fediverse alternative is lemmy. the most popular and easiest way to get started is the instance at https://lemmy.world/ which is donation funded and doesn't appear to be doing any for-profit activities, but i don&
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by notatoad 3y ago
now it will be expensive, and require you take a course to learn how to correctly buy a licence.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>though if you’re slick and quiet about it nobody may ever know i'm sure this varies by jurisdiction, but around here the fire marshal will know, because commercial properties get inspected semi-annually to make sure they meet fire
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by notatoad 3y ago
>just letting people use don't dismiss the value in simply making them accessible. they're providing a platform to access these works, which is great.

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