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by scarab92 2y ago
I still can't get my head around why a .com costs $9.59 (plus registrar margin) There are 160 million registered .com domain names. I understand that operating root servers isn't free, but surely they don't cost $1.5 billion
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by scarab92 2y ago
I don't believe that distinction really exists anymore. These days everyone is using real browsers and residential / mobile proxies, regardless of whether they are a spammer, or a Fortune 500, a retailer doing price comparison of
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by scarab92 2y ago
It's success as a business aside, at a technical level neither Cloudflare nor its competitors provide any real protection against large scale scraping. Bypassing it is quite straightforward for most average competency software engineer
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by scarab92 2y ago
We continuously scrape a sizable number of ecommerce sites and have had no trouble whatsoever bypassing CloudFlare's antibot technologies. CloudFlare representatives often defend user hostile behaviour with the justification that it i
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by scarab92 2y ago
It's also misleading to frame responses of "aren't considering buying a Tesla" as "won't buy a Tesla", because most of those respondents aren't considering buying any vehicle at all.
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by scarab92 2y ago
The articles (except for the syndicated Wired articles) are great, but the comment section is Reddit-level degeneracy.
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by scarab92 2y ago
How should this system work, in an ideal world?
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by scarab92 2y ago
It seems like the entire US medical system runs on prices that no one actually pays. I don't really understand what all that extra complexity achieves?
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by scarab92 2y ago
The challenge would be that there isn't just one "credit score". The scores published by bureau's exist more for marketing and as a stick to improve consumer behaviour. A credit bureau's real product is the credit f
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by scarab92 2y ago
Yep. It's worth pointing out that credit scores actually are actually just the P(^default) expressed on an integer rather than fractional scale. There's also multiple credit scores, there are the scores computed by credit bureaus
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by scarab92 2y ago
A large component of interest rates is a risk premium that depends on the likelihood of a borrower defaulting. Credit scoring significantly outperforms any other methodology for assessing default risk, including credit matricies and espec
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by scarab92 2y ago
Credit scores are a good system actually. They significantly improve the ability of a lender to model the default risk associated with a borrower, which results in lower borrowing costs for higher quality customers, as well as stopping debt
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by scarab92 2y ago
WaPo editors were broken records, engaging in ideological activism rather than journalism day after day. In contrast, the WSJ reporters did their actual job, even if it was counter to Murdoch's financial interests. Big difference.
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by scarab92 2y ago
You are quoting global revenue numbers, most of which is in China, to challenge the assertion that Australian sales numbers haven’t improved since 10/24. If you’re going to try to correct someone, at least understand the actual argumen
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by scarab92 2y ago
Geez dude, learn what context is instead of attacking strawman arguments you invented on your head.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Why? There’s been dozens of attempts at this that have all failed because there’s no real market demand for it. “Open source” is not a feature in most cases. What exactly would this do that is an unmet need of enough users to make it worthw
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by scarab92 2y ago
You said wrong, but then provided an article which backs up what I said? That Tesla is still outselling BYD by a large margin in Australia? Are you confusing global revenue $ for Australia sales # ?
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by scarab92 2y ago
Things haven’t improved for BYD since then. I think BYD makes a great car for a great price, but Tesla is still outselling them 5:1
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by scarab92 2y ago
I think that was true at some point in his life, but these days he regularly and deliberately torches billions of dollars just to make a point on principle. Which car you buy makes a significant difference to your life, but virtually zero d
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by scarab92 2y ago
The net margin on a Tesla is only a few percent, and of that Musk only receives 12% (only owns 12% of Tesla stock). A guy who is worth hundreds of billions, and is willing to give Wikimedia a billion dollars to change their name to dickiped
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by scarab92 2y ago
Other countries don’t care about US politics as much as Americans think they do. Especially non-English speaking countries.
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by scarab92 2y ago
It’s telling that Tesla’s largest market share loses are occurring in foreign markets where BYD is allowed to compete. If the falls were actually caused by Musks antics you would expect the inverse, with a larger effect in the US and attenu
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by scarab92 2y ago
Tall poppy syndrome. The entirely logistics industry tracks worker productivity closely. Amazon are actually one of the better companies to work for. Their targets are more realistic, the pay is generally better, safety culture is much bett
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by scarab92 2y ago
It's been lost in the weeds since Brendan Eich left.
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by scarab92 2y ago
And yet, despite having all the levers to do so, Trump never privatized it. Since you're conflating anecdotes with evidence, perhaps you should also consider the "evidence" that Trump has already decided not to do exactly wha
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by scarab92 2y ago
That's not evidence? In a previous administration, a previous CEO of AccuWeather was appointed to run NOAA. This is extremely common, since who better to run a weather forecasting organisation, than someone who previously ran a weather
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by scarab92 2y ago
The bid focuses on sovereignty of user data, but that was never the true concern about TikTok. The concern around TikTok is control of the recommendation engine and its ability to influence politics. TikTok likely has more influence than al
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by scarab92 2y ago
You're being a little deceptive here, by summing votes for all candidates combined as "against". What really matters is Trump v Harris, and Trump won that both in the electoral college and in the popular vote.
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by scarab92 2y ago
To be clear, the article headline is deceptive clickbait. NIH budgets aren't being cut. The NIH is simply requiring that at least 85% of the grant value goes to the actual grant recipients, rather than being siphoned off by the univers
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by scarab92 2y ago
The point is likely to bring attention to the lack of effective performance management processes within the public service. Departments who don't want to follow Musk's approach will need to develop or improve their own processes t

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