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Wasn't most of the claims in that book refuted, some even by the author. I really enjoyed it and found some great insights only to be later told by a friend in that sphere that the book was not correct and even the author had "retracted" some of the assertions.

I recall a chap called Geocar demoing kOS, in a very impressive fashion. (I additionally recall an individual had to awkwardly hold the mic for the whole presentation)

Did anything ever come of kOS?

Genuinely curious, what do you mean?

Seems its okay if they are a "bad" person

[Ireland] In process of getting laid off, 2 interviews. Applied for about 30 roles.

> Oracle vs. Google when Google suddenly realized that they should lose and intentionally threw the case.

But Google won?

I'm prob using the term wrong, it can be anywhere but in a small group or department it is exacerbated. With a large enough group it normally goes away.

I think others have pointed this out but this is a small company problem. I was a rockstar in a previous company and then went to a FAANG and lets just say, I am not a rockstar there.

I used to lead Sys Eng for a FTSE 100 company. Our data was valuable but only for a short amount of time. We were constantly scraped which cost us in hosting etc. We even seen competitors use our figures (good ones used it to offset their prices, bad ones just used it straight). As the article suggest, we couldn't block mobile operator IPs, some had over 100k customers behind them. Forcing the users to login did little as the scrapers just created accounts. We had a few approaches that minimised the scraping:

Rate Limiting by login,

Limiting data to know workflows ...

But our most fruitful effort was when we removed limits and started giving "bad" data. By bad I mean alter the price up or down by a small percentage. This hit them in the pocket but again, wasn't a golden bullet. If the customer made a transaction on the altered figure we we informed them and took it at the correct price.

It's a cool problem to tackle but it is just an arms race.

Passwords and autocomplete.

You are correct but it happens in all fields/passions ...etc E.G. Jazz, you need to be a very good musician to create good jazz. A programmer could create something that creates jazz but jazz musicians will find it lacking, for want of a better word.

Got lost in a train of thought but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

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Set off in December 2019. Was great for a bit, traveled lots of south America but then covid hit.

Came home and started working with a FAANG, that bit was hard.