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Isn’t the legality of web scraping still..disputed?

There’s been a few projects I’ve wanted to work on involving scraping, but the idea that the entire thing could be shut down with legal threats seems to make some of the ideas infeasible.

It’s strange that OpenAI has created a ~$80B company (or whatever it is) using data gathered via scraping and as far as I’m aware there haven’t been any legal threats.

Was there some law that was passed that makes all web scraping legal or something?

Yea I’d love to. If you know of some concrete sources please link them!

Yes, and that’s been the line of thinking taught in schools and every discussion I’ve read on this topic for at least 20 years. Yet, there never seems to be any concrete proof that heating is being caused by excess energy being trapped inside the atmosphere because “emissions”. Again, it’s all very hand wavy.

I’m not saying that’s NOT the method of action, it totally could be, but I would think there would be more evidence nowadays compared to 20 years ago but there doesn’t seem to be. Everyone just parrots everyone else.

I’m just thinking of Occam’s razor. Perhaps the planet is getting hotter because were just producing a fuckload of heat. It doesn’t need to be anywhere near the energy the planet captures from the sun. But day after day, over decades, surely the minuscule amount of heat being generated by activity on the surface has SOME cumulative effect. Or maybe not, i dont know.

Somewhat related, but does anyone know how to deal with a .us domain? There is no WHOIS privacy with that TLD. A few hours after I bought a .us domain, I started receiving phone calls from all over the world, literally every 5-10 minutes for days, offering services for my “new business” associated with the TLD.

Is there any way to keep legitimate contacts in the registrar without getting a ton of spam?

Isn’t python/django quite slow?

Where was this?

Isn’t that how any Go project is put online?

There’s a lot of praise for Rust in these comments.

I always understood Rust to be for low level “close to the metal” sort of software. Is it at a point where it’s suitable for writing web applications?

I know it’s “possible” with frameworks like Rocket, but I’d like to know if Rust is at a point where it can compete in the web app space with Rails, Go, Node/Express, etc.

I’ve read opinions, perhaps presented as facts, that transforming commercial buildings into residential units was often more expensive than tearing down the whole building and starting from scratch.

If that’s true, there seems to be a large opportunity available to those who can figure out how to transform those buildings in a way cheaper than what’s currently possible.

What sort of API? I’m working on another real estate project and were focusing on generic listings APIs. Would love to know your use case.

What? There are tons of API businesses. Many of them are massive companies.