johnny99
Joined 19 years ago
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmcgrath/, https://github.com/john
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Comment · 1 year ago
I would have also thought this an insult, until joining a company where nobody was classifying the tickets.
Comment · 6 years ago
She tried to defund the Special Olympics. Her brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the security contractor repeatedly accused of murder and other crimes in Iraq. She had no experience in education prior to her appointment. Her stated goal is to defund public education, and her own department, in favor of using public money to support private "faith-based" schools. She's taking advantage of the pandemic to try and steer stimulus money intended for public schools into the hands of wealthy private schools. Even by the low low standards of the Trump administration, she a notably horrible public servant, defiling the department she's supposed to be leading. There is an endless supply of well-sourced stories trashing her, but here's one more or less at random: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-s...
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the point might have been that there may be other ways to get energy which accomplish the goal without requiring that sacrifice.
Comment · 7 years ago
Love that the meth ad has a picture of a kid eating a banana in the background.
Comment · 7 years ago
Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected, and with this ruling can be scraped, at least in the U.S. Others things common on LinkedIn, as you rightly point out, are protected--but by copyright law, not the CFAA. So a scraper acting in good faith would have to be careful about what they used if they wanted to respect copyright, but it's a separate issue from this ruling.
Comment · 7 years ago
Compliance with robots.txt is and always has been voluntary, and many crawlers have long ignored it, including Archive.org.
Comment · 7 years ago
Lincoln did criticize his generals, eventually removing McClellan from command for timidity. He was careful about how he did that though, and how he interacted with the rest of the general staff. But he proved to have a better grasp of strategy than most of them, which he was able to implement once he found Grant.
You're correct he was reluctant to overtly criticize, but the lesson to take away isn't to just not criticize. It's to be diplomatic and patient when trying to effect change. Being a natural leader, brilliant, and with great strategic intuition also helps :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
Disagree. How do you suggest they operate their business? Does this extend to print magazines and newspapers--do you suggest they stop running ads and just give away their product? Do you think Facebook should start charging a subscription?
What users want, naturally, is everything awesome free forever. It's naive, though, to things that everyone should always get what they want.
As other have said, I agree there are hard limits and Facebook has violated them, in terms of selling data and collecting it without user's permission. That's different.
Comment · 7 years ago
The solar resources in Kuwait are exceptional--this may be more about pragmatic cost optimization than anything else. With the falling cost of solar, if they can save the oil that would otherwise be used for operations and then sell it, I imagine they come out ahead.
The irony is that the same forces creating this profit opportunity for them will eventually lead their customers to seek new energy sources as well, and shrink their market.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is a legit blockchain application.
Comment · 8 years ago
And now Fargate.
Comment · 8 years ago
It would be great if Twitter had a way of accepting community contributions to addressing their bot/troll/spam problem.
I see a lot more efforts like this coming from outside of Twitter than inside, and these kinds problems are rampant.