kaffee
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
For anyone scratching their head, I suspect "Brooks" ==
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ben Thompson nails it, as usual:
"The brilliance of paying on a subscription basis is that a company can buy exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and no more."
From https://stratechery.com/2019/microsoft-slack-zoom-and-the-sa...
He's written about this in other posts too.
Comment · 4 years ago
>> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector.
> My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my research and the type of work I was proposing.
I don't see the private sector funding ethnomusicology, philosophy, ecology, social history, ...
Comment · 4 years ago
Not having access to the js libraries seems like a feature rather than a bug. With rare exceptions, third party code written in javascript distributed via npm is a liability.
Comment · 4 years ago
The most recent episode (#118) of Law Bytes with Michael Geist (a respected Canadian law professor) goes into the legal nitty gritty about the use of the Emergency Measures Act.
Here's the link: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/Law-Bytes-A-...
Having just listened to it, I will say the restrictions on Canadians using the banking system to donate to the truckers sound sweeping.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can you see in the history how they are setting the price? Are they dripping this into the market somehow?
What's the standard strategy for fundraising this way?
Comment · 5 years ago
What's the current best tool for generating redlines from two PDF/Word documents?
Makes sense that this would be important (e.g., when comparing contract versions).
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations. They can spam as much as they want.
First amendment law is full of surprises.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks. This makes some sense.
Honestly, I'm sympathetic to Yelp. The money has to come from somewhere. And there's at least superficial evidence that you cannot operate a honest review platform at a reasonable profit rate (e.g., glassdoor, consumer reports).
Comment · 6 years ago
Anyone spot an official response from Glassdoor to this?
Comment · 6 years ago
Is this true? I thought Yelp still did a decent job of moderating reviews.
Comment · 6 years ago
I thought this was mostly unenforced or unenforceable in cases like this -- where it would be really hard to prove that someone took a payment. I'll keep digging. Thanks!
One more thing -- this isn't an explicit endorsement. It's content marketing. I rather thought that made even the FTC rules hard to apply.
Also: "The Guides are not regulations, and so there are no civil penalties associated with them. But if advertisers don’t follow the guides, the FTC may decide to investigate whether the practices are unfair or deceptive under the FTC Act." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advert...
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Comment · 6 years ago
Does anyone know about the legality of this? My suspicion is that this black-hat content marketing is perfectly legal under US law. It's only potentially a violation of individual platforms' TOS (or publishing agreements). Is this approximately correct?
Comment · 6 years ago
Seems like it requires a Google or Microsoft account (or corporate SAML). No thanks!
"Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh