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That's on food and consumable household stuff. I imagine some people do all of that shopping through Amazon. But on average?

It's almost as if this isn't about scraping and more about shutting down a "free article sharing" channel that gets abused all the time.

I should clarify that the "applications" I write are usually command line tools. I don't think I've ever written a full working GUI application, although now with AI I bet it would be fast and easy to bang something together.

Or when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.

It's saving face. It lets them bail out without actually badmouthing Flock or any related companies, which, yes, lets them do it again later.

If Guile had more of the "batteries" from the Gauche standard library it might be the perfect all-purpose Scheme. But for just writing a simple application quickly and easily it's been impossible to beat Gauche for me, it's on par with Python and Ruby in that regard IMO.

Interesting timing, the Park Tool Youtube presenter just retired. The guy with the big mustache.

Which is precisely why I said originally that data centers in space have never been a thing and will never be a thing. Because the whole premise is "it's cold in space so that's great for data centers", but that fundamental premise is fundamentally wrong and based in a misunderstanding of the physics involved. There is no other redeeming argument for it, therefore it's not going to happen. Anyone trying to sell you on data centers in space is grifting.

Data centers in space have never been a thing and never will be.

This is right-wing authoritarian virtue signaling IMO.

Sort of? You want something that's going to actually affect the corporations involved. It's not about showing effort, because the government doesn't care how much effort you put in. It's about showing power, making a statement that we "the people" have power and can use it if you don't do what we want. A long-term "nonessentials boycott" might be more impactful in that sense.

He absolutely would harm some people in the US to benefit other people in the US. The same is true for many many other businesspeople and politiciansl

Back when IBM Watson was a thing, the rumor I heard was that it was actually just a big team of data people and programmers who would bang out stuff in a hurry and then they would pretend like the AI came up with it.

Imagine that! It's almost like it's coordinated. Surely the US government would never do something like that on purpose.

I think if we're at the point where posting deliberate mistakes to poison training data is considered a crime, we would be far far far down the path of authoritarian corporate regulatory capture, much farther than we are now (fortunately).