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I think therapy can be used very strategically. Maybe you want to end a friendship and don't know how to break it to them. Or maybe you don't like the way you are being treated by someone and you want to know effective ways of setting boundaries. Therapy can be super useful in giving you the tools to confront difficult emotional/psychological situations.

They're not. Almost all of their infra was on prem when I worked there 3 years ago.

How about Apple maps, windows 8, the Samsung Galaxy with the exploding batteries, the entire metaverse.

Not trying to be combative - but you do have a choice to refuse. To me, it seems like they wanted to add diversity to account for bias and failed hilariously. It also sounds like this wasn't intended behavior and are probably going to rebalance it.

Now, should Google be mocked for their DEI? ABSOLUTELY. They are literally one of the least diverse places to work for. They publish a report and it transcends satire. It's so atrociously bad it's funny. Especially when you see a linkedin job post for working at google, and the thumbnail looks like a college marketing brochure with all walks of people represented.

Investors in Google should consider Google's financial performance as part of their decision. 41% increase YOY in net income doesn't seem to align with the "go woke or go broke" investment strategy.

Fortune 500s are laughably insincere and hamfisted in how they do DEI. But these types of comments feel like schadenfreude towards the "woke moralist mind-virus"

But lets be real here ... DEI is a good thing when done well. How are you going to talk to the customer when they are speaking a different cultural language. Even form a purely capitalist perspective, having a diverse workforce means you can target more market segments with higher precision and accuracy.

A few different techniques -

1. use mobile phone proxies. Because of how mobile phone networks do NAT, basically it means that thousands of people share IPs and are much less like to get blocked.

2. Reverse engineer APIs if the data you want is returned in an ajax call.

3. Use a captcha solving service to defeat captchas. There's many and they are cheap.

4. Use an actual phone or get really good at convincing the server you are a mobile phone.

5. Buy 1000s of fake emails to simulate multiple accounts.

6. Experiment. Experiment. Experiment. Get some burner accounts. Figure out if they have request per min/hour/day throttling. See what behavior triggers a cloudflare captchas. Check if different variables such as email domain, useragent, voip vs non-voip sms based 2fa. your goal is to simulate a human. So if you sequentially enumerate through every document - that might be what get's you flagged.

Best of luck and happy scraping!

You're right - no legitimate bank would serve those criminals. You have to be a white-collar criminal for banks to serve you.

While I believe selling zero days to NSO group is significantly worse than working for Google or building surveillance capitalism software - we are mercenaries. Like 60% of software work is vehemently anti-middle class. Almost all of us have either contributed to some spying apparatus (analytics platforms), build some automation that replaced several humans, or developed something that contributed to the environmental destruction of our planet.

Let's be clear though, I'm not saying tech is bad. We'd all be doing manual labor on a a farm without it. I do think our demographic (including myself) has completely set aside any consideration for our impact in the name of optimization or a fat paycheck.

I have lots of criticisms of Google, but let's not forget they have Gmail + workspaces,Google Domains, Android, Google Cloud, Google Fiber, Google Fi, The pixel, Nest, Maps, Youtube, Fitbit, and probably the browser 90% of people on here are using. Would losing search devastate them? Absolutely, but they're not exactly IBM levels of irrelevance without it.

Payments and stablecoins have many usecases. Like international payments, irrevocable payments, and auditing. However NFTs are just a deed to an address space on the blockchain. I don't see anything useful that can be implemented with this.

What happened to Cardpool was pretty messed up! I knew some people in the industry who knew the people in charge and mentioned that one day they just started getting a bunch of complaints, and then bam - out of business.

But yes! especially in b2b sells. I always try to be super anal about kyc with selling to business buyers in bulk, and avoid buying from them. I straight up stick to institutional suppliers to avoid this issue :(

Haha, I bought the domain debatelord.com to build something similar, but never started development! This is awesome. Will check this out.

I only go to authorized distributors, where the brand themselves has approved the vendor to resell the cards. For game keys, I haven't done anything in bulk, but the best route is going directly to the publisher and getting permission, but this requires large order commitments and game prices fluctuate too much and can be super risky.

My real biggest risk though is when I open up my own store is chargebacks. Digital goods have a very very high chargeback risk, and I need to be clever on how I mitigate that!