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I mean people always called out WeWork as just another intermediary, with no value added (besides cost overhead). And they somehow wanted to be called an "tech" company. Even before pandemics it was called risky when they long-term rented multiple office building, for above average prices.

I am afraid that if NVidia really fought it in court, the publishers would just turn to DRM with activation limits.

In principle? Of course. I mean I remember blocking Yandex bots from hammering some e-commerce site on shoestring budget.

But each person developing a web scrapping bot realizes at most after a week that being honest with User-agent has negative impact on how well it works, and changing it to existing browser takes literally seconds.

> business who takes credit cards online, wants to try to exclude people who will commit fraud

How bad is it nowadays? Can't you just enforce 3DS2?

> Honestly, It's not like Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, etc. have much better recommendation algorithms.

YT has a dislike button that:

- doesn't prevent video from being at top of search results

- doesn't remove it from recommendations

- doesn't remove it from autoplay nor mixes

Even Netflix deals with that better.

Amazon and other e-commerce sites all have "toilet seat collector" problem with recommendation systems, I don't know if it can be improved upon.

> Hence I'm not paying for a premium account (yet).

I gave it a try for a month - as there is no adblock available for my TV. It somehow makes all sponsor segments much more annoying. I don't give a damn about Brilliant, I don't neead a reminder it exists every 15 minutes. And if I get yet another VPN ad that includes bullshit claims about security or anonymity, then I will drop the channel - I guess the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" doesn't work within single video stream.

Speaking of expensive - if they stop the service (or even never start it) - who will maintain the tunnels? Looks like huge liability. Would refilling it with some material actually work (in terms of possible surface buildings damage)?

It looks from outside that they are doing relatively OK. Ruble still didn't crater, the high prices of fossil fuels partially compensated lower exports. They try to increase the trade with China and India to offset sanctions.

Of course, like it was said many times before, war economy works - until it doesn't. It will be very hard to time such collapse: it might be next week, next month or even not before the war itself ends.

There is a significant amount of goods moving via Georgia. To be exact they move them from Georgia proper to part occupied by Russian separatists. That is totally different from smuggling stuff to Russia. Exports from Germany to Georgia were something like 50% up year to year.

How strict is that manufacturers' control over spare parts?

And beside some slogans, how exactly will cryptocurrency beat that "archaic" system? As a customer there is exactly 0 benefit for be to use crypto. The single mobile app from my bank, allows me to pay for anything online in few seconds, contact-less credit cards do the same in brick&mortar shops. I am literally afraid that physical cash will die out, cause it isn't convenient enough.

Is there any research that actually confirms it? I mean it is the prevailing sentiment on HN, and my own gut feeling - but it might all be just a confirmation bias and/or good old nostalgia (somehow everything was better in the past).

The only thing I find more annoying that "fusion = totally 0 radiation" is the idea that it somehow will provide "free" energy. With any power plant, no matter the fuel, there will be cost of construction(with a limited lifespan) and maintenance. Same goes for distribution network.

It makes me wonder if we could improve fission reactors cost and safety, instead of performing biggest down scaling act in history of technology (700k kilometer Sun to mere meters)

I am not sure I understand it correctly. It is not about Google News ripping article title and summaries but platform users sharing links? Publisher wanted to be paid for that?

I don't think this is true for a while (5 years). There are view limits and I still find embedded maps that look just like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50977913/google-maps-sho... .

Here we go again, MS makes their Java version :D

Looking at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/openjdk/faq they do it just for Azure, which kinda makes sense, Amazon did the same(custom build/fork) with Corretto.

> no bullshit

There is stinky game launcher. It might not waste my money, but it definitely wastes my time

How exactly does it stop bots? At best it stops everything, but full blown browsers, from communicating with web servers (that includes `curl` and web security scanners). Even if it kills stuff like Selenium, bots can just use mouse/keyboard input. Unless we go all the way, and require DRM in every piece of hardware, so for example "Rubber Ducky" no longer can claim to be a keyboard. That would be more restricting than current MacOS.

Well, enterprise VPN clients have build in similar attestation[0]. So probably there are cases when it could be useful in browsers. The question is not if there are use cases, it is "can we stop all websites from requiring it?" and the answer is no.

[0] The Linux support for that goes from "bad" (check `uname` for version kernel) to none. At least with one client I had to use copy of "system report" file from Windows machine and it worked. Makes me wonder how much of it is just security theater.

I liked local "Italian restaurant ad" Ponzi. I mean it still looked like scam to me, but I can understand why people fell for it. Scheme can only last for few months, a year at most, so the organizer must be ready to GTFO as soon as it reaches the peak. Participants are offered $1k/months for placing the restaurant ad on their car (banner behind rear windshield) but asked for $3k or $4k "security deposit". Of course the "restaurant ad" actually only said "I make $1k/month with this ad, call xxx to learn how".

If there is so much of them maybe link a few, with most significant results? I think general audience is a bit de-sanitized to "X impact on Y" research after drinking coffee was shown to do literally everything, thanks to studies with tiny participants count and widespread p-hacking.

BTW how do you even find control group when micro-plastics are already everywhere?

Depends on who's fiefdom you encroach upon (and language version). I think SO "culture" is more equalized, even among multiple tags.

It literally would not change anything. Sing up for merchant account at any payment gateway[0] and you will be provided with long list of totally legal stuff that Visa/MC won't allow to pay with cards.

[0] or you will get refused, just due to you sector/trade

> would you choose Stack Overflow, or PythonIsSuperFun.com

I would choose first result - people are lazy. The problem comes and goes but it is true, spam sites, with content copied from SO, are ranking higher than SO itself. And it is often hard to tell you are viewing a copy on first glance, the layouts are usually more like a forum.

At this point in time we can second guess the "they pay for traffic". AFAIK Firefox market share dropped significantly but Google payment stayed mostly the same. Maybe it is now more about not facing antitrust scrutiny, just like when Microsoft "invested" in Apple?

And speaking of Microsoft - I am using Thunderbird 102.6.1, since any newer version doesn't work for me with Outlook365 - MS OAuth implementation requires user agent to be accepted by some "administrator". Looks like great example of what we can expect from Google, even if that Web Integrity get delayed for few years. Mozilla really is powerless - either they cave in, like with video DRM - or their browser won't be useful as daily driver