danols

It is a spam tool plain & simple. Stop defending yourself and keep counting your money instead. Congratulations on your financial success.

At the very top of that pyramid of blame you should place the elected officials allowing corporations so blatantly to abuse its citizens for profit for such an extended period of time.

I am stunned that this is legal in the US. It would surprise me if this is legal in most countries in western Europe. Anyone?

How many reviews did the place you booked have?

The place you booked did not have electricity and you did not get a refund for the prepaid week? I almost find that hard to believe. There must be something I don't understand here.

The founder (ivanzhao) has made an appearance and only made one comment to so far to thank for some praise.

Hasn't addressed a single question or replied to any concerns/feedback. Not a great sign and makes me reluctant to give it another try.

400 comments and now one mentions the missing web clipper feature, which is a deal breaker for me.

I guess that answers the question why this feature has been 'in development' for close to 2 years now.

Border control. Unlike many other privacy infringing solutions this will have little impact on regular people and big on criminals.

Same. I clicked 5 of them at random and only 2 was blocked for me.

And the world would probably be a better place if you kept shitty & unconstructive opinions like this to yourself.

They were chasing me around last week with Google Adwords for a $100 free trial so I thought why not. Set up a droplet easy enough and invested 2-3 days part work in a test project for fun (didn't bother with external backups..).

Then without even bothering sending me an email they disabled my account to the likes of "We need to investigate that you are a real person, please send in docs A, B etc.". Normally you do that at the signup stage and when you approve someone for a trial you honour it. Now I cant even access my files.

Now been waiting 5 days to hear back from their security team after giving them the required docs. The regular support tells me the security team are "very busy at the moment". I guess someone decided to start offering $100 trials without thinking through the effect on the support team. Or maybe the campaign was too successful and this is their way of cost control?

If this is how they treat a big portion of their new trial users customers I doubt this will be a very long-term profitable campaign. I know that I will stick with my Google Cloud account for now.

Giving scrapers fake but realistic data is my favorite way of dealing with them (as long as it does not consume too much resources).

It will hopefully waste their time and discourage them from trying to find other ways.

So I guess we can expect to be asked this once a week in an increasingly deceptive way until people either by accident click yes or they click yes just to get rid of the popup.

2017 is the first year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard is implemented. The rich need somewhere new to store their offshore cash.

Yeah that would be the CEO then!

Interesting but without INSERT and UPDATE it just isn't worth it for me. When can we expect it to handle data manipulation language (DML) statements?

Takes a certain type of arrogance to play the high card with the track record and reputation that he has. He has zero credibility when it comes to standing up for what is right.

Am I limiting free speech if I kick out some racist, hate spewing bully from my house because I don't want to listen to their nonsense? No. It is just common sense and how the 'real' world works. Why should the online world be any different? If there are a few destructive people affecting the experience of the majority lets just kick them out and not deal with them anymore. Problem solved. They don't have the right to ruin the experience of the majority in the name of free speech.

Twitter is a Swiss army knife for both consumption and communication. People that think it useless because you cant explain it in 5 words are missing the point of Twitter. It is what you make out of it and it can be a lot of different things for different people depending on your needs. This means that not everyone needs it or are willing to learn to use it. If they try and dumb it down and please as broad group as possible to attract the masses it will eventually be useless to everyone and die a slow death. It is not for everyone and it will never compete with Facebook. I wish they would accept that. Not very likely though.

For me Twitter is 100% consumption. It is a way to discover new articles & views from the 400 people or so that I follow. It could be Bill Gates latest views. Maybe a couple of comedians. A couple of athletes. Probably a bunch of Entrepreneurs. It is just another stream that I check out for 10-15 minutes a day to discover new interesting stuff in niches that I am interested in. This use case is never mentioned. Are there so few people using Twitter like this?

Never rely on a Google product that isn't used by at least 80% of their user-base. It days are numbered.

So I am going to assume that they are not going to show me the same 'important' tweet more than once!?! Or I am going to loose my shit..

By the time he gives it away it is likely worth more than 45B. So unless he is willing to give it away on the spot the same day it is not worth anything and is just a PR stunt? Sure I don't particularly like the letter and the way he announced it or even the guy for that matter but he just committed 99% of his net worth to charity and deserve some credit for that. Not people bitching and moaning about how he did it in the 'wrong way'. Can you really commit 45B dollars to charity in a wrong way? How big portion of your money have you given to charity?

Pretty clear you didn't read the thing. The guy just pledged to give away 45 Billion dollars to try and improve humanity in various ways. Seems like a pretty expensive 'PR stunt'.

Sure they are obviously free to do what ever they want with their products and maybe "pulling the rug under your feet" is a bit dramatic but it is true that they are pulling features left and right (not only Reader) that unless it is used by the 80% enough is under hard scrutiny. But if the top 20% which is also the people that are going to help you innovate are getting tired of getting used to a product working in a certain way and then it no longer does they will be wary of being too dependent on products from that company.

If you become a power user of any Google product you are on deep water and are setting yourself up to be disappointed when they pull the rug under your feet retiring features or even products that you have learned to depend on. Never depend on a Google product or feature unless you are in the 80% regular user category.

The day Twitter introduces an algorithmic tweet feed is a sad day. Unfortunately I think it will come.

They have a superior music listening & discovering functionality to any other competitor by a mile. Is there really anything else needed? I can't see how such a superior product can fail. But it just seems there are so many people in the music industry that are living in the past and are slowing down the pace instead of everyone going all in on it. If Spotify had 10x their subscribers no one would question the model. The problem is that it takes too long time to get to those numbers due to all the friction.

"one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures" Travel much outside of the US?