A fun alternative to "Snake on a Plane"

”Snake on a Surface”

20% of 20b isn’t exactly loose change, even for a megacorp.

true, but given that recruiters take upward of 30% of first-year comp it starts to really flirt with being a wash. if the acquiree’s employees are truly that odious, the founders aren’t worth the price of admission. just look at the scale.ai guy: he is in wayyy over his head now, and if those billions mattered at all to zuck he would probably regret it, ex post.

... a hard coded limit... for self-hosted software... which is removed for paying users?

> Most if not all the bad checklist I have encountered are all for the same reason, they were not tested or poorly written, and most of the time both.

I'd argue this comes back to "written by people who do not have to follow them on a regular basis".

“We don’t train on your data” doesn’t exclude metadata, training on derived datasets via some anonymisation process, etc.

There’s a range of ways to lie by omission, here, and the major players have established a reputation for being willing to take an expansive view of their legal rights.

Right - the scraper operators already have an implementation which can use the HTML; why would they waste programmers time writing an API client when the existing system already does what they need?

Why would I own my own car in this scenario (vs paying one of the autonomous driving companies to send a car my way when I need one)?

Because if you own your car you leave your golf clubs in there just in case you get invited for a round.

If you are the type who is willing to be seen in a used car you can save a lot of money since the rental car needs to be newer cars just in case someone who wouldn't be seen in a used car wants one - and this adds a lot of cost.

I was there in the early days, loads of folk joined and their first posts got replies like

   * stop posting photos without a text description
   * stop posting like that without a CW
   * don't spell your hashtags that way

Because you couldn't see replies from other servers, they'd get quite a few of these.

IIRC Asimov included this in Foundation; the poor couldn’t afford good adblockers for the implants they’d bought (in the hope of getting a better job)

YDRC

If the Chinese government had said “yeah, that happened” instead of denying there were protests at all, the obsession over it would vanish.

The gaslighting is ongoing, IMO that’s what keeps it in the western consciousness.

Not really, what keeps every media outlet doing that is the fact that China is the biggest economy in the world, and is an active enemy of western bourgeoisie. That is explicit defined in USA/UK and all major central capitalism countries currently.

You want another example of western hipocrisy? Everyone started worrying about a "massacre" on Xinjiang, WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE (the source was... Radio Free Asia, which is CIA). But then, the Palestian massacre came to news again with Israel large-scale deleting women and children from existence, and suddently everyone forgot of Xinjiang and genociding middle-east people is allowed. Wonder why?

You and I experience very different media environments, if Palestine is not a topic of discussion in yours.