> You can’t fucking trust anyone not to chase money these days.
I don't even mind paying a reasonable amount for Bidwarden (as I do) or other things I find valuable, but it's the unlimited growth of profit that disgusts me. My Grand Father, Father, and myself were/are all business people (in very different industries) and we'd all be ashamed to double the price of something simply for more profit.
This phenomenon started to take effect when companies moved into being managed by MBA folks without any role into making the companies happen in first place, the introduction of CEO and administrative board, and so on.
Usually this was never an issue when becoming the one at the driving wheel, was due scaling up the ladder all the way from the bottom, or having the luck of being in the owners' family already.
Disgustes me as well, above all the layoffs only to give the money to the "poor" shareholders.
One theory about the regulatory capture angle is that it's not just to shutdown competition as usual, but also a way to slow the runaway spending that might eventually have major economic impact.
I prefer 5.6 Luna while a coworker prefers 3.8 Flash. The difference seems to be that they chat with Flash (with code context) while I just ask Luna to directly modify the code. I was already very impressed with 5.6 Luna so I am looking forward to running 6.0 Luna all day tomorrow to see how it compares.
That is fascinating. Out of curiosity, how far apart would the paths have had to remain in order to be ok with just two links? Like, I'm thinking a plane crash between those two links in the 400m zone could destory both links so a third link makes sense, but if it were 800m that would probably be fine? Or what magnitude of disaster are they trying to mitigate and how much separation would that require for just two links?
IIRC it also had to do with them passing near a railroad track, which they identified as an increased risk. So I'm guessing it is about perceived chance of risk - backhoes and groundwork are more likely near certain areas than there is of a plane crash.
> You can also create reasonably diversified data silos within a country.
I generally agree, although if a small country only had half a dozen or so redundant data centers then it would be relatively easy for a powerful adversary to wipe out all of the data centers and potentially have a significant economic impact on that country.
Having a backup data center in an ally country might make sense. Kind of like how I keep an encrypted backup hard drive at my parents house. Whenever I go to visit I pull it out and backup my laptop there too.
I was thinking the same thing... paid access for high volume users or scrapers could actually help fund the non-profit. Maybe let website owners decide which scrapers are allowed to use their content, or allow them to get paid for use of it. If news and other sites were getting paid, maybe they could go back to optimizing for good content instead of clicks.
I think that would get into murky water really quickly with the rights holders (/content creators) not exactly being thrilled the Wayback Machine is essentially monetizing their IP behind their back.
It wouldn't be behind their back, like I said, "Maybe let website owners decide which scrapers are allowed to use their content, or allow them to get paid for use of it."
Interesting, in all the years I have never noticed that IP has 2 meanings (well probably more...) Yeah, I am an engineer and usually try to avoid the legal BS. Although I hate that AI has made stealing legal if you are big enough.
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