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viking1066
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
[How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"?]

If only someone had told the person that may have caused the death of Aaron Schwarz!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
viking1066
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
FTC is misguided.

They just punish Amazon for being successful.

On the other hand, they (DOJ) should use the maximum might of the criminal law to prosecute using fraud statutes for sellers (and Amazon itself) when ratings have been manipulated, resulting in decades in prison.
viking1066
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
It would make sense to correct for home ownership rate. With higher rates of home ownership, a higher debt is justified.

For example USA and Germany seems to have about the same level of household debt, but USA has 65% home ownership rate, while Germany has only 51%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...

The other interesting thing is that South Europe in general has a longer history of financing public works like churches, than Northern Europe, but in terms of household debt, that relationship seems inverted.