>Wasn't a lack of transparency one of the original issues folks didn't like about Digg?
For me it was a slow gradual build up of stuff. Lack of transparency played a role but it was* more the features added/removed. The final thing that made me switch to reddit was the changes to power users. They basically allowed power users to completely control the front page. There are tons of reddit threads that go into a lot more details.
Honestly in the past year or two I have been fairly impressed with recent grads I have worked with. On the other hand I've run across several people that got laid off from one of the big tech companies and I am shocked how little they know. Things that should have taken a week or two such as setting up an api endpoint to return records or consuming one of our apis ends up taking 4+ months for them to complete.
There is at least one person doing this with pythons. The guys name is dusty and he was on the tv shows guardians of the glades and swamp people serpent invasion. I believe this is his store page: https://www.pythonwildman.com/
I am a little confused what you are saying here. Are you saying Newsom doesn't deserve all the blame, because I agree with him not deserving it all, but I don't really see anyone claiming he is solely to blame (other than you implying it).
I live in CA. I blame everyone down the chain. Most people I know say the same thing. Its not one person or entity. Its the entire chain that allows this to happen including the legislature, business owners that are lobbying, the governor that is signing these bill, but most of all the citizens voting in CA. We voted for this. IMO we are the one entity the most to blame.
Until we, the voters, step up and take responsibility for our actions nothing is going to get fixed. After all why would the business owners, legislators, or governor be expected to take responsibility when everyone who votes in the state gets to pass the buck?
>> however, I do not think there is any real danger in airing with the side of caution and trying to fight the innate biases in the training data. It seems like this was Google's goal.
Could you please provide evidence of this being google goal? From everything I have seen, from the posts of google employees who worked on it, to Geminis own responses, they were being racist against white people. In fact considering google retains so much power over your average person I believe it would be considered systemic racist.
To claim it is being overblown to me sounds like you are trying to say this form of racism is okay.
Check out the book empire of pain. It goes back the beginning of the Sackler rise and covers how we go to where we are today.
The problem I have with your statement about the legal system is IMO Purdue and the Sacklers corrupted the justice department, legal system, and various Federal agencies. This was not some overnight thing. This took decades of works by multiple generation of the family. The system we have today is in large part thanks to the Sacklers.
I think they were comparing losing a home to losing a service that your business or income source depend on. The second actually seems worse to me as losing your source of money means you lose your home along with everything else.
No I was being serious. Searching turns up defeating the system with someone in the seat but not without. The other commenter provided a video showing it is possible from two month ago.
I am assuming the 1 IC element in the link I reference below is the DOE. It claims
"One IC element assesses with moderate confidence that the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. These analysts give weight to the inherently risky nature of work on coronaviruses."
Based on the quote (if the one IC element is in fact the DOE) is seem they are basing it on the "inherently risky nature of the work on coronaviruses.
I do find it interesting this was given with moderate confidence but the natural occurring is only given low confidence. Any idea how the whole confidence level is determined?
>>The priority should be to stop the spread of fire not prevent houses being burned down.
This would imply you think DLNR should have released the water the West Maui Land Co. as they were using it to "help prevent the spread of fire" (direct quote from your quote). Yet you say at the beginning.
>>Reading the article this seems perfectly fine.
Do you believe DLNR acted appropriately by not releasing the water which increased the spread of fire or do you believe DLNR should have released the water to help stop the spread of fire?
> Fitch late on Tuesday lowered the US long-term rating one rung from triple A to double A plus, citing the country’s growing debt burden and an “erosion of governance”, including on fiscal matters. The action came two months after the country narrowly averted default amid political wrangling over the federal borrowing limit.
So you are trying to solely blame republicans yet completely ignore what the company doing actual downgrading said. We don't have to guess here, you just have to read what they said. I quoted it above for you so don't have to scroll back up.
I don't see Fitch saying its only because of republicans and their posturing but I do see them say its because of the growing debt burden. Take at look at who controlled the house when the debt burden was added. I'll give you a hint, a majority of it was not added by republicans. In fact this fiscal year, 1.6 trillion has been added to the debt. I would argue that is a major factor in the downgrade, because the organization doing the downgrading said it was.
So I would agree with about reddit management especially how they treated the Apollo dev but this thread is on a piece about why APIs for content sites should be free. It is not about reddit managements conduct or lack of common sense. There is still a free tier with reddit's API. It is rate limited to 100 request a minute per API key. So if you are using reddit for your own personal use, it is very rare you are going to need more than 100 apis requests a minute.
>This isn't correct. The API restrictions are per client id, so your app must be limited to you specifically.
It is exactly correct. I said you build an app for ONLY YOU TO USE. You can still use multiple reddit accounts that you control but no one else is using your API key. Or put another way, you register an API key and then grant that API key access to all your reddit accounts (using OAuth most likely). No other persons reddit account would be using your API Key.
Also that is not the whole purpose of OAuth. You have been able to attach multiple accounts to a single clientId for decades. There are still plenty of sites using SAML that have multiple user accounts tied to one clientId. In fact you can very simply do this today without OAuth. Make a table called clients that owns a table called users. Any user that logs in will have a record in the users table you look up using their userId and then look at the clientid or apikey attached to the parent client record. Then use the clientId/apikey to access any resources you need.
OAuth is delegate authorization framework. Its purpose was to give users the ability to give a system limited access to their data without giving that system their password. It allows you to seperate Authentication and Authorization. Here is a good link to learn about OAuth: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/06/21/what-the-heck-is-...
>You've hidden a subtle semantic shift here. This discussion is centered around personal use, yet you're drawing a line outside commercial use as if they were the same thing.
Claiming this is about personal use is the semantic shift not what I said. You are trying to shift back to that because you know if you have a good faith discussion you have no legs to stand on. The reddit changes target commercial use plain and simple.
If you create an app that loads reddit content from its APIs for only you to use, these changes are going to have very little no effect on you. That app would be personal use and if you incurred charges for your API use they would be very small (or you are abusing or spamming the API which both are against its terms of use).
The most public part of this has probably been the Apollo dev vs reddit. Apollo is commercial. Using Apollo to browse reddit used the Apollo API key not your accounts API key. The crazy charges the Apollo dev listed are due to tens (hundreds) of thousands of reddit users using the Apollo API key to access reddit. That is not personal use. That is a commercial entity using its own API key to access reddit's API.
>Yes? I don't think it's a very radical, unreasonable or difficult thing to provide: this is available as a first class feature on most blogging/forum software (RSS feeds) and wasn't even remotely controversial 10–12 years ago.
I think demanding someone pay server bills so you can freely access data they have stored on their hardware (to make yourself money) is radical and unreasonable in every way. If it is an education service or something I can see your point and may agree with you. But that is not what is happening. It is people using reddit's resources to make money for themselves.
Reddit has the right to want fair compensation for use of its service in a commercial manner.
We have the right to stop using reddit if we don't like it.
We have the right to run a service that does give free api access if we see it as reasonable.
We do not have the right to force reddit to provide us free access to their resources. That is completely unreasonable and would be no different than me going to you and saying you must give me access to all your credit cards and let me use them because I feel like I should have it.
For me it was a slow gradual build up of stuff. Lack of transparency played a role but it was* more the features added/removed. The final thing that made me switch to reddit was the changes to power users. They basically allowed power users to completely control the front page. There are tons of reddit threads that go into a lot more details.