The funny part is, 3rd party apps were designed to “play nice” by using the API. Now developers will have to go back to more I/O-intensive old-fashioned web-scraping of content, with the resultant degradation of performance that implies.

In April, Reddit announced that it would be charging companies for access to its application programming interface (API), much the same way Twitter opted to when CEO Elon Musk realized he wasn’t making enough money.

Right, but that’s not what they asked them to do because being reasonable isn’t their goal. They could even price the API such that they made more money than they get from ads and still be reasonable. They just wanted to nuke the 3rd party apps before the IPO. They tried to do it in a backhanded way to avoid bad…

I installed a third party app and quit using the official reddit app because they kept cramming more and more ads into the feed, and it got to the point where my feed felt like it was half ads. I would have kept using their app if they would have kept the ads at a reasonable level. 

I’m pretty sure its already been made illegal to buy them without a matching VIN, no?  These scrappers are all in on the take, so they dont care if its legal or not and they are literally disposing the evidence.

It is an exceptionally long read, but you should check out the thread from iamthatis the dev for Apollo.

Not sure if the API issue impacts RES, but it’s only a matter of time before old.reddit.com goes away and RES won’t work :/

I don’t think you’ve read or understood correctly, then.

I’m sorry - you don’t know what you’re talking about. The Apollo developer has posted the receipts - as the kids say - of their conversations where Reddit has lied, been intentionally vague, and has recently just ghosted him.  Reddit is looking to boost their IPO and have seemlingly forgotten that their product isn’t…

This series is so weird.

California doesn’t want that for the same reasons they don’t want to approve higher rates.  They’d rather be able to sue the private pocket of PG&E when something goes sideways than be on the hook for it themselves.

Around that time, the insurance giant ended its third quarter that year with a net loss of almost $700 million loss.

Regulation will look like whatever keeps it in the hands of the Googles and Microsofts of the world, who can afford buzzwords like “certification” and “licensing.”  Already Europe is tossing around the idea of quashing open-source research under such banners.

The problem with any attempt at regulation or limits is twofold— first that we have a global economy secondly the first-mover advantage is so enormous that it has serious risks.

Please correct me if my logic or calculations are in error. I came up with Earth’s Annual Solar Radiation (Eo)

A closer reading of the press release (and even parts of the Giz post) reveals a subtle distinction that the author missed. Power was transferred in space from one side of the apparatus to another. (“ used to light up two LEDs inside MAPLE”) The microwaves were also beamed toward earth and a signal was detected on the…

I would imagine that heat generated only becomes an issue if it can’t escape fast enough or can, but too quickly. the heat itself isn’t the problem, it’s the balancing act of greenhouse gases that regulates the rate of dispersal.

Yes, it would cause some additionla warming, but I wouln’t call it a problem. It produces less heat than nuclear, let alone gas or coal (which ALSO produce CO2). It also avoids the environmental impact that a wind or solar farm would have.

Top two reason probably are effiency and consistency. You can capture whatever part of the spectrum band you want in space and convert it to something that is less blocked by the atmosphere than full spectrum solar radiation. In this case microwaves which aren’t blocked by clouds, removing the majority of weather…

Guys I know literally right now in 2023, a 29 year old guy who is a student and works a part time internet job and has an apartment on the Upper East Side (alone, no roommate). No other money or wealth. Stop arguing about Jerry Seinfeld’s completely modest 1990s apartment.