Note that this is not licensing the content (the content is already licensed to all of humanity, there is no royalty to be paid), this is simply them paying for a big data pipe to access the data, so that the consumer API endpoints are not overwhelmed. They will give this type of access to anyone who asks and is willing to fund the bandwidth usage.
Unlike for example Reddit, they don't actually make any attempt to block scraping other than ordinary rate limits. They just kindly request that you go the proper route instead, which in theory will be beneficial for both parties.
Microsoft is a modern IBM holocaust tabulation machine. Yes, many of the people who work for Microsoft should be prosecuted and put in prison for war crimes, with varying degrees of culpability. There are people in MS who knowing negotiated deals that aided and abetted war crimes, and those who wrote morally repugnant military surveillance software that was used to automate mass murder in the Gaza holocaust.
Every single engineer who works on this should be in prison for life. Nuremberg trials are coming. Be careful associating yourself with techno-fascists, history will not forget your git commits on evil technologies.
Wait... didn't they advertise some utterly perfect blockchain oracle that could resolve disputes in the most objective way possible? Is Polymarket overriding that, or is that system what is inevitably failing (due to it being impossible to solve the oracle problem, despite blockchain advocates' claims to the contrary)?
That's a good point. I think the assertion that Polymarket is actively doing (or not doing) anything here is at least incomplete. As far as I know, resolutions are still via UMA, which is (at least formally) an independent entity. No idea how big overlaps in personnel and control are in reality.
When Chrome first came out in 2008, it was noticeably faster than any competitors. Users with only moderate tech knowledge were switching in droves because it was faster. Part of this was that it had a process-per-tab model properly making use of multi core CPUs for the first time, but much of it was because V8 was fast.
The gap is not so big these days. JavaScriptCore, Spidermonkey, and V8 are all competent.
Not if you're already running servers and server applications. If you already have patterns for running and deploying server software, an SSG requires an extra preprocessing step to generate the HTML for the server.
If you don't use an SSG, this step is done by virtue of the server running.
People complain about Github not allowing you to turn off issues and pull requests entirely, but I've always seen it as a positive. It means the truth about code quality, potential caveats, and better forked revisions can disseminate freely even when the author disappears. It becomes a spamfest at times, but is still probably a net positive for the ecosystem.
That being said, as long as you still have the discussion tab, auto-deleting all issues by default is not a big deal.
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