Generally Hackintoshes are fine for CI machines, since it doesn’t really matter if Wi-Fi or the camera or iMessage works correctly, as it might matter if you were using the machine for personal use. Updates are also generally fine if you wait a bit for other people to test before installing.
I haven't had to recover from an OEM vendor install in awhile, but if I remember right there are many situations where the user does not need to input the serial number for activation.
If you are interested in this, people tried the long/short strategy in currencies (forex) and called it a grid trade.
The system would be both long and short the same contract and take profit at a given interval on both sides. When they took a profit, they would reopen a trade on the same side.
Ultimately it was just a mean reversion strategy where one would not close out their losses. So the profit was linear while the losses often became geometric until the time the market came back to where they started the grid.
If you just want to buy both sides and never close either trade, there is no profit just a loss of spread/commission on both legs.
Most of the people who did it looked at their account balance rather than NAV, so they were mostly just abusing leverage until a margin call.
Edit: To be fair, some grids were smarter in their allocation and weighted to be positive to the carry, so at least they would collect interest everyday when the contracts swapped.
If you examine advanced tech companies over the last several decades, it is clear that reasonably investing in them as a portfolio is a highly profitable adventure.
I don't doubt it, but beware of survivor bias. Several "advanced tech companies" don't exist anymore, and not taking them into account would be misleading.
"In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies which were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included."
How is that not taken into account by a portfolio strategy? if one part goes to zero and another part grows 350x over 20 years, what is the problem? even assuming a complete lack of thinking about failing assets while they fall to zero.
The view count itself isn't why they are buying views, it is the ranking in search and related videos.
I find youtube/twitch have the same problems as the CPM industry. If you punish the provider of content for negative viewer action you provide a means for competition to cheaply force the content creator out of the market.
This is why twitch doesn't punish view botting, as any viewer could spend $5 to shut down a $50k/day stream.
If youtube really does use a guilty until proven innocent method then they are just punishing honest content creators that don't understand the dynamics of online media.
The blockchain itself would be too expensive to store a large amount of data, so they would only be storing magnet links much like most tracker sites currently do.
I'm reading a tiny bit into the comment so let me state it plainly:
> A few people I know just check out movie from the local Library on DVD or Bluray, rip them and then watch them from Plex, [and then return the DVD or Bluray without deleting the ripped copy].
Reading a patent will make you not infringe in the short term, but will you remember you got the idea from that patent in ten years?
For people who are writing novel software it can be better to always avoid reading patents, that way they can honestly state they haven't read a specific patent.
The main thing headless chrome saves is having to spawn and manage xvfb per instance.
If more sites adopt serving fake data to headless chrome, people will just return to the old xvfb workflow for those sites, and use headless for everything else.
Could even use a small set of xvfb scrapers to verify the results, and automate detection of false data.
They are fragile systems that one doesn't really want to risk production environments on in my opinion.