It never fails. If someone mentions “selling courses” as one of the best examples of a business they can think of, their line of business is “self-help guru/grifter”.
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This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a "move fast and break things" process.
Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unprofessional.
Which is why i block all 3rd party js by default. If your website requires 3rd party js and it is not essential for me to really visit it, most prob i am just gonna close it.
Unless I have missed something (always a real possibility to be fair) there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are, what its staffing is, or what its actual processes will be.
We’ll find out more when the actual Trump administration starts I guess, but so far it seems like a broad concept that two guys can use for tweets.
> there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are
It's (edit: going to be after Innauguration Day) a Presidential Task Force
Presidential Task Forces have zero power, as they can only give recommendations.
All this hyperventilating over DOGE is distracting from actual issues to worry about - like the upcoming showdown between Senate GOP Leadership and the Executive Branch over a number of confirmations.
>All this hyperventilating over DOGE is distracting from actual issues to worry about
It's not hyperventilating. It may start as a task force but it can easily and quickly be upgraded to a full-on department of the federal government by Congress.
> it can easily and quickly be upgraded to a full-on department
It cannot easily be converted. The house margin is razor thin now that Gaetz and Stefanik gave up their seats for nominations, and filibuster-able.
And Senate leadership is status quo GOP with Sen Thune as Senate Majorty leader, and his allies Grassley and Cornyn, as well as shakey Senators like Collin and Murkowski reducing that majority, and the Senate is still filibuster-able as well.
And given the amount of controversy over a number of Secretary choices, it'll take 6-9 months alone just to go through the Senate Confirmation backlog.
Where were you for the last 8 years? If there's one thing the GOP is great at, it's coalescing around votes. Even with the thin margins, there are ways for them to achieve their goals quickly. I think you're not giving them enough credit here...
It is only the Senate which has the filibuster, and it merely exists as a Senate rule. It can be removed with a simple majority vote, though I believe rule changes must occur at the beginning of the new Congress.
That may be a moot point with regard to cabinet positions should the incoming Republican Senate go along with Trump's request for recess appointments, though.
> It is only the Senate which has the filibuster, and it merely exists as a Senate rule. It can be removed with a simple majority vote, though I believe rule changes must occur at the beginning of the new Congress.
Rule changes can occur any time, but except for the initial adoption of the rules by a majority vote by each House at the opening of each Congress are, themselves, subject to the rules adopted by that House for that Congress, which may impose additional process.
House can de facto filibuster in the sense that a 3 rep majority will inevitably lead to clashes internally, as every rep in the GOP absolutely will use this as an excuse to get concessions. This happened everytime this happens.
> It can be removed with a simple majority vote
It absolutely can, but both sides steer away from doing so due to situations like this - either party inevitably becomes the minority as some point in the Senate, so Senate leadership in both parties prefer to maintain it.
> That may be a moot point with regard to cabinet positions should the incoming Republican Senate go along with Trump's request for recess appointments, though
And that's my point. With Thune as Senate majority leader, Recess Appointments are basically moot.
The whole point of Recess Appointments is to undermine the power of the Senate, which much of the Senate obviously opposes.
As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.
Akamai doesn't have a reputation for being interested in the bottom of the market. They announced this price increase with 31 days' notice. Future price increases and policy changes can be expected to be announced on a similar schedule.
Do you really want to wait until they announce a "hit the ejector seat button" change and you only have 30 days to make the move?
It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just slime on top of slime. All our most valuable companies, rolling around in nasty slop.
Indeed, nobody outside FB cares that Apple makes their life harder, per se. The issue is that Apple changes their "rules" all the time, and wields enormous power not only over the other giants, but everyone, especially those that have or aspire to run honest digital businesses of different sorts. Not only do they take a massive cut of it, but they're directly competing with those they "moderate" (aka rule over), in many instances.
The result of these companies growing like cancer into every related field, is that it gridlocks and stifles innovation. We've seen this with AT&T and Microsoft. It's always bad for consumers.
It's a gamble, because as of now they're not even the most popular soccer league in America let alone the world.
Liga MX (Mexican soccer) ratings destroy them for the obvious reasons (the league the US's largest most passionate soccer fanbase is most passionate about), EPL ratings beat them pretty handily as well (English Premier League, the highest profile and probably best of the European leagues).
Given the money and momentum behind MLS though, there is at least a chance by the end of this deal that they have become one of the top soccer leagues in the world and Apple looks extremely clever, which is not something you can really say for a lot of leagues with actual better soccer than MLS has right now.
It is weird that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, now has a vested interest in globally promoting a specific soccer league. MLS is probably thrilled with this compared to their current situation where ESPN+ does dump pretty much all the games onto streaming as content, but is generally disinterested in promoting it too heavily because of their vast prtfolio of already more popular sports.
MLS also lost linear TV ratings and viewership battles a few times this season to the women's league (NWSL), which a few MLS teams also own teams in. NWSL's media deals with CBS and Twitch are worth $4.5M/year, or less than 2% this deal from Apple.
Most of those NWSL matches where MLS lost in viewership were also just preseason tournament matches for the women's league. The season hadn't even started yet.
From a value prospective it might work out well. I don’t watch soccer and I’ll probably watch a few matches. I suppose it all comes down to the price they paid.
That these are worldwide rights is also interesting, that almost never happens for sports deals because there's usually more money to be had chopping up broadcast rights and selling them per country.
I'm sympathetic to the extremely legitimate security concerns here, but it's pretty rich for the "open, we're so open" company to be running a classic 90s Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook on SMTP/IMAP which, for all its faults, is one of the more important open protocols undergirding the internet.
you can use SMTP to access GMail and auth via a web browser based flow (OAuth2/OIDC), this added extra security is needed if there's an additional server in the mix that manages the OIDC tokens for the user
He even has the “how to have better sex” book out there for you to buy.