Sadly CFAA always applies, just read the letter if the law and multiply by the wide net cast by the microsoft TOS.

"Disposable email domains blocked" This one is really annoying as in practice, more and more services that become spammers or sell to what are basically spammers cannot be kept at arms length.

But isn't it wonderful that they did?

It's vaguely disturbing that people "watch" films 10-12 hours a day. Many of them are using it as a radio, for background noise, without really caring what the program is beyond vague genre, tuning in and out without particular regard to the plot… and yet we have all the cost of transmitting high-resolution video point-to-point.

Surely we could just put better stuff on the radio, and accomplish most of the same goals for a far lower price?

My Dad was in the hospital, and just wanted to watch the Pirates play. The TV was filled with apps, some of them free to watch, others demanding a subscription and log in once you selected something.

None of them had the Pirates game.

I was thinking how the transistor radio was a far superior experience for this use case. Just tune to the channel broadcasting the game.

You mean the station that the MLB regulatory captured into not broadcasting when the local team was playing?

Radio has not gone anywhere you know? There is of course podcasts, but for instance Radio France has amazing music services like FIP: https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

Then there’s NTS, BBC… Ypu can listen to them from online service, but at least in Europe there’s amazing national FM broadcastimg services.

TV is just bad radio with flickerimg lights.

Who has the time to watch films 10-12 hours a day?

I think the comment put forward that as an incorrect assumption that was made prior to the cable build-out.

Which is now an actual way that people use streaming services.

The quote in the original comment assesses the survey responses as "impossible". A good-faith reading of the comment is that the professor was not talking about a handful of respondents.

Nobody is doubting that there are some people who watch films 10–12 hours a day, every day of the week.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/ and its HN comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756) argue that it's more than just a handful of respondents.

If they invested a token of the budget into making data centers look beautiful that'd probably reduce the push back by like half.

In a similar but distinct vein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

That’s wild. I had no idea.

Could be goomba fallacy, but listening to people irl, maybe not.

iykyk rules

IAANAL, but always free sounds like it could fall under puffery: https://uslawexplained.com/puffery

'Always free' does not sound like an opinion.

Especially since, by the "reasonable person standard," they have been offering it for free, so a reasonable person would conclude that they will continue to do so as promised.

At least this one doesn't require spending the manhours moving dung from pocket to pocket, now we finally get credit for automating it!

> his vision for the future was that “the model just knows”

Possibly, could also just mean that they've internalized the bitter lesson. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...