Scientist “dies” in an experiment, but actually gets godlike powers. He spends months rebuilding his body.

Even if it doesn’t prevent scraping entirely, filtering out the “fast, weak” bots help mitigate server load. Sufficiently many bots hitting your site is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.

The fast food joints in the ruins of Pompei are fascinating. Stone tables with circles cut out so you could put food on the table and warm it from below, it’s basically a modern street vendor setup without the glass.

An activitypub is a pub you go to for activities. It’s fairly self-explanatory.

It is true that there are plenty of secular Jewish Israelis who are just as violently racist as the religious Israelis. Maybe even a majority.

However, it is also true that there are secular Israelis actively trying to stop the slaughter. The Democrats are the most outspoken Jewish party in the Knesset. They’re obviously too small to really move the dial by themselves, but if Otzma Yehudit can pressure Netanyahu with so few members, I don’t see why the Democrats couldn’t pressure Eisenkott.

Would be bad business to completely abandon her, would give a bad signal to other politicians on the payroll. She’s got a nice comfortable career as an AIPAC lobbyist after this, most likely.

Extremely unlikely best case scenario: both coalitions fail, they vote again, and the Democrats get a larger vote share and work with the Arab parties.

At a conceptual level, it makes 100% sense that companies are moving away from bespoke engines and towards a standardized engine. This is something you see in many different industries. Spending a whole bunch of money and effort when 95% of your requirements are the same as everyone else is a bit silly.

However, you’re completely right that there’s the same danger as in other industries where the ‘boring software infrastructure’ gets standardized and outsourced: a niche monopoly able to exploit their position. What tends to happen in the long run is an open source project for that infrastructure run by an NGO with the industry members (in this case AAA game companies) on the board of directors.

So I guess copyleft licenses like CC BY enforce mandatory ads, by your logic?