Comment by dilyevsky
2 months ago
The hypocrisy is palpable. Apparently only web 2.0 is allowed to scrape and then resell people’s content. When someone figures out a better way to do that (based on Googles own research, hilariously) it’s sour grapes from Rob
Reminds me of SV show where Gavin Belson gets mad when somebody else “is making a world a better place”
Rob Pike worked on Operating Systems and Programming Languages, not web scraping
Would you care to research who his employer has been for the past 20+ years? Im not even saying scraping and then “organizing worlds information” is bad just pointing out the obvious
While I would probably not work at Google for ethical reasons, there’s at least some leeway for saying that you’re not working at the Parts of the company that are doing evil directly. He didn’t work on their ads or genai.
I think the United States is a force for evil on net but I still live and pay taxes here.
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