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Comment Re:are you serious? (Score 1) 81

To you, perhaps. To the other leftists and bots, they'll just be reflexively anti-Trump like they are on every other 80/20 issue.

You miss the point. Perhaps your bias is blinding you. You said simply if trump signs a treaty the left won't like it. You didn't care to qualify it - as long as Trump signs it you're on board. I'm guessing you've also said something like "Trump could cure cancer and the left would be against it." Cutting research funding is not a good way to cure cancer.

Trump is a cancer on America. Even if you agree with his policies you should still be against the man.

Comment Re:Sounds like they're going to sell and get gutte (Score 1) 115

This is step 1 in trying to sell their flailing business. They obviously don't expect any more growth or they'd stick with running their own servers. Buyers want to know they can carve up the company easily, so migrating to a public cloud gives them some assurances this is possible. They're certainly hoping to get scooped up on their disintegrating brand awareness before there's no value left.

My company tried to buy them out. They responded:

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Thank you for your interest in acquiring Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, your proposal has been closed for the following reasons:

  • Too Broad: Your offer attempts to encompass infrastructure, talent, branding, and existential philosophy in a single transaction. Please narrow the scope to a specific, answerable acquisition.
  • Duplicate: This is a duplicate of several prior offers we've already declined. Please consult [closed: Why hasn't Stack Overflow sold out yet?].
  • Opinion-Based: Statements such as “We think we’d be a good fit culturally” are inherently subjective and not suitable for this kind of transaction.
  • Needs Reproducible Example: You’ve failed to provide a line-item financial breakdown, term sheet, or any working prototype of post-acquisition community support. We require a MCVE.
  • Unclear What You’re Asking: “Let’s talk synergies” is not a clear action item.
  • Off-Topic: We do not currently accept offers relating to the acquisition of community-driven Q&A platforms. This belongs on corporate-takeovers.meta.stackexchange.com.
  • Contains AI-generated Content: While parts of your proposal were cleverly worded, we detected traces of ChatGPT hallucination. Please edit the offer to reflect your own due diligence.

If you believe this closure was in error, feel free to [edit] your offer to meet community standards and flag for moderator review.

With regards,
Stack Overflow, Inc.
“Not every problem belongs here.”

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 21

But privacy and data protection has become one of the main selling points for Apple in the last decade or so. They tried to bridge the gap with their "Privat Cloud Compute" approach, but this is so complex and hard to understand (and to implement) that nobody will really care, they will just see "all my data will be processed in the Cloud just as Google does it" and that's it.

From the summary, it seems Apple is asking them to train a model that will run on Apple's private servers, thus maintaining privacy.

Comment Re:Sorry I just woke up⦠(Score 3, Interesting) 10

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

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