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        1. Because VC-funded disrupters believe they can scale their competitors out of business, individuals have an opportunity to get an advantage.
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        Hop from platform to platform wrecking havoc to gain free services. Destroy capitalism with API queries!
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      All these 'disrupters' operate on the assumption that their infrastructure costs will remain low because people don't full use platforms.
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    Imagine if the opposite happened. This is basically how we get to DDoS activism. I make no recommendations, only note:
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      This decade's 'Steal This Book' is 'Steal This Startup's Infrastructure'
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        Full service kamikaze capitalism.
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          We killed Twitter's profitability by using its infrastructure fully. Just imagine who else we could repeat the process with.
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            In related news Facebook has started to warn me that I'm overusing its API. :D
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              The one advantage to AMP is that at least you get to offload infrastructure costs on to Google.
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                I like to imagine that one day, in protest, all news orgs will just redirect their pages to the Google Cached AMP sites and crash Google.
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                  "Here's your closed garden Google, now choke on it" is the sort of thing I imagine someone saying in a Hackers sequel.
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                    We should open source a way to embed your API responses in AMP Google Cache & then build an API-driven site off that. Offload all your CPU.
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                      I have no idea if that would work, but if it did that would be some super-villain level overly-complex trickery. But it would be fun!
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                        Pass it into a WordPress plugin and I bet in a few years every fake news site would be forcing Google to pay their infrastructure costs.
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                          *puts finger on the imaginary AMP switch* G: "Do you expect me to provide you with extra traffic?" Me: "No Mr. Google I expect you to die"
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                            It probably says something about me that in this James Bond/Google fantasy situation I'm role-playing as Goldfinger.
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          PS: Commentary!
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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            Like... haha... what?!
            oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API


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