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Dear Jesus, another House of Cards post?
by _dark_matter_ 14y ago
Dear Jesus, another House of Cards post?
- geuis 14y agoI hear where you're coming from. It can seem annoying. But look at it as a coal mine canary. If no one was interested in the show, no one would talk about it. What multiple postings show has less to do with which show Netflix produces, but rather that Netflix is making its own show(s). We live in the transitional period of high price, high production content mainly being distributed via traditional means and lower quality content being produced by independents on places like YouTube and distributed independently. Netflix is one of the first major companies that bases it's business on Internet distribution rather than cable. That company is now making high production, high price content and distributing that online. People are interested to see how this experiment will pan out, thus generating things like multiple postings about House of Cards.
- _dark_matter_ 14y agoExtremely valid points. I was in no way demeaning the value of the experiment, or of the show itself; it was just my initial reaction to seeing the post. Anytime a company decides to shakeup the establishment (in this case, cable and pay-per-view), it is extremely interesting to the community as a whole.
- defrost 14y agoThis specific submission dovetails nicely with a recent submission about visualizations, summaries, and comparisons of HN user karma (aka cumulative instantaneous reactions); Netflix is rejecting TV karma in favour of sustained quality load.
- Gormo 14y agoOn the other hand, there have been at least three posts relating to Stoicism on the front page today. Fortunately, both topics are interesting.