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1. 2041.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   Indie software doesn't go through corporate agile bullshit that makes you hate your job and do mediocre work.
2. 2042.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   My Galaxy S20 is in the sweet spot of 3+ years old where I still get security updates but I thankfully don't get any more big feature updates so I don't have to worry about my phone getting enshittified with whatever AI shovelware
3. 2043.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   The data pollution is going to be vast.
4. 2044.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   I don't agree. I may have been a crappy partner when I was young, but making those mistakes and facing consequences rather than having a for loop kiss my ass was probably necessary for my growth.
5. 2045.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   There's a lot going on here.
6. 2046.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   Start with an unwillingness or inability to form connections with people and work backwards, I guess.
7. 2047.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   If his envisioned space experience is known or planned to be shitty, why would Bezos say so? How would he sell it?
8. 2048.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   I don't understand. The privileged remain on Earth while the lower classes live in space?
9. 2049.▲
   by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

   The brand was bought by a low quality clickbait farm long ago, ironically they'll never again publish anything substantive like this. I am surprised they got the archives and not just the brand name.
10. 2050.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    > the minutia of vfx, animating, rigging, 3d models, actors, cameras, set designers, trucks, food, lighting, electrical, location, licensing, permits, etc. all go away. They won't go away, they'll be chosen by default by softwa
11. 2051.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    I feel the same way, but time after time it's shown that 90% of people stick with the heavily enshittified product if it's what they're used to. Most people are passive and docile.
12. 2052.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    "Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people" https://bsky.app/profile/eyesack.bsky.social/post/3klmto7zur...
13. 2053.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Everything is easy, if you ignore or don't understand any of the nuance of it.
14. 2054.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    It's a de facto entry level advertising tier. There are ideas and products that spammers believe are profitable to spam at that price point.
15. 2055.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Yeha it's obvious that a certain group loves it there as a way of virtue signaling allegiance with his performative political incorrectness. But it's incomprehensible why all his haters, who now have his balls in their hand, don&#
16. 2056.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Nobody enjoys Twitter anymore, they're just too passive to leave until the early adopters make their decision for them about what the next place will be. The problem is, network effects may not make this possible anymore.
17. 2057.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    What an embarrassing lack of integrity and vision, to shovel an AI anything into your product just because everyone else is.
18. 2058.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    What's to stop people from framing others for any other crime you could think of, what's to stop people from committing crimes themselves? Technically nothing that's bulletproof, yet we have laws anyway. The world is messy.
19. 2059.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    For a while the cable companies would partner with Tivo and provide a DVR as an upsell but now they all have their own DVR platforms and it's become the standard cable box.
20. 2060.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    People with cable have DVRs and can trivially and reliably skip commercials. It's streaming where you lose control of being able to seek arbitrarily through the video stream. Cable customers are the ones who can avoid commercials.
21. 2061.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Yeah, there's nothing akin to a software update that would cause the entire fleet of human drivers to start driving badly or unexpectedly all at once. We also know how to hold individuals accountable for independent accidents. We know
22. 2062.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    It's the perfect symbol of Hacker News and Silicon Valley culture, overconfidence in using technology to automate something but making it worse in the big picture.
23. 2063.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    I've seen people running with the assumption that it's a net $40m gain for the studio, but that could be incorrect.
24. 2064.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    The actual budget of the movie was higher than $40m. This is just the number that's been reported as the net value of the writeoff. But I have no real info, it's possible this has been reported vaguely, incorrectly, or based on ru
25. 2065.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    The IRS would definitely investigate fraud if that was suspected. But this is a pure judgment call. The IRS will only be concerned that they don't use the movie as an asset, it's not their place to take a position on the business
26. 2066.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    The writeoff is reported to be $35-40m. Which I believe means that selling the film for $40m would be a big loss because that's taxable income whereas the writeoff is a straight up $40m net gain. So they might need a $70-80m offer for
27. 2067.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    If a disaster destroys the factory, it can be a writeoff. But yeah, you can't claim an intact factory as a loss and continue to use it as an asset. Warner Brothers has made the business decision that the movie is not valuable. Releasin
28. 2068.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    For me that subscription comes with all of Microsoft Office, 1 TB storage, and ad free email for less than $6/month. I would never pay that little if those were delivered as three different services. I think Amazon Prime is a ripoff, b
29. 2069.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Making the removal of ads a feature of a paid product is (or was) a common pattern but it's not any sort of law. You can still get cable channels with no commercials, I have a handful of them despite not paying for the HBO tier. And DV
30. 2070.▲
    by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

    Warner Brothers reportedly lost Nolan for pissing him off with their dumb straight to streaming strategy. And then he made Oppenheimer for another studio. And they still did this.