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by bumper_crop 4y ago
>The consumers just aren’t complete idiots. The consumers kinda are the idiots here. They know what they like, but they have no idea why the content is getting worse. Why shows are being pulled. Companies that had their content on
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
As mertd mentioned, Netflix losing subs was an _unexpected_ loss. In their 2020Q2 10-Q, they made it clear that the increase in subscribers was being pulled forward from subsequent years, and investors were made aware of this. The slowdow
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
It doesn't help that Netflix stands on principle and blocks all accounts in Russia, one of their major sources of subscriber growth. America, while being the most lucrative market, was already pretty saturated. Cutting off the count
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
TV shows take about 2 years from greenlight to being distributed for Viewing. Cindy Holland was fired in September 2020, which means we will need to wait till this fall to see if the decision has improved the quality.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Other studios do "episode at a time" pilots, Netflix does "season at a time" pilots. Pretty much everyone misunderstands; and thinks a whole season implies more seasons.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
A similar odd case is when the intermediate cert is expired, but the root and leaf are still valid. Different TLS implementations forgive this differently!
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Sure, but we could have separate rules for changing how the voting works, compared to the day to day operation of the groups. Also, on the good end, maybe the 1% have some amazingly good ideas that the other side would never implement oth
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Live in California? The candidates for (Republican|Democratic) parties are wildly different in their ability and likelihood to do a good job. A 30 yearold candidate of the same party as a 50 yearold are going to have vastly different soc
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
The crux of this is that the majority/plurality system is a winner-takes-all outcome. I would like to propose a completely fair (and totally unacceptable) Voting system: Blues and Violets each get a single vote. On election day, eve
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
> Why interviewers were all transcribing the whiteboard rather than taking photos I have no clue. It makes it easier to reason about the code. It's the difference between typing out the answer from Stack Overflow, v.s. copy pastin
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Copyright lasting 1XX years probably has a substantial amount to do with it. If you are a media company, and you already spent the marketing budget building up the idea of Avengers, or Mario, or whatever pop culture icon you are selling, m
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
This table has one column, one row, and thus one cell. What is its value? [{"col1":"val1", "col1":"val2"}]
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Suppose you are on a committee where you are evaluating 3 different offers to build a website for your city. Bid A is for $10m, Bid B is for $9.5m, and Bid C is for $9m. The company that made offer B knows that they will likely lose the
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Netflix is another one of those "Poison Pill" companies that ensures executives can't be ousted for making bad decisions. Russia was a large source of growth in memberships, and on a whim the C-levels cut it off.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
I get the feeling in the future, the main thing that will identify a real video from a fake will be gate and mannerisms, rather than appearance.
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by bumper_crop 4y ago
Airlines in America are traditionally extremely capital intensive, and the customers are very price sensitive. (e.g. "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.") The low salary and