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by corrral 4y ago
> My bad, I misunderstood your comment. Heh, no big deal, that "like" in the original was crucial and easy to scan past. These things happen. > FWIW I agree on both counts, but I'm also saying is that podcasts are falli
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by corrral 4y ago
I'm confident hosts would step in to make money if YouTube's monopoly on combo hosting+discovery were broken. Folks tend to like making money. No reason they couldn't put their own ads on the videos, like YouTube does, to cov
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by corrral 4y ago
That's just trading one master for another. It'd degrade to be similarly bad. A podcast-like model would provide a lot more freedom—host anywhere, promote anywhere, with clients, not monopolist web platforms, controlling "sub
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by corrral 4y ago
You're not following me. I'm not saying youtube channels should be podcasts. I'm saying that the problem with YouTube is its monopoly, driven by coupling hosting and discovery in one platform, and a podcast model that separat
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by corrral 4y ago
> I can't see how you give a simple yes/no answer to that. I'm looking into my crystal ball and seeing the ~0 people who will be able to remember the slightly different and alien-looking-to-English spelling, and the even s
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by corrral 4y ago
People are upset about Spotify trying to own the podcast market. Meanwhile Web video is already in the position everyone dreads podcasts reaching, and has been for its entire existence . Assuming folks aren't wrong about RSS-based hos
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by corrral 4y ago
> Seems like there's gotta be a better way. Video "channels" should be like podcasts: hosting and discovery largely separate. Subscription, client-side. YouTube shouldn't exist.
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by corrral 4y ago
I feel like you could get Elijah Wood to say yes to that. And it'd be awesome.
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> the delivery fee goes to the driver (mostly, I hope) I don't think I've ever [edit: should read "recently", I surely saw some early ones that didn't] seen one that doesn't specify that the driver doesn&#
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by corrral 4y ago
Official? Sure. Actual, in the English language name? No.
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by corrral 4y ago
> Every app update was a risk of the app rearranging itself, or features appearing/disappearing. This shit drives my parents insane. Me too, when I have to help them. I've had to spend tens of seconds looking at a major screen
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by corrral 4y ago
He had to be charming and his message appealing for the film to work. The next step—that Tyler and his lifestyle and obsessions also "owned" the narrator and needed to be discarded—may or may not have been lost on some people, b
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by corrral 4y ago
I feel similarly about Windows. Way, way more resource hungry. Tens to hundreds of times, depending on the metric. Barely does more than Win95, as far as user-facing features. Shit I bet most of the important features would have fit in 5-10
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by corrral 4y ago
Interesting! My impressions were formed some time ago, so I'm not surprised they're out of date. Thanks.
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by corrral 4y ago
Execution failure on that one, I'd say. Decent idea, and a very Star Treky idea at that (like much of the rest of the season), but just didn't work. It's the only episode from S1 I'd skip on a re-watch. [EDIT] On reflect
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by corrral 4y ago
> Stanford is surely the most prestigious general-purpose university west of, well, Harvard. Is that no longer Yale? From the perspective of someone who had a rather poor exposure to universities during my high school years—so, precisely
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by corrral 4y ago
Incredibly and against all odds, Strange New Worlds is good. Really good. By Star Trek standards (watch the older ones with the rose-colored glasses off...) it's amazing , even. It does carry over some of the baggage from Discovery bu
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by corrral 4y ago
It'll hurt them if they keep going down that road. Endless tie-ins and multi-series connected "events" are commonly considered to be part of the reason comic books got into trouble in the 80s/90s. It's a sales boost
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by corrral 4y ago
Fury Road, too. As a viewer I'm getting sick of CG action. It's striking how we've gone from action scenes that are improbable, to action scenes that are completely impossible, in terms of the perfection with which humans exe
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by corrral 4y ago
This has been true almost the whole time, with only occasional exceptions. They rarely take any chances on the themes (when they bother to have any of note at all), pull back before making any kind of point or taking any kind of stance on t
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by corrral 4y ago
Well, sure, in practice someone who actually knows what they're doing also won't cause problems, even if they do happen to be the vehicle's owner. I assume these signs are so popular because just about every mechanic thinks t
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by corrral 4y ago
IIRC a study made it on here once (a couple years ago, maybe?) that boiled down to "we're fat because modern, affordable, low-or-zero-prep food tastes too good and is too varied" One of my not-well-backed suspicions is that t
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by corrral 4y ago
What's with the DVs? This is correct. You'd have to raise pay much, much higher to keep decent (for even very bad values of "decent" that we currently have) gov. workers and politicians if you also want to saddle them wi
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by corrral 4y ago
Eh, it's a joke about shitty DIY jobs. And you'll be walking out of every mechanic save some (some!) big chains, I expect, if that's a deal-breaker. Signs along these lines are pretty common.
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by corrral 4y ago
You can pick one of the usual Native American crop patterns and get a solid set of vitamins. Potatoes + beans + squash or something like that, maybe with some corn. Cf. Mann's 1491 . If you're going for a minimal veggie ingredien
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Fish is high on my personal satiety index, because I didn't eat much of it growing up so never developed a taste. Result is that when served fish I eat a little to be nice but don't enjoy it at all. That'd certainly help me e
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by corrral 4y ago
Seems relevant: https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.875440864.2771/raf,750x1000,... Signs like this are so common at mechanics' shops that they're practically a cliché. Text: $100 / hr minimum $150 / hr
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by corrral 4y ago
Not a new tactic. A classic way to cut down exploit attempts to something you can actually monitor rather than a firehose, for sites that don't need an international audience, is to blackhole IP blocks from China and Russia. Sites have
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by corrral 4y ago
Ah, yeah, that one's new since I posted. The account falls into "can't tell if this is a parody of right-wing "hustle" bros, or if this guy(?) is serious" territory.
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by corrral 4y ago
That part was great. Getting charged late fees because you didn't have it back at 8:00AM sharp (or whatever) sucked.

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