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Apple to Spend $1B a Year on Films to Break into Cinemas(bloomberg.com)
3 points by culturestate 4y ago|1 comments
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by culturestate 4y ago
> He’s sort of the Don Knuth of US political biography. Who's Chernow in this scenario? Maybe Ron Rivest?
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by culturestate 4y ago
If stories (which launched, surprisingly, in 2016) and reels are the only wins we can point to in all of Meta’s platforms for this experience-first-monetization-later approach, can we really say it’s a proven success? Given what’s happene
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by culturestate 4y ago
> They've been hugely successful rolling out successive products/experiences in this manner. Is this actually true, though? Aside from reels on IG, I’m struggling to think of anything that Meta has successfully launched to
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by culturestate 4y ago
> Macs are poorly suited for … development, power users… Am I misunderstanding you or does this not describe the vast majority of Mac users in Silicon Valley?
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by culturestate 4y ago
> This is not a truism, even though many managers see it like that. Which is, I think, exactly the point that OP is trying to make. Incentives are defined by managers, after all.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> Personally, I like cooking and I like choosing what to eat. So do I. I actually shop for fresh stuff almost daily now, because I mostly work from home and it's a great excuse to get out and wander around the city for a while. Th
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by culturestate 4y ago
> What benefit does that have over ordering delivery from a restaurant? For me, there were two keys: 1. I love cooking and find it to be a nice meditative experience, but back then I was working 16-18 hour days and I simply didn&#x27
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by culturestate 4y ago
My biggest gripe with HelloFresh, et al is that I still need to do the prep, so they don't actually save me much time. It's nothing more than curated grocery delivery. Years ago, there was a service in Hong Kong (I wish I coul
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by culturestate 4y ago
> makes me wonder if dishwashing as a service has been tried For commercial customers, absolutely. I first came across services like this a long time ago in Hong Kong[1] but it's pretty widespread in mainland China, Taiwan, and pa
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by culturestate 4y ago
Some Japanese kaitenzushi restaurants use these relatively simple automated dishwashers[1] for plates, and I’ve thought for years about ways you could design something similar for households with standardized dishware. Instead of every ca
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by culturestate 4y ago
Thanks so much for this tool; it saved me from untold frustration when I moved to Germany. I’m happy to see that the city blessed it.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> assuming the exchanges will let you and that they have the fiat reserves to do so, which is highly doubtful If you’re trying to sell off several tens of millions of dollars of BTC, you don’t go to an exchange - you go to an investmen
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by culturestate 4y ago
And, importantly, Apple continues to show up with even more big bags of money. Giving Apple de facto right of first refusal for new node capacity is as much about maintaining TSMC's relationship with its most important customer a
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by culturestate 4y ago
> It's odd to me that Apple has never offered a 24h turnaround (or cross ship) higher tier support package. They used to have an even more exotic AppleCare tier than that for Xserve customers - onsite hardware support within 4 ho
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by culturestate 4y ago
> Just $42,000, is that a typo?! Nope. He's made a bunch of different balloon animals, and this particular dog was an edition of a few hundred. You can buy one on Artsy right now if you've got some spare cash lying around: h
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by culturestate 4y ago
This is how that document used to begin: > Preface “Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to inf
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by culturestate 4y ago
You have to really be pinching pennies to get one of those plans. Even on Aldi Talk, you'd only pay €3 more per month for unlimited calls and SMS than you would for a data-only plan. https://www.alditalk.de/produktinf
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by culturestate 4y ago
It was at the very top of Google's corporate code of conduct until[1] 2018. 1. https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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by culturestate 4y ago
> All official releases only mention government use... The second quote I pulled above is from an official source[1]. It seems pretty clear to me that it's intended as a dual-use constellation, with government services coming onli
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by culturestate 4y ago
The release specifically addresses commercial use: > This future satellite constellation infrastructure will allow for synergies with private sector to develop commercial services and provide with high-speed internet and communication i
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by culturestate 4y ago
Germany just sends a bill to every registered resident, no matter what. The Rundfunkbeitrag is applied per household, not based on devices, and it's up to each person to either pay the tax or justify to the Beitragsservice that they
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by culturestate 4y ago
> (lol at a reduction of meeting time, is the assumption that managers go to meetings for fun? This assumption that every manager has complete agency over their own meeting schedule is equally flawed. I've never attended a meeting
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by culturestate 4y ago
That's what someone who grew up in Berlin would probably say, but the city being what it is it genuinely depends on which shop you're standing in. I've seen it every which way.
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by culturestate 4y ago
I wouldn’t expect it to, since Activation Lock is tied to an Apple ID and the firmware password is local. The number of people who manually set firmware passwords on their Mac (i.e. don’t have it set as the result of MDM) instead of just us
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by culturestate 4y ago
> IMHO this is Apple trying to force people to purchase new devices and prevent reuse. Assuming you know your Apple ID password, disabling Activation Lock takes less than 30 seconds. You can even do it remotely via Find My on the web.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> For Wal-Mart I can't think of anything strictly anit-competitive... Wal-Mart might be the world's foremost practitioner of predatory pricing, not to mention the control they exert over their suppliers.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> What determines whether an issue is categorized as "fixed," "addressed," or "resolved"? I mostly use them interchangeably and just pick whichever one feels better in that particular sentence at that pa
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> if a backhoe decides to dig through the fiber line, congratulations your shop just got shut down until it works agian. … Back in the day if the power went out you could open up a receipt book and a ledger and keep taking payments unti
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by culturestate 4y ago
> Maybe a digital system that is periodically (say once a year) transferred to tape and stored in a secure facility This has been standard procedure (not at Svalbard, obviously, but at one or more secure offsite facilities) for every c

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