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by cwkoss 5y ago
The Orville isn't officially Star Trek, but I'd argue is the best descendant of 90s Star Trek of the past decade.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
A significant proportion of 90s trek fans who have seen the new series would agree its not worth it. I pirate-streamed the first season of discovery due to its lack of availability on other platforms. Felt like a 10 hour movie about a dyst
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by cwkoss 5y ago
What if I pay for a movie ticket because I think it might be cool, then the movie is awful and I don't want more like it to be made? There is no option for refunds. Pirating first gives the user more control over which films they econ
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by cwkoss 5y ago
For receiving the service value of entertainment of reading this comment, I request a fee of $1,000. Is my request reasonable? Do you feel inclined to pay me? Do I incur $1000 of damages if you choose not to?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Film is competing against loads of free content and the industry is thrashing to avoid accepting the obvious fate: it is no longer economically rational to produce films with budgets in the hundreds of millions. Jobs will be lost, just lik
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by cwkoss 5y ago
It's not stealing if they wouldn't have paid for it otherwise.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Yep, Youtube to chromecast is practically unwatchable these days. 1-2 stupid 5 second ads interrupt the program every few minutes. Many are so short I'm perplexed why the brand thinks they are getting any value out of them: they do
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I believe ads are fundamentally immoral. (Moral ads are theoretically possible, but in practice I almost never see ads which have the purpose of informing rather than emotionally manipulating. Ads destroy culture, make viewers less happy,
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by cwkoss 5y ago
My takeaway is that with so many different alternatives, its becoming decreasingly economically rational to produce series/film. The budget of the series I was watching was almost certainly 100x+ the budget of the random people on tik
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by cwkoss 5y ago
CNN is very economically conservative, it's just socially (cynically 'performatively') liberal. Ask your local Bernie bro what coverage was like when he was campaigning for social programs that would materially benefit the lo
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by cwkoss 5y ago
The supply of content has exploded by several orders of magnitude. Much of it is totally free. Heck, some evenings I pause a show and find myself having spent 2 hours scrolling tiktok. Video IP is drastically overpriced right now, and its
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by cwkoss 5y ago
What would 'cancel ourselves' look like? Intentionally electing incompetent people? Buying Bitcoin?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Maybe a game could be created that's an autonomous CCG game - so the 'game' is played half on self hosted servers where you take a set of cards, configure and build your 'deck' and play test games with yourself (pot
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I think the way most games are set up, the 'drops' part isn't compatible with self hosting - how do you verify someone accomplished the thing (completed the quest, killed the boss, etc.) without cheating? If you don't ve
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I'm thinking maybe we should make a checklist/rubric listing the different potential complexity factors, and as we have engineers help with sizing we could have the engineer consider whether each of those factors applies/what
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by cwkoss 5y ago
This is how they destroy brand loyalty. I'd consider cancelling for fear that ads will start leaking into the paid side as well.
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Ask HN: How should the cost of maintaining new software features be forecast?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Fair point. I think they could get a lot more aggressive, though. I'm conversational in Japanese, and I'd love to see Japanese variety/game shows on netflix. There are thousands of hours of content that have never been ava
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I'd imagine Netflix could get a huge catalog of content's US streaming rights for pennies on the dollar because hasn't been much of a market for it - practically free money for foreign IP holders. In doing so, they could get
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I hope they expand their international catalog. 3%, Biohackers and Better than Us were all quite enjoyable and each had their own interesting cultural spins. 'Smoking' is really good (not sci fi, though, but I recommend it to eve
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I'm saying a double digit chunk of these companies' expenses and IP production is yielding no economic value: either through lack of product market fit or getting cancelled before they launch. These companies are dripping with unt
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I wonder how it would play out legally for someone to fork and relicense the codebase as GPL. Could cheat engine successfully sue to take down the new repository?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
We're about 14 years into a historically-8-year market cycle without a recession. I'm very concerned about how hot the fire is going to burn the next time the forest ignites.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Similarly, a non-zero portion of facebook or google or amazon's current market cap is worth less than dog-shit. Hard to say how big that proportion is.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
neurotransmitter precursor
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Our president is 79 and many members of our congress are over 80 years old
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by cwkoss 5y ago
What's the price?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Are you going to sell? If not, why not?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Haha, do you remember what the word was?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
What happens to shorts? Does "debt of 1 share" just turn into "debt of cash value"?

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