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by drumhead 3y ago
I don't think the writers or even actors have as much leverage with studios now as they think they have. They've got so much content now they can just haul out their back catalogue and show that instead with no production costs an
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by drumhead 3y ago
I think they understand the error of their ways now. Disney especially have been guilty of overspending. After Thier year of flops, they're going to cut back spending massively. When you look at this week and see how a film that cost $
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by drumhead 3y ago
A year of Netflix and a year of Disney+ in the UK would be £200. A family of Four to watch Dial of Destiny in my Local cinema was £80, for one showing, no snacks, no drinks. Is Disney cannibalising itself I wonder?
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by drumhead 3y ago
The big studios are a major source of finance and distribution for the Indies, if they do badly there's going to be less money from the rest of the industry and less appetite for risk. If you're on course to lose over a billion li
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by drumhead 3y ago
The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double heade
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by drumhead 3y ago
They contributed because it's in their best interest, and they also took down a route with Systemd that went against the philosophy of nix systems. If we're not careful we'll end up losing control of Linux or large parts of i
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by drumhead 3y ago
They chose a business model built on open source, and now they don't like it because they can't suck enough profit from it. Maybe they should just build their own proprietary operating system from scratch.
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by drumhead 3y ago
It gives people a choice, if they want the more moderated experience they can go with threads, if they want a more free for all then Twitter. Competition is a good thing.
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by drumhead 3y ago
Its having the courage to act on your convictions. Meta was on a P/e of 13 earning billions of dollars in profit and generating huge amounts of cash flow, but it had effectively gone ex growth and it's metaverse investment was a d
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by drumhead 3y ago
For traders maybe, because they pyramid the position on the back of any gains made. But you also don't want to have so much invested in one company that it becomes make or break. A 10% loss on 5% of your portfolio is way more manageabl
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by drumhead 3y ago
I think diversification is a key tenet of value investing. The margin of safety applies to the individual company but that doesn't guarantee success, so a diversified portfolio is one key method of reducing risk.
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by drumhead 3y ago
It may be that risk control is one of the key factors in success. Either through diversification and a broad spread of investments, or having a defined loss per position and then having the discipline to sell. Position sizing is also import
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by drumhead 3y ago
So I'm assuming this is because he thinks the data is so valuable for LLM training he doesn't want anyone getting it for free. Does he really think there will be that much demand for it that it outweighs the fundamental purpose of
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by drumhead 3y ago
Why did Perl never maintain its popularity?
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by drumhead 3y ago
You're forgetting another massive RHD market in India.
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by drumhead 3y ago
It was the UK's top selling car. But I suspect that Tesla doesn't have the resources to maintain the necessary production infrastructure for the volume of cars produced.
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by drumhead 3y ago
Elon seems to have adopted the same business model as Reddit. Lock down the data and sell it to the LLMs. Quite short sighted, but if you're desperate for cash then its probaly an inviting option. Im hoping the alternative to twitter s
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by drumhead 3y ago
The "3 Sixes", 6-pack, 6 feet tall and 6 figure salary, any two of those three tend to give you a very good chance of success.
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by drumhead 3y ago
Source? No man I know, friends, relatives, aquaintences has ever given the income of a woman as a reason for marrying them. The primary reason has been looks or personality. Some of them have got married because of family. Never once have I
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by drumhead 3y ago
Men dont really care about the income of their partner, they're more interested in physical attributes. Maybe women have set much higher standards and the majority of men dont meet those standards. Maybe men just dont want to get marri
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by drumhead 3y ago
It behaviour like this which makes people think that the high seas isnt actually such an unreasonable option.
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by drumhead 3y ago
If you need to create an account you just won't bother. I find myself caring less about twitter now, when you could view tweets it would get you motivated to get involved, not that you won't be able to I can see a lot of traffic j
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by drumhead 3y ago
Thats ok, I know why you're defelecting.
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by drumhead 3y ago
I know the argument, the more people the higher the probability for something good or exceptional. But I havent really seen many examples of that in reality. We've got a lot more diversity in the system, but the people that rise to the
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by drumhead 3y ago
What about Adobe's competitors? It's not going to be worth that much less to them either
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by drumhead 3y ago
Why don't you tell us, because it just seems like hand waving at the moment.
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by drumhead 3y ago
Who wants to deal with all the controversy surrounding admissions and race and freedom of speech and sexism and sexual harrasment, politics and politicians? It's far easier to buy a sports team or fire rockets into space.
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by drumhead 3y ago
Why would that affect us? Why would less diversity mean anything? You can say this but would it actually affect anything?
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by drumhead 3y ago
The days of community and cooperation are coming to an end. Reddit ditches the relationship it had with it's users, and now Red Hat is turning into more of a proprietary software company. Did we take the spirit of the old internet for
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by drumhead 3y ago
Max Tegmark seems most worried about iterative self improvement by the systems. But is that possible? And just how far could they improve themselves? Enough to achieve self awareness or just enough to make themselves a lot faster?

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