exelius

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by exelius 9y ago
True; but stalling out in middle management is never the reason people get an MBA.
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, but these jobs also often have contracts with severance packages. Executives (VP and above) are typically hired under fixed contracts that make it very expensive to get rid of them. You can demand these things if you have specialized
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by exelius 9y ago
Naw, the MBA jobs are all about personal brand and networking. When you make the rules, they tend to benefit you.
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by exelius 9y ago
I mean; that’s fine. I wouldn’t want that job either — it’s why I got an MBA, got out of the tech side and now actually have power over hires/fires and product direction. But unless you’re directly bringing revenue in the door, you are
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by exelius 9y ago
I'm not attacking you here (and in fact I agree with you), but from a manager's perspective, I need one guy like you to design it in an architecture modeling tool and 8 young code monkeys to do all the boring work of building and
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by exelius 9y ago
Do you want the zombie apocalypse? Because this is how you get the zombie apocalypse.
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by exelius 9y ago
I dunno if people worship her as much as they see in her a celebrity who was very relatable and willing to speak about the kinds of problems normal people have. She had real problems, she struggled with them for a long time, and she never r
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by exelius 9y ago
You do need a central heartbeat; the cable company is the party that bills you for service, so they're the ones determining if you have access to the content. The content owners (i.e. TBS) send start/stop data to the cable company
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by exelius 9y ago
It's all OAuth and SAML on the backend. The player asks for authorization to play content from the cable company (since it has to check against a few dozen criteria like entitlements, parental controls, concurrent stream limits, etc.)
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by exelius 9y ago
This happens today and has for about 10 years. Each piece of content consumed hits an API endpoint at the cable company with an OAuth token requesting access to the content. If it's granted, a DRM key is sent. If it's rejected, it
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by exelius 9y ago
Seems kind of like it is part of an ARG. I can't say I'm totally against something like that; Mozilla's gotta make money somehow, and as long as it's not selling out user privacy it's a better tradeoff than Chrome.
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by exelius 9y ago
It’s not corruption if you call it disruptive!
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by exelius 9y ago
Google Fiber failed because being a telecom network operator means tying up billions in capital assets in your infrastructure and then only making 10% margins. Google’s business model is built around low capex and 35% margins. It’s simply a
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, RSNs are a different game. Sports in general is in decline; the RSNs are likely included to fill out ESPN's content deals to build a national sports streaming service. Things like Big 10 network have enough restrictions that the
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by exelius 9y ago
It's in the top line of the press release: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire...
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by exelius 9y ago
Disney is only interested in the creative/film assets; broadcast distribution and news/sports are being spun off.
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by exelius 9y ago
This is exactly why B2B startups should avoid chasing whales. Any customer that makes up more than 10% of your revenue is going to be able to demand things and get them; even if those things are not in the best interest of the product. Your
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, I've worked with quite a few top ML researchers at US universities and many of them are Chinese nationals. Even here in the US. With China's economy booming the way it is and the overall political climate in the US right n
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by exelius 9y ago
It's far easier to find ML talent in China than it is in the US. That's what they gain from it.
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by exelius 9y ago
Hungary might as well be Zimbabwe in the mind of most Americans (especially the type to be working as border guards at the US-Canada border). They don't really grok that modern civilization exists outside the US, England, Germany and F
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by exelius 9y ago
It works differently because the US can just issue more currency to pay off debt. Honestly sovereign debt is a currency manipulation / money supply tool more than anything.
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by exelius 9y ago
Easy enough to rob someone for this amount of money too. As Eric Schmidt said (in the context of a hostile government, but it works here too): no passcode in the world is going to protect you from a man holding a gun to your head and demand
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by exelius 9y ago
This only works if the value of BTC is pegged to one or more fiat currencies. As it is, people are basically speculating on blockchain address space on BTC.
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by exelius 9y ago
The vast majority of novice speculators are using Coinbase. They at least attempt to maintain the appearance of compliance; but I suspect a large market run would wipe them out of USD fairly quickly. The fact that “experienced” Bitcoin spec
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by exelius 9y ago
It's not that I love banks; it's that we rolled back all the banking regulation that kept that stuff in check prior to 2008. Replacing that with a system with zero regulation does not seem like progress...
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by exelius 9y ago
It's strayed so far from fundamentals that it's bound to crash. I really hope it's not that big when it does...
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by exelius 9y ago
Agreed there is real value, but creating a shadow banking system that is governed by unregulated actors isn't the solution. What's to stop a sophisticated bad actor like say, North Korea from manipulating cryptocoin markets in ord
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by exelius 9y ago
IIRC Cowboy Bebop was developed explicitly with western audiences in mind. It’s success informed later shows (in a similar way to how thr Chinese market is influencing Hollywood movies) so it really is a landmark show, even if it wasn’t as
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by exelius 9y ago
I think that's easier now with the Internet, but keep in mind when Lain came out the Internet fansub community was really just getting going. I remember in 2001 being blown away that I could download an entire series in under an hour f
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by exelius 9y ago
I dunno; the biblical imagery is pretty central to the plot (Adam/Eve, Angels, Lance of Longinus, etc.) There's a strong implication that this takes place during "the rapture" and in fact, EoE shows what is basically a

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