friedman23

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by friedman23 7y ago
Why do you think this matters?
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by friedman23 7y ago
> I would have purchased if I could get DRM free movies. I have a feeling this isn't true. I'm sure if they released DRM free movies you would simply balk at the cost and then use that as justification for not purchasing it.
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by friedman23 7y ago
I don't understand the moral indignation. Getting angry at netflix et al. for trying to improve their bottom line is like getting angry at water being wet. If you want to pirate, fine, pirate. I just don't understand why people ar
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by friedman23 7y ago
>my hand moved without any intent from me, WTF? This is how addiction actually manifests. Put an alcoholic in front of a glass of whisky and often they will grab and attempt to drink without conscious thought.
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by friedman23 7y ago
I've dealt with a private tracker before and I know you are lying. Spending money on netflix and amazon is simple and costs less and requires less effort than buying everything involved in setting up a plex server. Piracy is only simpl
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by friedman23 7y ago
> then having to deal with those services when you might only want to binge one show is inconvenient It's really less convenient than setting up a plex server buying multiple TBs of storage and presumably dealing with all of the has
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by friedman23 7y ago
The solution is to not offer pensions.
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by friedman23 7y ago
>One quarter of revenue on marketing, more than for research. They wouldn't be spending money on marketing if those expenses didn't bring in more dollars. Which in turn means more money for research...
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by friedman23 7y ago
> the overwhelming amount of apps that are native beg to differ the overwhelming number of indie apps that are cross platform? Let me just go ahead and try to use inkscape and gimp on my mac.
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by friedman23 7y ago
> and avoid shortcut solutions and then the app is never written
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by friedman23 7y ago
> And, why do they need to be productive? Why do I need to give them money?
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by friedman23 7y ago
> Breaking up big tech companies is undoubtedly good for the workers, create more competition in hiring. Many of the largest tech companies are only large because of their cost centers. If we split up google what would likely happen is t
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by friedman23 7y ago
If you are using a service like google oauth you need to sign a business associate agreement with them before using any of their services in a HIPAA compliant manner. I've searched for how to sign this contract pretty unsuccessfully.
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by friedman23 7y ago
Given that this is a website for medical use, I'm surprised they are allowing account creation with google oauth. I'm 95% sure it's not HIPAA compliant.
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by friedman23 7y ago
Many things exist that don't add value to "society", I'm going to stick to worrying about the value given to the people actually doing the purchasing thank you.
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by friedman23 7y ago
Why do you say it doesn't add value? I assume the targeting actually works and improves ad performance for advertisers?
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by friedman23 7y ago
> If you are still lying $500k, what’s the point of that move ? I think you mistyped here. The point of the move is that $500k in San Francisco vs $500k in any other city in the US (except New York) result in substantially different qual
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by friedman23 7y ago
I'm happy for stripe, they made the logical decision.Now hopefully the incompetent administrators of San Francisco will feel some consequence for their actions.
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by friedman23 7y ago
> Albuquerque, NM This is not the only other option. Imagine telling an engineer, hey I'll pay you $500k a year in Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, or Boston? Rent is immediately cut in half and some states have no income taxe
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by friedman23 7y ago
> Good weather The weather in San Francisco is overrated, it's always cold and windy and there are never any seasons.
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by friedman23 7y ago
It doesn't matter.
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by friedman23 7y ago
> It feels like every modern realworld battleworn programming stack (ecma, c++2x, .net, jvm w/e) is filled with nuances and quirks which, as it turns out, an engineer _must_ know about to be able to bump revenues a little bit and to
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by friedman23 7y ago
I think we both agree, I don't what statement I made you are arguing against. The interesting part of the streaming space is that the incumbents actually have an advantage over the upstart technology company. They are joining the party
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by friedman23 7y ago
Disney owns ESPN, a controlling stake in Hulu, Marvel, Lucas Films, Pixar, Disney Animation, and 20th century fox (FX, fox searchlight, many classic movie franchises, X-Men, Fantastic 4, etc). I'm probably missing something. I imagine
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by friedman23 7y ago
>Netflix’s issue is not the quality of content - it’s their business model. They are borrowing billions to create content with the only way to recoup the cost is mostly by subscription revenue. Their initial rationale was that they were
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by friedman23 7y ago
I think Disney+ will be more successful than anyone can imagine. I don't know how Netflix will survive when the competition of Disney+ and HBO Max will have 95% of the best tv shows and movies.
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by friedman23 7y ago
You can attempt to frame it however you would like but what you want is an environment where people can only discuss political views that you agree with. There is no harassment when someone simply states "I don't think same sex ma
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by friedman23 7y ago
I think this is a good decision. I actually hold similar beliefs to many of my coworkers in SF but I find it horrifying how common it is to dehumanize nearly half the country. I've lived in three major cities in the US, two on the east
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by friedman23 7y ago
It seems to me what you want is not to discuss politics at work but dictate politics are work. Unless you are perfectly okay with your co worker coming in with a MAGA hat every day and explaining to you why they think LGTB people don't
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by friedman23 7y ago
Are you trying to justify China putting a million Uighur people in concentration camps and the suppression of Hong Kong with the argument that other people have done it in the past?

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