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by gdulli 3y ago
I don't think it's ironic. Paying for access to content at least makes logical sense, paying for the privilege to provide content to a platform is ridiculous.
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by gdulli 3y ago
Steam was the beginning of the end for physical media, it got the ball rolling on normalizing for a whole generation the lack of media ownership.
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by gdulli 3y ago
The parent company wants to know the viability of each business unit independently, one subsidizing another would obfuscate what's working and what isn't. And secondively, teams/orgs get bloated and keeping them larger than t
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by gdulli 3y ago
Going to a video store with your friends or girlfriend to get movies for the night or the weekend was a fun experience. You came home excited about your choice, you were committed. It felt like an event. Streaming service browse screens are
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by gdulli 3y ago
And then everyone clapped.
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by gdulli 3y ago
What does competition mean, if not differences in software? The console hardware between Sony and Microsoft isn't meaningfully differentiated. If the consoles had identical catalogs what would be left to differentiate them other than f
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by gdulli 3y ago
They essentially announced that he's fired. A standard transition period would be much longer, if they actually wanted him.
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by gdulli 3y ago
This person has made a conscious effort to learn if this particular red flag is silly and they deserve an answer that yes, it is. There are few roads that become impassable based on these circumstances, and some variables are more distracti
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by gdulli 3y ago
I guess the situation isn't so straightforward after all and people in general assess others' actions as a proxy for their own beliefs just as pet owners might use their pets that way.
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by gdulli 3y ago
Once a big enough Eternal September hits a platform I don't think that kind of revolution is possible anymore. The tyranny of the docile will ensure that a big enough majority will always stick around regardless of how the platform deg
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by gdulli 3y ago
Deleting my Twitter and Reddit accounts led to me being less of that kind of online, which is a good thing. I still lurk around a little but don't have any attachment to it. It's such a lack of imagination that the conversation al
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by gdulli 3y ago
Live by a PR circus, die by a PR circus.
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by gdulli 3y ago
By any meaningful measure they're identical content consumption devices. I know we want there to be an out group so badly that we'll make one around green text or blue text or whatever. But there's no real reason to care much
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by gdulli 3y ago
Good for them but inflation has already hit fast food hard enough that it no longer qualifies as cheap enough relative to other food options to be worth the lower quality.
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by gdulli 3y ago
It's tyranny of the docile. The recent batch of user hostile practices adopted by Reddit and Twitter will become industry norms because they worked, too few people actually left those services. Network effects work more against us now
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by gdulli 3y ago
I was waiting to check in and heard the desk guy talking to someone on the phone about water but didn't think much of it. They didn't tell me anything and after I got to my room I saw there was no water. I went back to the desk to
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by gdulli 3y ago
12 years ago I stayed in a Motel 6 for a night and there was no running water. Afterwards I wrote and asked for a refund. A voucher for a free night would have at least made me feel not ignored. But they replied with a generic dismissal. Fo
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by gdulli 3y ago
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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by gdulli 3y ago
I seriously doubt they're foolish enough to ignore the denominator and let the big number quoted out of context scare them out of something they've always felt safe with due to their lived experience.
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by gdulli 3y ago
Specious and unnuanced take, which is probably why it's so common. We understand human error, and its ceiling. We have decades of observation of human driving across all real world scenarios. We still know very little about what self d
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by gdulli 3y ago
I wonder if his obsession with the blue checks and confidence that they had too many followers to want to abandon the site made him overlook the fact that those followers are constantly churning. And what kept that engine going other than r
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by gdulli 3y ago
Good example of why "engineering" only works as a loose metaphor and isn't meaningfully similar enough with software for direct comparisons. Building things with matter needs to adhere to fixed principles corresponding to har
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by gdulli 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to me that there should be consensus. People have diverse opinions and values, and these topics are highly situational and subjective rather than neatly, objectively, universally right or wrong.
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by gdulli 3y ago
The best concert I ever saw (Nightmares on Wax) was one I only knew was going to be in town from a TV commercial. I don't follow concert news. I realized recently that I only ever see blockbuster movies anymore because I've hardco
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by gdulli 3y ago
Ads aren't going away, the war is lost, no service will leave that money on the table anymore past its temporary startup customer-friendly phase. It's not worth complaining about. What does still matter is whether the video stream
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by gdulli 3y ago
> Just look at where cable TV is. With a cable DVR you can arbitrarily control the video stream. You never have to watch an ad if you don't want to. Amazon won't let you conveniently skip these ads. Streaming was always going t
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by gdulli 3y ago
First, Twitter just isn't as much fun as it used to be. People are there out of inertia and inability to port their followers, not delight. Second, Twitter Blue still has ads so you're still the product. > how the hell is this
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by gdulli 3y ago
Fair or not, and whatever the implications of depending on ads, free access is just table stakes. Period. But putting aside the mental barrier that something that's always been free should now cost money. I could maybe have been convin
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by gdulli 3y ago
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisiti
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by gdulli 3y ago
If Google was compelled to keep arbitrary content monetized, the first thing they'd do is improve the tooling for advertisers to opt out of objectionable content in a more automated way. You're just pushing the problem to a differ

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