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geodel
3y ago
Reading Howard Zinn's "People's history of united states" with its endless series of atrocities I just tend to not believe a single word from him. I liked this fact from Wikipedia article though: > "In 2008, the
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geodel
3y ago
Well I have seen lot of people with 20 years of experience which is actually 2 year experience repeated 10 times.
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geodel
3y ago
It is happening and big part of company's work in coming years.
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geodel
3y ago
On Netflix there are x no of movies classified across certain categories, viewers choose from them and watch. Deciding on a movie and searching on Netflix will almost never work.
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geodel
3y ago
Yes it is. It just shows there are far fewer users of streaming service for non-sport entertainment.
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geodel
3y ago
> If they are able to get even 2 million telugu households over to subscribe the next few years, They may as well reach to this number. But I fail to see what can Netflix do better here than local platforms with more content and better c
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geodel
3y ago
This is insightful comment. I feel the same. Impossible level of success is most likely random. But a decent level of success is achievable with sustained effort in their particular domain
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geodel
3y ago
20 years from now your son is founder/CEO of a large gaming company and my son a union worker raising slogan outside offices "Free gaming credits are Human rights!"
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geodel
3y ago
As per this 5th epoch seems to an answering machine for users whereas all compute is owned out cloud vendors. All efficiency gains is to be accrued by cloud companies and users can pay less(due to competition) or more (due to rise in cos
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geodel
3y ago
> Netflix+Hotstar just can't compete when a Jio, Amazon Prime, and regional OTT (Aha, Hoichoi, Koode) bundle comes out to around the same price as a Netflix India membership and gives much more content. I have a feeling that in few
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geodel
3y ago
> On one side there is a massive amount of smart rust programmers who are super young in all the rust communities I think actual Rust programers maybe in reasonable numbers but RIIR evangelists would be in massive numbers.
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geodel
3y ago
> It’s weird to call it a cable network as it’s actually all satellite, You are right. I just used the term colloquially. Or perhaps working for a cable company in US I imagined satellite TV doesn't even exist :-)
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geodel
3y ago
> It's hard to justify how (comparatively) expensive Netflix is in India I mean Zee is pooped out. Disney+Hotstar lost like 12 million customers and posting big losses. Sony, Disney shut shops in India. Seems YRF is the one making m
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geodel
3y ago
So this company is owned by largest South African cable network and has extensive partnership with Comcast and HBO. Further adjusting purchasing power of local consumers and ton of local content they'd have acquired over decades I am n
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geodel
3y ago
> And the majority of elected officials in EU fundamentally disagrees with that statement. Well, EU can and will force, fine, or ban US companies as they see fit but there is not some fundamental correctness to their viewpoint
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geodel
3y ago
> Users are using Apple devices because those are good products,.. For general populace good also include secure by default. "every single trust problem to the Apple ecosystem." is rather technical point that very few people wo
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geodel
3y ago
Agree. I think if one bombard 100K Kubernetes cluster with softballs there still won't be a single repeatable observation.
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geodel
3y ago
I think it is joke from Stephen Colbert. I have been calling it Superb Owl since then.
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geodel
3y ago
Huh, what mandatory holiday gains. The better thing would be if anyone want to take a day off for election day company can't refuse it. > It underscores that the US is Capitalism first and Democracy.. In my first hand experience US
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geodel
3y ago
> its individual choice, to go all in, to decisively steer your career path for a post-AI future, .. I believe this number will be < 1% of all workers. Most of the remaining will adjust to new reality with little bit of persuasion
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geodel
3y ago
Well simplest reason would be money. There are few companies rolling in kind of money like Nvidia and AMD is not one of them. Cloud vendors would care a bit for them it is just business if Nvidia cost a lot more they in turn charge their cu
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geodel
3y ago
Well a simple reason could be probability of person take money and disappearing vs institution/business withhold person's money and disappearing. To be clear I am not defending it. If anything I was on receiving end of this behav
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geodel
3y ago
Indeed. This nauseating arrogance of software devs being not getting their due for value they deliver despite high 6 figure salaries is infuriating. As per them MBAs are chump, finance are bean counters, CEO moron, managers useless and ja
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geodel
3y ago
So people create bunkers with multi-year food supplies and other necessities for extinction level event. Will media create bunkers to hoard multi-year news articles and opinion pieces for that?
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geodel
3y ago
Agree. One can't really run enterprise grade solutions by haphazardly throwing code in a kubernetes cluster. It need to have fully automated pipeline with authn/authz and other fixings.
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geodel
3y ago
You are thinking in right direction. Ultra small but critical service like "is_even" and combining it with reliability of a kubernetes cluster, that is genius level stuff.
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geodel
3y ago
Lately I have seen developers are nuking the bloat by converting existing applications to hundreds/thousands of ultra slim micro services. I applaud this approach of taking this issue head on at least in server side domains.
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geodel
3y ago
Absolutely right. As I also put some past comment, forget cutting edge ML/DL/AI etc even basic tools from last couple of decades like timesheet/hours management, ticketing/issue management can totally control >90% of
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geodel
3y ago
Because there are lot of people who are single/couple, living with boy/girl or just friends, going to university, traveling job and so on. As you can see there is large category of people who are not raising families or planning f
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geodel
3y ago
By definition? Is there a standards institute that publishes these authorized definitions?
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