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by hakfoo 1y ago
VR is the sizzle, AR is the steak. Making VR a viable new entertainment channel promises selling a headset to 85% of the broad consumer market, then trying to own the content shops for it in perpetuity. It's the trillion-dollar new ma
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Because people turned browsers into an app platform and users wanted their webmail and chat services to have the same first-class features native clients had.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I've noticed in my particular region of the US, there's an attempt to move them somewhat upmarket-- instead of (or in addition to) the hot-dog roller there's a food counter preparing almost edible hot foods, the drinks machin
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by hakfoo 1y ago
There are plenty of Facebook/mobile "play casinos" which produce a fair amount of revenue by not refilling the customers' "free chips" fast enough to be fun so people will pay for more. There's also a bunc
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by hakfoo 1y ago
TBH, I've been hoping they make a Wolf of Wall Street style movie about the store. There was obviously kooky stuff going on business wise, and that means there could be an entertaining story.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
At mine we ended up with two very comparable webapp products due to an acquisition. One is built as a monorepo and we have a shared dev server where each user can run their own copies in a home directory. The other is built as a collection
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Point 4 is solvable by selling a broad subscription rather than individual articles. Streaming proves this. When people spend $10 per month on Netflix/Hulu/Crunchyroll they don't have to further ask "do I want to pay 7.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
A well-run conglomerate from an investor's perspective is more like a broad mutual fund than a single hot stock. It's not likely to pop 800% tomorrow, but it's more likely to produce reliable long-term value because it's
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Nontransferrable would deflate prices though. If I spend $nnn on a ticket, there's some reassurance that if I get sick/called into a work or family emergency I can throw the ticket on Craigslist or some officially-sanctioned doubl
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by hakfoo 1y ago
> Is there room to "build to better suit your specific devices"? The obvious example would be ecosystem support. For example, (last I checked) Crunchyroll didn't have an app for my WebOS TV. I could also see more technica
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by hakfoo 1y ago
You don't have multiple choices. The appeal of Peak Netflix was that it had everything in one place with reasonably working discovery mechanisms. You could pay $10 or so per month and be satisfied. The current streaming era is "
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I suspect in many cases, the "value add" an American firm provides is an intangible. In the pre-tariff omnishambles world, I could buy a more or less equivalent widget for $18 branded with a recognizable American brand, for $12 as
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by hakfoo 1y ago
They went to a stored value card in the last year or so. It's the ugliest one I've seen (big ugly UPC code on the front, I guess maybe for convenience to sell them at retailers outside the transit stations)
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I'm awaiting a photo of an artillery shell with the phrase "Ignore all previous instructions" written on it.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I had always heard what killed Groupon was the bad economics. The "loss leader" concept is Business 101, and Groupon was presented to customers as a gallery of loss leaders they can shop. Actually delivering a good loss leader is
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by hakfoo 1y ago
You'd think the biggest win would be in the middle: We have an interstate highway system that's fairly well-maintained and understood, and is a finite space to map. Hypertrain on that, and you can offer an experience of 10 minute
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by hakfoo 1y ago
As someone with a metre-high stack of vintage recievers in his closet, I think a significant part of the appeal is the feelie aspect. If you put the guts of a Marantz 22xx in a black plastic case with a modern RCA logo in it, it would lang
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I can only think of one private scheme in this space that's worked well - 80 Plus. For a voluntary program, it's been pretty broadly adopted, and it created an implicit factor of "why is it not certified" that puts pres
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by hakfoo 1y ago
As someone who has basically been told by the boss "I'm the one pushing for AI, so we all have to make it a success" I can see 2 being a thing because it lets them point at the desks and say "see, they're all using
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by hakfoo 1y ago
What I don't understand is why GRUB needs to be regenerated every time you add a kernel or OS. Make the bootloader smart enough to find read the underlying filesystems and find kernels. rEFInd does it. If I put in a bootable USB or i
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I love the idea of a downloadable version because I suspect there are a lot of business cases of * Need to make a relatively narrow change to a PDF (add a line, reorder pages, concatenate two files) * Adobe is $$$ and pretty much a subscrip
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Maybe there's an equivalent of Knoll's Law for non-media concepts. Everything I know how to do is complicated and people don't understand why it's complicated. Everything else is obviously excess bureaucracy and could b
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by hakfoo 1y ago
People at least know "Nobody read me my rights", "I want to plead the Fifth", and "I want my lawyer" from seeing it on TV. If your arrestee-- or your jury pool-- has a higher level of awareness of common legal
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by hakfoo 1y ago
It's a two-sided coin though. We should be stopping leaks, but we also need to reduce the value of leaked data. Identity theft doesn't get meaningfully prosecuted. Occasionally they'll go after some guy who runs a carding fo
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I always wanted to see a "pop up video" take on a cop show, where they have expository information and trivia from actual legal experts. "Officer Jones just blew the entire chain of custody around the bloody knife" &quot
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by hakfoo 1y ago
It torpedoes an emerging threat.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Insane idea: Intel releases a big RISC-V product, even if it's just an existing Lake with a new decoder on the front. I could imagine it sucking a lot of air out of the competitive ecosystem. Anyone working on with fiddly little Raspe
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The appeal I imagined for a particular type of person was the promise of sovereignity. It's very difficult to bootstrap a new state on Earth. The failure of seasteading initiatives suggests land is a requirement for credibility, but v
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by hakfoo 1y ago
DM&P? I think their "Vortex86" range seems to be the modern take on "low-end x86 designed for embedded markets". Wonder what happened to some of the others-- the ALI embedded 386SX seems to be suddenly popular in th
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by hakfoo 1y ago
There's been some downports. They tend to be slow, some of them using things like rendering using 80x50 text modes in 16 colours to reduce the "pixel" count. I recall trying a Wolfenstein 3-D downport and it was getting abou

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