thadjo

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by thadjo 9y ago
true, but i think these purchases have a much greater impact on TV that film. Amazon, Netflix, Hulu all have a long list of really successful TV shows but it's hard to think of a 120-minute movie that has risen to the ranks of Handmaid
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by thadjo 9y ago
yes, and the ROI on some of these flicks is just jaw-dropping. horror is definitely having its moment.
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by thadjo 9y ago
this is such an underappreciated point. many US movies are now developed with an international audience in mind.
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by thadjo 10y ago
verifying the source of an image via a blockchain is probably going to have to be a thing
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by thadjo 10y ago
acquire nuzzel
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by thadjo 10y ago
same
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by thadjo 10y ago
heroku API is down for me
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Documents suggest Palantir will power Trump's ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants(theverge.com)
12 points by thadjo 10y ago|2 comments
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by thadjo 10y ago
I'm sympathetic to the 'not this time' argument but I don't think it has to do with the scale of technical disruption. At the beginning of the 20th century nearly half the labor force was in agriculture; now it's
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by thadjo 11y ago
This is true. My point was more about how publishers should value print as opposed to ebooks. The value of a print sale is diminished to some extent by it's fueling of the used market. So whatever a publisher values a print sale shou
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by thadjo 11y ago
This is an under-appreciated strength of ebooks: they can't be resold. With print books, publishers risk undermining their own inventory. The more print books they sell, the more they fuel the used market, which drives down prices. T
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by thadjo 11y ago
> Would there be more money in it, or is the market already earning as much as it's going to earn, and the used books have no impact? This would have a pretty huge impact on the publishing industry. Traditional publishers make a to
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by thadjo 11y ago
Love this. Beautiful execution. Would be cool to see how prominently the font is used on each site – viz., what percentage of text on the site uses that font. Also, it would be great to stylize each font name with the font itself. Great w
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by thadjo 11y ago
What on earth did Lawrence Summers do for his +1M shares? HT Felix Salmon.
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by thadjo 11y ago
Mindel isn't saying full automation can't or shouldn't happen for cars. His point is empirical and cautionary: usually when we get excited about automating X, it turns out that X is better with some human supervision. It&#x