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Yes, usually you'd have to consider syndication rights, DVD sales, merch, etc when looking at a show's overall profitability. OTOH, it would appear in many cases those rights aren't going to Netflix directly. See https:&#x2F
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It's probably not quite as rosy as you state here, I'm afraid. Let's look at a 380,000 viewer show. It's very unlikely that ever single one of those viewers paid for Netflix for a solid year just to get access to that sh
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I'm very much not a minimalist, but it's worth noting that particularly in the 21st century, a lot of hobbies don't require much stuff. Martial arts, computer games, books, TV, programming, art of various sorts, creativity of
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Is there a way to get Poor Charlie's Almanack in electronic format? I looked for it on Amazon, but no luck.
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FYI: your summary is more likely to discourage people from meditating than encourage them if: 1) They are not enthusiastic about religion. 2) They are already members of another religion and do not wish to convert, particularly if said rel
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This looks amazing. Question for the more experienced deep learning folk: if I wanted to use this to upscale textures for a game, would I have to train it on the same type of texture? In other words additional wood textures when upscaling
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Show HN: Roomscale VR RPG Inspired by Dark Souls, just updated(store.steampowered.com)
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Surprised? No. Pissed off? Yes. Did it to myself? Not so much. 48% of us didn't, in fact. (And it's reasonable to assume that some of the remaining 52% didn't specifically vote for "hardest Brexit reasonably possible, pl
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I couldn't agree more with this. However, I'm curious: at what point do you think the flavour-of-the-month JS frameworks actually do make sense for a development team / company? This might just be me being old and set in my w
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Nothing lasts forever. Having said that, the number of bootstrapped / angel-funded companies sitting there cheerfully producing a large-enough-to-be-useful profit for years on end is pretty huge. Others have given examples in other rep
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I didn't buy an Aeron as its back is too short for me to lean back against comfortably. So I got the next model down, the Mirra - which I've had for more than a decade and is absolutely awesome.
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I agree in principle! However, it's worth noting that this very much depends on how experienced you are at system administration. For example, I've been setting up servers (usually for my own businesses) for a couple of decades. I
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One minor point - they didn't have first mover advantage. There were a lot of video sharing sites around before YouTube.
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I don't know much about the Michelin process, but I would be shocked if it was completely impartial either. And I do know that there's the well-known "French Michelin" phenomenon - a star in France means much less than a
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DooM sold 3 million copies and was played by 20 million people. And it was shareware. That's not nothing.
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That's incredibly impressive, and well done. I'm glad there is at least one organisation out there protecting even the speech they don't like.
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I could not agree more. It's quite ridiculous that there's no non-US alternative that's affordable.
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I've heard story after story of people finding games changed how they interacted with the world - often teaching them patience, perseverance, and optimism about eventual outcome. It's a prevalent theme amongst Dark Souls players i
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I have recently been comparing The Witcher 3's place in gaming to Casablanca's place in filmmaking. It's that good. It's uneven - some sections are significantly stronger than others - but the strong ones are incredibly
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That's really cool. Did you ever release it publicly?
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"They are no substitutes." What are you basing that on in terms of intended outcome?
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Well said. On the "better things" point: I also weight-train, I've studied Muay Thai, boxing, and a number of other martial arts, and I was an athlete in high school. Judged by those metrics, some Vive games are still prett
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Most recently, what's made me start exercising (more) is room-scale VR. Gyms are boring. Cardio in gyms is incredibly boring. Trying to beat my highscore on Holopoint whilst hologram samurai rush at me and I'm dodging missiles fly
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Building a personal brand in 2016 is much less about blogs than it ever has been. Most of the people I know building big-ish personal media properties in 2016 are doing it on a siloed platform: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Medium. Building
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Hosted Wordpress (with WP-Engine). The ecosystem (primarily the number of really nice themes) and the fact I've been using it for years just means it's the simplest option. I'd probably never self-host it again for anything i
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Not only still playing actively but actually changed careers to develop for room-scale VR. Personally I'd strongly draw a line between sitting-down VR and room-scale walking around and interacting with hands VR. The first one I liked b
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What's the best resource for learning the ESP8266? I'm interested in expanding my knowledge if there's a not-too-arcane way to do it.
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One question - why do you say it's not sustainable? I agree that an increase in population requires an increase in funding to the NHS (or at least keeping the funding stable per capita) and more housing. But I don't see why those
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Interesting stats - thanks, I'll look into them. (I should say: this should neither be taken as "I now believe everything you say" nor "and now I will find reasons, no matter how arbitrary, to dismiss everything you&#x27
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Yes, there definitely is. The difficulties of getting non-EU nationals into the UK to work are already pretty much top of the complaints list of folk I know who run significant IT companies. I don't know about the academic sector, but

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