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downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
Depending on how you look at it Criterion's $11/month for 1,000 titles is not cheaper than Netflix's $15/month for 5,000 titles.
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
It's common. I get annoyed at my wife all the time for jumping to conclusions from some random piece of web info.
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
Here's Snowflake bragging about helping telcos sell location data: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
The law that would have prevented this breach would be to make it illegal for telcos to sell customer data. The reason AT&T was feeding ALL the data to Snowflake was to sell their customer's location and social graph to marketers. It is unconscionable to me that this in not currently the law.
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
1. the real keys to the kingdom are held by TSMC whose fab capacity rules the advanced chips we all get, from NVIDIA to Apple to AMD to even Intel these days.

2. the old advice is to sell shovels during a gold rush
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
Doesn't look flat to me.

Edit: Here[0] I highlighted a groove in the bushes moving with perfect perspective

[0] https://ibb.co/Y7WFW39
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
Yep, since at least World of Warcraft millions of people have already "opted out of life" to live in game worlds.

The thing that "The Matrix" style plots get wrong is that the machines don't need to coerce us into their virtual prisons, we will submit willingly.
downWidOutaFite
·2 years ago·discuss
But then you're stuck playing in the model owner's playground and if you're too successful they can yank the rug from under you and steal your business any time they want.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
Like I said, I put my money where my mouth is. GOOG's monopoly-fueled glory days will soon be behind it. In tech, if you stand still for too long you will eventually be left behind.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
Keeping quiet about perceived problems is exactly the kind of toxic political lack of transparency that Ian is calling out here.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
Google is getting beat badly on multiple fronts, even Search, and has pissed away a mountain of goodwill. It's living off of declining 15 year old achievements. I wouldn't call Sundar a steady hand, he has destroyed much more potential than he has created, even if the stock has continued to go up it won't for much longer. I sold a significant position in GOOG a few years ago and I'm certain it was the right call.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
He spent the last 9 years in competition with Android so it's not surprising that he has some biases about it
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
Bernie Maddoff got 150
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
No. He might be never leave prison again
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
YBCO isn't really used for anything. MRI machines use metallic NbTi even though it requires liquid helium because YBCO is too brittle and can't handle large currents.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
> If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone.

If only, Google's been trying to emulate apple locking android down as much as possible.
downWidOutaFite
·3 years ago·discuss
The founders added a bunch of checks and balances but not the filibuster. The fillibuster was more of a gentlemanly agreement until the 1970s and it wasn't until the Obama era that it was regularly used on almost every single vote.
downWidOutaFite
·5 years ago·discuss
Hated that company when I was shopping for a refinance. They had the slickest website (which is probably why they call themeselves fintech) but were extremely opaque about their quotes even after they forced me to answer 100s of detailed personal finance questions. And very spammy