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Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

It's the Microsoft Mantra.
Because running shows into the ground makes a lot of people a lot of money.
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"Provide Feedback on any Drawings that peaks your interest!"
It's "piques your interest".
I had to look at the Wikipedia list of Netflix shows to believe you. Probably Stranger Things is one exception and maybe The Witcher will endure, though it's really questionable how much The Witcher counts as "theirs"
Scale should never be an excuse for poor customer service. Customer service is part and parcel of offering a service to customers. A failure to offer good customer service is a failure of your service, period.
Venezuela was done in by severe sanctions imposed on the country by USA. Any other excuse is just the typical propaganda you see in American news media.
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There is another advantage of good fakes: they often can be shipped in production as your demo mode. I've seen cases where when of the most important new features to marketing was just make some part of the fake more useful in production. Sometimes because there is a show coming up and the demo mode is what customers will see. Sometimes because the trainers want a better simulation of some issue.

In some cases the fake is a lot more complex than the real implementation. (I worked on a diagnostic tool, the real implementation "just" needed to send/receive bytes, the fake needed to understand the bytes and return responses)
The problem is that it's not possible to know in advance if a series will be one of the blessed few to last more than two seasons. Designing a 24-episode arc, and then having the show be a smash hit is also a problem for Netflix
Sleep impacts all aspects of health, including mental health, of all age groups.
It was getting quite ridiculous with the stock images and the over the top political messaging... should have been simple enough to set up a reverse image search to flag suspicious profiles.
How far do you have to drive to find a supermarket that doesn't sell Coca-Cola? Or is that not worth the same level of condemnation as interviewing the wrong person?

Everybody gets to choose what they are and are not willing to support with their money. Some things I am willing to compromise to avoid; other things I am not. Extremely strange to me how many of you want to perform these weird mental gymnastics to suggest that people should be ashamed of not handing their money over to people or causes they disagree with.
Welp, there goes an hour in the rabbit hole¹.

¹ https://www.smspower.org/Development/BIOSes
> cancellation is a business decision, not a story decision.

Some series get resurected after years...

Cold Feet series 6 in 2016 after 13 years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Feet_(series_6)
Sounds like magic the gathering card econ. Which is super fun! But personally, I definitely don't consider specing into Embercleave a meaningful societal mover
Or just use "Photoshop" in the browser

https://www.photopea.com/

If I need any kinda simpler editing I just use this.
Right. I was just sketching out that you could build it self contained in a desert if you really had to and still make it economical.

Ad absurdum only, not a serious suggestion.
Rome didn't just collapse, it was sacked. The US is incapable of suffering a fall of Rome. America's geography makes that impossible. At the very worse you would see a return to a more insular America like it was before WW1. But even without American hegemony, the nation would still be a major power being the world's largest oil producer, the world's largest agricultural producer, and the world's largest consumer economy.

The problem with any loss of American power is that potential great powers that could replace it, such as China, are deathly reliant on American lead order. China is neither energy nor food secure. How will they manage when their shipping isn't defended by the USN? How will they manage when climate change strains available resources? Especially when they are so geographically isolated from potential sources of those resources, and rivals are closer to those resources.
As far as I can tell, the 2013 law doesn't actually define "telematics" or "telematics data". This intiative does define the latter to be data that the car collects and phones home, and which the car itself may not store at all (but the "remote receiving point", as the law calls it, does store).

It seems to me that you can't reasonably require access via the physical port on the car to data that is not actually present in the car's systems. Or am I missing something?
For me, your site gives

> This website requires JavaScript to function properly. If you disabled JavaScript, please enable it and refresh this page.

Please consider making your site accessible to people not using it? Javascript is a control structure and surveillance tool.
Note to self: bring a pistol (or blaster?) with me when I head into a supermassive black hole.
How do I find and kill a single mosquito in the middle of the night?
Here's some feedback: This is absolutely wonderful!
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Well they're a growth field too -- tidal and current based turbines.
If you wanna avoid becoming Venezuela, just avoid being specifically targeted by US economic siege ("sanctions"). Which is pretty simple if you are the US.
My experience:

Before high school, we had a physical education/"gym" class as part of our normal schedule where we would do various althletic things.

In high school, we needed a certain amount athletic credits in order to graduate. This worked out to be either 1 season each year on an actual team (competing against other schools); or 2 "seasons" each year of non competative play (e.g. pick-up games of ultimate frisbee, or joining the cross country team for training runs). They would take attendence each day, and you get credit based on how many times you show up (with no requirement that the days you show up are even in the same year; the only time a teacher would complain about you missing a day is if you need the credit to graduate).

You could also get credit for sports you do outside of the school.
FYI: Netlify has a trademark on JAMSTACK and strictly controls it. They have a very weak profitability model and over 120 million dollars of early Series VC raises.

Netlify is a company working hard to get lots of people locked into their companies ecosystem. This is a very bad thing for the open web.
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I wish a day will come when I' not going to need GUI apps anymore. This project seems like making this day a little bit closer. But we still lack a decent text-mode browser with latest HTML5 and JavaScript support and the code editors still are not nearly as smart and easy as JetBrains IDEs are. Is there already a good HN client for the terminal by the way?
> If you want to bring up the value of intangibles, you then dont get to cherry pick certain intangibles that prove your point as to use them as the basis for your argument.

Literally what I felt you did and why I said to also consider environmental externalities.

I did not make any argument beyond that. I also did not claim you said to move to the suburbs. No idea where you get that from. It's just a thing I'm considering doing, because I can't stand the noise and pollution in the city much longer.
Wait, that sounds like fraud. The CEO of a company had the company he runs buy into a limited asset he also owns...

Gg society, the fact that we're talking this up like it's a good thing means most of us deserve to be poor af
A giant shithole is what you get when you create a monolith that can fit into many business processes / cases. One additional case to handle introduce many more complexity to application.
Twitter's security fell short before hack targeting celebrities, regulator says
What's the point of investing in a show very few people want to see?

Netflix has all the metrics. I doubt they cancel shows just because they can.

Of course there will always be some disappointed people.
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They dont force you to watch new seasons... I usually stop after 5 seasons for series that I like quite a bit.
>Why can't you just enjoy a one or two well done seasons?

Not OP, but I share the opinion. For my viewing there are basically two types of shows. The first is relatively mindless entertainment. I enjoy an episode here or there but I'm not invested in the plot. I'm not watching YouTube recaps and "explainers" after the episodes, and I'm not engaged in a community where we discuss the plot and predict where things are going. Barry is a good example of that. Ted Lasso is another good example.

Then there are the shows where I get invested in the plot and story. Shows where I am theorizing with my wife, watching YouTube videos on it, and discussing it online. Shows such as Westworld or Game of Thrones.

There are some shows that straddle the line well, but you usually know ahead of time. Watchmen falls into that category. Single season, compelling drama, had me engaged the whole time, and it was a single season. But I knew it was going to be a single season from the start.

This is the same reason I typically try not to read unfinished trilogies. Patrick Rothfuss and GRRM have ruined me.
This seems more spam than anything else. What's new about their approach? Why is this relevant? I don't want to be mean but I don't understand why this is in Hacker News
Yeah the Affinity programs completely cover everything I used to do with the Adobe Suite. I'm not a professional designer but I often have to do small photo editing / vector design tasks and Adobe always felt like such a rip-off, especially once they switched to their subscription model. Very happy there is some competition in this space.
It's second nature for those of us who have been doing it since the 90s. It's incredible that it's apparently becoming a lost art.
A tad related: This was in the LA area, but there was a video I saw a while back where a guy had crowdfunded a project to build shelters for homless people that were basically tiny houses with locks, a solar power providing a small amount of power, etc. and the city went ballistic about it. Admittedly there were some genuine problems with how it was executed, i.e. blocking sidewalks and they even offered to move them but were rejected. There was a clip of some city official claiming that this man building shelters for homeless people did nothing to help them, yet his own plan to "end homelessness" somehow would. This video was rather old, probably early 2010s. I wonder how that politicians plan to end homelessness is doing.
When I signed up for Twitter I was immediately followed by an account that was a 'former libtard who saw the light', and then over time a series of other similarly themed accounts. All with these weird references to local things (the town, a park) in my area, but not in a way any local would ever reference them. Their posts were very much more national politics meme type posts.

Very much a "I see how it is going to be." kinda moment.
I think the use-case is a CMS where a non-technical user can post files, create/update pages of static information with a wysiwyg editor, and have it all Just Work without having to ever see a command line or deal with errors from some mystery-meat generator process that has a bunch of its own ideas about correctness, style consistency, or whatever else.

As a former user who had one of those typical personal Wordpress blogs on a shared hosting setup, I experienced the nightmare of dealing with spam, hacking, having to constantly upgrade, etc. So for my own use I would never consider anything other than a static site generator; but I can see the appeal for many use cases, especially if the backend is managed (services like WP Engine) or semi-managed (the guy who set it up is getting a small monthly fee to keep an eye on things).
It seems so. Think about Theranos, would've been a breeding ground for that imo. There are many other startups who can leverage this and basically defeat the purpose of this idea. The idea is good actually though if you use it the right way but then again that stands true for most ideas that became bad, Chatroulette for example.
TIL the word aplomb. I'm a 30 year old native english speaker. Not sure whether to be excited to learn a new word, or worried that I didn't know it.
It was actually cancelled after its second season but a huge fan reaction persuaded the executives to renew it for a third, which was probably a mistake as that was by far the weakest season of the show.
Of course it does, where do you think IrisGL and Renderman were used for?

An OS architecture that doesn't do DMA for maximum hardware performance just isn't up to the game.
Bookselling in the End Times ... Again
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> If the complaint is "because it doesn't work well enough", the proper solution is to just disable it, which is of course an option. Crying "foul!", however, is neither constructive nor helpful in way.

Are you sure you meant exactly what you wrote?

I mean: The correct thing to do if you have a smoke detector that gives false positives isn't to throw out smoke detectors but to complain to the place that sold it and get a new one that works.
70.6% of people who were infected with Covid-19 “Always” wear masks [pdf]
It's "money" controlled by a few large electricity-wasting pools.
Use something like Contentful with Gutenberg
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Sorry, I think you are mistaking what I'm writing. I'm referring to this article and basing it of PEW Research on adolescence with depression. The addition of more sleep hasn't changed anything in this survey. In regards to already existing reports by PEW on the rates of depression which in teenagers and in more specifically girls have an exponential growth in depression rates. Its not due to a change in social stigma but rather the use of social media. Specifically facebook and instagram which most teenage girls spend the majority of their time on.
Thai King's 40B trust transferred to him so it can be taxed by Government
I wouldn't classify Netflix as a bean culture. Because Netflix is still run by Reed Hastings the founder & CEO. Netflix hired Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken. From his research came the insight of binge watching series not from Netflix data.

Netflix invests in series by pioneering new narratives for niche markets. When a niche market is smaller or the serie is received not as expected Netflix pulls the plug as every rational agent would do.

The publishing industry in the 90ties was optimizing their business model for maximizing ROI of limited amount of shelve space by producing hits for popularity what 80% people like.

https://wistia.com/learn/marketing/science-behind-why-we-bin...

Generalizing people in to a category of money people and expecting to draw a profound conclusion from your arbitrary box is underwhelming.

Capitalism is the most efficient way to allocate capital and produces much more culture than systems driven by altruistic motives.
I’ve come across a similar line of thought while reading about capitalism. When technology improves such that it takes less time to perform work, there are three possible outcomes:

1. The labourers finish the work in less time and get more leisure time (production and labourers stay constant, time spent decreases)

2. Some of the labourers are fired since fewer are needed to perform the same work in the same amount of time now (time and production stay constant, labourers decrease)

3. The same amount of labourers work the same amount of time, but produce more due to the increased efficiency. (time and labourers stay constant, production increases)

In my experience, unless you work for yourself, outcome 1 will never happen. Outcome 3 is desirable from a broader perspective because that extra production must be benefitting someone. But I don’t see any upside to option 2. Some people lose their jobs and there’s no extra production. I guess you could argue it would have been a waste for them to continue working on something that could be done more efficiently without them, so in the long term it works out, but in the short term they lose.
Sounds a little dramatic (especially since 50 million isnt moving the price single handedly). Also stock buybacks are essentially the same thing (if you were to call it a conflict of interest) and almost every company in existence does that.
There's a couple of large-scale wind farms in the Irish Sea, haven't read anything about ecological impact of monopiles -- they've been used for other sea structures for a long time so longitudinal data should exist.
> This is more about Netflix throwing shows against the wall so fast they never get to see if any of them stick.

I think it's just the other side of the coin. Because they have no airtime limits, they can commission many more series than traditional networks used to; but they just don't want to keep them around for long if they think they are not working, because unlimited airtime does not mean unlimited funds.

In practice, I think some of the series this piece laments would never have been produced by networks. Would you be happier reading only one half of a story, or not even knowing the story existed at all? I think the answer can differ between different people.
It's the cosmic scale of things that throws you off. Everything is moving very fast, there's just so much and it's so big.
> Would the AUR let me have the current Krita and the old one installed simultaneously?

I doubt it.

> My experience with repo/package models suggests it very much would not.

The Nix package manager would. However, I have no idea if their packages are kept up-to-date like that.
https://ourtimetothink.com/ tames my slack notifications
A key difference is that Siri doesn’t use personal identifiers - I.e. it does send the recording for interpretation, but it isn’t associated with your user account.
Will you feel the same when you are unable to receive life saving care because health care resources are tied up dealing with the flood of COVID victims?
They host static web pages. I’m not exactly seeing the angle on how this is a bad thing.
This doesn't seem to be teaching anyone how to start a business. It just convinces you that you should.
Pure opacity, like your link, doesn't use variables at all—just regular CSS opacity. Background opacity, however, does: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/background-opacity
I like that Netflix has a few 'limited series'. 8-10 episodes and the plot is complete. Great! There was one about an amazon murder/tribes/... Thing for which this just works perfectly. More story than a movie, no cliffhangers and no "monster of the week".
You don't really need to do that though. You can also use nix-env to install software.
Hey HN,

Happy to show you all Depot. After seeing the potential of Code's new Custom Editor Extension API, I took it upon myself to port some of the primary features of one of my favorite pieces of software, CastleDB, into Code itself.

Depot is a structured data editor for Visual Studio Code that allows you to edit JSON data like a spreadsheet. Data you would normally store in raw JSON or XML can instead be stored, edited, and managed, all through a single Depot file.

The key part about Depot is that it not only provides you a much nicer interface for editing JSON (spreadsheet instead of a long text file), but also that it stores the data model itself inside of the JSON file. That way if you're importing a Depot file into your project, the file you're importing contains the information about how to read and interpret it.

I've also made an explainer video here which walks through using it as well as its main features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCTQvd3zkEg

Thanks!
Probably going straight for the ad-hominem is a reason why people are bothered by your otherwise reasonable observation. Not everyone that's wrong is a "hack". If I remember correctly HN encourages discussions in the spirit of being charitable to another person's opinion.
> For the record, reserve requirements are not universal. Canada, for one, eliminate theirs in 1992:

Yes! This!

In fact, not only does the Canadian system have zero reserve requirements... it has near zero reserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Value_Transfer_System

How it works is this:

- Banks send payments in real time. The system does not involve any transfer of assets, but it does require pledging collateral (often government debt). Asset transfers occur outside of the system. For example, if bank A sells a government debt instrument to bank B, then bank B sends a payment to bank A in the system, and then A transfers the instrument to B outside of this system.

- At the end of each day, settlement is done. Each private bank has a net balance at the end of the day. The net balances sum up to zero across the system, and post-settlement, each individual bank must have a net zero balance. In order to do so, they can either send/receive payments from/to another private bank for overnight loans. Or they can deal with the central bank, by having their reserve balance credited/debited, or by getting an overnight loan from the central bank at a rate determined by the central bank. With overnight loans, no assets are transferred... there's just a promise to pay back the next day via sending a payment.

A few notable things about reserves in the system:

- Use of reserves is totally optional. In practice, banks hold very little reserves.

- The quantity of reserves is entirely determined by demand from private banks.

- Reserves are never transferred from one private bank to another. They are only transferred between central bank and private bank.
You can name factors, but that doesn't mean those factors are the most critical ones, just the ones that support your narrative.
> ‘Fixing’ women is itself a problem

That's been my experience as well with female bosses. The best ones I've had seemed genuine, and led in their own way. The ones that tried to act like males usually fed into the "confident women are bitches" stereotype because everyone could tell that they were insecure about being in charge, and tried to overcompensate by trying to emulate super aggressive alpha-male types. Males make the same mistake, but it feels like they get an opportunity to correct their behavior, whereas females don't get another chance once they are painted as "that bitch boss".
I agree, and I think it's a problem which can occur in data-driven systems: the system can stabilize at a non-optimal local maximum.

Ideally they should A/B test at least occasionally with different decision models to see if their assumptions are correct, but those are very expensive experiments to run when you're talking about the production of a TV series.
> up until roughly 2 weeks ago, that phrase had a pretty well-established meaning

Therein lies the fun of languages: meanings shift, and sometimes rapidly. From my perspective, “packing the courts” now has dual meaning - and in this sense, I read the OP’s comment as “filling the courts with”.
It's an inevitability of incentivizing growth over all else. So scale per se is not the problem. The problem is incentivising the first derivative of scale.
I like that the (potential) value prop for an individual user increases as more people join the platform. Seems like a pretty novel idea for the whole "flywheel" concept.
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but shorter due to commercial breaks.