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I use Apple TV. Netflix does have better user experience (in terms of playing videos) than Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu for me.

It plays faster, seeks faster, properly does Dolby Vision / HDR when the content has it and has different language subtitles. It animates properly from one screen to another (in stark contrast to Prime Video).

The content exploration and navigation is something to be desired, but comparing to other apps, it is on par (similarly bad).
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I like this definition, but I think it should be associated with a strategy rather than a company.

So Netflix is using a tech strategy, but it won't forever be a tech company.

As the particular technology a company deploys becomes widespread, then everyone will deploy it and it will no longer be a tech company.

To put it another way: Netflix was not a tech company when it launched and was mailing DVDs, it became a tech company when it started its streaming service, and as other companies also launch streaming services, it won't be a technology company in the future.
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I think a Greek guy was warning us about extremism some 2000 years ago...
By this metric Elon Musk is the single worst CEO ever.

I can get behind that =)

edit to make substantive

I don't think we should be firing people for their beliefs, at what point are out jobs separated from our personal lives. Having said that, if you say something as CEO you take what you get, like Elon should have.

I'm sure each and every one of us has done things that if captured on camera, or were we CEO and posted it to Twitter as opposed to speaking it, would have gotten us fired.

Or we need to get rid of the bullshit and just have political businesses, where left leaning people work for left leaning companies, etc.
Malicious in what way? Do you mean the software? The software has been developed in the public for 10+ years.
Sounds like why my heart beats faster when I drink
Can we get an edit to add (2019) to the title?
An authoritarian banana republic is pretty much the only place where something like this would happen : https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/05/21/us-can-stop-el-salvadors...
This whole thing is pointless. It is basically about clarifying the definition of a financial/MBA term. Where do you draw the line at "tech company" vs some other classification? It only matters if you need to check a box on a portfolio investment diversification.

If a company came out with a fully automated oil drilling solution they are a tech company. Tech defined the company even if the majority of their business 20 years later comes from the fruit of their technical development labor. Netflix is tech company that now mostly makes money from content.
Men don't complain. It's not the male biological imperative.

Consider modern "feminists" and their obesity-is-fine propaganda. No man complains about male underwear models being very fit and handsome. If anything, men want to become like them.
I like this definition, but I think it breaks down even if you're not trying to be clever. AWS is a tech company. Amazon is not a tech company, it's a retail store. But AWS isn't actually an independent company, it's just a division of Amazon. So we've got a retail store hiding a massive tech company because the retail store is even more massive.

I think this is less a flaw of the definition and more a sign that Amazon should be broken apart and AWS spun off as an independent company.
> "I had this idealism that if I hired people who seemed motivated, enthusiastic about technology, good well rounded people then nothing could go wrong and my company would be sure to succeed."

I often wonder when seeing job adverts that ask for a motivated and driven self-starter who is good under pressure and organising and prioritising and willing to work overtime and on-call and has skills up and down the tech stack, etc. etc. ... why would a person like that be applying for a job as an employee, instead being a founder or consultant?

The fundamental trade of being an employee is a kind of subservience - "I give you my time and effort, you tell me what to do. If it doesn't work out then you take the hit, and if it does work out then you take the bulk of the profit". At the extreme of "I've hired you, can y'all just self-organise into a profitable company and I will still take the bulk of the returns" it all falls apart. It's trying to push leadership and management down onto employees, without any of the money or social status or potential returns or even the ability to put "manager" on their resume and leverage it for promotions in future.
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Double click it:
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Copies the password to clipboard.
Ready to use.
Pretty useful and character sets can be adjusted in the script.
Hope it's not too bad.
Texas startup says abortion law will cause it to hire elsewhere
> then hacking the process by learning to solve algorithm and data structure problems is acceptable

Have you considered that underrepresented candidates might not have the free time outside of university, family, and job responsibilities in order to compete with those whose families can support them to focus on only university and preparing for interviews?

If HR wants their diversity numbers up, maybe HR needs to consider having some diversity in the interview process itself? I wouldn't expect a cookie cutter process to result in much diversity of background or thought.

> Whether someone's ability to solve these types of problems quickly is indicative of their skill level is a hot topic of debate

One of the best interviewing tips I learned that has served me extremely well is to try disprove my impression of the candidate. It seems like this process entirely fails at that.
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> I understand this is a divisive political issue, but why can he not voice his opinion on his personal social media?

He can. He did.

> 39% of Americans believe abortion should be illegal in all/most cases.

Many people who believe that don’t support the Texas law; the people that oppose abortion actually overlap a lot with the people that think that open floodgates for private civil litigation by parties not directly involved in an issue is a very bad way to enforce even good and necessary laws.

> Should this very large group of people not be employable because of this opinion?

People who can’t restrain their public engagement on controversial issues to positions that the relevant decisionmakers are willing to tie the organization to tend not to be employable in positions where they are perceived as the face of an organization. Having a belief is not the issue.
> Bitcoin could be used by the whole world with mining only happening on a laptop. That would not change anything for Bitcoin users.

No, that is completely inaccurate.

First of all, with current parameters that would mean that you need a good few hundred years to process a few seconds of world-wide transactions.

And if the parameters were adjusted such that it would be that easy to mine blocks, bitcoin would become valueless, as everyone with a laptop could produce their own longest blockchain where they have half of all bitcoin.

Proof of work systems will always require absurd wastes of energy - that is, by definition, the only way they ensure the correctness of the blockchain.
People like cannabis. Naturally they minimize any suggestion that it's not all good. I do the same with Lisp, smoked meats, and predestination. I see no mystery here.
Not disputing your statement, just made me laugh a bit because almost every single site I visit recently that offers links to copyrighted content [stored in file lockers] sits behind Cloudflare
I know Ive consumed too much when my heart races. At one point in my life I had enough of a tolerance that I could smoke all day every day and had no heart racing. I don't use cannabis anymore since I dont know anyone who can provide it and I live where the legal status is that its treated like a parking ticket for personal use. Ive visited Colorado and California and tried the legal options. Its generally way to strong for me. A half of a hit of current weed in the average potency available is enough to get me where I want to be- which is to reduce stress and have a slight head change.
Large banks have an entire universe of challenges that don't impact firms like Netflix or Google. I've worked with enough of them and seen many high speed engineering folks from FAANG companies flounder for months as they try to recalibrate for the highly regulated environments.

I'm not saying banks are great at tech, because on any individual metric it would be really hard to find an example of where they lead, but they (and other highly regulated industries) have a lot more to solve for along the way.
23 is not a lot of servers.

That is still doable with mid-90s era hand management of servers (all named after characters in lord of the rings).

Not that you should, but you could.

And the growth rate must be very low and pretty easy to plan out your O/S upgrade and hardware upgrade tempo.

And it was actually possible to manage tens of thousands of servers before containers. The only thing you really need is what they now call a "cattle not pets" mentality.

What you lose is the flexibility of shoving around software programmatically to other bits of hardware to scale/failover and you'll need to overprovision some, but even if half of SOs infrastructure is "wasted" that isn't a lot of money.

And if they're running that hardware lean in racks in a datacenter that they lease and they're not writing large checks to VMware/EMC/NetApp for anything, then they'd probably spend 10x the money microservicing everything and shoving it all into someone's kubernetes cloud.

In most places though this will fail due to resume-driven design and you'll wind up with a lot of sprawl because managers don't say no to overengineering. So at SO there must be at least one person in management with a cheap vision of how to engineer software and hardware. Once they leave or that culture changes the footprint will eventually start to explode.
Hahaha. That is actually very funny.
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It's not necessarily harmless. JB includes nasty creepshots. And even if the subject took the photo themselves, it's unlikely they wanted a bunch of weirdos on the internet to lust over it. And if they somehow did want that lust, it's even more unlikely that they fully understood the consequences.

All of that can end up being very harmful to one's mental health. And that's not even accounting for the people who try to physically go after those children after seeing them and convincing themselves that they "love" the child.
Right, but then the argument isn't that people only get canceled for conservative opinions, it's just that the left is better at it.
I think it's still a useful category, but we need to be careful with it, because "tech" is a moving target that only includes what's novel.

As an example, pencils are an excellent technology for writing. (Petroski's "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things" are great reads on how much innovation it takes to make something mundane.) But Faber-Castell is definitely not a tech company. Similarly, ~100 years ago, electricity was novel. Fortunes were made starting and investing in electricity and electrical-adjacent companies. Now it's mundane.

Dealing with novel technology requires different skills. Both for the specific technology involved and for wrangling things that are less well understood and keep changing. A good example is the IT department and what they are and aren't responsible for. The breakroom toaster? Nope. The breakroom wifi? Yup. The breakroom TV? Well, that depends.

For me the useful dividing line for "tech company" is where novel, volatile technology is at the heart of their business and vital to their success. That doesn't last. And indeed, the markets have been too generous about pretending certain things are tech companies. Most notably, WeWork, but I'm sure here folks here can name plenty more.
This site goes into more detail on how productivity as shown on the famous chart is useless for telling you anything useful and worse means something different from the layman understanding of the word. With charts and basic maths.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...

> tl;dr: "Productivity" in economics is not the intuitive sense of "productivity" the word in common English usage that indicates human work.

Oh snap. I read your link but not the tl;dr, oops.
What a douchebag company honestly. Their marketing is absolutely evil. Changing the headline does not cut it, they need to fire people responsible for that outright lie.

After a dude gets arrested, they’re like: oh, we were talking about advertisers! Who did you think?

What a trash team.

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We’re not going to get large scale randomized controlled trials for marijuana use any time soon.

We can definitely debate the methods.. but the findings from this growing body of evidence should probably be the ‘default’ stance, until we see more causal or controlled correlational evidence pointing the other way.
Most of the content on any such platform is going to be the kind that was banned from mainstream platforms for whatever reason. But it's not just alt-right agitprop that gets banned. And any individual targeted group is not large enough to maintain a viable platform of their own. So either we have a public platform place with the stink, or we have none at all.
To me “tech company” also usually implies that the company has replaced some older thing with a newer technological solution. I think that’s why Netflix intuitively feels like a tech company, even though all the other TV/movie home distribution companies (cable TV, satellite TV, pay per view, even physical media sales/rental, etc.) have always used advanced technology. Netflix is just the company that’s most famously associated with the introduction of the newest mainstream technology for distributing TV and movies: Internet VOD.
My company mandates Windows but Git Bash has been a backdoor into Unix tools and I've recently learned sed and awk to take full advantage of it. You need to think a bit about your one liners and they'll always feel very hacky, but sed/awk (with a bit of sort thrown in) are an amazingly powerful combination for dealing with all sorts of messy data dumps. In 10 minutes I can craft a one liner that replaces a 2 hours C# console app and runs just as fast. And, surprisingly, I often find it easier to go back months later and understand the messy looking one liner than the nicely formatted, well commented, unit tested console app.
There have been several cases of women having pregnancies after a full hysterectomy, they were pregnant at the point of the operation, the foetus is left in the body-cavity, attaches to the large bowel or other handy blood supply and does its stuff.

It strikes me that this offers a way out of the abortion conundrum, those who oppose abortion can offer their bodies as hosts for the precious foetus, women who do not wish to get their way too.

This could also involve men opposed to abortion; they would need to be castrated and have large oestrogen injections to create the right chemical environment, but a small price to pay, surely.
The software isn't malicious but the decision to use it could be driven by malicious intent . Wonder what the presidents investment portfolio looks like
Publishers definitely don't see it that way; that's mostly an extension of a myth in order to justify the piracy.

Most manga publishers will see relatively little revenue from international anime releases. Even for domestic anime releases of the vast majority of titles, the manga publisher is only a small part of the anime production committee, and the hope is mostly that popularity of the anime can lead to increased sales of the manga, merchandise, or other events. So when the anime is released internationally, they get an even smaller cut of that because the international licensee also has to take their profit.

But other than mega-hit titles where an international anime release may also lead to significant international manga sales, the popularity of an anime adaptation overseas is practically irrelevant to the original manga publisher.
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I'm not saying there aren't other valid uses, just that racism is pretty much guaranteed on a no-censorship site. It _should_ be something that we can all agree on as being "bad", even when dressed in its Sunday best from the likes of Jordan Peterson.
Oh, it would lead to a debt crisis for El Salvador. Sure. But why is that something the U.S. would want?

The original claim was the U.S. would want to “lessen the reason people use Bitcoin.” I’m pushing back on there being political will for that end.
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Authoritarian leaders and Big Tech have a lot in common
>Unfortunately you are never going to see a project with comprehensive documentation, I'm not sure what that would even look like.

It probably would look like Tex, FWIW.

Edit: I move to the bookcase to look at TeX: The Program. There it is sitting next to my volumes of TAOCP. A reminder of my failures. I can almost feel the disaproving gaze of D. E. Knuth. I'm not worthy.
Actually, a blockchain might work as the basis for a distributed email server reputation system. If every provider published their opinion of all the providers they've received emails from, it should be possible to reach a consensus about who the spammers are.

Hopefully this system would provide a useful signal even if it was only adopted by a few big mail providers, and they could pressure newly-registered mail domains to adopt it or face delivery delays. Long-established mail domains would be grandfathered in, so most providers wouldn't have to change anything.
In fact, most of the "people are dying because they're injecting themselves with horse dewormer" story can be traced back to a rolling stone article that quoted a doctor who said so. The only problem was, they actually quoted the doctor's name as well as an actual hospital he supposedly worked at - and the hospital issued a statement that that doctor neither worked there nor had they treated any Ivermectin overdoses (https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/rolling-stone-s-ive...). In other words, "people overdosing on horse dewormer" is actual misinformation... which isn't being censored.
Dumbest comment I have seen today.
Please point me to good answers on why proof of work is a reasonable way to run a currency
How about locking out the germ in the first place. And, in the second place, fire the friggin' bugger(s) who let the germ in.
It became 'plausible' based on fashion -- the evidence didn't change at all. Which is even crazier.
100% agree. Prime video is garbage through and through. I much, much prefer Netflix.

I think Benedict's larger point is correct that I might put up with shitty Prime streaming because I want to watch what's on it. But it's not a delight. No way. And in the long term, that shit matters. The joylessness creeps up on you over time, until eventually you're left with Eclipse, Windows 10, or Android scrolling. Your NPS scores fall off a cliff, you get zero word of mouth, no lines outside of stores, nobody talking about it on social media/news/etc. and then everyone acts like it's some big shock.

It's not fun!!

I think Tesla, Apple, and Netflix all really get this.
Neither is Facebook or Amazon. In fact, all three have already been moved from tech sector and into communications / consumer discretionary by economists. Google, Microsoft and Apple still qualify as tech for now.
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It is not flawed. The subject is under study, continually. The debunking comes from https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 where yes, many measures of happiness seem to increase linearly as log(income) increases. That means diminishing marginal utility of money, but it does not mean there's a cap - the relationship seems to continue at all income levels.

The main reason to believe the famous previous research was in good faith and could still miss this result is because the previous research used a measure of happiness which itself capped out, and so _could not detect_ changes in happiness after a certain level. If your instruments can't register any changes above some amount, it is no wonder your results level off and stop at that amount.

This new research could be wrong, of course. But there's no mis-summary here.
Most people wouldn't consider car companies tech companies, but they definitely do R&D and directly sell the technology that results from that inside their cars.

Probably because people don't even have a good definition of "tech". Everything we use is tech. Even books. Some of it is old, some of it is new. But people's definition of tech mostly centers around when they were born.

As a software developer, I mostly care if a company considers their software a competitive advantage. Because they're more likely to treat me well. This is also similar to how I tend to define tech companies: companies that view tech as a competitive advantage. So they aren't just buying stuff off the shelf - they're figuring things out in house, regardless of what they sell.
Mining is an industry that processes transactions and prevents double spend

Exchanges are industry that allows people to trade assets
Agreed! Love Firefox, never jumped on the Chrome bandwagon. People like to complain about Firefox/Mozilla corp. but I sure as hell trust them more than I trust Google.
Agreed. I'm always on the lookout for what are now low percentage strains. Perhaps I'm an odd ball lightweight but the current trend of ingesting as much THC as an possible in as little smoke as possible is not something I look forward to.

20+% come the fuck on...I'm not trying to make hash out of it.
>All these calls for censorship

Isn't the root problem here is the near monopoly held by god-tier corporations? Shouldn't FB/Goog have the right to moderate their content as they see fit? Shouldn't their network effect de facto monopolies be regulated so that there is room for other voices?
Hop into a Cessna RG158, and no. "Autopilot" in that case is roughly comparable to "cruise control" in a car.

Pilot a modern commercial Airbus, and almost yes[0]. Those things can literally take off, fly, and land without human intervention if all goes well, though each step is currently unconnected. They're not often called on to do that, but they can.

0. https://www.businessinsider.com/airbus-completes-autonomous-...
This varies greatly by size and age of the bank.
Sativa can give people anxiety and it can feel like a heart issue.

Pens make it easier to get a bigger hit than a normal joint dose, so take smaller puffs.
None of this really amounts to corruption; dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. Indeed your suggestion to raise taxes to fund spending sounds more like corruption to me. You get to select who has to pay more, then you get to select who gets that money. Debasing your money supply on a predictable and expected shedule over time affects all parties equally, and is actually the cornerstone of at least the major crypto currencies to date.

If anything it is certainly theft, if not outright corruption for a country to issue debt while continuing to run large budget deficits. It is theft from future generations, in exchange for votes from the current generations. Making people directly see the effect of their wish list for free shit certainly would help, but anyone who attempts it would get thrown out of office immediately by the candidate promising to borrow or print instead, and spend even more. It is the will of the people.