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Spot on, my boy. A lot of folks see this as a consumable like music and should be a free commodity. I akin this to free music for download and the death of an industry. A NEW industry popped up and gave us streaming music and there was no longer a need to OWN music. Artists were also given tools to expand their music on every platform w/ very little investment.

The shared resource thing, is just Netflix turning a blind eye, because their business model worked for a time and allowed this to happen. Now that DVDs are all but dead, this was the next logical business revenue model that needed a revamp.

How can anyone blame Netflix for FIXING a loss leader in their business line(s)? We all run and work for start-ups .. its the natural progression of finances at scale.

Well, the Netflix content is not going to get any less palatable because their business model works.

Some folks run businesses that succeed, other ran (past tense) start-ups that failed.

Unfortunately, the lasting affect will be a net positive, because sometimes you have to just be the adult and say loosing money isn't an option. I would like to call this shedding the college weight, and firing 80% of the work force, because the business will die otherwise in the case of Twitter.

Would you rather run a business with much higher ROI with a small user base and run a lean business, or a fat business with super scale data but bleeding out money? I'm not sure I get the argument against this.

So basically they saved money on streaming bills, reduced "ghost" numbers from the bottom line, and maintained probably about the same level of equity.

What's the problem here?

After replacing the head unit in my Tacoma, I couldn't live my life w/o the modern amenities with Apple CarPlay, TBH. I drive my wife's Nissan and just so let down on the interface of early Rogues .. but at least the entire setup now comes up in a 2020 we drive. Anyway ... GM is shooting themselves in the foot on this one.

I think GM (and most car manufacturers) miss out on the partnerships with such players like Apple and Google entirely to extend their OS reach and ubiquity. The SYNERGY could be a billion dollar package add-on. What also puzzles me was why Tesla never bought Apple or vis versa. The UI/UX fast-track in such an endeavor would be mind boggling.

Way to cast aside the population most likely to buy your EV. I guess they aren't looking at their data.

Sounds like someone had some money in FTX! After seeing all the social media influencers pushing the product and services, absolutely love this list.

The cooperative group think can be ... absolutely terrible, and having someone who is delivery to this level of scrutiny in a check-list style is probably the best I've seen in a long time.

philosophy -> math -> computer science -> engineering.

That's the traditional hierarchy from an educational perspective on one end to the other, as far as I visualize it.

Everything has to start in the brain and be cognitively teased out to become the [math] part. The traditional scientific method then realizes it within the scope of the math foundation, that then in my world gets manifested into a software realization that can do mechanical things, and then it drives the physics and rubber-meets-road physical texture of it all. The realization of science always starts with a cognitive idea and general philosophy of one's ability.

As Sheldon would say, "I have a general working knowledge of everything in the Universe."

I don't think they intentionally tried to kill the industry, as it was foreign production didn't have this problem of unions. Also the Japanese during the 70s had a lean six sigma type thing going on.

Little more complicated than Unions I think, that lead to the point we were at.

Ya, that keystroke monitoring software that the young lady talked about was rather cringe.

I'm not really sure how to comment on a Union in 2023, to be frank. The history of collective bargaining is such an abstract concept to fight for, when most of the crowd here is all about power-of-one and force multipliers of disruption to create and generate revenue for new markets. By proxy, it's very definition of capitalism is realized almost making Unions irrelevant.

However, if anyone here has listening to https://www.audible.com/pd/Elon-Musk-Audiobook/B00UX8ODPM?qi... (Tesla's book by Ashley Vance), then you know about the Union busting that Elon did at the plant they purchased from Toyota.

I have no dog in this fight, but the way the Tesla plant has drained over $750M in tax payer dollars in breaks by the local IDA, the continued "quota" employment numbers and diversity promises, the Panasonic solar city borderline criminal activity, and lastly the equipment in the plant left unused and sold off at pennies of its worth just burns me.

Tesla feels like an absent landlord in Texas. As a resident of Buffalo - it doesn't surprise me, and frustrates me. However, as a capitalist and watching how Elon worked the state and federal government for loans/grants in the 100s of millions of dollars, makes me look on in awe.

Local news - https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/tesla-employees-anno...

I'm still trying to find a reliable boots-on-ground in people's face news journalism. Anyone have boots on group stuff?

What you do with the results is a legal argument after the fact. It's like saying we give you food, but you can't store the poop. Honestly - there is a house of cards just waiting to be challenged. Then again .. this is Google ($$$)

Total newb on the outside looking in, any primers on this stuff?

Honestly, sounds like a "drain the swamp" type event, to put it bluntly.

I'll be honest, at this price point I'd just snag a Boosted Board and get on with my life. Way less effort and like 50% cheaper in some configurations.

Sorry, no win. They look awkward like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk forward.

The trend towards 0-configuration VPNs though make it totally compelling to just port your traffic home. I'm not trying to be a fan-boi, but I want ALL my traffic off the network of snoop. I'm just going to go out there and say Ubuiti and Teleport with WifiMan on phone/tablets/computers and 0 config bar codes, I mean its ALMOST frictionless for my family to do this setup once its going.

I least try to do this while we travel and are out of network range. How do people feel about this?

Not necessarily a bad thing, TBH. Think of it like our Senate in the US. The Senate is a longer view, while the House is the shorter populous public-opinion. Not sure of the Parliamentary influences, but someone who was as respected and revered in an status where one COULD get the longest view on staff (so to say) - why not?

Honestly, I think the US populous really feels the same about this but from the perspective our history. On the other side of the coin, is the UK has been one of longest running allies in the world with a common history born out of the womb of war. The romantic nature of nobility runs from a far, without the struggles of having the institution in that format - though some would argue we do, but in the oligarchy of wealth. I need not go further, as it treads that fine line.

I myself, am in agreement however. If governance of the UK would modernize, the removal of generational status like what a monarch represents would be a step in the right direction. Why one would do that, and loose the history in the process? Not sure if the UK populous is ready for that, since its still a beloved part of the country and outwardly is a hallmark of the country's brand.

I digress. I am probably just speaking ill of the dead to some, but just glad to be in the US for our representation structure of legislation and executive by proxy. Direct Democracy is the red headed step child of mob rule, and I'm content to not have that either.

I'd say that the technical books are a bit of a stretch, as most things in tech and entropy of their usefulness like apps over time, break.

I might suggest something more above the free of technology and more in the design of software. Ideas that last are the ones around approaches to design vs. actually technology that they are implemented with.

My co-worker (a younger version of me, actually and way smarter is wise beyond his years) gave me this book - which is as old as my career and has relevance on how we design software at my day job.

https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complex...

A bit of extreme ownership in the same vein as Jocko Willink is inspirational. It's not a reward or ego contest, when you have to open up and be humble about leadership and admission as such - so, critics will be on both sides of the judgement and the reporting.

I myself believe in being humble and honest to a fault, so I'm more sympathetic in this case.

Either way, strive to be better and hey .. humanity is a b*tch sometimes.

I'd tend to agree with this sentiment, since tin-foil hat pundits rarely understand the nature of research that is in the last decade, let alone the last month. Sort of sad really, but unfortunate nature of our news cycles.

This goes both ways, because patents are important. However, after talking to George many times as I watched his company grow with the SF proof of funzies in autonomous driving and DefCon pokes - the guy will not [quit] when he's squarely on the war path.

Get 'em, GH.

I'm 45+ and headed into the 50s was so scary, I am headed off to get an MBA to future proof my income a little before I die off in coding because of cognitive ability escapes me on remembering more than 3,945 places of pi.

The one thing that's tough working at a start-up is trying to convince those who (of the same age) that you can indeed lead more than your co-developers in something more than a dev/project meeting. I saw literally 3 promotions pass me by, most likely because of the perception that at my age if I hadn't started my own company/become a corporate C-suite leader/done it by now I couldn't.

Thing is, I can feel I can do everything UP to the CTO level of work - naturally, given the chance. At least I got them to give me a raise to equate to the level of paying for my education I'm taking on at my age.

Regardless, at least now I can have the chops, the cohort network, and hopefully if we exit - the money to have the last laugh.

Revenge is only bitter sweet if you can execute on it by being a better shark in the water that knows a few tricks the young lads (and lasses) don't have.

Here's a legit question - what is single driving factor for increases in substance abuse? Asking for a friend.

The real estate industry is a closed looped system, and because its monopolistic, anti-free market, and dealing with a finite product that simply trades hands its golden age was done after the great expansion of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican Treaties of 1848.

This a foundational industry that pitted the upstate New Yorkers and the agrarian Virginians against Alexander Hamilton at almost every corner of his life in the establishment of free markets disruptions with the Bank of New York and later the Department of Treasury.

Disruption can be seen in vertical markets of big cities and land creation like that of China in the South China Sea with man-made islands and expansion of territorial rights, but outside of that it's golden age is gone and the taxation will only become more intrusive for programs as our populous grows and the need to extract support for the expansion from the adult working class is through taxation.

Hopefully this isn't rambling, but rather insight into how perverse the market has become because of no more land, and way more people.

What's great about the Constitution and legislation of fair and equitable treatment of others, it has scales of economy always considered.

It's like you can party, just don't party SO hard it irritates your neighbors. :)

I really like the context here and thanks for sharing something I almost did before I saw your post.

Basically - yes.

If you are using other platforms for exposure or expression, then you are the product of that platform. If you can drive traffic to your blog for whatever reason you would like to, then it becomes more of a value prop depending on motivations.

I can't be more constructive, then asking why its worth it than freedom of expression and monetization through content generation.