This is the context which should have been added to the blurb IMHO. Over the course of 2021, Google was doing ~5.6B per day.

While 2.5B in a year is admirable, particularly because competition in the search space is incredibly important; Brave isn't even making a dent.

They're not inexpensive in the least (an S90 starts at 52K) and are quite comparable in price to BMW and Mercedes. I am not claiming those are 'rich person's toys' but there are plenty of folks who make good money and are driving them.

1. Netflix used to have popular movies and TV shows that were either more prominent (unsearchable/algorithmically curated view is NOT advantageous) or simply are no longer available due to planning or competition from other services.

2. HBO Max is absolutely destroying Netflix (and other services) in quality content--both created as well as curated.

3. HBO Max started coming 'free' with my mobile phone plan whereas Netflix is raising its prices and offering me less quality content.

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I realize it's not an easy solution on the content side, but there are other opportunities for Netflix to really make a dent in their losses, but for whatever reason they're just not doing it.

You're not wrong; however, no company is completely faultless in the asshole category. Roku is trying to squeeze more money out of their platform, including through monetization of their customers.

While I have no doubt Google is pulling shit, Roku is no better and we shouldn't believe a word they push out when they are in platform contract negotiations like this. It's not the first time Roku has been in this situation and it won't be the last.

I think the difference is that the source material in Sin City was also for adults. With the exception of quasi-canonical stuff like the Injustice games, ZSJL is much more violent than most of the original source material.

"Sadly Rails documentation doesn't warn you about this pitfall, but if you know anything at all about using SQL databases in web applications, you'd have heard of SQL injection, and it's not hard to come across warnings that find_by_sql method is not safe," Dmitry Borodaenko, a former production engineer at Facebook who brought the commit to my attention wrote in an email. "It is not 100% confirmed that this is the vulnerability that was used in the Gab data breach, but it definitely could have been, and this code change is reverted in the most recent commit that was present in their GitLab repository before they took it offline." Ironically, Fosco in 2012 warned fellow programmers to use parameterized queries to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities.

So, this was the vulnerability, unless maybe it wasn't the vulnerability, because we don't know.

Also, Rails documentation absolutely does warn you about the ">pitfalls of using find_by_sql indiscriminately:

Ruby on Rails has a built-in filter for special SQL characters, which will escape ' , " , NULL character, and line breaks. Using Model.find(id) or Model.find_by_some thing(something) automatically applies this countermeasure. But in SQL fragments, especially in conditions fragments (where("...")), the connection.execute() or Model.find_by_sql() methods, it has to be applied manually.

Not arguing this method works; it does. Just know that Affiliate marketing tactics are generally a SUPER small portion of a marketing budget (1% or smaller in many cases)--because they don't really work all that well to do anything except attract new customers for a one-time purchase.

It also tends to do well only with retail marketing, because you aren't going to get promo codes for other types of businesses. There are many different types of marketing which go above and beyond the limited scope of retail.

WSJ: You wrote that value or creative worth shouldnâ(TM)t be measured by time and that youâ(TM)ve never paid attention to the hours people are working. Yet many people at Netflix describe it as a 24/7 lifestyle. Does the lack of work-life balance or potential for burnout concern you?

Mr. Hastings: Coming back to the athletics, think about a coachâ(TM)s view: Itâ(TM)s not how many hours you spend in the gym, but how well you play. But if youâ(TM)re going to play at an elite level, youâ(TM)re probably in the gym quite a bit. Itâ(TM)s just not the goal state. The goal state is the effectiveness.

He has the capability to change his thinking, as he's proven in the past, but he really needs to get on the ball and fast if he wants to keep his 'great sports team' analogy.

Maybe before 2016 but it's been the same experience since. I have absolutely 0 problems using it and I deal in data.

School is 10 miles away as the crow flies and there's no busing from our neighborhood. They're 8 and 10. How do you suppose I teach them to get home?

I'm not scared but what you said just isn't always practical.

I enjoy some of the theaters which have responded favorably to in-home theatres.

1. There's a local theatre that runs newish and old movies together on a single screen. They have real buttered popcorn. The movie prices are appropriate to what I want to pay ($5/adult).

2. Marcus Theatres has a local theatre which is smaller than the AMC, has much better seating, allows purchase online w/o fees, and has food and beer.

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The AMC theatre in town is dirty, the employees surly, and it's fucking expensive for old-school seats. My money goes to Marcus if I'm really interested in the first-run major experience. AMC is a dinosaur in the market and this accelerated their inevitable death for not keeping up with the market.

Do people pay for multiple streaming services? If so, why? I cut TV out in 2008 and used Netflix until last year when we got Disney+ instead. People should continue moving away from TV and into other options; otherwise, they win.

Note: I don't consider Amazon a streaming TV service fee and use it, especially now, for almost all of my shopping as well as music streaming.