Comment Amateur radio (Score 1) 320
Talk about something more useful, then put amateur radios into cars...
Talk about something more useful, then put amateur radios into cars...
I'm in my 40s and in a leadership role at my company; I refuse to use or accept business cards from anyone and have for more than 20 years. There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, that anyone should use them in 2022.
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.
What is
Hype.
"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."
Ah yes, the disgusting and false refuge of Chinese (and Russian) apologists and propagandists to the worst abuses of authoritarians: âoethe US does it too.â
These abuses are not âoeallegedâ; they are happening, and they are not based on dubious âoeresearchesâ [sic]:
https://www.propublica.org/art...
There is a genocide happening in Xinjiang; one that is erasing an entire culture, language, religion, and history of a people.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.
The study, published in the journal Science, found four phases of metabolic life:
"It is a picture we've never really seen before and there is a lot of surprises in it," one of the researchers, Prof John Speakman, from the University of Aberdeen, said.
"The most surprising thing for me is there is no change throughout adulthood — if you are experiencing mid-life spread you can no longer blame it on a declining metabolic rate."
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.
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.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
