Just wondering if the players will feel better with fake followers and likes? Maybe a computer can keep up with them, unless "AI" becomes Artificial Indifference...

Except the AmazonBasics USB cables and microwaves and car chargers that catch fire: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10...

Well, I think the title sums it up...

Unlike many Darwin Award winners, who took themselves out of the gene pool rapidly and quite often spectacularly - these people are going to suffer for days or even weeks until they finally succumb. It makes me sad.

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This will be used to profile people based on their politics, to stifle political speech, and potentially to track and punish people based on their views.

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.

The original Windows NT had the concept of protected mode subsystems, so it could handle NT, DOS and OS/2 binaries. Similarly, it should be able to handle POSIX as an equal partner to any of the other subsystems. I suspect that OS/2 is no longer supported.

It was a pretty cool idea and I think they could have taken it a lot further.

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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.

Sabre might have been the largest travel reservations company, but it's not in any way the *main* system. Amadeus is considerably larger, and there are a couple of other competitors.

Companies must cooperate with subpoenas / watchlists / etc, and all all proud that they do. I was working at Sabre when 9/11 happened and things moved very quickly to supply as much information as we could to the government agencies that rightfully needed it.

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The core Sabre system runs on IBM's z/TPF operating system and is largely written in assembler, with some components in C. It has never been COBOL and never been CICS. A lot of the newer components are on Linux, but the core still is on the mainframe.

Source - I was the chief architect of their airline hosting business for a few years and worked for AA / Sabre for 25+ years.

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.

Yes! Give me a hard limit of 80 character lines and I'll show you a bunch of 3-letter variable names!

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