That's like putting your whole savings in bitcoins and saying its fine, it keeps going up.

In 2022 they brought in a gross profit of 2.63B, that is after their costs. That is 2.63B taken from their customers for no better reason than being a middle man. The fact that they spend more than that per year in advertisement/administration to generate a net loss is beside the point.

Go back not even 15 years ago and 7$/month (5$ in 2007 money) would get you a crappy 5-10 channel package on cable TV and it was riddled with ads. Production value of the shows on those channels was not even close to what we have today. On top of that you didn't get to choose what you wanted to watch, you just got what you got.

Sure, let's talk about the assistant that rests in my garage spying on me whenever I sometimes go there.... but not a word about Apple and Google sitting in my pocket every day of my life spying on me and my whereabouts every single moment of my waking hours.

As far as I know credit cards let you buy now, and pay later. The time frame in which they start charging you might be shorter (1 month) but in some cases they still jack you for 18% afterwards. I wouldn't be surprised if Visa/Mastercard are behind the lobbying to "regulate" BNPL services since it cuts into their profit.

I wasn't surprised to see this piece of "journalism" comes from bloomberg. They conveniently spout out negative articles on a company ad nauseum, driving share prices down, until they can buy in at a discount then they move on to the next company in their sight. I'm actually surprised they even require a subscription, I guess it makes them appear more legit.

The fact that it is that far behind Tesla's valuation is the crazy part in my book. Sure it is all speculation at this point but with starlink which will revolutionize internet accessibility and if they can achieve what they want with starship, it will revolutionize space access, there is NO WAY this shouldn't be worth 10x Tesla. You can bet if I was able to, I'd buy shares.

I haven't ditched firefox yet but I'm about to. The only reason is the performance on some graphically intensive websites. For example, gaiagps.com is barely usable on firefox but runs like a charm on chrome.

"Ted Sarandos, speaking at a Paley Center for Media event, said that Disney (DIS) is "bound by" its content universes"

The fact that they are milking franchises that currently are profitable implies they are bound by them? What is stopping Disney from creating new franchises? Or is that the realm of Netflix only? Sounds to me that Mr. Sarandos is scared of what is going on. Disney has a TON of cult franchises that they can milk and the capacity to create a lot more. It is just a matter of time before netflix's market share drops and eventually gets bought out by disney.

I've read about and wish these mRNA vaccines are the real deal but what I have a hard time getting over is that both BioNTech and Moderna have been in business for 10-12 years and none have produced anything that went further than phase 1 up until now. I know we need this vaccine asap and that a moderate risk is preferable to leaving the virus rampant but I still have this uneasy feeling that we're rushing into a tech that hasn't been proven and might bite back at the worst of times.

I was a huge user of Skype for years and made sure it was implemented in my workplace. Today, it is the complete opposite, I hate it with a passion. Here are my reasons:

- Incessant and unnecessary updates. As a work tool, I really don't need to update a collaboration software every week or even twice a week. Sure, if it's a privacy or security issue, warn me that an update is needed. If not, you can just let me know once every 6-12 months.
- Everyone that I know that uses Skype uses it for text / video calls with history. That's it, nothing else. It was doing that fine in the original versions, stop trying to shove useless features that are not requested or needed.
- For a "simple" text / video chat application, it shouldn't take gigs of ram and a decent amount of cpu at idle (I've seen 15% in the tray, minized). There is no way you can coat this. It should be ~100MBs tops (and I'm generous) and a flat 0% cpu, I'll even allow 2% usage while its open.
- It should not for ANY reason use ports 80 or 443 by default (which it does)
- The whole windows 10 apps debacle... We had Skype for desktop, then windows 10 came around and apps were all the craze, they created a Skype app, tried to move the whole user base to it, which I unfortunately did, losing all previous chat history. Then months later, they told us the app wasn't working out and said we should move back to Skype desktop? Yet again losing history.

How does the saying goes? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I was out the door at that point.

I bet some environmentalist will come up with the idea that we're somehow responsible for that rip in the heliosphere.