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by BXlnt2EachOther 1y ago
YouTube gives, I think, 55% of revenue (not just profits) to creators, which could be considered similar to production costs making up a majority of expenses.
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by BXlnt2EachOther 1y ago
Since it's a reconciliation bill, is this likely to make it past the "Byrd bath"? It's looped in with a $500M AI modernization fund but my simplified understanding is that items not related to budget can be challenged an
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by BXlnt2EachOther 1y ago
also, the pacing of: "I hope, considering your [pause to check personnel file] over nineteen years of service to the firm you will understand that these measures are in no way a reflection of the firm's feelings towards your perfo
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by BXlnt2EachOther 1y ago
At the unveiling it was promised to start at $39,900, just under $50k in today's dollars. Yes, that was for a base model that wasn't produced, but we are a long way from the promised stats on the upper trim. Promised to be under $
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
yes, the headline is getting ahead of things without the context of the trial. It is not correct -- at least not yet -- that Google "will have to break up its business." This is a DOJ filing for the remedies trial happening this
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
possible context... summoning from NY to LA around January 2018 was a real promise by Musk. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920 edit: removed talk of downvotes, just providing the tweet.
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Ars says "people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that top antitrust officials are planning to ask the court..." they do some investigation further down but I thought this amount of telephone was amusing for a memo that is
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
others too > Sources have also informed MusicTech that Future will be closing Computer Music, Total Guitar, Guitar Techniques and Guitar Player magazines.
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
possibly unpopular opinion, I trust the bigger companies more than small ones on stuff like this. It would be so much easier to not offer anything, rather than intentionally create a potemkin setting and risk the blowback that would occur i
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
If Alphabet/Waymo leadership were more theatrical... I wonder if the Tesla event delay could have given them time to expand 3 miles up the 101, across the Cahuenga Pass, so they could offer fully-autonomous Waymo rides through LA traff
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Front ports: 2 USB‑C, headphone Back ports: 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports (Thunderbolt 5 on the top $1399 tier), HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet RAM can be upgraded to 32GB on M4, to 64GB on M4 Pro 10 GbE looks selectable on any of these, +$100
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
There might be more to this than Google bypassing the site. Quote from a rep was added to the article: "We’re always experimenting with different ways to connect our users with high-quality and helpful information. We have partnered wi
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Microsoft obtained a patent for this around the Kinect time, sounded a little dystopian back then but I don't think it was ever used? https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-patents-tech-tha...
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Yes, the multi-year discount and perpetual license are nice -- though the version is the one from the start of the year but that's certainly better than a lot of peers. I was impressed that when Jetbrains raised prices, it seemed a rea
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Variation on "have seen" - a couple examples of historically expensive software that became accessible: Over time DaVinci Resolve went from a hardware-software system costing $X00,000 to having a software-only version for $1500 in
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
there are many stats from many sources, probably with varying accuracy. And please keep in mind since it's financial, many of them will be trying to sell you things. There's also a difference between retirement savings and net wor
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
oops, thanks for the warning, I didn't actually check any from that page, just remembered that it existed :( yep, some do need to be marked discontinued, like "baby yoda" some do work here but I'm on Chrome without too m
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=cat or https://www.google.com/search?q=dog then click the paw then click around the page edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
IIRC I did get a roadblock attaching a zip file with GMail several years ago. GMail also complained about direct-attaching a locally-built, unsigned exe file to an address that I'd never corresponded with. To be fair this probably sho
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
That doesn't seem to be most people's experience, see sibling posts. As another data point, I have several manually-uploaded zip and 7z files of my own documents and content, both encrypted and not, and never had a problem. The ma
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
IIRC they have improved the free plan over time, and even mailed users suggesting the relaxed limits might enable moving from paid to free tier [1]. I barely use my tailnet now, might have more of a case for it later, but they are near the
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Second half of the headline, possibly cut for length? "—and fire them if the answer is no" Which escalates things from how I initially read it! I know many companies have an eligible for re-hire bit and at least a couple of the FA
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
rosebud.mp3? To grandparent post, Buddy Holly might have been on 98, I'm not sure, but was on the 95 CD along with a trailer to the movie "Rob Roy" and a couple other videos. Might have been different across regions, I'
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
> Great idea! Of course Google, as other BigTech companies was coherced to implement it mainly due to GDPR restrictions I don't think this can be correct. Takeout was released June 28, 2011. GDPR was passed April 14, 2016 and went i
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
Off-topic comment to urge any LastPass users before Sept 16 2022 to please look into parent post's link. LastPass said accounts deleted before June 21 2022 were not affected if that's still up to date. If I understand: Attackers g
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
I'm not an iPhone user and not aware of any anti-spam features the Mail app already has, but I wonder how many marketing managers recoiled in their chairs when Apple introduced a GMail-style "promotions" folder away from the
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
it looks like all similar/recent trials were already bench trials[1]. That is not to express that such trials should or should not be tried by jury. "Unlike all the other recent cases federal and state governments have brought aga
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
> How long before the M-word starts being thrown around? The US government at least mentioned "antitrust" 2 days ago, which could count depending on one's interpretation of various stages of these investigations. More disc
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
> They couldn't get Johansson so they set out to find something similar and found it. > So what? You can't just do that though. There's at least two cases of legal precedent where companies had to pay out millions to ar
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by BXlnt2EachOther 2y ago
considering the layoff announcements from the last two years, CEOs "taking responsibility" seems to be a no-op most of the time anyway :) This would make for interesting shareholder meetings... "Yes thank you for taking my qu

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