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by bearcobra 2mo ago
On one hand, the idea of using Microsoft’s crazy amounts of money to try to build a subscription gaming business feels like it should have been more successful than it has been. On the other, I think gaming has some distinct qualities vs TV
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by bearcobra 3mo ago
On one hand I think we should applaud when regulators target the specific issue (like noise or pollution level) vs using some other metric to achieve their desired outcome. On the other hand I don’t have a ton of faith that current administ
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by bearcobra 4mo ago
I worked in call centres for Telus and Shaw. I’m a white guy from southern Ontario. I’ve had at least 100+ calls where a customer went on a racist tirade directed at me. I think you’re underestimating how much of a role racism plays
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by bearcobra 6mo ago
Their revenue was up 22% in 2025 to over 200B. This seems like it really is being driven by AI investment
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by bearcobra 1y ago
It's really encouraging to see these kinds of success stories. I really hope people who are concerned about affordability start to view things from more of a "yes and" point of view. We can work on reducing the barriers to bu
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Do you facilitate the domain registration or do users bring their own? And if you do facilitate it, do you retain ownership of it?
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by bearcobra 1y ago
In the context of the the lack of confidence investors seem to have in Intels long term vision this makes sense but it really doesn't feel like a good sign for their future
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by bearcobra 1y ago
How have they created a monopoly? This comment is on a post about a company that charges for this data, not to mention competitors like foreca or the weather company
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Weather data is incredibly important to a huge number of activities and to the general safety of the public, which is why the government is providing it in the first place. Debt to fund it is almost certain to economically productive. The r
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Companies can and do offer data for a fee. In the same way that private toll road existing doesn't mean we should get rid of the highway system, a paid option doesn't mean the government should stop providing a publicly funded opt
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by bearcobra 1y ago
I'm deeply worried about the number of people I see online who don't understand what Vanguard (or Blackrock, State Street, etc.) do and develop conspiracy theories instead. I think it presents a real risk for ETFs going into the f
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Being able to navigate back within the page history of a tab is the major reason I keep them open
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Growing up in Vermont, this was clearly written before Red Sox fandom took over
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by bearcobra 1y ago
I can see parts of Virginia not feeling culturally like a lot of the rest of the south but I’m still intrigued by the use of yankee. Like is someone from Wyoming a yankee because they aren’t from the south or is it more cultural to you?
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Is it common to refer to Virginians as being Yankees? Growing up in New England I would have assumed they’d avoid the term by being in the Confederacy
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by bearcobra 1y ago
It's a mix of believing that news has value and I should support that and actually enjoying the product. The NYTimes has done a pretty great job of expanding the scope of the offering to make it really valuable to me. Others like the G
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Your point on competition is a good one. I find the news interesting, but watching a TikTok is a much easier way to find out what's going on. Not to mention the competition in my feeds to show me the craziest thing that happened in Aus
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Fundamentally, I think laws like this miss the mark on what the actual problem facing news publishers is. Obviously Meta/Google shouldn't be allowed to scrape a large portion of an article and display it for users without compens
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by bearcobra 1y ago
What is confusing about it? Trademarks are there so consumers aren’t being misled in the market and not getting the thing they expect. It’s annoying that you had to come up with a different brand, but it’s pretty understandable that Basecam
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by bearcobra 1y ago
I think this still increases the risk of an individual falling for a scam. If the official press releases are happening there, it's not crazy for a senior to think other communication might as well.
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by bearcobra 1y ago
I’m curious how you’d define advertising. Is it just something applied to another form of media? Would you count an end cap at the super market? Does the McDonald’s logo on the big sign you can see from the highway count? Or the coke machin
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Yes? Unfortunately others can communicate to us without our consent. That could be ads or someone writing you a postcard, or yelling on a street corner. All of those can influence us and not all of them are welcome but I don’t think it’s re
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Why would free trade eliminate trade deficits? The United States is incredibly wealthy and its citizens and companies can buy more than poorer countries. Not to mention all the other factors that exist in global trade. The belief that trade
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by bearcobra 1y ago
Save a ton on the legal department if you don’t have to worry about being convicted of fraud /s
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by bearcobra 2y ago
Biden's ability to enforce the law seems to be pretty constrained given the amount of time left in his term. Like asking Garland to start a prosecution isn't exactly practical. I think it's also worth noting that TikTok was c
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by bearcobra 2y ago
Yeah, I think that's bad. Some level of prosecutorial discretion is obviously needed but furthering a state of affairs where laws are meaningless depending on if you have the favor of the executive is dangerous. The checks and balances
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by bearcobra 2y ago
I think this is different. I generally feel like executive orders are 1) used to take some kind of affirmative step that the dysfunction in congress is blocking 2) have some level of defensible legal theory. This feels like the opposite. My
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by bearcobra 2y ago
Despite my own feelings on the ban, this kind of royal court politics is the worst potential outcome. Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority, signed into law by the president and ruled on by the supreme courts feels lik
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by bearcobra 2y ago
Even Lego has struggled to keep making Mindstorm sets unfortunately
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by bearcobra 2y ago
This feels like the kind of article that will confuse folks into more confirmation bias. The claim doesn't even seem to be that Meta/Alphabet are the ones doing it, but a totally separate advertising company who would have no cont

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