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I suspect country level licensing, soundcloud I sometimes seen songs "not available in your country" or something along those lines

Yes mostly about this. I can't use SoundCloud (or Spotify) in Serato DJ Pro to connect and play songs, not available in my country. But Apple Music connected, so moving my archive there.

Probably the point is to think whether the horse or chess engine analogy is a good one. The premise being there will come a certain point when technology reaches a level that makes the alternative obselete suddenly. I don't have good reasons to think that AI will not be able to automate simple jobs with an acceptable error rate eventually, once that happens whole categories of jobs will evaporate. Probably dealing with more people type job, making excel models, transactions based, same thing day in day out, those teams may be gone and only a person or two to do a final review

not really a game but check out AI Village by aidigest, where LLMs work together to achieve goals with a computer, the stuff they/say do can be pretty amusing

To be fair it's a lambo, not the pinnacle of maintainability or self repairable

You don't see reduced competiton? HBO Max and Netflix are director competitors, post acqusition Netflix no longer had to compete hard with shows like Succession. The expanded catalog makes it even harder for smaller streamers to compete.

On sports rights Netflix no longer has to bid and compete with HBO, and same story having a bigger live sport inventory.

This is not unlike consolidation of food distributors where the end up wielding strong pricing power, farmers have fewer options to sell to and restaurants have few options to buy from. The middleman profits.

But yeah Netflix will probably spin off Cable


> HBO Max and Netflix are director competitors

I disagree. Spotify and YouTube Music are competitors, because I can switch freely between them, and expect more or less the same catalog. HBO and Netflix are supplementary and many will just get both, because switching from one to the other makes no sense. For example I can't watch Star Trek on HBO and the rights deals made with the studios ensure that I'll never be able to watch it one both.

Assuming that Netflix, Disney, Paramount and HBO where competing, then why aren't pricing at rock bottom? There's zero competition and removing HBO won't change a damn thing, other than removing one subscription for a large number of people (potentially).


Then they lobby Trump who threatens the country with tariffs

Don't think this works anymore as much

Age aside, not sure what Zuck was thinking, seeing as Scale AI was in data labelling and not training models, perhaps he thought he was a good operator? Then again the talent scarcity is in scientists, there are many operators, let alone one worth 14B. Back to age, the people he is managing are likely all several years older than him and Meta long timers, which would make it even more challenging

your comment actually made me think about this, cloudflare hasn't actually turned full monopolist... yet, their generous free tier has led to monopoly like market share but the pain society feels is when they go down, they haven't turned the screw to make monopoly (or hyperscaler) profits

They and Prince may never go that way, as someone who occasionally picked SaaS/infra stocks, the ratio of their market share/customers metrics to revenues/profit vs other peers was always on the low side (haven't look at their numbers in a while tho)


Some parallels to gmail, which similarly rose to dominance by offering a free tier that was leagues above what everyone else was offering. They were also hailed as the savior, followed by a period of disillusionment. Now plenty of competitors have caught up with almost-as-good free offerings, but the world is still much more centralized than it was before

People forget about the time when they stood up yo patent trolls. I'm no fan boy but it is just interesting...

Insane hyperbole here, this guy's adblock = risking humanity losing it's 2nd most important platform owned by one of the most profitable companies in the world

OpenAI thought of it first, should YouTube get a government backstop too?


Where is Asia? I travel there often for work and have never come across such a layout


It is the large landmass covering about half of the northern hemisphere.


I get the joke on OP's typo for is/in, but even then you answered "what" instead of OP's "where".


It’s miscommunication all the way down


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