mwguy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In theory that's what we had in the VHS days. But I hear you. Piracy today is a superior product in almost any scenario.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No offense. But if it's truly a money problem, the studios have nothing to loose by you pirating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's easier to sell ending oil subsidies rather than raising gas taxes. Ending corporate subsidies has broad support among Americans.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's always fascinated me that companies who understand their core value proposition of their business can be so fucked up in so many other ways and still succeed.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Piracy is a service problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is like a Trainwreck. I can't look away!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can we instead remove oil subsidies?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is your user tagged as banned?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy money ending too quickly caused the First Republic collapse. Not the other way around. The Fed did a half a decade of rate hikes in a year.

Feb '22 rates were 0.08% by Feb '23 they were 4.57%. A 5700% increase in 12 months. First Republic collapsed on May '23.

An aggressive but responsible rate increase of 0.25% per quarter would have taken only 4 years to implement but would likely have led to zero bank failures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll find us soon

Thanos with Restructured Text and Sphinx

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

IBM is the poster child for never considering the long term effects of its actions. At one point or another in history, IBM was the #1 company making software, databases, managed compute, personal computers, servers, Unix, laptop computers, servers.

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