How did that ever get approved? The person who wanted them fired is an asshole, that's given but this is multiple failures. So sad. It's just one employee let them take their leave, it's not worth the legal and now PR repercussions

This helped me when I used to dally, but assuming you are salaried, finishing your day in 50% less time means your effective hourly wage goes up as much

Not OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway

This is standard negotiation tactic (alluded to also in the article), suggest a bailout which is the massive over-ask and then walk back to something more reasonable like light touch regulation. OAI says fine no bailout but thanks for the government favours.

Based on comments in here and people willing to pay I wonder why they haven't got the Wikipedia route of getting donations, would that piss off a lot of users? I do think most people would understand a non-profit needs donations.

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).