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Full $44M budget breakdown for The Interview by Seth Rogen (2013) [pdf]

cocacola1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/bonus/1/Password/The%20Interview%20Budget%20Final%2010_10_13.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479720

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cocacola1 in "U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets"

cocacola1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:35:40 +0000

He’s definitely a conservative.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

cocacola1 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:32:10 +0000

I know this comes up a lot, but if that were the case, they would’ve just waited for the split and bought the networks division.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

cocacola1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:40:29 +0000

Only to those of a particular political persuasion. Every group has their own shorthand.

New comment by cocacola1 in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

cocacola1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:09:52 +0000

Seems like a clear cut case of jawboning.

MAGA's March Toward a Command Economy

cocacola1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:01:55 +0000

Article URL: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/magas-march-toward-command-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980018

Points: 29

# Comments: 11

New comment by cocacola1 in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

cocacola1 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:14:17 +0000

Not really. The Supreme Court believes some rulings to be wrong the day they were decided:

> “The dissent’s reference to Korematsu, however, affords this Court the opportunity to make express what is already obvious: *Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided*, has been overruled in the court of history, and to be clear ‘has no place in law under the Constitution,’” Roberts said, quoting Justice Jackson’s 1944 dissent.

New comment by cocacola1 in "The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off the Most Successful Operation of the War"

cocacola1 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:37:14 +0000

> I think we're past the point of one side is better than the other.

This is just demonstrably untrue.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

cocacola1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:54:09 +0000

Distinction without a difference, but it’s 3/5.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Dow futures sink 1,300 points after Trump defends tariffs as 'medicine' to fix"

cocacola1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:25:38 +0000

Sounds Great.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers"

cocacola1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:27:07 +0000

Apparently he ended up going to Yale instead.

New comment by cocacola1 in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

cocacola1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:53:34 +0000

Might boost their subs. This legit got me to resubscribe to the Atlantic.

New comment by cocacola1 in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

cocacola1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:56:57 +0000

New comment by cocacola1 in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

cocacola1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:25:56 +0000

I’m sort of surprised Democrats haven’t snapped yet.

New comment by cocacola1 in "'The cone people have gone too far': Chaos is brewing on SF's Billionaires' Row"

cocacola1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:42:19 +0000

> “The cone people have gone too far”

Let there be a day that I can use this gem in a real conversation.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

cocacola1 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:01:43 +0000

Moreover, from my POV, “woke” is often pronounced with a hard R.

New comment by cocacola1 in "RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services"

cocacola1 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:43:04 +0000

Adults are usually blamed for children’s actions, so this tracks.

New comment by cocacola1 in "[dead]"

cocacola1 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:28:34 +0000

Not nearly enough. We need insight on what they’ve done with data they already got.

New comment by cocacola1 in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

cocacola1 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:25:02 +0000

Not being informed doesn’t even give you the option to consider getting involved.

New comment by cocacola1 in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

cocacola1 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:00:07 +0000

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/illusory-truth-effect