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New comment by toymin in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

toymin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:08:15 +0000

It's interesting that you bring up Netflix. While their initial offering of having a good selection of movies in one subscription was very attractive, their expansion and eventual entry to public stock market caused it to be pretty much synonymous with "slop" in TV and movie circles, which I think makes a very good case that "big production studio" != "good quality productions".

Warner Bros specifically, while still a very large studio, has been relatively generous with funding more risky movies, and there is a lot of warranted caution that this consolidation is going to result in streamlining everything into taking as few risks as possible and aiming for broadest appeal and highest possible gross margins, which is a terrible thing for anything that could be considered art.

New comment by toymin in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

toymin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:28:23 +0000

> Who cares?

People who like movies, presumably

New comment by toymin in "The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized"

toymin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:07:48 +0000

https://archive.is/UVfe0

New comment by toymin in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

toymin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:14:53 +0000

> A visa allows you entry

That's incorrect, holding a B1/B2 US visa only allows you to arrive at the port of entry, the actual permission to enter the country is always left to the border officer interviewing you

New comment by toymin in "OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination"

toymin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:12:23 +0000

> Beiermeister started at OpenAI in mid-2024 as a part of a wave of hires from Meta who viewed themselves as trying to change tech companies from the inside

Looks like that's not really effective, even if you're at the executive level

New comment by toymin in "Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone"

toymin — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:07:52 +0000

Pretty sure this doesn't remove Activation Lock so it shouldn't make a difference

New comment by toymin in "Why do people drop litter?"

toymin — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:45:17 +0000

> Is someone more likely to drop litter if there’s already lots or less litter already around, I wonder?

That's definitely a big factor, there's a whole theory on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It seems like people are less likely to litter in clean places

New comment by toymin in "Insects and other animals have consciousness"

toymin — Sat, 04 May 2024 08:56:17 +0000

yes those are obviously the same, after all lions are known for running industrial-scale farms where they force millions of gazelles to procreate and then keep them in tiny cages for the entirety of their short lives so that other lions can conveniently buy prepackaged gazelle meat in a supermarket not even having to ever associate the pack of meat with a once living gazelle

New comment by toymin in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

toymin — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:08:03 +0000

> Not Apple

They're definitely moving in that direction https://searchads.apple.com/

> Microsoft

It's not a huge part of their revenue but they definitely make a sizeable amount of money from ads

New comment by toymin in "Airlines will make $118B in extra fees"

toymin — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:07:52 +0000

They still should be way cheaper if you don’t care about the seats and/or only have hand luggage

Coming Soon: Confidence – An Experimentation Platform from Spotify

toymin — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:28:34 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/08/coming-soon-confidence-an-experimentation-platform-from-spotify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986445

Points: 2

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New comment by toymin in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

toymin — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:20:11 +0000

Considering the importance of the negotiations for Apollo’s developer he could have considered hiring a middleman for the call, that would probably have prevented some misunderstandings

New comment by toymin in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

toymin — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:10:42 +0000

but there’s no incentive for Reddit to pay any money, they either start charging for the API and recoup the costs or the app shuts down and it starts costing Reddit absolutely nothing