I think unlimited with a minimum is really the solution.
Without a minimum people are reluctant to take time off from what I've seen and read.
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Without a minimum people are reluctant to take time off from what I've seen and read.
I think individual channels will win out over cable style packages, though there might be room for an aggregator that offers discounts.
I'd rather pay for HBO and Netflix over cable.
To my knowledge the majority of cable channels are just content from a handful of producers divided up by "genre", since most people will have entire sections of unused channels that don't match their interest when paying for cable I think we'll move towards pick and choose — possibly really soon.
[1]Which is their quoted mission, "become HBO faster than HBO can become us".
It'll be interesting to see how Reddit evolves in the coming months, it's been the social news site since the Digg V4 apocalypse, which is about 5 years.
Digg was at it's height form 2005 to 2010, Reddit took over from 2010-present. Is a 5 year window the time to Eternal September? Or can Reddit hold onto it's user base despite the many public problems?
Stay tuned for the next episode of "People Talk About Stuff on the Internet" to find out!
If we are moving towards a society where we look more for meaning than for money we can very easily come to the conclusion that basic income wouldn't break the economy, but bolster it. Instead of doing menial labor to pay bills we'd try harder to find our way as artists, engineers and other specialized trades that offer fulfillment. Certainly some people will use their basic income to avoid work, but what is the percentage of that? I don't know many people who embrace boredom. Most people want to do something of value, and many people need to do something of value.
We are either approaching a reality we as humans have always wanted or shifting our societies desires depending on historical information(that I don't have).
Inching closer and closer to post-scarcity will be very interesting indeed.
[1]I don't think Millennial's are all that special even if we think we are.
There has also been a large rhythmic trend of migrations especially in social. So it's very possible people are ready to move on to Voat, the question is will Voat find a way to make a profit?
They've mentioned exploring some interesting profit models, such as paid subscriptions and content sharing. I'd really like to see them make a big push with a reddit gold similar component but in a better way.
Essentially patronage for social media or content curation.
My favorite two examples to think of are Star Wars dogfights and fantasy exploration.
I like to think about climbing into a scale TIE Fighter or X-Wing and pulling down the helmet and bam dog fighting.
Or walking into a room that includes some jungle-y/forest-y smells and humidity with the helmet. Being able to explore the scenery and maybe even touch mocked plants/animals. Would create an insane level of realism.
Probably out of scope but cool to think about.
I've been using Meteor, and I like it quite a bit. There are a lot of things I wish were different but it's made me pretty productive.
I really wish it had Clojurescript integration for instance. But that's a really minor and personal thing I just want to use clojurescript.
I'd dig a Postgres as a service style firebase alternative that'd be nifty.
That to me is the biggest draw.
I often try to pick sublime back up, but when I go to install packages I find I have to mess with too many configuration files and searching the third party package manager kind of sucks. It's faster though so I keep trying before getting frustrated and going back to the land of easy wins.
I can't imagine there are that many 3-4 hour projects that won't already have available code. The most important part of an at home project in my opinion is the walk through.
The best interview I had asked me to go through the project and explain the what and why I did things and asked for high level understanding of what the framework I chose or the browser/node was doing based on what I wrote.
It was an app in React and they went through why I decided to make a component for x, y but not z and then asked if I understood the virtual DOM as a concept.
To me that's the best you can do, you need to understand how the programmer thinks about problems, works through them and that they are engaged in the ecosystem at large.
A feature request to prefer explicit over clean and vice versa when possible has been on their request board for nearly two of those. For a long time it was difficult to even select or search for the version you wanted.
They ignore their customers, break their UI, fail to optimize for conversions to paying customers, how could they expect to be profitable?
So far I've been extremely happy with Tidal. It's gotten quickly better and I'm excited to see how the artist based model plays out. It's odd to me that the author laments the plight of the starving and ignored artists while calling Tidal a joke. Their stated mission is to improve the landscape for artists, they have a real opportunity to build on top of and change the indie scene and I think they'll take it.
In a world where everything you do is recorded and stored long term the promise of something fleeting is a beautiful promise.
I wrote an article[1] on what I think Jay Z is planning with Tidal. I do think it's far too early to write it off. Jay Z and the other coowners of Tidal have something that Spotify and co really lack. Domain knowledge.
If you invest in 9 companies that use Meteor then investing in Meteor means you've invested in those 9 companies. It's an investment in infrastructure.
If a founder doesn't think a company will be worth running in 5 or 10 years what does it say about their long term plans for it? Are there many examples of successful start-ups where the founders left within the first few years?