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I still do not understand why anyone still believes anything Altman says about any matter, particularly commercial matters. if he told me he'd had eggs for breakfast, I'd be suspic…

602m monthly active users as of Q4 2023. That's in their investor deck and similar figures in their SEC reports. Around 250m premium subscribers, the rest on the free tier, accessi…

How on EARTH you go from 'sardonic comment about a pointless movie review site' to "gosh, you really should try and make a difference to something in your life!" is as patronising …

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Sorry to piggyback on this. I applied for a Director role at DDG about a month ago. Had the autoreply which said DDG would follow up whether it was a yes, let's talk! or a nope, so…

The IA are trying to drum up support by stating that the publishers want to destroy libraries, which obviously makes them sound really awful. But publishers just want the IA to sto…

They don't want to 'squash lending'. They are delighted with public libraries who license books and lend out a discrete number of copies at any one time for a limited period of tim…

I tried "well-written fiction" and got back four non-fiction books about writing. "intelligent fiction" - four non-fiction books. "fiction by women" - two memoirs, two non-fiction.…

Gosh you make it sound like a schoolyard flirtation. "Stole a kiss". She was trapped in his car and he grabbed her by the throat. He grabbed another woman by the throat and didn't …

The map misses a road which heads out from Cambridge to Colchester that shouldn't be difficult to spot given that it's called the 'Roman Road'. Even the Romans should be able to sp…

Well the demo leaves a bit to be desired... https://imgur.com/a/dF0ehaN

"One thing that will definitely help is to have a good product" o rly?

It's not copyright law, it's the agreements that YT has with copyright owners. No one is going to license their content to YT if the site allows anyone to download whatever is ther…

No chance. YT has 2bn+ unique logins a month. China only has 800m internet users max. Further the video streaming landscape in China is much more fragmented than outside the countr…

A long-term trend of less sex and more porno? Could you show some stats on this? I only question that line because I can't even deal with the rest of your post.

"Millions of kids think they can do the same thing and drop out of school." They do? Is this what you think is happening to millions of kids?

So you work (at least) double hours, a bunch of employees quit, "extreme stress", everyone "giving 110%", and you get nothing but a dinner out of it and the salary you'd have got i…

Yeah, those damn authors don't deserve any money for their hard work writing. Let's make piracy easier and pretend we're doing nothing different to a lending library!

Data taken straight from similarweb so accuracy highly dependent on country of source, ad-block usage amongst visitors, etc etc. The ranking is probably vaguely correct but those d…

I think it depends on the show in anime. SPOILERS FOLLOW. Erased is not a parallel world, but someone trying to change their past. Madoka finds Homura repeatedly doing whatever is …

> Those are some of the most expensive headphones I've ever seen You should hang around head-fi sometime if you think these are expensive...

Yes, we should all have unlimited access to extreme terror materials and all the illegal porn we want. NOTHING SHOULD BE CONTROLLED

Er.... no. That's not what was passed by the EU. The Copyright Directive is targeted at large "online content-sharing services" - in effect, services like YouTube, not messaging ap…