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The others still have interesting tech that will unfold in disruptive ways, and that will be the big talent magnet for future engineers.
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I remember when a Netflix subscription was like having Blockbuster inside your living room. Now its mostly just Netflix originals which aren't necessarily bad but maybe not worth it's own subscription every month.
Netflix has a huge amount of content with pro paedophile tendancies. So many of their shows have underage sex or themes thereof. I have yet to see anyone catalogue these, only point them out in favourite shows. (Aware of the cuties debacle, but this is a rather overt example, aforementioned are sometimes subtle.)
What does “pro paedophile tendencies” even mean? Can you give concrete examples of this? I’ve never heard this accusation before…
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Many of the characters have been changed (in personality/storyline and in ethnicity) from the books and from the games. For example Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but now is a stereotypical "I'm a strong independent woman" character that has the personality of a 15 year old. Triss is completely different from the books and game. Fringilla magically changed to be black even though EVERY other Nilfgaardia…
> characters have been changed ... Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but now is a stereotypical "I'm a strong independent woman" character that has the personality of a 15 year old. Triss is completely different from the books and game That doesn't sound like wokeness, it sounds like a character change that you just don't like. Fair enough, but it's not wokeness. > Fringilla magically changed to be black e…
That's the _point_. The writing is completely unrelated to the actors being black. They were casted as black people because the writers/producers wanted black people for the sake of having black people on screen. If there was reference to black culture or some sort of backstory then it would be a _justified casting_ and I wouldn't be complaining.
You don't cast a British person as a Hispanic character in Narcos. Why are random characters in the Witcher magically changed to be black when there's no story reason for them to be black?
> I assumed you had some objection about the actual storyline which does in fact revolve around discrimination against Witchers, racism and genocide and slavery against Elves, culture wars between nations, and cultures domineering others through centuries of abuse and slavery
I actually think the Witcher does a great job at showing the effects of discrimination and racial conflict in this sense.
All of these companies are too big to fail at this point. They all have at least a decade of reserves to power through anything that gets thrown their way. However, I do predict that they will change in significant ways in the next decade. * Apple is one Supreme Court ruling away from ending their App Store monopoly that could disrupt the entire world, since it would also affect all other digital marketplaces. * Amaz…
Weird to see how little traction Amazon is getting. Labor issues, easy antitrust (you can just cut off AWS, Audible etc.) , and a new more passive CEO sounds pretty dangerous to me.
They seem to be having tech talent issues as well. In that regard, the repeat AWS outages, plus the state of the Amazon catalog could be seen canaries in the coalmine.
Anecdotally everyone from my school who went is somewhere else within a year and half or so.
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Fair enough. They care about subscriber numbers. Although there's probably some correlation with quality so long as you equate the term with quality that appeals to a fairly mainstream audience (i.e. not Euro arthouse fare). But I don't actually see Netflix programming as aiming to make, e.g. reality TV drek. Most of their programming does seem to be aiming for midbrow quality although it often doesn't hit it.
Most shows and movies developed by Netflix are profoundly uninspired: they take no risks and produce content that is mostly acceptable but quickly forgotten.
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The purpose of this poll eludes me due to including Netflix and excluding Microsoft.
FAANG was originally about hot stocks. Jim Cramer coined it. And then, in tech circles, it became mostly about compensation--which had some correlation but imperfectly. Today, especially with Netflix being less unique technically (they did a lot of early out-of-the-box stuff like going all in on AWS and microservices), they're pretty much an outlier from the other companies although as far as I know they still pay ve…
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Iirc, Nintendo has too many large shareholders to ever be acquireable. How they let Disney and Amazon purchase Marvel, Star Wars and Paramount for around 5 billion a piece without jumping in I'll never understand.
Although I don’t think that the Marvel IP would have been as valuable in Netflix’s hands. Compare all of the early Marvel shows on Netflix compared to what Disney has done with the MCU.