The title has changed to A note on subscription prices from LWN. It may be worth editing this title to match.
A note on subscription prices from LWN
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Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#92I guess most people are about to unsubscribe from LWN. I don't think there news articles are even worthy enough to be paywalled at all this days.
Do you have a third thing to be wrong about so we can declare "ignorance trifecta complete"?
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn’t rationally speaking you’d want to support them to keep them around? Or did you mean selfishly speaking?
not saying parent feels this way but the target class of this website often does not separate the two. we're still sloughing off the goofballery of objectivism, i guess.
we're still sloughing off the goofballery of objectivism
Are we though? I certainly don't sense the volume of FYIGM entitlement decreasing.
Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#94I know the editors visit these discussions: please, next time use a more descriptive title! I nearly had a fit when I saw that, really thought LWN is going down like it almost did 20 years ago. Happy to pay the new price, even though I can only afford the cheapest tier.
HN needs to update the title too!
Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#95Are there more things like LWN for other fields/subjects? A math LWN of sorts, for example? I would happily pay for it too if it follows this model.
I'd pay for something that was 'SemiAnalysis, but high quality'. Perhaps that's getting too much into insider territory?
Depends on what you're looking for. In a previous life we subscribed to some semiconductor analysis pubs that we're insanely deep dives into the industry. But they weren't so much technical deep dives as stuff a industry sector trader wants to know. And AFAIK they were very, very expensive.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why nobody likes economists.
TBF, economists, if any group, would understand the freerider problem and what it leads to if there are too many of them.
You’d think, but in practice their entire policy prescription seems to come down to “well if they didn’t want me to have it, they should’ve bolted it down, this is really an incentives problem, if you look at it.”
Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#97LWN is one of the, if not the single, highest signal tech publications around. I hope they're able to maintain a stable subscription service. Being user funded, and avoiding having to maintain allegiance to advertisers, is likely part of why their quality is so high.
I don't use Linux (on the desktop, I use it on headless machines), yet I still agree with this statement.
When I saw that title, I thought the note would be about their "incredible journey", fortunately that is not the case.
Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#98Sorry guys, for my inequity, but whats LWN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWN.net
I was guessing Linux World News, but TIL it was Linux Weekly News. But currently, they say it's just LWN, a tech news site, etc.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd pay for something that was 'SemiAnalysis, but high quality'. Perhaps that's getting too much into insider territory?
Depends on what you're looking for. In a previous life we subscribed to some semiconductor analysis pubs that we're insanely deep dives into the industry. But they weren't so much technical deep dives as stuff a industry sector trader wants to know. And AFAIK they were very, very expensive.
Yeah, I'm aware a lot of stuff is catered towards traders. I'm someone who's more interested in the technology itself.
Re: A note on subscription prices from LWN
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on what you're looking for. In a previous life we subscribed to some semiconductor analysis pubs that we're insanely deep dives into the industry. But they weren't so much technical deep dives as stuff a industry sector trader wants to know. And AFAIK they were very, very expensive.
Yeah, I'm aware a lot of stuff is catered towards traders. I'm someone who's more interested in the technology itself.
I'm there with you. I keep an eye out for IEEE pubs, and papers out of schools that have microelectronics specialist programs, and the occasional vendor pub that isn't marketing, but there doesn't seem to be a rollup site for curated deep dives.