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Re: Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

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Post by LocalH » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #35

conception wrote: post #27

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And only if the state goes their way. If they don't, they are totally fine with the feds overruling their state.

I support the idea of states' rights. However, I'm also salty as fuck that the slavedrivers of the Civil War ruined the entire concept. That enabled the federal government to stomp on the concept, in some cases fully warranted (like civil rights), in other cases not so much (like Wickard v. Filburn and the entire perversion of the Commerce Clause to turn it into full federal preemption).

Re: Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

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Post by bko » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

shagmin wrote: post #40

bko wrote: post #34

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You don't need a citation for everything. It's common sense. But sure, look at big tech with a money printing machine, insane margins and revenue. Amazon spends 90b a year on r&d (~14% of revenue). Meta is about 26% of revenue and so on. That's risk as it's not tied to their core business and most if not all is punted away. Can you give me a citation of a small company willing to punt 14-24% of their revenue on long…

How much of Meta's r&d is spent on keeping people addicted to their apps? I'd argue Amazon and Meta were both more innovative when there was no or very little revenue. Meta essentially replaced myspace, which basically went down hill after being bought out by a much larger company.

Why do you ask questions you can easily ask to an LLM? You probably don't care, your world view is "Meta bad".

Meta created and support React which runs much of the internet. Pytorch, which runs most AI models. GraphQL, Jest, Llama (one of the first open weights models) and more that I can't remember.

What are you talking about?

Re: Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

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Post by bko » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

mint5 wrote: post #48

bko wrote: post #34

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You don't need a citation for everything. It's common sense. But sure, look at big tech with a money printing machine, insane margins and revenue. Amazon spends 90b a year on r&d (~14% of revenue). Meta is about 26% of revenue and so on. That's risk as it's not tied to their core business and most if not all is punted away. Can you give me a citation of a small company willing to punt 14-24% of their revenue on long…

That world model is not in touch with reality. R&D spend does not correlate with innovation or creativity. It’s surprising what gets counted as R&D in a big company. Small companies have to have an innovative product in order to compete with the big fish who operate economies of scale.

Very productive comment. Here is my reply:

R&D spend does correlate with innovation and creativity. It’s surprising what it takes to consider something as R&D in a big company.

Re: Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

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Post by LocalH » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

shivapb80 wrote: post #37

cyanydeez wrote: post #17

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you'd have to actually care about politics, the far right, how ruper murdoch and nixon's advisors spent 50 years making Fox news an unassailable fortress of misinformation a geriatric rapist used as a platform to take over a democratic leadership. Those are the same people trying to take another media entity into.

i stay out of politics but to say that only fox is doing misinformation is turning a blind eye to the lies of NYT, CBS, CNN, ABC, BBC (although foreign owned) and MSNBC.

AFAIK, Fox News Channel is the only one to ever stand in court and argue that they're not really news, but "entertainment".

Re: Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

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Post by happymellon » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

bko wrote: post #52

shagmin wrote: post #40

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How much of Meta's r&d is spent on keeping people addicted to their apps? I'd argue Amazon and Meta were both more innovative when there was no or very little revenue. Meta essentially replaced myspace, which basically went down hill after being bought out by a much larger company.

Why do you ask questions you can easily ask to an LLM? You probably don't care, your world view is "Meta bad". Meta created and support React which runs much of the internet. Pytorch, which runs most AI models. GraphQL, Jest, Llama (one of the first open weights models) and more that I can't remember. What are you talking about?

> Meta created and support React

An engineer who worked at Meta did some stuff on his personal Github and managed to get them to adopt it. They weren't being innovative, they got someone else to do the prototyping and then brought it in.

Much like the same conversation about other large organisations that buy to "innovate".

> ...Pytorch

Didn't they just hire some of the maintainers of Torch7, who had started on the rework of implementing lessons learnt and migration to Python? So you while you could say they "created PyTorch", it would be quite misleading.