I'm honestly a little surprised at how little backlash Netflix has gotten for this. They seem to be doing great despite treating their users like poop. Then again, the competition isn't that much better either.
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Here's a good first draft of the short story I generated. https://pastebin.com/pDaJXHuC
This is interesting, but mostly due to the prompt you gave.
Here's another short story which GPT-4 churned out.
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> per-user bandwidth costs don't drop forever due to economies of scale, Can you explain why? I'd have thought they absolutely do and on top of this their caching strategy becomes even more effective.
> Can you explain why? Bandwidth isn't an infinite resource. It effectively is up to a certain scale and with a few caveats (the costs are not consistent globally) but I'm sure Netflix is beyond the scale where it can be assumed to be and at that point they will be bidding against other big users for peering priority. With a dedicate server I have some stuff on I can upgrade to 10gbit unmetered for a lot less than 10…
From https://www.theverge.com/22787426/netflix-cdn-open-connect
> ““Not only are we placing content on all of these servers around the world, but we are pre-placing them based on what is popular. Because we predict what is popular, we’re able to put it as close as possible under the correct server,” Haspilaire says. “This pre-placement of our films and shows allows us, based on prime time viewing hours, to store 100 percent of our catalog locally."
And they have 17,000 of these boxes. Extra users in these areas will have essentially zero marginal cost. And outside of that, I don't believe the bandwidth market we see - in terms of upgrading our small servers - has any resemblance to the deals they can do.
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Point me to some. Seriously, the definition linked here clearly has household as the combination. Where are households defined as multiple houses? For fun, try https://www.prb.org/resources/what-is-a-household/ which says "A household is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as all the people who occupy a single housing unit, regardless of their relationship to one another." Did they get it wrong? https://www.census.gov/…
The census is a great example. If a person is at a location, such as vacation home, when the census counts them, the census counts them as at the location that they sleep at the most. You don't stop being a part of a household just because you're spending the weekend at your cabin. Even if your 10 person household has 11 homes, 1 primary home where everyone sleeps 183 days a year and 10 vacation homes where each slee…
Ah, I see the distinction you are trying to make. You are talking of the people in the household. But that is easily seen as a distinct thing from the household.
Consider standard household services. They are tied to the household, which has a fixed address. Is why power company won't give you power for your RV at any other location.
Again, I'm sympathetic. And power companies distinguish this with service address. But this is exactly the point. Every other "sharable thing" will be a distinguished thing that is shared. They will often have vague ass terms that tie it to the people of a household. But they will also have carve outs on how that applies to them.
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And to me this reads as petulant redefining of terms in the hopes of pulling a gotcha. To be clear, the portability afforded with streaming services is nice. And I'm all for taking advantage of it. But household has always been the combination of a physical house and a social group in it. To claim otherwise is silly. Can you find other uses of the term that does this? Even "family" is typically constrained to immedia…
You're free to think of this as a redefining of terms, but the first person to make that argument upthread was downvoted to grey. That tends to indicate that I'm not the one redefining a term in a novel way. But to answer your question, economists refer to "household income" and they don't care if you have a vacation home. If you look at the origin of this thread, it relates to a single family with multiple homes. If…
Apologies on missing this the other day. The "first person" to make this argument is just getting the ire of folks that are upset to be losing their streaming benefits.
Household income is an interesting one. You have a primary residence that dictates a ton of information for financial reporting. And as far as households go, you only count in one of the houses, as far as a household. The others are non household units.
My entire point is that a household is not a family. Those are different things.
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According to a dictionary, "household" means: > those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family; also: a social unit composed of those living together in the same dwelling [1] It seems more focused on the family unit rather than where they're located. If a household goes on vacation, are they not still a household when they are at their hotel? Why is it different if they're at a condo, which they own? Disclo…
I'm curious how you read that and don't see the words "roof" and "same dwelling"? Because... that seems far more focused on where they are located than not? Only thing it is excluding is multiple family units all living in a shared building are not one household.
I will be curious to see what happens to families living in RVs.
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Barely on-topic, but this is sort of the plot of Reboot, and I remember watching this show seeing the dynamic between the elder writer played by Paul Reiser) and the much younger writer played by Rachel Bloom. The gist of the (relevant) bit of plot is that the younger writer wants to take an old classic series (ala Full House) but do a gritty reboot of it, but the studio brings in the original writers on to help, and…
This was a great show I can't say enough about. It really mad me laugh out loud far more than any other show in recent memory. (And in the end, if I recall, both groups of writers learned that the other was actually pretty decent at their jobs and had a lot of good ideas.) Unfortunately, it didn't do spectacularly in the ratings and was immediately canceled. I seriously hope someone else picks it up, but I don't know…
I've never seen the show but it sounds good and reviews were decent.
Given that it was killed off after one season, is it still worth the watch? Does it end well?
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I'm curious how you read that and don't see the words "roof" and "same dwelling"? Because... that seems far more focused on where they are located than not? Only thing it is excluding is multiple family units all living in a shared building are not one household.
I will be curious to see what happens to families living in RVs.
Apologies for missing this. I'm not clear what you mean. They already have the worst services of any "household" you can imagine. Such that I don't see it changing much?
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That is going to be quite the schlep with his second houses tv every couple of weeks. I would cancel too
I assume he wouldn't care if TVs in other homes stay logged in when he's not there. As long as they work when he visits, wouldn't that be enough? It could be annoying if another family member goes there for a week and it won't log in because the primary device isn't present.
I guess I misunderstood then. So you mean you activate the network with your primary phone and then it stays active for some time. That would actually work for me.