I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!

He also went to a town hall meeting to encourage denying poor people from moving into his neighbourhood, because it would lower his house price…

People who’s politics are their whole identity and just looking to dunk on “the enemy”

The guns would probably kill him… Mission failed successfully

“huh… Only 2 people posted things today, how odd”

I thought it was “hating love/romance” or something for a second.

He already admitted that messiah kind of sucks from an adaptation standpoint. I personally agree. Maybe he’s straight up rewriting parts of it? Will be interesting to see, I trust him though Mofo can’t seem to miss

Omg I love that episode too. I quote that grammar robot so the time “shuddapa yer face” “shut up your face”

I also am a software developer and use 123 fake street for testing forms all the time.

I’m surprised at how late it was, would have assumed it was pre double digits

I remember as a kid I was really into fantasy things and my dad told me about LOTR and thought I’d like it. I’d read the hobbit for school already and really enjoyed that… But LOTR was painful, I didn’t even complete the first book

Yes and no. Similar with apps, you can say “well if you’re not paying/seeing adds then we lose nothing by you not visiting”, but, depending on their growth stage, it’s very hard to grow and get investors without a sizable audience.

Say you’re a startup. If you have 10k people and you ignore ad blockers and people who don’t play subscriptions. Then you start preventing people with ad blockers and no subscriptions from your platform and it drops to 1k… You lose investment pulling power.

The effect is amplified, or much worse, if you actually require user generated content as well