He said that to try to leverage China, not to defend the US in any way. Right idea but for all the wrong reasons.

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From the guy who claimed 50% of the country are active users, this means less than nothing.

It’s like rai-iiiiiii-aaaaaaaain

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You have never run or worked for an online platform with hundreds of millions of users, and it shows.

Just because you can use these websites for free does not mean they are cheap to run, in money or in manpower.

How do you know how they fuck?

If you can’t predict what will come out then it’s not particularly deterministic. Maybe within a certain broad range of behaviors but that’s about it.

… or worked or for a well run business.

CNN already does this anyway. They make shit up and say ‘according to a source familiar but not authorized to talk to the media.”

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Never used it but I’m tired of hearing of it, good riddance.

Pretty sure they are deterministic but chaotic

All the downvoters are all people who have never run a business.

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I’ll ride this downvote. 15,000 people is insane. Not apples to apples, but Craigslist has about 50 employees.

trust me those adults dumb fuck

Just like msm

Solving the rewriting history problem for authoritarian governments: get an AI to blur it.

Yup. Common being a more important factor than knowledge.

Promoted to customer

"Hey Bob, how do we generate more ad revenue from our site?"

"We could lay off a bunch of our employees!"

"GENIUS!"

You left this part out. He’s not championing against the merger or in support of Sony. That game was not announced at the time, as a consumer you have not lost anything promised.

“It’s not very serious, it’s even a good decision I think,” Smith said of dropping the PS5 version. “[It helps to] support Game Pass and have one less platform to worry about, one less complexity.”

He added: “Game Pass has a ton of players, it could become our biggest game thanks to 30 million, where I can’t remember the exact number, of subscribers.”

You keep cherry picking to support your emotional viewpoint. I’ll say it one last time, all exclusives are inherently bad for consumers, and Sony has indeed prevented games from being launched on rival platforms. There is tons of evidence out there (Final Fantasy would like to have a word, it doesn’t matter if they don’t own the IP, they are paying to keep it off the Xbox).

They don’t do this for you, they do it to protect their position in the market. Now Microsoft follows their established lead and everyone freaks out? It was only last generation that Insomniac released a game on the Xbox (Sunset Overdrive), and now that studio will never work with anyone but Sony again.

Yes, some IP has been lost in the process to Microsoft, but if Sony is as amazing as you say they will be able to produce their own in house rivals to these franchises.

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How callous can you be to tell people via email with just two subject lines of basically “you can keep paying your bills” or “piss off”