I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
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- Hosted by Andrew Huster and Aaron LM Goodwin
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S04:E01 - "Grunches"
Episode 49 • Published Jul 06, 2020
Thinking about cash registers and TV streaming services.
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Links and Show Notes
- How’s your 4th of July?
- Sparkling lemonade
- We’re Grunches
- Andrew has ordered a new chair
- Live TV streaming services have basically failed
- They’re just cable now
- YouTube TV now $65/mo (started at $35/mo)
- Sling TV is $30/mo, was $20
- PS Vue was discontinued after going from $30 to $50
- AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) went from $35 to $55
- Has lost between over a million customers over the past year and a half
- Hulu Live TV went from $40 to $55
- A la carte media is not possible
- Sponsor: Idle Curiosities podcast
- Cancellations For The Dead
- Like proxy-baptisms, but for cancelling
- VCs harassing Taylor Lorenz for doing journalism
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app
- https://www.inputmag.com/culture/a-journalist-does-not-deserved-to-be-harassed-by-vcs-taylor-lorenz-balaji-srinivasan
- https://www.cnet.com/news/away-co-ceo-steps-down-as-silicon-valley-elite-conversation-gets-leaked/
- https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1278820154697109505
- https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1279068216795426821
- Coronavirus: it’s still happening
- Mask it or casket
- First they came for the police unions…
- Police unions’ power wanes, but how about teachers? - CalMatters
- First of all, the fact the police are a union is so far down on the list of their problems
- The differences between a police union and a teachers union are important
- Police are state agents to act against the citizens and for the state.
- Teachers have no such enforcement role.
- Police benefits and pay are astronomically better than teacher benefits and pay.
- Wan Dalters’ example is how the teachers union fights against charter schools
- This would be like police fighting against privatized security forces,,,, which, like would definitely NOT be an abuse of their union power and in the public interest.
- iPadification of POS equipment