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This isn't why Hollywood is dying. Hollywood is dying because it's cheaper to make movies elsewhere. We're (probably) still going to have movies for a long time. In the same way that we still have cars long after Detroit "died".

I wouldn’t even say that. It’s dying because people are spending a lot of time watching YouTube, instagram and TikTok. A lot of people now just don’t watch a lot of long form content.

Yep, there's lot of great movies and series coming out of other places, like UK, Europe, Japan, Korea, and many more. And a lot of stuff people think is "Hollywood" is actually being made in Canada.

This will get them back to pre-covid levels.

79k * 0.8 = 63.2k

At the end of 2019 they had 45k employees.

It's more accurate to say that this will get them to late 2023 levels which was 67k employees:

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/meta/employees/


Late 2023 levels was after the November 2022 layoffs as well (~11k cut).

I feel like most of us don't know what we're actually doing when we do t2-t1 to get a duration. Feels like it'd be in a lot of places and a negative number is going to cause havoc. Even worse if it's an unsigned int and you roll over to some massive duration.


Oh thank God I thought I was going to make it through a thread on leap seconds without a political discussion


As those social justice groups like to say: "everything is political"...


Is it that surprising? Elsewhere in the thread, people are discussing the best smear tactics!


This is more like inefficiency in sheeps clothing. Being able to iterate that quickly and cheaply relies on spare capacity and people making salaries 10-25% of what Germans get.


8 years ago, a new unskilled factory worker in china made the equivalent of 700-800€ hourly, with free food and accommodation (this cause issues in rural areas but this isn't the subject).

I assume salaries have gone up soon since, but even if they stagnated, what's the entry-level pay for unskilled factory work in Germany? Just to be sure it's more than 21k.


It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course without the free food and accommodation that you mentioned.


Sorry, don't know why I put hourly (phone autocorrect probably), it was monthly, sorry


Source for this? That sounds insane.


I assume they meant 7-8/hour.


>people making salaries 10-25% of what Germans get.

The likes of Huawei pay their engineers six figure salaries plus tonnes of perks. You're crazy if you think skilled Chinese engineers make only 15% of those in Germany. All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.


> All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.

Maybe, though nationalism may play a role here, especially if they believe themselves to be the underdogs. Not everybody only optimizes for money.


>Not everybody only optimizes for money

Yeah but it's bad faith argument to say they work for peanuts. This is western colonial mindset to assume China's success is due to poverty wages. You can't build a semiconductor industry on that.


Source?


We do this for gas. IMHO you end up paying monopoly rates for the pipes and then stupid game prices for the gas. Maybe the savvy consumer comes out ahead but seems like a net negative to me.


It's not monopoly rates, it's actual utility rates. The only problem here is if the utility is allowed to make a profit. Gas pipes, electric lines and internet connections are like roads in today's society. Can't really live without them.

So assuming the pipe maintenance is done at cost, with no money not being spent on the network. What would your better net positive solution even look like?


People can live without gas pipes. One of the big tasks at the moment is planning to stop people building new gas pipes that won't be used enough to justify the price and how to phase out the existing gas pipes so the pricing doesn't enter a "death spiral" as people start leaving the network, leaving the government to bail it out.


I’m all for burning less gas, it’s too important a resource to simply burn for heat.

But we need to build the nuclear reactors first.

In the mean time, no: people can’t just freeze in the dark.


Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.


Heat pumps don’t solve switching away from gas.


If you don't put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are one of the more expensive ways to heat a home.

If you do put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are still one of the more expensive ways to heat a home, but you need a third as many of them as compared to the no-heat-pumps case, if you insist on heating only with nuclear power.

Nuclear power is really only important if you also want spicy atoms, because it's by far the cheapest source of spicy atoms. Annoyingly, this is now a thing a lot of countries have a solid reason to want.


They solve a large part: heating. They don’t solve gas as an industrial feedstock, but you need a lot fewer pipes for that use case.


There's been a massive movement of air assets towards Iran over the last week or so. That doesn't necessarily mean a strike will happen but it's clearly a threat.


A nuclear plant operator can easily afford a smallish home in the suburbs on one salary.


Plus, as a union man, he gets better compensation than his non-union counterparts, including a great dental plan.


Dental plan!

Lisa needs braces.


Bullseye!


The frustrating thing is that developers are some of the most reluctant to change. I'm sick of fighting docker on my Mac among the many other problems. But if we can't break away nobody else is going to either.


Not really. Ultimately it's just a job and a job without any tangible benefit to doing well.

Most regular folk that end up in front of a judge would do well to have a quick and predictable decision. It's months to years before things happen in court and are usually gated behind 10s of thousands in legal fees or a ton of effort. To have a judge bot available for a decision immediately is enormously beneficial.


Sounds to me like we’re bringing too many people before judges then.


> … predictable decision

can’t have this from a system which is by its nature non-deterministic


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