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ELI5 How come streaming service are now running commercials? Is that not bad for business because most if not all people got it to avoid commercials?
  • That isn't really possible to calculate for as you don't know how many people will buy 'XYZ' until after the fact.

    Say two separate movies cost $1M to make and only 5k people watch Movie A while 100 million people watch Movie B. According to this, Movie A would need to cost $200 per copy, while Movie B would cost $0.01. The "full price" would be constantly fluctuating so how could you apply it to the first hundred people who watch the movie? What about the last hundred to watch it?

    Full price is just code for "what we want" not necessarily what it takes to recoup their investment. These companies want profit and they want every release to be as popular as something like End Game so they're going to claim "full price" is whatever it takes to reach that $10 billion goal.

  • ELI5 How come streaming service are now running commercials? Is that not bad for business because most if not all people got it to avoid commercials?
  • It turns out people don't want to pay the full price for content, so streaming companies are experimenting with ads to fund the difference.

    Who exactly determines what "full price" is? This reads like a statement from music executives in the 1990s when they were charging $25 for a CD with 10 songs on it and claiming piracy was costing them quadrillions of dollars. With inflation, that equates to just under $50 per CD today. Is that full price or is full price whatever people are willing to pay at any given time?

  • WLED power limit for FCOB strip
  • This is a weird setting that must be in some brand new release because I've been using WLED for years and it's always just been a current limiter for the entire strip. Perhaps it has something to do with OP using COB lights as I've only ever used it for standard strip lights like 5050 WS2812B or 5050 WS2815.

  • 10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest
  • How the hell does this work employment wise? Are employees working in Kansas or Missouri and which state collects taxes? Probably not as big of an issue there, but in my state we have things like income tax while our neighbors don't, which would make situations like this incredibly confusing.

  • Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues As Depreciation Costs Mount
  • I'm all for hating on Tesla for legitimate issues, but the driver of that car crashed into a concrete pillar doing in excess of 120MPH, which probably has a lot more to do with why they died than anything else. Fires and being trapped inside mangled wreckage can happen with any vehicle, especially at speeds like that.

  • Glow Filament Quickshot
  • It's interesting to hear that there is a new style as I've done several prints using the old style and it's so lame that it only works for a few minutes after being exposed directly to bright light especially with how rough it is on the machine. It wore a groove through the hotend on my old Sidewinder X2 after using about a Kg to print a giant Lego skeleton.

  • EV newcomer Xiaomi rolls its 100,000th SU7 off its assembly line… in a mere 230 days
  • Not quite accurate. They produce a car every 76 seconds but it takes them longer per each individual car.

    That article is pretty rad and it's impressive how quickly they've been able to put this operation all together in just a couple of years.

    The frame casting machine is especially cool

    The machine creates the rear floor assembly of the Xiaomi SU7 and reduces 72 parts that previously required stamping and welding down to just one die cast part which can be produced in 100 seconds.

  • What Will It Take To Make EV Sales Go Through The Roof?
  • Screens and cameras aren't even that expensive and give manufacturers something to point to as a "feature" with a ton of markup.

    I think it's more about legacy companies dragging their feet and also spending billions to develop a single car and wanting to recoup all that money immediately. This is where all the 'losses' come from that companies like Ford whine about. In reality, once they get these first few generations of EVs figured out, future development should be a lot cheaper as they won't be starting from scratch in completely unknown waters.

  • Is there a 'ama' sub?
  • What exactly do you find bizarre about it? Like how is it not identical to reddit with the exception of federation? Most of the communities here are direct copies of reddit subs and/or places to repost reddit posts.

  • Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general
  • “has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice.”

    By finding ways to weasel out of charges after keeping a 12 year old captive as a "house boy" whose relationship "is defined by their love?" Or was it from weaseling out of charges for trafficking and having sex with a 17 year old girl along with an associate who plead guilty and was sentenced to 11 years in prison?

    Where are all those QAnon followers at who eat, sleep, and breathe "exposing" all the sex trafficking that happens across the country?