relaxatorium (u/relaxatorium)

relaxatorium commented on Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity blog.nateliason.com/p/fas... · Posted by u/jger15

It never fails. If someone mentions “selling courses” as one of the best examples of a business they can think of, their line of business is “self-help guru/grifter”.

He even has the “how to have better sex” book out there for you to buy.

relaxatorium commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro

niceice · a year ago

Move fast and break things is what built Silicon Valley and the modern world. It works, demonstrably.

The way the government has been run the past decades doesn't work, demonstrably. Every important metric has worsened.

relaxatorium · a year ago

This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a "move fast and break things" process.

relaxatorium commented on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming tomsguide.com/computing/p... · Posted by u/amichail

tyleo · a year ago

I tried reading this article with genuine interest but the page crashed for me on iOS :(

This seems to be happening more often in the back half of 2024. IGN crashes nearly every page view for me these days.

relaxatorium · a year ago

Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unprofessional.

relaxatorium commented on Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes twitter.com/VivekGRamaswa... · Posted by u/loongloong

wufufufu · a year ago

There are no clear details about what DOGE will alter. All the information we have so far amounts to outrage-bait one-liners. Where and how are they deciding to make cuts, and which agencies are they planning to change? Cutting is not intrinsically a good or bad idea, but everything I’ve read about this so far makes DOGE seem anti-intellectual.

relaxatorium · a year ago

Unless I have missed something (always a real possibility to be fair) there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are, what its staffing is, or what its actual processes will be.

We’ll find out more when the actual Trump administration starts I guess, but so far it seems like a broad concept that two guys can use for tweets.

relaxatorium commented on Linode increases price of compute plans and more linode.com/blog/linode/ak... · Posted by u/hjr265

thaumaturgy · 3 years ago

Akamai doesn't have a reputation for being interested in the bottom of the market. They announced this price increase with 31 days' notice. Future price increases and policy changes can be expected to be announced on a similar schedule.

Do you really want to wait until they announce a "hit the ejector seat button" change and you only have 30 days to make the move?

relaxatorium · 3 years ago

Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.

relaxatorium commented on Linode increases price of compute plans and more linode.com/blog/linode/ak... · Posted by u/hjr265

relaxatorium · 3 years ago

As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.

relaxatorium commented on Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta theverge.com/2022/10/25/2... · Posted by u/quyleanh

relaxatorium · 3 years ago

It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just slime on top of slime. All our most valuable companies, rolling around in nasty slop.

relaxatorium commented on Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit techcrunch.com/2022/08/08... · Posted by u/unripe_syntax

relaxatorium · 4 years ago

The word “fun” doesn’t show up until paragraph 19 and that’s the problem with these kinds of games in a nutshell.

relaxatorium commented on Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023 apple.com/newsroom/2022/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

avgDev · 4 years ago

This is probably one of the best decision by any TV provider.

MLS is going to blow up in the coming years. There is a lot of talk about US national team being very competitive in 2026 World Cup. MLS has produced stars already, like Alphonso Davies.

Once the hype gets higher and more money start being spent on soccer in the US, it will become a power house.

relaxatorium · 4 years ago

It's a gamble, because as of now they're not even the most popular soccer league in America let alone the world.

Liga MX (Mexican soccer) ratings destroy them for the obvious reasons (the league the US's largest most passionate soccer fanbase is most passionate about), EPL ratings beat them pretty handily as well (English Premier League, the highest profile and probably best of the European leagues).

Given the money and momentum behind MLS though, there is at least a chance by the end of this deal that they have become one of the top soccer leagues in the world and Apple looks extremely clever, which is not something you can really say for a lot of leagues with actual better soccer than MLS has right now.

It is weird that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, now has a vested interest in globally promoting a specific soccer league. MLS is probably thrilled with this compared to their current situation where ESPN+ does dump pretty much all the games onto streaming as content, but is generally disinterested in promoting it too heavily because of their vast prtfolio of already more popular sports.

relaxatorium commented on Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023 apple.com/newsroom/2022/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

relaxatorium · 4 years ago

That these are worldwide rights is also interesting, that almost never happens for sports deals because there's usually more money to be had chopping up broadcast rights and selling them per country.