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vinylkey commented on Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend   twitter.com/TrungTPhan/st... · Posted by u/dsr12
mbg721 · 4 years ago
Heinz ketchup is on a whole different level; it's not just that it's the default ketchup (which it is), it's that:

1) When ketchup is called for, there isn't a substitute condiment that's kind of similar. Sriracha in general is a subset of hot sauces, but nobody thinks of a general case for ketchup--it's just ketchup. Maybe there are situations where no hot sauce but sriracha will do, but that's much rarer in the US (where Huy Fong dominates the market).

2) There are no Fancy Dijon Ketchups. The food snobs don't have an artisan brand they like better; Heinz is as good as it gets. It's Andy Warhol's old observation that the President drinks the same Coke that you do, only more so--there are way more niche colas than niche ketchups.

vinylkey · 4 years ago
For anyone interested, this is a pretty interesting read about Ketchup and Heinz:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...

vinylkey commented on In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed   gothamist.com/news/mount-... · Posted by u/danso
vinylkey · 5 years ago
To be fair, he also had to work with a Republican Senate to get pass any laws.
vinylkey commented on No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit   sfchronicle.com/bayarea/a... · Posted by u/luu
everyone · 6 years ago
A big traffic jam would be nothing like 'Carmageddon'

An extremely popular series of computer games starting in 1997, where u race around smashing into other vehicles and running over pedestrians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon

Why do they keep saying carmageddon????

vinylkey · 6 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#%2...

There's some other precedent for the word Carmageddon other than an old game that a lot people haven't heard of.

vinylkey commented on Firefox Full-device VPN   private-network.firefox.c... · Posted by u/heh
qxnqd · 6 years ago
Because Firefox is a browser, not a family of products. Well, now it is, but they already had a brand for their family of products: Mozilla.
vinylkey · 6 years ago
They've been pivoting the Firefox name to encompass many privacy-minded tools for a while now. I would argue that a Firefox VPN strengthens that branding.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

> Meet our family of products - Browsers

- Monitor

- Send

- Lockwise

- Pocket

vinylkey commented on Firefox Full-device VPN   private-network.firefox.c... · Posted by u/heh
qxnqd · 6 years ago
Why is the Mozilla Corporation diluting the Firefox brand like this?
vinylkey · 6 years ago
How is this brand dilution?
vinylkey commented on Disney+ Might Have a Notable Hacker Problem   fortune.com/2019/11/18/wa... · Posted by u/tumblen
pcroh · 6 years ago
If I shoplift a bag of Doritos, the shop has one fewer bag of Doritos.

If I pirate a show, it doesn't disappear from Disney's hard drives.

vinylkey · 6 years ago
What's a good word for "obtaining digital content without paying for the right to possess said digital content"?
vinylkey commented on Disney+ Might Have a Notable Hacker Problem   fortune.com/2019/11/18/wa... · Posted by u/tumblen
Starkus · 6 years ago
Does anyone else still torrent?

I rarely watch a tv show or a movie, but when I do I just torrent it. I've been doing this since Limewire (which was a lot of really shitty porn at the time).

Showed my boys Princess Mononoke the other day - will show them the Mandalorian tonight, a buddy told me its pretty good

vinylkey · 6 years ago
I'm sure some people do. I prefer to pay for things though.
vinylkey commented on I Miss the Old Internet   misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/... · Posted by u/sT370ma2
superkuh · 6 years ago
The old internet is still there, it's still growing. It's just covered in a thick layer of corporate shit sites. All you have to do is be the change you want to see. Start hosting your website from home. Code it by hand. Don't use any javascript frontends. It's a good time.

As for finding others, well, HN isn't a bad place to start. Just install an RSS reader client and every time you find yourself enjoying an article check the site to see if it has an RSS feed. In fact, do this with every web interaction. Pretty soon you can completely decouple yourself from content aggregators and start perceiving the web as a community again.

vinylkey · 6 years ago
> Don't use any javascript frontends.

I'm struggling to find the connection between a Javascript front end and content that has (to quote the article posted) "the voice of individuals"

vinylkey commented on PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk   pgecurrents.com/2019/10/2... · Posted by u/johnny313
vinylkey · 6 years ago
Hopefully this leads to the state getting good deal in the inevitable public takeover.
vinylkey commented on Firefox Privacy How-To Guide   restoreprivacy.com/firefo... · Posted by u/Garbage
gnode · 6 years ago
While nice for supporting the development of Firefox, it adds nothing to your subjective browsing experience. As far as I understand, disabling it is also not a data point by which you could be fingerprinted.

You're taking it for granted that the reported data is adequately anonymized to the point of being impossible to make any inferences about individuals, which is a huge leap, not only in trust, but data science.

As mentioned later in the article, Mozilla is based in a country with sweeping surveillance legislation, and so should not be trusted to hold or process [potentially] personally identifying data, no matter how well intentioned they themselves may be.

vinylkey · 6 years ago
> You're taking it on trust that it's anonymized to the point of being impossible to make any inferences about individuals, which is a huge leap, not only in trust, but data science.

I don't doubt that someone at Mozilla could de-anonymize that data, but I have enough trust in the organization that they won't

u/vinylkey

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