The thing that really bothers me about Weinstein's approach is that, while he and his wife are scientists, they're exceedingly quick to assert their hunches as scientific fact. They wear their scientist labels on their sleeves but their thinking is far more ideological. In a recent podcast about fluoridation in tap water, they were talking about how they avoid iodized salt, because iodine is a reactive chemical and you don't want to OD on it. Ludicrous. You'd sooner die from the sheer quantity of salt you'd have to ingest before the iodine even starts to become a problem.
At my university, the fratboys were far, far, FAR more disruptive than the LGBT groups. But we go with it; fratboy are an accepted pupal stage of American men it seems
Really neat! This ought to be a Hacker News "why don't they just...?" holy grail. Now applying homomorphic encryption to solve privacy woes might actually be possible!
It's vertical integration. As long as we're wishing for fairness I wish Apple would share those tasty M1 processors with the rest of the non-Mac world.
I wish there was a stickied post feature to head off these sorts of RSS measuring contests.
Multiprocess applications, and especially multiprocess applications with really big discardable caches, are extremely difficult to compare apples-to-apples.
A blockchain based storage system means that every participant will need to store every video forever in order to achieve consensus. If the blockchain uses URLs to external resources, then those can be easily be taken down.
A mechanism for regulatory compliance will probably err on the side of less exposure to lawsuits. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the demands imposed by the government for copyright compliance are backed by a bigger stick.
Don't kid yourself, any other commercially successful VOD platform will have the exact same problem. A startup might squeak by under the radar for a while, but as soon as it gets critical mass, it won't be long before it gets encumbered by all this regulatory "fun".