S04:E01 - "Grunches"

Show Notes

Thinking about cash registers and TV streaming services.

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• How’s your 4th of July?
  • Sparkling lemonade
  • We’re Grunches
• Andrew has ordered a new chair
• Live TV streaming services have basically failed
  • They’re just cable now
  • YouTube TV now $65/mo (started at $35/mo)
    • Sling TV is $30/mo, was $20
    • PS Vue was discontinued after going from $30 to $50
    • AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) went from $35 to $55
      • Has lost between over a million customers over the past year and a half
    • Hulu Live TV went from $40 to $55
  • A la carte media is not possible

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• Sponsor: Idle Curiosities podcast

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• Cancellations For The Dead
  • Like proxy-baptisms, but for cancelling
• VCs harassing Taylor Lorenz for doing journalism
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app
  • https://www.inputmag.com/culture/a-journalist-does-not-deserved-to-be-harassed-by-vcs-taylor-lorenz-balaji-srinivasan
  • https://www.cnet.com/news/away-co-ceo-steps-down-as-silicon-valley-elite-conversation-gets-leaked/
  • https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1278820154697109505
  • https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1279068216795426821

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• Coronavirus: it’s still happening
  • Mask it or casket
• First they came for the police unions…
  • Police unions’ power wanes, but how about teachers? - CalMatters
  • First of all, the fact the police are a union is so far down on the list of their problems
  • The differences between a police union and a teachers union are important
    • Police are state agents to act against the citizens and for the state.
    • Teachers have no such enforcement role.
    • Police benefits and pay are astronomically better than teacher benefits and pay.
  • Wan Dalters’ example is how the teachers union fights against charter schools
    • This would be like police fighting against privatized security forces,,,, which, like would definitely NOT be an abuse of their union power and in the public interest.
• iPadification of POS equipment

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