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Imo this year had a pretty good lineup for TV shows. So far we've had severance s2, Andor s2, the pitt, adolescence and the rehersal. All outstanding television imo. Murderbot is decent, but the 20-25min episodes per week are just way to short.

I definitely agree that this is a big problem happening way too often, but not sure if it is the case here.

First of all we need to remember that the majority of debt came from AT&T splitting off Warner and saddling it with billions of debt (this is where i see the root for many of the problems), not from the Discovery side at their merger or the split now. Secondly as i understand it the linerar networks are obviously the declining assets, but still the ones with more profit/revenue.

That makes it a judgment call whether one believes that those will be able to pay off this debt, before they become irrelevant. This might indeed involve cost cutting measures and negative effects, but who would invest in this business today? So long as there are no public bailouts involved i'd be fine with letting the debt holders judge by themselfes if they are fine with this (i assume they had a say in allowing this?). I guess this might be sad for CNN and some of the sports programs, but i feel like most people here won't care too much what happens with the likes of TCL or HGTV.

The part we probably care more about (Warner/HBO) is the one getting the clean slate. Whether they try to make it work as a studio with streaming service on its own or try to sell it to someone else we will see. So presumably not a situation like JoAnn fabrics or Toys'R'Us where a liked company was saddled with debt and bled dry.

They’re effectively undoing the merger that they did just a few years ago

The big difference is that the declining cable networks and more importantly also the debt is apparently in the Global Networks company. Tbh i am not sure if there would have been any other solution to get those away Warner/HBO this clean.

So after this brief merger they are already splitting again? But this time Discovery gets loaded up with the declining linear television parts and I assume also the huge pile of debt?

Obviously share ownership adjusted accordingly, but I guess there would have been no other way to transfer the debt and declining business parts directly to discovery or someone else. Because no one would take that deal even for free.

I might actually see this as a win for movie/television fans as I doubt there'd been a faster way for warner/HBO to become separated from the debt and cable stuff.

The re-rebranding back to HBOmax makes more sense now.

It'll be interesting to see how this changes CEO pay. Does Zaslav take a pay cut since he now manages a much smaller company? I doubt it. I bet he gets another performance bonus and on the other side the former CFO now CEO of the new company will also be paid handsomely to handle the crappy parts. Leading to overall even more management salary.

Ich teile seine Ansichten teilweise, sehe aber inzwischen auch einiges eher kritisch, aber er ist auf jeden Fall einer der wenigen Politiker bei dem ich das Gefühl habe, dass er wirklich was verbessern will.

Guess it is too hard to pick a single scene from "Grave of the Fireflies"? That movie is basically an emotional gut punch from start to finish.

Ich weiß immer noch nicht ganz was ich davon halten soll.

Einerseits glaube ich, dass es praktisch relativ wenig Unterschied macht, wen wir da tatsächlich hinschicken, andererseits bleibt bei mir der EIndruck, als wäre das mal wieder ein Beispiel wo Personen, wenn sie erstmal gewisse Kreise erreicht haben, mehr oder weniger Narrenfreiheit haben. Da werden Dinge zurechtgebogen wie es einem am besten passen, anstatt dass man halt mal Pech hat, wenn es nicht genau so läuft wie man es sich wünscht. Und der "Normalo" in dem Fall Helga Schmid (die dafür ja wohl ebenfalls bestens qualifiziert und schon ausgewählt war) hat dann das Nachsehen, ohne zumindest mir offensichtliche fachliche Gründe, sondern nur weil sie halt nicht im Richtigen Club war.

Es ist ja nicht so als ob Baerbock nicht auch einfach nochmal ne runde im Parlament hätte sitzen können. Über die Liste wäre sie sicher eingezogen und finanziell wäre das eventuell sogar lukrativer für sie gewesen. Wenn sie sich jetzt als Außenministerin besonders verdient gemacht hätte, dann würde ich es vielleicht noch einsehen. Aber bei mir hat sie keinen Nennenswerten Eindruck hinterlassen und ich weiß nicht ob sie irgendwas mit ihrer "feministischen" Außenpolitik erreicht hat.

I mean comparatively to HDDs.

Of course there are also challenges to making a high capacity SSD, but i don't think they are using fundamentally new methods to achieve higher capacities. Yes they need to design better controllers and heat management becomes a larger factor, but the nand chips to my knowledge are still the same you'd see in smaller capacities. And the form factor has the space to accomodate them.

If HDDs could just continue to stack more of the same platters into a drive to increase capacity they'd have a much easier time to scale.

How about a 122.88tb SSD? Large SSDs are pretty common in the enterprise market and arguably much easier to manufacture since you only need to put a bunch of nand chips on a pcb.

Beim Thema Sterbehilfe hatten wir auch schon Artikel wie "Sterbehilfe: Spahn boykottiert Recht". Konsequenzen hatte das absolut keine und Spahn ist heute Fraktionsvorsitzender.

How would the EU scale such operations specifically? My understanding is that the hardware used here is comparatively minimal and Ukraine uses (and produces) multiple times the amount of drones used here weekly. And i don't think those were super high tech drones either. So that surely isn't the limiting factor here.

This really comes down to planning and boots on the ground to execute the plan. I am relatively sure that the west is sharing satellite images and other intelligence regarding targets with Ukraine. But you can't really expect the EU to help with manpower in Russia.

Your claim that they would advertise it is speculation. What would be the purpose of that?

To advertise that they can? In return what would be the purpose to hide it?

They do seem to make their advancements at least somewhat public, e.g. with their recent progress with a EUV light source.

I am probably on the pessimistic side and you maybe on the optimistic, so the reality will likely end up being somewhere in between (but only time will tell).

China will do this because they have massive talent mass and ressources, and because they have to.

Well it also was developed in the west by a large amount of talent and resources and still took a lot of time. But you are absolutely right that their hand is being forced.

Restricting exports like this imo was a huge mistake, imo especially in regard to duv. In the end it might have achieved some damage in the short/medium term, but that wasn't anything the us could capitalize on and it also directly hurt ASMLs profits (meaning less resources to advance). And regardless how the timeline ends up looking on the end (be it closer to your or my prediction), physics are the same everywhere so that can't be restricted and they will eventually be able to figure it out.