I doubt it changed any minds; such efforts never really do. Leaving the show with a cliffhanger doesn’t make any sense for Netflix’s business model. More likely is that Netflix announced the cancellation in order to give themselves a better negotiating position on the contracts for the movie.

Before last week’s update, the only monsters you ever saw at Pokémon Go gyms were walls of Blissey punctuated with Snorlaxes, Lapras, Dragonite, and Gyarados.

Maybe if Nick Denton begs hard enough, he can get this kid to pay off the Gawker settlement.

Or Harvard Business Review logic.

They changed it so that you get one coin every ten minutes as this article was publishing. And raids are still in beta with a rollout that’s already expanded before the first day was over.

As terrible of a sound bite as that was (and it was “pass it to know what’s in it,” not “pass it to read it”), Pelosi was right. People didn’t realize what kind of impact that bill was going to have on the individual market - how much easier or cheaper it was going to be for most people to get health insurance…

You’re never going to have a game like this where there isn’t some advantage to being a hardcore player, but this seems to do a lot to alleviate some of the gap.

Am I the only who’s curious what kind of high school holds its graduation on a Thursday morning...halfway into June?

How is this not a FERPA violation? I know schools generally require athletes to relinquish some FERPA rights, but those usually just so they can communicate that kind of stuff to the NCAA or the conference. I don’t know any school that forces its athletes to allow its coaching staff to release educational records to…

I straight up missed Zathura, so I’ll cop to that. And Alan Taylor has a great television resume, but it was still his first feature.

She had another interview this week where she basically subtweeted Thor 2 by saying she had previously turned down big name, but troubled, projects because she knew if it failed it wouldn’t be “Big Name Movie Fails,” it would be “Female Director Fails,” and she didn’t want to be that first big failure.

I was actually looking at this today and have a few more - all white dudes, all from the last ten years:

My point was simply that their math is bad because they made faulty assumptions, which even they admit in the article, when they point out that experts think ESPN would run $35/mo versus their calculation of $25/mo (because not everybody who watches ESPN in a given week would subscribe a la carte). And because their…

Well, and he lied about it under oath.

That CNBC article makes a crucial mistake, though. It looks at all of the people who ever watch a channel in a given week, whether they watch for a minute or for 50 hours and assume that all of those people would subscribe to the channel if it went a la carte. That’s a faulty assumption.

Why would “the archaic business model” need to change when it’s still being used by 87% of the country?

You sound like you live in an area with a decent amount of competition. Not all of us do. Before we cut the cord a few years ago, our cable/internet bill was $180, about $115 of which was for television. Being able to cut the TV bill by a third while still keeping most of the channels we want and getting a DVR…

It kind of depends. My provider doesn’t offer any discount for cable service, so we were paying $115 for television alone when we finally cut the cord. About half of that was taxes, fees, and equipment charges.

That’s never going to happen, ever, because of network consolidation. There are 50+ channels in this package but only, like, eight companies that own them. You’re never going to get EPSN without Disney or FX without Fox News because there’s no incentive for the content owners to split up their own products.

It’s income, isn’t it? If you give your kids more than $14,000 in gifts in a year they get taxed on the income. If you give your kid a job at your company, they pay taxes on any income they earn.