Comment from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459808

Cable TV (or even OTA antenna in the right service area) is simply a superior live product compared to anything streaming.

The Masters app is the only thing that comes close imo.

Cable TV + DVR + high speed internet for torrenting is still an unmatched entertainment setup. Streaming landscape is a mess.

It's too bad the cable companies abused their position and lost any market goodwill. Copper connection direct to every home in America is a huge advantage to have fumbled.

The interesting thing is that a lot of TV infrastructure is now running over IP networks. If I were to order a TV connection for my home I'd get an IPTV box to connect to my broadband router via Ethernet, and it'd simply tell the upstream router to send a copy of a multicast stream my way.

Reliable and redundant multicast streaming is pretty much a solved problem, but it does require everyone along the way to participate. Not a problem if you're an ISP offering TV, definitely a problem if you're Netflix trying to convince every single provider to set it up for some one-off boxing match.

I have wondered if better multicast support will happen just for cost savings, as the amount of live content increases.

So far, no one seems particularly motivated.

The Masters app is truly incredible, I don't know if it gets enough praise.

What's so great about it?

This. Im honestly going to cancel my streaming shit. They remove and mess with it so much. Like right now HBO max or whatever removes my recent watches after 90 days. why?

Apple TV MLB games look incredible compared to live cable tv.

Definitely one of the better implementations I've seen using Matterport's SDK, nice work.

Did you use the Pro3 as the capture device? Before the collapse anyway!

Thanks, and I was still on Pro 2 + BLK 360 unfortunately. Haha, thankfully all the cameras survived and made it home, just muddier.

Oh man, the BLK360 can be a frustrating (albeit incredible) device even in the best of conditions, let alone this. Glad to hear everything survived!

I mostly use the Pro3 now but did a big chunk of this Georgia Tech scan with the BLK: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PB8FgAyyjHx

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. I had to do the exterior with the BLK for only a few hours each morning before it overheated.

That's an impressive huge capture!

This was a really great comment, thank you

Neither does blood doping, it's just the term they use for manipulation.

An educated populace can better resist such issues. The solution is better journalism/reporting and better education.

Instead, the knee jerk reaction seems to be calling for further hollowing out of public education and less investment in traditional news media. I fear what that looks like after a few more decades.

RE investment in traditional news media.

No one trusts them anymore because they have all become partisan. The news nowdays doesn't seem to be about what happened. It's all takes. People disengage as a result. They watch it like sport.

They famously had a standoff with the US gov't over the Secure Enclave.

Marketing aside, all indications point to the iOS platform being the most secure mobile option (imo).

A good scene in 30 Rock is when Tracy is told about the Peter Principle and responds "but my incompetence knows no bounds!"

While I fully agree with you that crating is to be avoided and I'd never do it - I can see some evolutionary parallel. My husky loves to settle in corners/L-shapes, and a crate is not so different than a small cave/den which offers certainty that no predator can sneak up behind you.

Why did the word 'radical' get stripped from the submission title?

On the page, the post title is "'Wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement"