> You probably spend most of the 1500 hours as an apprentice.
From the article:
> If you want to do [an apprenticeship instead of training], you will need to complete 1000 hours of training at a barbering school, along with a minimum of 840 hours of on-the-job training.
My reading is that there are two apprenticeship options:
> If you want to complete a barber apprenticeship to fulfill your educational requirements, you will need to become registered as a barber apprentice with the Rhode Island Board. You do this by submitting the Rhode Island Barber Apprentice Application. Once registered, you will need to work full-time under the direct supervision of a licensed barber for two full years.
> The Rhode Island Board allows you to mix formal education and apprenticeship experience, as well. If you want to do this, you will need to complete 1000 hours of training at a barbering school, along with a minimum of 840 hours of on-the-job training.
The options are 2 full years as an apprentice, OR 1000 hours of training + 840 hours as an apprentice.
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I think people are missing the suggestion of this article. It's not suggesting that Netflix adds advertising to the existing subscriptions; it's suggesting they add a lower-priced subscription supported by ads.
>...it would create a new benefit for those willing to pay (i.e. no advertising for the highest tiers).
If they kept the existing $10/$15.50/$20 plans the same (https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926), but they add a $5 ad-supported subscription, that's not changing anyone's experience, unless they choose to switch.
Everyone's experience changes when a company begins to consider ad revenue.
How those changes shake out is hard to predict. It's not a stretch to suggest that even little things change for everyone though. Adding ad revenue changes how a company thinks about nearly everything, whether they're aware of it or not, and ultimately the end user suffers.
For example, Netflix would likely start trying to tweak content discovery in a way that benefits advertisers. Rather than show me content that matches my historical interests, they show me content that optimizes ad revenue as well. It's unlikely they'd maintain two different "ad-free" and "ad-full" recommendation algorithms.
Motivated by pressure from advertisers, Netflix might be less inclined to produce or provide content that made advertisers uncomfortable or benefitted an advertiser's competitors.
When producing content, they now have two bosses: subscribers, and advertisers. Both have entirely different expectations. Those expectations push Netflix into making compromises, and rarely do those compromises produce outcomes that are better than if they only focused on making one side happy.
Well put. Not to mention that once the platform and business support ads, it's a slippery slope. No ads on the top tier quickly becomes "We'll just show limited ads to the top tier to make up this quarter's shortfall," and so on from there.
And we'll being going to piracy if we had to watch ads on top of paying a monthly fee. This would be ridiculous. There's advertising almost everywhere else. Why do we need more advertising?
Pretty sure the advertising industry won't be happy until every human on the planet is required by law to tolerate 24/7 advertising beamed directly into their brains.
Many Korean series on Netflix (including ones branded as Netflix Originals, though they may only show that outside of their home region) that are set in the modern day include product placement, as of course do plenty of Hollywood feature films included on Netflix.
Now, presumably, Netflix doesn't take a cut of those today. Wouldn't be a stretch to imagine using product placement to offset the cost of producing Netflix Originals in the future, though.
The trouble is advertisers aren't very interested in people who can only afford the lowest tier. Somebody who can only afford that isn't going to be in the market for a Tesla or MacBook or any other product.
The people who can afford the tier without advertising are exactly the people advertisers want to target.
Not necessarily; there's a depressingly large group of people who have terrible control over their finances and are poor because they're easily influenced into buying expensive items. Definitely not the main source of poverty, but a great target audience for advertisers to manipulate.
And they want to not be advertised to, so the power move would be to:
1) Advertise "ad-less" platforms to them that contain subtle advertisements for expensive but effective ad-blocker systems - even augmented reality systems that can block most billboards etc.
2) Have a controlled arms race where ads get even more egregious and bypass the old ad blockers. Sell new ones etc.
3) Add really powerful, comprehensive features to ad blocker systems that absolutely beat all the ads, but they only perform well when integrated with new, up-to-date apple and tesla products.
No! At any freaking tier. What stops them from starting to sell data from other tiers? It will become part if their business model and will eat away everything they do, including content creation. Put that cancer back in pandora's box please!
That doesn't jive with any subscription plan I've seen from any of these companies. Far more likely that they jack up the rates on the pure subscription plans and then carve out a slightly lower priced tier with ad support.
This doesn't solve the paid vs ad supported conundrum. The ads produce lesser revenue when targeting leaner wallets. It can kill the brand and not produce significant revenue like YouTube.
Yeah totally! This guy who writes tech/sv vc content totally knows better than a multi-billion dollar industry leader who pioneered their business model on what they should do amirite? /s
I'm hopeful that Nix can help with this. By putting system configuration into a config file, it should be easier to set up a system -- point it at the file and let it install everything.
The most exciting part of this for me is having dependencies for different projects specified in a shell.nix file in the root of that project. then I just run nix-shell and get an environment with those dependencies isolated from the rest of my system.
>A simple trick I once learned is to structure the explanation into four parts, with one sentence for each part: (1) state the problem, (2) state the consequences of the problem, (3) state the solution, (4) state the consequences of the solution.
That's a good structure! I have thought about it -- in the context of technical talks -- as Why/What/How. You start at a high level, and progressively zoom in. Why is the problem, What is the solution, and How is the technical details of the solution.
