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I mean this is just quoting an interview from a podcast so it's pretty easy to verify.

I feel like it was Reddit who more successfully cannibalized forums.


And Discord.

It is not the same experience, but Discord servers often act as community hubs in the same way private forums did before. I seems to be eating Facebook too.


That seems pretty fair given the work put in to make what appears to be a much better experience than having to use it in the browser in VisionOS


I mean what are they looking for here? They're criticizing a fairly to the point, straight information article for not being an opinion article.



Not just some, most


This has been posted so many times.


Still, so many people think the phrase was coined by Microsoft detractors, while it was actually used internally by Microsoft itself.


>while it was actually used internally by Microsoft itself

Do you have any evidence that this was used internally? Microsoft detractors and the like are the main people using this phrase.


1. Follow the link. 2. Follow the footnote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... Which takes you to: 2a. https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-proposed-findings... Then: 3. Ctrl-F and type "Embrace" 4. F3 for further occurrences (not all entries are for this concept/term, but the 2nd F3 provides enough with citation/source by the USDOJ based on internal MS Testimony)

https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-proposed-findings...

91.3.2. Paul Maritz also explained to Intel representatives that Microsoft's response to the browser threat was to "embrace, extend, extinguish"; in other words, Microsoft planned to "embrace" existing Internet standards, "extend" them in incompatible ways, and thereby "extinguish" competitors.

    McGeady testified that Maritz told Intel that Microsoft's strategy was to "embrace, extend, extinguish." McGeady, 11/9/98pm, at 53:17 - 54:8; McGeady, 11/10/98 am, at 21:22 - 23:19; GX 564.
    McGeady testified that Microsoft was going to take Internet standards, like HTML, "and extend it to the point where it was incompatible with the Netscape browser and encourage people to develop to their version of HTML so that pages couldn't be read with Netscape's browser." McGeady, 11/9/98pm, at 55:7-14.
    Russell Barck, an Intel executive, testified at his deposition that "in relation to Netscape, . . . Maritz . . . said the term 'embrace and smother' with respect to a strategy with respect to Netscape." Maritz, 1/26/99 am, 55:19 - 57:1.
    Rob Sullivan testified at his deposition that Maritz said the phrase "embrace and smother." Maritz, 1/26/9am, 57:2-11. When asked about his understanding of the meaning of the embrace and smother concept, Sullivan testified that he "understood that concept to mean that Microsoft intended to deprive Netscape of revenue and viability." Microsoft would achieve this "by giving away their products, by embracing the Internet standards and extending them in a way that favored the Windows platform." Maritz, 1/26/99am, 58:16 - 59:8.


This is a 25 year old example of it being used externally by a Microsoft executive. This is not the same thing as the belief where every Microsoft team is locally applying this strategy.


I know another one: "Don't be evil!" wink-wink!


Universities also teach the same basic courses every single year!


Yes but the audience is wholly different each time.


I'm also from a small southern college town and the housing market has been absolutely absurd for the past decade or so. It's always seemed like football fans looking for vacation homes and retirees were buoying it.


I believe they play a part here as well. My own home has increased in value ~$160k in 3 years. We’re ready to leave this town. The college kids and the retirees make it an absolute chore to live here.


Yeah the approach of everyone being remote or no one being remote seems shortsighted.


Books have been remote learning for hundreds of years, whats wrong with remote learning especially now pupils can ask questions straight away from a pool of teachers online?


Even hundreds of years ago there were classrooms with teachers.


Simply because technology was slow back then, if the technology existed for faster than horseback/carrier pigeon communication and costs were not prohibitive would the world of teaching/knowledge acquisition have evolved a different form of society?


The biggest problem is that a huge component of school is socialization. Interacting with other kids in an low-control setting.

Much like conferences the "hallway class" is a huge component.

Ass onto that that many kids are bad at focusing on online classes and the whole situation is not up to the standard of in-persin schooling (with current systems).


While 13 years old and resulting from a robbery he was intimidated into. Life without possibility at parole is hardly proportional to that, not to mention the extended period of inhuman solitary confinement.


I don't see why a 13 year old could be punished to life without parole. Surely he's going to change in 20 or 30 years?


Certainly an inauspicious beginning. He may become more violent and a more accomplished marksman.


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