Nope. I’m not acting on any information that can’t be pulled in an Open Records Request after I leave the city.
Nope. I’m not acting on any information that can’t be pulled in an Open Records Request after I leave the city.
I’m a government official, and my work cell is like that.
I don’t respond to texts on that number because text messaging isn’t a proper channel for official communication.
Last time I got pretty deep in, but it became impossible when the chess notation rule required Cs and Ds, making it impossible to stay below the roman numberal sum limit.
My So didn’t know the guy from Frozen was in Halimton, so I played his numbers for her.
“You’ll be Back”, followed by “What Comes Next”, and then “I Know Him.”
Stars that small are much scarier monsters.
I mean - they’re just being more honest about it than EA and Activision.
Are the devs volunteers? Yeah, the publishers take a lot of money, but if the games are all being pirated then the devs could get 100% and still make less money.
Apocryphal for most sects. Heretical for Rabbanic Judaism.
The most interesting thing about it I think is that it was thought lost for centuries, but there was a well-known translation in Ethiopian. When the greater Christian population heard about it, it was assumed to be a forgery, but it was still studied and translated.
It wasn’t verified as “authentic” until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1950s, where ancient Greek and Aramaic copies were discovered that match the Ethiopian translation, establishing the provenance of the Ethiopian version.
At least you’re not just throwing away money like those of us who have seen rent double in 3 years.
Doing the lawn after dark seems so unwholesome. Which is annoying because I could use a 25° drop in temperature.
I’m 1900, life expectancy was 47, children worked instead of going to school, and the global literacy rate was 20%.
We should definitely go back to that.
What moved us from picking berries and killing animals with pointy sticks is specialization of labor.
That’s good to hear. Go ahead and tell him that I need 2500 board-feet for my house, that it needs to be free, and I need it by tomorrow. Also, there’s another 1.5 million houses being built right now he needs to support, so he may want to ask a few neighbors to help out.
Or would that require a commercial-scale operation involving millions of acres of maintained forests, logging operations, mills, and distribution that costs billions of dollars and employs thousands of people?
You have a plex server. Okay.
I have a couple circular saws. That doesn’t make my garage a replacement for a lumber mill.
Okay, let’s go with your idea that everybody has the knowledge and hardware retired to self-host.
What happens when Grandma’s cute video she uploaded goes viral and 11 million people try to watch it in a 24hr period? Would we rather it simply didn’t work, or does grandma get an unexpected $7,000 bill?
It’s also illegal federally, so there’s no such thing as a state where it’s “legal.”
It’s also illegal for someone who uses weed to own a firearm.
We’re talking about video hosting here. For a hosting site like YouTube that’s several petabytes of new storage added every day assuming no duplicates or backups of anything, plus the bandwidth, overhead, staffing, and more.
A project of that scale can’t be done by volunteer hobbyists with no money. What you’re asking for is for other people to work and spend billions annually without any expectation of compensation for just your entertainment, and you aren’t entitled to that.
I’d imagine there’s a point where the money from subscriptions is greater than the money from advertising and data hoarding.
The “unreasonably high” prices should be self-solving in that context, because the company won’t make more money by selling ads for less than the price of a subscription.
In fact, in order to justify raising the prices too much they’d have to change more for the ads, which in turn would hurt the ad industry by reducing the ROI in marketing.
Wikipedia isn’t video hosting. The angles of nenual hosting cost for Wikipedia is around 3 million a year. YouTube probably costs nearly as much per hour to keep running.
500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s gonna be like 60 terrabytes every hour just in storage space increases.
If you were to try and host that on a cloud server like AWS the cost would increase millions of dollars every day. Google self-hosted, but it’s still unfathomingly expensive. There’s still questions over whether YouTube profitable even with all the ads and the subscriptions.
The economic reality is not everything can be free for everyone. Privacy is the price people pay to have “free” access to services.
But right now, even those who pay to skip ads or have additional features on a service are still being mined for data.
If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn’t be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.
You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there’s nothing going on.