nah i think that the storage requirement grows approximately linear with the number of users, and maybe in the worst case quadratically; but the typical case should be linear.
gandalf_der_13te
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it would be cool if i (or any user) could just contribute a part of their storage space / network connection to the video platform. something like "i store this video (that i just watched) for a month sothat others can see it too".
unfortunately, as i understand it, there's both technical and legal hurdles.
- technical hurdle: this doesn't work for mobile, where network traffic is often limited. e.g. if i pay $10 for 50 GB upload/download capacity per month, then i don't want 49 GB of those to be sucked up by other people's video watching behavior.
- legal hurdle: what if some of the content is accidentally illegal? then i would be distributing illegal material, which can quickly become a problem for myself ... (seeing how it is illegal in many countries to distribute copyrighted material, but not to watch it oneself).
the way i imagine it:
- as long as it's american companies running everything, it's "fair" and "free market".
- as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we'll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to "protect american values", "for our national security" or sth else. i've seen this soo many times. people who "just follow the rules" as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.
As long as you keep your crimes to an extent that it doesn’t cause a massive backlash on large swaths of the country, it’s a different ballgame.
actually that does sound kinda reasonable. what is a crime, if not defined by its negative consequences for the rest of the population?
No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.
Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.
did you read the article? TRON was heavily backed by the japanese government.
what counts as an "operating system"? is it enough to just create another linux distro? is it enough to just fork the distro and add a new visual design to it?
it's very well comprehensible if you're good with numbers.
remember that flock cameras can be seriously impaired with a little spray paint
apparently. "natural uranium" refers to uranium with about 3% U235 content meanwhile the remaining 97% are U238, i think.
edit:
ah i had the numbers somewhat off apparently.
debt-to-gdp crisis
is not an actual crisis, money on those political levels doesn't work the same way as it would for households.
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there i fixed it for you (removed the stupid watermark):