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Imgur r nsfw new1/21/2024 It is an underlying mechanism to a modern dark age. It saps away the energy and motivation people have to contribute their solutions. This suppresses innovative solutions across the board. An exchange of survival for someone's life work is not an exchange worthy of even considering. They just need enough to survive and be happy, while also have a direct stake in the fruits of their labor instead of having to turn over all their fruits to people who have free money. Why should they, while others are left to rot? Why are we all okay with their autonomy to use "free money", players winning in a made up game they created, while others are crushed by the weight of survival? There are countless unqualified people wielding an "infinite source of free money" already. I'm saying the solution to many "unsolvable" problems might just be in the brain of an unknown person operating within the drudges of wage slavery, like a Subway worker for example. At that price level, you are better off just buying/copying to multiple disks for even better disaster recovery and it wont really cost you more than to store everything once on optical media.Īnyways, if anyone could point out flaws in my assumptions (or why at FB scale the answers are different) I'd be interested. a 50GB blank would be $1.6 a disc) is about 40cents a disk. Glancing at amazon today, the cheapest I see for 25GB BDR blanks (and dual/triple/quad layer blanks are more expensive per GB, i.e. For the 400 bluray blanks to be cheaper than the HD, they would have to be less than 30cents a disk. Now, 400 disks of optical media no matter how efficient one can store them will take up a lot more room than a single 8TB HD. while it's cold storage, its not frozen storage that is rarely used, with that said, the jukeboxes are probably expensive and suffer more reliablity issues than the hard drives), but on the consumer level, it just didn't seem to be a doable thing.Įx: 8TB HD could cost $120. perhaps there is more margin in media that massively bulk purchasing can reduce and the type of HDs that FB would buy would be more expensive than consumer drives, it could also be that actively used burnable media would be more reliable than actively used hard drives. Now, it could very well be that FB is able to buy burnable media at a much cheaper rate than consumers (i.e. In my data hoarding days (as a consumer, not FB scale), I found burning media an archive tool to be much more costly (and less reliable and more physical space) than simply using multiple hard drives. Just because they CAN do it doesn't mean they do it well.I wonder if this is actually cost effective. That said, I don't really think Reddit is a great place to peruse pictures. If you put pretty things on your site that people want to see, they'll go there to see it. If you don't allow smut, and someone else does, that someone else will see more traffic and you will see comparatively less. So while it's a myth that porn ALONE is why VHS won out, it was one of several factors that played a role in why VHS won. Porn sales certainly had a hand in that (though arguably a small one), along with the fact that you could get two hours of content on a VHS cassette while Beta was only 1 hour. To win the war, you had to sell more of your stuff than the other guy. Most porn was done on VHS, because it was generally a little less expensive to do VHS than Beta. WRT banning NSFW stuff, or allowing it, what these sites forget (or still remember, depending on banning, or allowing) is how the Betamax/VHS format wars were won. If you want to know more about how online porn really works I'd highly recommend this limited run podcast: There are definitely issues in porn that need to be addressed, but this wholesale banishment of it isn't the answer and will only push such content into an unregulated underground where abuse is far more likely to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if there's been some nudging at a very high level to get the site "cleaned up" to keep those relationships intact or for some possible IPO so investing institutions aren't scared off. Porn sites already pay a much higher fee per transaction because porn is seen as risky, and now there are pretty strong campaigns by repressive groups to get them to stop working with porn sites entirely.įor imgur they depend on advertising and their Emerald membership for revenue, opening them up to scrutiny of the content being served by their financial partners. The real power in porn is gatekeeping access to consumers wallets and that means you have to make the banks processing your transactions happy or they'll cut you off from the Visa / Mastercard / etc networks, and then you're out of business. Probably the same thing that got pornhub: the banks.
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