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At that point just pivot to a MindGeek video service, their pay per 1k views is significantly better than Youtube.

She already had a decent following and a channel that was several years old, and I assume that played a large part in her initial content pivot success. I assume most of her original followers would be annoyed and eventually unsubscribed, but honestly, I didn't notice her shift for a while (looks like her last legit business content was about six months ago)

I've seen this repeated all over the internet, but it's far from true. CPM/RPM on adult video is way, way, WAY lower than YouTube or other SFW ad networks.

That's not what OP is saying.

An entity truly in control should be able to deny access to insurrectionists because of you know, being in control.


They are in control of the military, and presumably the capital city area and a majority of the country's resources.

That says nothing about their power to control the satellites overhead.


I think the commenter only meant that there is such a thing as RF engineering. But that to be effective, RF engineering would require the local authorities to have some level of control over the region they want to shut down.

Thus, the authorities must not have that control.

I agree with the commenter from a technical perspective. It's extremely easy to cut off SpaceX terminals in some area if you control that area.

I just don't think that's relevant. It's not the local authorities the rest of the world is lining up behind, it's the regional players around Myanmar. The regional players can countenance the local authorities only slightly more than the warlords and gang leaders. What the local authorities want is almost completely irrelevant to the regional players.


Clearly, they are not in control of SpaceX.

Yes they are, if they are able to force SpaceX to do as they want.

Find me an FTP server which integrates with your entire productivity, communication and collaboration suites easily enough that an admin can run a 50k person company off of it and equally Doris from accounts can manage to get some work done.

I hate SharePoint, but i use/administer it every day and it works, mostly.

Exposing it to the internet is a mistake. Why anyone would do that is beyond me.


Like i said, its a UI issue not a scalability issue.

Surely the burden of proof lies on the more unbelievable side?

Show me how a company setting never before seen piles of money on fire is profitable. Until someone can i'll happily keep claiming they're unprofitable.


The burden of evidence is on the side of the person making the claim.

The claim is that they are profitable -- all businesses are unprofitable until proven otherwise. That's the null hypothesis for business profitability. The null hypothesis is what must be disproven with evidence.

That's not the definition of null hypothesis buddy

I am not convinced by your assertion there, friend. Do you, in fact, have evidence they are profitable?

Obviously we cannot assume every business is profitable unless proven unprofitable. That's why reporting and audits exist.

Note that they totally could be! I'm not asserting one or the other. But unprofitable is the default, absent evidence.


Huh? I never said they were profitable. In fact, I never even said they were not unprofitable.

Right, I am saying there is no evidence they are profitable, so we fall back to the default, that they are unprofitable.

Indeed, the other poster seems right: "The burden of evidence is on the side of the person making the claim" is simplistic and reductionist. "The burden of proof lies on the more unbelievable side" is more appropriate.

Taking an example: If I said the earth was not flat, and someone else told me to prove it, that proof would be unnecessary, because the earth being flat is more unbelievable than the alternative.


>Taking an example: If I said 1+1=2 and someone else told me to prove it, that proof would be unnecessary, because 1+1=2 is more believable than any alternative sum.

Oh, so you are just trolling. Got it.


Yep, everyone you don't agree with is trolling.

I see you ninja edited your post to a more palatable example, good job!

is it really a "ninja edit" when you impulse replied literally 2 minutes after I posted?

of course normal people edit their post within the first couple minutes of making it.

maybe wait longer before replying? try 2 hours if "ninja edits" are a problem for you.

at that point, the post parenting your reply will be un-editable, so you need not worry.

but anyhow, back on topic: no evidence of profitability implies unprofitable by default.


"Everything" might be hyperbole but a huge percentage of the workforce in my country is office/desk based. Included in that % is a lot of the middleclass and stepping stone jobs to get out of manual work.

If AI kills the middle and transitional roles i anticipate anarchy.


I haven’t heard a good argument why this isn’t the most likely path.


Can i sign up for an alterative future please? This one sounds horrendous.


Are you sure?

I feel like ESG has been rammed in to every company i've worked at for a couple of decades now.


ESG is what I've been referring to. There are also perks of investing in ESG compliant companies and scolding if one does not comply


ESG there is just for pandering, optics and virtue signaling, but they don't actually believe any of that.


You can now just outright hide your profile/history even without NSFW content. Its a really good feature for everyone involved.


Comment and post history is still trivial to find through a basic google query.

All that hiding them on Reddit does is pissing other users off because it breaks establish site's norms and expectations.


True, the only option is to not use the site entirely.


the problem here is that in an inversion of the usual roles, Google has locked us into reddit's ecosystem by placing it highly in search results, killing off all the dedicated forums, meaning that some answers to some questions are only available there, simply by user quantity. I literally have reddit IP-blocked on my laptop using my hosts file and I still have to copy a reddit link into TOR once or twice a day to get at some useful information


It’s not a bad thing. People on there, if you piss them off in a discussion, will go find your old posts and downvote them and in some rare cases harass you by replying or worse put two and two together to doxx you.


Not sure what you mean. They can still do all that even if the profile is set to private. It doesn't hide your posts and comments from Google. They are hoovered up just the same.


It’s slightly harder is what I mean. Takes more effort than clicking on profile and going thru comments


I see you've never accidentally really pissed someone off in a comments section about an inane topic.

I got e-mail blasted on my linked e-mail here for a user called u/Loughla on reddit (who has deleted their account now). It's not me. It was never me. But oooohhhh boy did they upset somebody in an anime subreddit.

In other words, angry people absolutely will go the extra mile just for some feeling of vindication or other nonsense.


Eh, for investigating scammers/bots it's a real pain in the ass.

Massive changes in posting history was a very good sign that an account was a farmed or stolen account.

Makes it a lot easier for reddit to deny their bot problem.


Someone close to the administration could reopen them "in the interest of national security" or some such rubbish, isn't Larry's son in the media game?

PragerU shorts injected directly in to Sesame Street wasn't on my 2025 bingo card but its not the wildest thing I've seen out of the US this year.


Where are you getting 850TB of enterprise storage for $20k?

I had 500TB of object storage priced last year and it came out closer to $300k


That's including the enterprise premium for software, hardware support, and licenses. Building this in-house using open source software (e.g. Ceph) on OEM hardware will be cheaper by an order of magnitude.

You of course need people to maintain it -- the $300k turnkey solution might be the better option depending on current staff.


136tb for $3k (used gen 2 epyc hardware and refurb <1 hour 16tb hdd's) they're zero risk after firmware validation and 1 full drive read and write.


Priced out by whom? What kind of object storage? Were you looking at the price of drives, or the price of a complete solution delivered by some company?


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