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skull mask mcgee posted:archive.org said they'd have to be given a shitload of money for a soundcloud archive to be feasible so probably not Mr.Radar posted:Yeah, the size of the whole site is estimated to be around 1 petabyte (1000 terabytes) which is huge even by the standards of the Internet Archive. I know the Archive Team have uploaded some multi-100 TB sites to archive.org in the past (e.g. Blip.tv which was around 200 TB) so at the very least a sizable selected sample of pages should be possible but doing the whole site is probably out. It's a bunch of money, but not "shitload" levels. To store a petabyte in this age of 8TB hard drives you're looking at something like two 4U servers that cost $20k each. Three if you want redundancy. If only soundcloud would set aside half a week of pay just in case...
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The key word there is 'host', and hosting it in a particular way. Just to store it, most of your cost is hard drives. And hard drives cost about 3 cents per gigabyte. You can cheaply serve files right off the storage servers if you're willing to say "Hey, it will be slow, but it's better than nothing." Doing it well costs millions. Doing it badly costs a tenth as much, and is still enormously better than nothing.
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AlmightyBob posted:Is Amazon going to start supporting my favorite podcasts Don't forget that Amazon owns Audible.
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AvesPKS posted:It always cracked me up that when instant cake mixes were first test marketed in the 50s, you just had to add water. But the testers didn't feel like they were actually cooking anything, so the company made it so that you had to add eggs and oil as well. That seems to be a myth, sadly. Going by snopes the real marketing trick was treating that cake as a blank canvas to frost/layer/fill/decorate/present.
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ryonguy posted:Goddamn is there any opportunity you won't take to suck off big business? Are you implying that CVS isn't?
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JawnV6 posted:What would a "disagree" button even do in this situation? Just leave the app. If you have a subscription that's cancelled but not yet over, you still need the app to get your movies, and you should at least be able to disagree to the sneaky "starting with your next billing cycle" part.
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Aug 18, 2018 03:13
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Bean posted:I always felt like that was the main reason why people were so nutty on tumblr, no one could discuss anything easily. It was hard to explain to someone why their female presenting nipples weren’t okay to post or whatever the gently caress example you want to give, so people just spent their time storming around angry. Closer to standing on your porch and speaking at normal volume so nobody hears anybody. Tumblr makes it impressively difficult to find replies to a post.
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Sir Lemming posted:I'll be upset when my iPod Touch (from 2011, whatever that generation was called) finally kicks the bucket, I'm not sure what I'd replace it with. Say what you will about Apple, but so far they've ensured that iTunes still supports those old dinosaurs. I'm hoping they never fully retire them because I don't want to have to manage a certain block of space on my phone for my music library, even if it could be done -- which is questionable, since I'm using almost all of the 64GB on it. And it just seems more reliable, due to being a dedicated device instead of one app on a device that's constantly being used for other things, constantly getting updates that make it slower, etc. Why not a brand new iPod Touch? And I really wouldn't worry about the space when phones are starting to have 512GB available.
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:It seems like empty talk. I imagine by now all the pron stuff is totally scrubbed and anyone moved on. Anyone else who is still around and using Tumblr probably wouldn't want to stay if it legit became just porn. And as far as I know they didn't delete any posts, just hid them.
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Foxfire_ posted:Starlink satellites are orbiting at 550km. That puts a hard floor on latency at about 4ms for speed of light up to a satellite directly overhead and then back down. Normal satellite internet uses geostationary orbit at 35,786km which has a 240ms roundtrip time. Actual times for either will be longer because of processing time on the satellite and ground routing times. It's worth mentioning that the satellites have ion drives so they can fight drag for quite a while.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I did not realize the ping difference between a low Earth orbit and a higher one. It makes sense, but the distances once you leave the upper atmosphere are hard to picture. Here's a good picture to demonstrate the scale of low vs. geosynchronous:  Facebook was dabbling at something with drones, I think? Google has a partly-deployed balloon internet system that they've been working on for a while, called Loon.
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PetraCore posted:It's an altered voice. Plenty of people alter their voice for reasons quite different than Elizabeth Holmes, and I don't think they want to be told they have fake voices. PetraCore posted:Right. But if other people have said they're upset, then isn't it a small thing to shift your language even if you don't understand why they're upset? There's no particular reason to treat all voice alterations as the same thing, though. If you're going to use only one term, then definitely don't use "fake voice". But even better is to be specific, and make a distinction between someone trying to alter their natural speaking voice versus someone putting on an affectation. And is "fake voice" really that bad of a term to use for an affectation?
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Sep 16, 2020 01:35
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Alterian posted:I like my google fi account and haven't had any issues. My husband and I are both on it and its significantly cheaper than any other plan. Probably because we use 95% of our data through either our home or work wifi so its super cheap. I'm still on Fi for the moment but there are cheaper options than $20 plus expensive data. Mint resells T-mobile and if you pay yearly the plans start at $15 with 3GB built-in. I guess it lacks roaming in certain areas.
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Sep 28, 2020 21:59
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Goober Peas posted:* Above but they ask for their card back. I forgot to mention, the cash register drawer had a slot in its face where we could put cards, checks, and slips into the drawer without opening it. We typically did that while they were on the phone. We would apologize and tell them that the card company asked us to hold onto the card, and the card was in the register. And we couldn't open the register. Most would get huffy, turn around and leave. A few would want to argue. Is there something that makes that legally *not* stealing their card? That's a weird thing to make you do and I can see why they'd argue.
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Nov 3, 2020 15:35
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there wolf posted:Now more people are living paycheck to paycheck, and bimonthly stocking-up trips to the Wallmart 30min away are out of their means. They need a local grocery, and Dollar General fills that niche.
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Dec 12, 2020 20:59
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Zesty posted:Why is this a thing? Why is there a bullshit caveat which doesn't help anything? To those companies it's basically identical to a tax. But all the money from the "tax" goes to producing electric cars instead of going into the generic government budget. Seems like a good setup to me. If you want a stronger effect then make the limits tighter and the prices bigger.
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Feb 4, 2021 00:52
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Rick posted:Is there anything that mass advertises on podcasts that doesn't end up circling the drain? Audible?
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SerthVarnee posted:Having to raise the price to cover the cost of the captions being done to a professional standard is my guess. Coasterphreak posted:Or, more importantly, having to take money out of the salary budget
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