Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

Always have.

There is also ability for external filtering.

It is easy to buy additional software to restrict websites. That equipment doesn’t work for most video games.

The complaints about the arms industry/the cost of war has been around since recorded history.

AI server farms has only been around for a few years.

Big if true.

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

I had a guy buy me two drinks at an expensive Vegas bar. He didn’t really even want to talk.

That’s typical for most construction projects.

If I’m going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.

It looks like we’re starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.

Kind of.

Due to historic low taxes for the wealthy, they have been able to use their capital to build on more capital, pushing up the value of assets.

Rich people hoarding wealth is part of the reason why housing prices are so insane, but it isn’t the reason why groceries cost more.

I would look at how your peers would see it.

Not really.

I’ve seen similar complaints about reading assignments for college students as well. The stamina to focus on one piece of work for an extended period of time isn’t there compared to a generation ago.

You might have had some students not be able to focus before. Now it is almost the entire class.

Older siblings usually mature faster because they are typically pushed to be responsible for younger siblings in some form.

It is the reason why Microsoft was able to gimp the Internet for so long with Internet Explorer. Companies couldn’t make money off of the browser, so Microsoft made a browser that helped defend the Windows monopoly.

The NYC area is very low context and high volume. A lot of the rest of the Northeast is the same way.

Letters are only for those cross-continental, cross-oceanic relationships.

Letters were commonly written for people in the same city. Some posh neighborhoods in major cities would have hourly mail service.

And this is why we all go to the bad place.

If the USA was going to pick another language, it would be German.

A lot of initial theory was written when the idea of complex markets and how they functioned was a relatively new idea. Compared to previous economic systems that were implemented, capitalism involved a lot less government involvement.

Crony Capitalism came about as an idea when established companies found it was cheaper to buy off the government for a better regulatory environment.

In theory you can have capitalism without crony capitalism, but it generally requires political power to be very diffuse and not concentrated in certain industries.

I feel like part of the problem was that Microsoft tried porting instant messaging and video calling services into the Office suite for decades and it didn’t stick. I remember previous attempts like Skype for business and Lync, with few people in the companies I worked at incorporating it into their workflows.

It took COVID and full remote work to push people into using a program like Zoom over SMS and phone calls. Once most of corporate America switched to using Zoom for conference calls, Microsoft had to rush out a new product that could unseat Zoom quickly.

The official name for Mexico is the United Mexican States, a similar name to the United States of America but focused on the region of Mexico, the area which has Mexico City and the State of Mexico.

The problem with applying this to the USA is that, unlike Mexico, the USA was a collection of various colonies with different political and religious traditions coming together rather than the more unified viceroyality of Mexico.

Using words like Atlantic or Piedmont wouldn’t work well as the words described the colonies as is but the nation was partially rebelling to be able to settle lands on the other side of Appalachian Mountains.

Columbia might work as the word was used as a by label for the USA, so the United States of Columbia. This would likely cause Gran Colombia to choose a different name for their country.

Outside of Columbia, I can’t think of a name which would act as a label in which all colonies would agree.