By fake I mean business which officially registered but effectively does nothing, files 0 profit tax forms and pays just enough fees to keep it formally open. It doesn’t hide your identity from government but it does allow you to access content via countries where there is no age verification thus companies don’t get your id

Goddam techno-fascist propaganda. They want to make their threaing standard to make us buy their hoses and make our industry fall. They won’t tells how to thread our hoses.

That’s nonsense, VPN is tool needed to run companies. Even if they make VPNs business only, people will just register fake businesses

You go bankrupt, AI company buys you and all your competitors. Other AI companies do the same. Each product includes AI costs like other raw materials. All costs passed down to consumers (which have no money to buy shit coz they were replaced by AI). AI companies just trade between each other in walled gardens.

Business is fine. People are screwed.

Check final price on this Polish site https://allegro.pl/oferta/katjes-salzige-heringe-weganskie-sledziowe-zelki-ze-slodko-slonej-lukrecji-18195635328.

There is Slovakian version of same site but seller might not be there. https://allegro.sk/

Also fuck Amazon.

Wouldn’t same be the case for normal files systems? I think, technically, files on disk stored as flat structure plus tree structure which tracks physical files bytes location on the disk. Is there a file system which actually stores dirs/files data as tree? Adding something into folder would mean moving data of next folder to create “room” for new stuff

Yeah, that’s on meme, I’m not accusing you of anything.

On ridiculousness part let me politely disagree. They don’t need so much ads, their revenue was around 25 billion in 2023. There are no official numbers on costs but guesstimations I saw around 14 billion (infra plus operational) so they could lower number of ads to 2/3 and still be very much profitable. They just won’t because people accepted it

Nominally? For sure. What about per user? Maybe, or maybe Youtube uses more resources than it should.

Also we are comparing different kind of platforms. Youtube is video sharing platform. Any “creative individual” can post there 24/7 any nonsense. Piracy sites are about licensed paid content, so comparison should be against say Netflix.

Youtube’s competitor is PeerTube which has 0 ads whatsoever

What you are describing is alternative frontend, not a piracy site. Alternative frontends hold no unauthorized copy of content. They can potentially infringe copyright by claiming authorship of content. That would make them fall under piracy from the legal standpoint but I never seen such sites.

Piracy normally implies content is physically located on site’s servers. This requires significant infrastructure for storage and content delivery.

Honestly IDK why companies especially medium-big don’t do this. They could plug in RAG with internal/confidential data and have better results and security. I guess question is what is capital plus maintenance cost of running such infra for say 10k+ employees

I mean, if structure is O(1) for low N, it’s still O(1) for high N. If O “changes” from 1 to N with size then it’s never been 1. All I’m saying

“if it’s big”

is not how you identify correct O

Be me, have 15 items. Use any structure with any O. Latency still low

That’s not how Big O works

It’s all nice and cool but wtf is that road sign. Who the hell going to pay attention to grey sign which doesn’t even look like road sign while driving on what looks like 30 km/h road

You need to give up you personal data and buy €199/year subscription first. Special offer for Burgerstan

I typically find those things on the map. Or in specialized apps. Don’t see how it’s ad driven revenue.

Also who is changing barbers every time or moving between cities every few weeks? It’s like once a year thing for most people, isn’t it?