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  • So, you’re CDN example is completely off-base. CDNs are complicated companies, to be sure, but the endpoint of a CDN is the closest thing to a potato possible. That’s why CDNs exist. They are trying to colocate as much data as possible in the cheapest hardware possible in as many locations as possible to drive the cost of serving an HTTP request down as low as possible.

    You’re correct that the cost of running a website is not in the network, much like the cost of your home computer is not in the Internet service (it’s in your computer), but that’s not the point.

    The point is that I am paying for my network and also the service is paying for their network.

    Now, normally we can frame this as paying for infrastructure. I am paying to subsidize the infrastructure that brings my traffic to the backbone and the service is paying for the infrastructure that brings them to the backbone.

    And we can leave it at that and it’s fair. As soon as a network provider charges for volume, like mobile data caps, we’re in a double-dip scenario. Now I am paying for the bits transiting the network from backbone and the provider is also paying for those same bits transiting the network to backbone.


  • You’re approaching something worth thinking about. You could say it’s like ordering something to be delivered to your house and then paying the tolls for the delivery truck. But importantly missing from your analysis is that the delivery truck also has to pay the tolls. It’s essentially a double-dipping situation.

    From a data standpoint it’s also pretty bad. Your request to Netflix is a few hundred bytes. Their response is gigabytes.




  • Your writing shows that you have no idea how to interpret this paper at all. You clearly have no historical concept of the development of machine learning, neural networks, and the fundamentals of the domain. You are trying to read a cutting edge paper that relies heavily on the reader having deep domain expertise. The video you linked is ALSO not for laypersons as it doesn’t actually explain the basics of the domain. You can’t just dive into the deep end of a pool without knowing how to swim and then tell everyone you were lost at sea.


  • You have no idea what you’re talking about and you’d feel a lot better if you could just accept that. This story you are telling is absolutely nonsense fantasy, stitched together from a bunch of different actual things to create a narrative that tells a completely untrue and fantastical story



  • freagle@lemmy.mltome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    No. Human migration is not “traveling the world forever” in this context. There’s a huge difference between going to Argentina this summer for a few months and then popping over the Colombia for a weekend before heading to France for a jazz festival and staying another couple of weeks before heading to Cologne for the weekend and then the real fun going to Zimbabwe and doing some safari, and spending centuries and multiple generations migrating following climate and the hunt.


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    4 months ago

    Sure, but those cultures didn’t generally travel the world forever. They just weren’t tied to their land via agriculture so they roamed with the climate and the ecosystem dynamics. It’s not like nomadic cultures went continent hopping




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    4 months ago

    when all you want is

    eat pizza and watch movies

    Consume

    Sure, anyone can eat pizza and watch movies. That’s not white, particularly.

    break new ground in your profession

    Work

    Sure, some people are driven by being the best in their field of work. Not poor people generally, usually well-off white-collar professionals. That’s not necessarily white, but it’s getting closer.

    quit society to live in the woods

    Hyperindividualist escapism

    Again, not exclusively white at it’s base, but romanticized dropping out of society is heavily white in literature, but also it requires severing nearly all the relationships that sustain you, which is a very white thing, as most non-white people actually have their survival and safety nets intimately tied with their communities.

    go explore the world forever

    The privilege of empire. The digital nomad culture is almost 75% white.

    This ultimately cinched it for me. Who gets to travel the world forever? That’s a European Grand Tour for the wealthiest white people, and the poor white people all fantasize about being wealthy white people, mostly because the wealthy white people produce culture that glorifies their own exploits so everyone else just sort of assumes it’s what they should aspire to.

    If you don’t see it, that’s fine.