Where I live there was a subsidy for EV when getting rid of your old car. I'm getting 7k back but my old car was worth maybe 1k so that's 6k off the price of the EV making it the same price as ICE version. In many other places there are different subsidies like this, it's worth checking it out. This helps a lot with the upfront cost.
ExLisper
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To anyone using Chrome and complaining about Google having too much control: shut the fuck up. You're part of the problem.
, video hosting is extremely expensive
Here's a solution: make people pay for having their videos hosted. Video hosting is expensive because YT has to host petabytes of shit, useless content. And I don't mean 150 versions of 'I will survive' on ukulele. I mean completely useless videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4bLDaQAle6c
Why is YT spending money on hosting this? It should be simple: you want your content hosted? Hosting individual videos would not be that expensive. You want to share couple of videos with friends? Pay $1 per month. Serious creators (with a lot of content) could still get money from ads placed in their videos but THEY should be getting the revenue, not YT. YT would get % of it back in form of the hosting fee. I would simply be a way better model.
I don't get it. Braiding live animals would be worse, right?
10/10 meme.
Ok, but neural networks can process way more examples per second so 'faster' is not really the right term here.
The last mile is not that expensive. Where I live you there's provider offering fast internet to rural, sparsely populated areas and it's not much more expensive than fibre I get in my apartment. I will be more expensive to connect a house like that definitely not thousands of dollars like they try to charge people in USA. In USA it would also be cheaper if the monopoly would not block smaller companies from rolling out the service. There's a lot of stories about neighbours joining together and building the last mile themselves at fraction of the cost Comcast wanted to charge them.
Exactly. It's crazy how quickly this type of services get the "can't live without it" status. One day people are cooking their own food, calling taxis and walking around and next they will starve to death if someone can't bring them their BigMac and can't get anywhere without Uber or electric scooter.
I'm pretty sure it's not because the country is big. It's because couple of companies have effective monopoly and there's no competition. A lot of municipal fibre projects got killed by lobbying and lawsuits and even big companies like Google struggle to enter the market because existing laws protect the monopoly. The government could provide the central infrastructure like it does in Europe but it's corrupt and not really interested in building infrastructure any more.
That's because you're not a typical consumer. Average consumer those ads target is a mindless capitalist zombie with the sole goal of owning more stuff. Especially in US (but not only) people are trained by their capitalist master that 'you are what you own' and spending money is a way of living there. I'm sure you see it everywhere. People go absolutely crazy over brands like Marvel or Star Wars and spend thousands of dollars on useless gadgets. People go crazy over snickers and buy hundredths of pairs. People go crazy over phones and and take credit just to own the latests model. And the ads are there to program those people into wanting more and more things.
Yes but at some point they will display the video encoded on the screen and you will need Nueralink style chip embedded in your brain to decode it. It will be impossible to record the content, strip the adds and share it outside the platform. Or maybe we will figure out how to decode the video by just monitoring the brain activity?
What are you using lisp for?