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2 years agoI just bought the lifetime option.
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Anyways both Nebula and Curiositystream have lifetime subscriptions available right now… 90% of my YouTube viewing is from creators on those sites anyway
it’ll hit business servers first… speed and power draw = profits. Even if they cost 1000x more than SSDs, the power savings and speed alone could pay for itself in a datacenter.
The power draw and nonvolatility could mean it can replace SSDs and hard drives entirely. Just store everything in RAM.
maybe he’s hoping that people accidentally mistaking the button for “close window” will drive up traffic
This feels like the early days of Google, when it was basically a cat and mouse game of their page ranking algorithm vs website creators trying to game their page rank. Still happens, but it’s less obvious and easy.
It’s been true for a long time. Even long before the lootbox era.
Look at WoW. It was one of the biggest games in the world for the longest time. Randomized loot drops after a boss is very like a slot-machine and addictive, and you had to pay monthly to keep playing.
They’ve discovered that making people pay for each pull of the slot machine is more profitable. But the tactics and design have been around for a while.
on one hand, I hate mega corporations getting bigger and bigger until they devour everything.
On the other hand, I hate what Blizzard has become and being bought out by Microsoft is probably the best chance at improvement.
Nebula: pay $300 once, lifetime access. They had it up for a week on a trial run a while ago, and they decided to bring it back for now.
curiosity stream: I think I found a deal on Stack Social, + coupon, that worked out to $180. The basic 1080p format only. Again, pay once, lifetime access.
The payoff time for Nebula is around 8 years (not counting possible price increases in the future), so you’ll have to have faith that they’ll last that long. I hope they do though. Curiositystream is obviously less. Then again, the immediate cash infusion they get from this can also help them survive/expand faster.