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Wow, that is absolutely fucked. The only way that those delivery costs can actually be costs is if Amazon is delivering every book they sell via satellite. AWS
by kmeisthax 4y ago
Wow, that is absolutely fucked. The only way that those delivery costs can actually be costs is if Amazon is delivering every book they sell via satellite. AWS egress fees aren't even this fucked!
Text with a handful of images in it is literally the cheapest thing you can distribute over the Internet. It's the reason why self-hosting a blog or Mastodon instance is even financially viable for most tech-savvy people, and why you have a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WeChat, WhatsApp, LINE, Reddit, and Telegram for every YouTube.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoNow apply this to the plethora of medical information in the public domain, monopolized by a service that used to have to ship encyclopedic volumes of books to doctors' offices on a yearly basis, now easily downloaded over a weekend. Be careful though, too much thinking or acting on this subject might get you suicided by the FBI. R.I.P. Aaron Shwartz