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Nintendo used to have Nintendo Selects where the price of a game would be significantly reduced after hitting sales benchmarks, usually $20 when the original game was $50. During the whole run of the Nintendo Switch, no games were given this discount. So on top of charging more for game, they remain charging more for longer, or indefinitely. Breath of the Wild, a launch title for the switch from 2017 is still $59.99 on the eShop today. After Iwata passed away, Nintendo went from making games for everyone to making games for their shareholders.

You're getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it's your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you're trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you're correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.

So rephrasing your question to "why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?", it's mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with .gov being US Government websites, and .edu being US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like .uk, .au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use .co.uk or .com.au for example, rather than .com.

I assume that americans rarely encounter a .com.au or other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to .com websites. They probably assume that the .au TLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn't invent the internet.

Is there a really a quota on the CSAM detection, or do you mean catbox would only get a free 1GB of storage? No one's saying that Cloudflare would give away 1 PB of traffic for free, obviously catbox would have to pay for it. Still though, Cloudflare or another CDN adds a lot of value which would be hard to replicate.

At that volume, you need to scale a lot, which is what CDNs are designed to do. Moving 1 PB a month in traffic would be like a sustained upload speed of 3 Gbps for an entire month, which is huge for any ISP, and cost a lot. You'd probably need to divide the traffic going out which means multiple ISP connections, and more machines for redundancy. Probably at that scale, connections are coming from all over the world, so to reduce latency, you'll need locations in multiple continents to serve quicker. As you can probably tell, this becomes more than just one time purchases and electricity costs.

CDNs have dedicated fiber links between geographic locations and negotiated volume discount rates on bandwidth with other ISPs. From a cost and a reliability perspective, it means you can deliver content for less than hosting it all on your own.

Am I so out of touch?

No, it's the children who are wrong

~ IDF supporters

I think the criteria is that both women talking need to be named. The point being that if the same rules were applied to men in film, it would be easy for everything to pass, but when applied to women, unfortunately it's difficult for many films to pass the criteria, or require a lot of scrutiny.

How many sites are we talking about? I have like 600 passwords in my password manager, it would be insane to try to remember each of the rules for when I changed the password last.

FTA:

The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome,

So it seems as though the test will basically be

if y_chromosome:
    return Male
else:
    return Female

I assume in both XXY and XYY, those would be classified as male under their criteria.

This exactly. Everyone is free to grieve in their own way, but i would say for most expecting parents, the attachment starts way before the child is born.

Here's the original clip from The Simpsons episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XZxHXSHko

Shhhh just be happy Google Voice still exists, and isn't in the graveyard. Personally I'd take RCS over webp in Google Voice.

Feels like a bug where someone forgot the 1 in 128kb. What chat app is this?? In Slack, custom emojis can be up to 128kb in filesize

Not sure if this is a bible reference or a Beatles conspiracy theory?