Yup it is contrary to normal economic principles, read up on luxury goods and in particular veblen goods and how price finding works there.
In the end humans are not at all times rational. There is no homo economicus. Economics is as much math as it is a social study.
I once moved ~5TB of research data over the internet. It took days and unfortunately it also turned out that the data was junk :/
Probably the ancient pong machine my grandfather had.
I can't resist. I've been indoctrinated by my math classes: "A vector is an element of a vector field."
A bunch of numbers is not immediately a vector. To be a vector you need the defining functions of a vector field also. Like addition and scalar multiplication.
And with crowd strike we have seen how reliable Antivirus is.
Of topic: At least in Germany the work title "engineer" is protected. You need to have studied a technical degree in at least a 3 year program at a recognized university. Just a fun fact.
Hmmm but what about all the image memes?
This reminds of the song Amerika from Rammstein.
Being able to host the same community over multiple servers would be great. Or having the same account on multiple servers. And I'm not talking about subscriptions but upvotes, posts, comments. That stuff is afaik not transferrable at the moment.
Right now I lost all my posts and comments when feddit.de went kaputt.
Do I dare ask? Beans?
I am definitely on the hope side of things. Lemmy has extreme potential for growth. Just not explosive fast growth. I believe the strength of Lemmy could be "natural" growth as the threat of the platform going downhill is smaller.
Depends on the author.