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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
"in August 2021, Discord had reported $130 million in 2020 revenues, triple from the prior year, and had an estimated valuation of $15 billion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord#History
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> treaties [...] not based on trust

How are these treaties enforced? All international treaties are ultimately based on trust. There is no higher authority, only elective councils of and voluntary commitment to procedures (a.k.a. promises) by sovereign states.

Specifically not even these formal promises have been given by e.g. the United States of America which to this day has signed but never ratified either the VCLT[1] or the VCLTIO[2], so is figuratively giving a lukewarm "let's see about the convenience of that when it comes up".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_the_Law_o...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_the_Law_o...
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
A 2016 talk by Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström about the monetization of mobile games called "Let's Go Whaling!" also caused a bit of a ruffle a while ago.

Ominously delivered with smug smirk, met by smug laughter: "I'll leave the morality of it out of the talk. We can discuss it, if we have time, later."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

Turns out they would have had time later but for some reason opted not to.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Written as though it's competing for the attention of fourteen-year-olds against meme scrolls, video games and online porn.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Unfortunately that is also the problem with rational arguments if they are deliberately or ignorantly reductive, i.e. without holistic perspective.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Web.de was founded in 1995 and GMX in '97. Both now belong to the gigantic German United Internet AG founded in '88 which currently has roughly 10,000 employees and EUR 5.5bn revenue.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.