data? yeah, albeit p2p sharing was popularized a year late, aggregating multiple channels for data transfer was something common.

but voip has some unique challenges, as you cannot reconstruct data as easily, you have strict time constraint as your call would exhibit disruptive latency otherwise, so your mesh cannot pump packet downstream at their own leisure, the goal is not to saturate the channel but to provide a ordered stream whee packets arrive in a timely matter.

as a matter of fact the first consumer available p2p voip app was skype, 5 years or so after this patent, and they couldn't stabilize it with a true mesh so their software elected supernodes across their own network to act as relay.

there's a game I used to play fairly often before updates simply broke it. like mission items were replaced with random fires floating in water. many users with the same issue reported it, and some like me even provided a save (which was never even downloaded)

all such tickets were closed with "cannot reproduce"

I'm not (their) tester, I don't have time to fully reproduce issues step by step, and I don't have access to a debug build anyway to figure out the bug trigger condition

"does not work" is the best I can say here.

add political views into the list of non-discrimination laws and let the courts decide, if it's important enough to have to be legislated, that's the closes framework upon which to model it.

I think there's an obvious midpoint missing in the discussion between private and utility, which is monopoly, which do have additional set of laws and checks in place precisely for their strength against the free market.

preemptive "there are plenty alternatives so they are not monopolies" - if turns out these alternatives are acting in concert, it configures a cartel, which can get regulated in all the same ways.

the economical concepts behind these events aren't so alien as the folk around made them to be, their novelty is in their application to intangible assets (views and online services) but most of the issues are the same as they were decades ago and the same concepts apply, to the same conclusions.

It's not by chance that enlightenment ended in the terror the first time around, people should read more about the past.

Said noone ever.

The walkable city model ignores the driving factor for commuting, the rest is just bike shedding.

A/B testing ads is a complex matter. you can A/B traffic and conversion easily, but a lot of established companies with fierce competition fight for mind share, not direct conversion; for that, you have both awareness effects (user won't forget about coca cola if they don't run ads for a month, and an ad that doesn't directly convert but increase awareness still has value) and coverage synergies (the number of repetitions in a day will increase coverage non linearly and the amount of channel repetitions will increase awareness more than a single channel view, even if it doesn't convert immediately)

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-2nm-research-taiwan/

https://wccftech.com/ssmc-mass-produce-2nm-2024/

now a consortium of runner ups not only hopes to catch up, but plans a parallel release of a new node size, while starting later, while starting with less know how.

that how eu is spending 145 billions while allocating 1bn to fighting covid?

I even said:

> Safety is something to be solved with more safe cars and better technology all around.

but apparently you're filtering what you want to hear, so there's no discussion to be had here, especially since all the point so far are appeals to feeling without addressing the point made. I'm sorry that logic has failed you.