Splitcast Technology built this in 2012. The company folded (couldn't find revenue, and had founder struggles ) but as far as I remember the tech worked. It still needed a lot of seeding nodes, but a significant chunk of the bandwidth was provided by the "viewer peers".

Key part of that tech was that it synchronized the playback between all peers. That was nice for stock market announcements and sport events for example.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131208173255/http://splitcast....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5UYu9jeQbY

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splitcast-technology

Only if it's only accessible via proper TLS (otherwise it's easy to read the user/pass with MITM as basic auth doesn't encrypt the user/pass).

If there is no throttling/rate-limiting/banning then this setup allows for a lot of attempts, wether brute-force or dictionary.

As long as "a lot of attempts" take longer than the time it'll take the sun to expand and envelop the earth, that's not really a problem.

Every form of authentication is either subject to "a lot of attempts" or trivial DoS (for when you rate limit the login API so now admins can't log in either). The principles behind modern authentication are mostly "how do we make verification require even more attempts if the attacker doesn't know the password".

"a lot of attempts" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.

If your password was a set of random letters (both upper and lower case) and numbers and 20 characters long, then even if you could attempt 1,000 logins/second (a very high number for an online attack), it would take a whopping 2,232,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

If you could do 1,000,000 logins/second, an absolutely absurd number for an online attack, that only takes 3 zeros off that number.

What is "a lot of attempts"? I'm no expert in cryptography, but there's many orders of magnitude difference between a distributed bruteforce of a known hash, and bruteforcing over the web.

HR, marketing, sales, management, office space, servers, licenses, insurance, etc.

It seems on the high end, but not too unrealistic.

It’s wildly and hugely unrealistic.

The rule of thumb that employees actually cost a business roughly twice their salary is based on two things:

1. Retention. Hiring costs are “huge”, and so if you have a higher or lower average retention, may make up a disproportionate cost compared to salary. Ramp up time and institutional knowledge loss is no joke either.

2. A spread of average wages. 500k is not average, and a huge number of the costs are relatively fixed. $1,000 a month worth of software licensing isn’t an uncommon number and is fully 1/3 of the salary of a $3k a month or $36k/year junior clerk. It’s peanuts when you look at it next to a $500k/year salary. It may be that the clerk is, all in, costing the company 3x their salary after indemnity insurance and so on. The dev will never reach 10%.

Non-salary cost such as payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, training, equipment, space add another 25-50% typically.

I haven't traditionally seen these areas of spend rolled into Eng costs in the budgeting process.

US Health Insurance is stupid expensive as well.

It's really not at scale. It's on the order of 500$ a month per dev for "gold" level care for a company of 50 people. I'm sure it's less the larger you get.

It might depend on the state and the age pool but I have to pay a percentage and based on that it's more like $10k/year. So you are almost 2x undercounting

... But maybe if the average employee of a company is 25 they could get a better deal

That's a rather binary view and I disagree that rules always fall in either category.

Knowing _why_ a rule exists and what it's trying to prevent/achieve is much more valuable in my opinion. Wether or not to follow or bend a rule depends so much on the context.

Your argument circles back to the posters point. Knowing which rule you can break at a specific point in time. Why are you being so anal about it?

I think it's a worthwhile addition to highlight there is 3) rules which are sometimes red tape and sometimes to be broken, on top of the other 2 categories. It adds on to the original point with the addition of how to universally discover what the categories are rather than prescribe them up front.

To add to that, #3 is often explicitly encoded into the red tape as an escape hatch for foreseeable exceptional circumstances like disaster recovery and big client emergencies.

Tunisia is so productive it exports 123.4% of olive oil.

Or perhaps I don't understand what they're trying to say in that sentence

Oh yeah, that is weird... something not adding up there.

Someone else mentioned a lot of Tunisian olive oil gets repackaged as Italian. I wonder if it could be double counting stuff like that (Italy + final destination). But yeah something is not right there.

And even if they don't raise their prices to below the imported alternatives immediately, the increase in demand means they'll sell out so quickly, they'll raise their prices anyway

How can companies, importers and ports even implement these tariffs so quickly?

Do these tariffs go into effect immediately?

Out of curiosity, could you add which country you are from? I think in general there's similarities everywhere.

In Belgium (Gent to be more specific) where I'm from, there is a high cultural degree of critical thinking, and if I handed in a report like that, with the accompanying numbers, our teacher would not have given it a failing grade. Especially if the report was accompanied with either a written or verbal disclaimer mentioning the limitations of the measuring equipment and that the results didn't match your expectations.

The actions (tariffs) have already started.

That’s not an action towards invasion by any stretch.

Do both administrations call the tariffs a trade "war"?

A trade war is not a war, please be serious.

According to Trump it is. He said he destroy the Canadian economy in order to force us to join.

With all the switching between camera angles during a sports broadcast, the difference in white balance, brightness and color grading would be really distracting and annoying.