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HN hug of death :-( https://web.archive.org/web/20200720232040/https://www.gwei....
Yep. Does anyone remember when this was called the Slashdot effect? Being Slashdotted.
The artists behind this: → https://www.ubermorgen.com/ Their website doesn't seem to load well so WP: → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubermorgen They also caused quite a stir with a satirical website called Vote Auction where people could sell their votes to the highest bidder. → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voteauction
That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. The "paintings" in the series are just the number of liters dumped in the spill:
> 34_MILLION_LITERS
Unpopular opinion but this sounds like a half baked idea that will never amount to anything. Imagine some other equally silly parallels: We generate money by selling iOS apps on a network of hidden developers. With this money we automatically buy Apple shares. We buy Apple via their own app store! Apple eats itself - but in the end "we" own it! We generate money by selling goods on Amazon on a network of hidden affil…
I read the OP as a tongue in cheek thought experiment (or satire), rather than a sincere effort to subvert, cripple and destroy a multibillion dollar company by running advertisements inside their platform. As a result, I suspect that a "half-baked idea that will never amount to anything" was the author's intenion, and that your opinion probably is no more unpopular than those who doubt the chicken really wanted to g…
Interesting, the page info is out of date (if it was ever a real thing) from their "how much do we own" How much do "we" own Google Google Shares owned by GWEI: 819 Amount of USD: 405.413,19 Adsense-Clicks: 1.556.361 Adsense-Page Impressions: 37.538 Adsense-CTR: 2,41% Google Ownership Counter 202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google. Google Share Price* Current Google Share Price : 495.01 USD Symbol: "GOOG" Cur…
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Yep. Does anyone remember when this was called the Slashdot effect? Being Slashdotted.
I sure do. As a small web hosting provider AtlantaWebHost.com it was one of our proudest moments when our FreeBSD servers handled the Slackdot effect without complaint. This was the Pentium 3 Dell PowerEdge server era. I am no longer affiliated with AtlantaWebHost.com. The company was bought in 2005 and is still running as a boutique provider. To this day, I'm still pretty handy with crimping ethernet cables :-) I mo…
Supposing this was a typo, I'll trade you for one "rear window defrogger" and half a "string loaded door".
Unpopular opinion but this sounds like a half baked idea that will never amount to anything. Imagine some other equally silly parallels: We generate money by selling iOS apps on a network of hidden developers. With this money we automatically buy Apple shares. We buy Apple via their own app store! Apple eats itself - but in the end "we" own it! We generate money by selling goods on Amazon on a network of hidden affil…
Your "silly parallels" make great points. In the "app store" analogy, it's not "apple eating itself", it's developers donating time to create apps who's profits are then used to purchase Apple. So it's a network of volunteer developers eating Apple[0], not "Apple eating itself".
In the case of GWEI, it's a network of blogs who are hosting the adsense code that is funding this project. I'd imagine the equivalent is "the developers of whatever is on these sites[1]" are, again, donating their time to purchase shares of Google.
After all is done, you can apparently provide your contact information and a portion of the shares collected will be distributed to you[2] but that feature is disabled.
Change it up a little bit and instead give the shares to the creators of the sites gaming the system. Now the developers aren't donating their time, they're working in a business and investing all of the profits in the company that's paying them (in delusional hope that they'll somehow be able to purchase all of the shares).
That's a whole lot more boring, and adding "delusional/somehow" was likely unnecessary. At the end of the day it's people doing (probably a substantial amount of) work to earn money, it's not a magical "self-powering" system (as Google Will Eat Itself implies).
Either way, if the site creators' purpose (or one of their purposes) was to provoke thought as a functional "art piece", it's very cool (sincerely). If it was to make a point of some kind, it's lost on me. If it was to actually own all of Google, this way ... well, good luck with that?
[0] I didn't see that coming when I wrote that sentence; no pun intended.
[1] Guessing the "network of sites" is landing pages or similar bunk that starts around page 3 of any sufficiently rare search term. Perhaps it's written up on the site and I didn't dig far enough.
[2] I'm not terribly clear on how that is supposed to work.
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Is lack of attendance something that happens regularly? Can control ever be wrested from majority voting power owners? Page and Brin, Zuckerberg, et al.?
At majority level no, because they control their shares. You can get the majority owner to sell. You can use social means to try to convince them to vote your way. You can get the bank to make bad terms on their financial activity. You can change the law. But in the end they have the power. Note that some of the above list might include illegal /immoral acts. Depending on what you do you might find success.
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