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As well as advertising networks and referral schemes. Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
porn is invariably a "solo" endeavor 99.9% of the time
reviews, 'discreet' dating sites, sugar-daddy match-making sites, etc.
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Sex and war would seem more accurate; porn being just a subset of sex. And I suppose one could argue that war is often just a manifestation of a desire for sex or power/money as an intermediary to sex.
Which make the concept of war even more obscene.
Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
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It's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.
Indeed - I've heard it argued that the real reason that VHS won out over the technically superior Betamax format, was that Sony refused to license the Betamax technology to adult video vendors. Never dug into it, but it seems plausible.
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Porn and war drive all innovation. Or so they say.
Sex and war would seem more accurate; porn being just a subset of sex. And I suppose one could argue that war is often just a manifestation of a desire for sex or power/money as an intermediary to sex.
http://www.wikisummaries.org/Prometheus_Rising
It fucked my mind when I read it :) It's a bit far out sometimes though, but it's a cool read.
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You would imagine wrong. I'm running a video sharing page (think FB&youtube mashed together with a dash of blogger) with about 800k unique/month users and it's no picnic.
Do you store the video using some sort of distributed file systems? specialized machine? SAN/NAS? Or the good old' NFS?
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You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
Porn and war drive all innovation. Or so they say.
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I once had a surreal meeting with a hotel chain where they mentioned they had detailed management reports on stuff like the average time films are watched for and that they had a graph showing how long porn movies are watched for. This was all being discussed in the context of a fairly formal business meeting.
Ok, I'm feeling rather naïve and waking up slowly this morning. Why do they care to know that? I mean, what about their business does that help them improve? Because, I think we can take it somewhat for granted that such information probably isn't something which the individuals involved, their customers in this situation, enjoy knowing is being collected about them. "Hey, you know that activity you probably consider…
In any case, they probably have no need for individual statistics: the aggregated watching habits of guests is enough to provide useful information.
That's porn for database geeks: 100 million pageviews per day, 300k requests per second against Redis. The way they use MySQL is also interesting IMHO: they populate a relational database in order to be able to build new indexes in the Redis side, using the relational DB for the stuff it is best at, generating new "views" of the data easily. (Relational DBs are also good to do a zillion more things of course.)
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Which make the concept of war even more obscene.
If you feel that sex is obscene, perhaps. Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
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If you feel that sex is obscene, perhaps. Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
I assumed he was gesturing at the creation/destruction discord inherent in sex/war with war being the referent for obscene. Of course, a full account of sex more than kisses and pleasantries, it also involves competition.
In Prometheus Rising RAW mentions that the reason monks take a vow of chastity is because it instantly frees them from one of the major hamster-wheels of the human condition.
Of course, I'm not planning to become a monk :) But food for thought...