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> I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes Uh everyone thats not the passive royalties holder? What answer do you really want?
Obviously. More to the point, what other incremental costs exist, if any, that would account for a $20 premium in price when cost appears to be going up by $8?
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The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.
It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out. Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".
Not sure if America had anything to do with India. Probably not.
Little recompense in the face of losing their nation to the carbon-emitting activities of large nations, who do not admit them as refugees. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-tuvalu-di...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-isl...
Somewhere in a paper file I have the faxes that I exchanged with the office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu back in about 1995 trying to explain the value of their TLD and how my (little) company could help them monetize it. Embarrassingly, I just got busy with client projects and ghosted them... It's nice to see that they are seeing substantial revenue from the domain now, and stand to see more when their agreement…
And just to be clear, I don't mean this in a sarcastic cynical way. I am genuinely curious on how people built out such platforms and surrounding infrastructure during the initial build-up of the WWW.