Readit Newsjeff18 commented on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Borderlands at 50GB) in a minute anyway — probably before he could reach the full 25gbit. On a gigabit connection, he could download Borderlands in under 7 minutes. If that’s too long too wait, then having a faster connection isn’t this guy’s problem.
The only use case I can think of would be bit torrent where lots of peers housed in server farms could lead to full saturation. I’ve seen download speeds at 150MB/s. That’s still a measly 1.2Gbit. But even when you’re talking about downloading remuxed 2160p files (~50-75GB) or the occasional collection (~100-200GB), I don’t see the need since it takes time to connect to the swarm and saturate those connections. Unless of course you want to seed it to the whole world.
Cool to have such big pipes, and I’m glad Switzerland is doing some good for science and proving to other ISPs that there’s profit to be had in avoiding rate limiting, but this is so wildly unnecessary.
The PS5 only has a 1gig Ethernet port anyway.
AT&T fiber recently rolled out 5 gigs in San Francisco and as far as I can tell, Steam is the only service that can saturate it. That’s after buying a 10 gig $100 network card and a $200 router which only has 2 10 gig ports.
It’s going to be a few years before >1 gig internet is commonly supported.
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jeff18 commented on Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (2013) seriouseats.com/old-wives... · Posted by u/Tomte
I posed the exact question here and got the non-answer that an unconverted SAFE is just debt, but it's not just debt.
My understanding is that the valuation is not meaningful on an uncapped SAFE where there's no subsequent round. So 7% equity is what they have regardless of a $5M valuation as determined by... who?
My understanding is that YC would get 7% ($350k) and would also receive $375k from this new SAFE. So YC would have put in $500k and gotten $675k back.
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jeff18 commented on Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/gmays
If there is a valuation, then there was funding or there will be funding.
Looks like funding came from YC, so yeah, they were funded.
Not necessarily! Shares trade all the time without funding the company. The valuation depends on what people pay for those shares.
The use case I can see is streaming from my personal Plex server from anywhere outside my home, but maybe I'm not thinking big enough.
1) When traveling, you can use one of your home computers as an "exit node" so you can watch Netflix, etc. abroad very easily. Much more reliable than using VPNs which can be blocked.
2) Accessing your internal network from wherever you are for Plex, Homebridge, IP cameras, or whatever.