It does look like it has single-entry accounting with an optional double-entry mode, even if it isn't based on the accounting equation like hledger is:
Or small groups of people interested in the community could archive it themselves and host it. I don't know if MTV news had a serious following or not, maybe that part of the reason the archive was taken down - nobody really cared to keep ~20 year old articles.
> A universal pay as you consume. That is, one "wallet" with "credits" but many / all sites would be something new.
So if i want to read one article from website XYZ, i may need to pay 00001 credits and if I want to read another article from website yyy, i may need to pay 00002 credits?
How would yyy or xyz content creators/journalists actually make a living from this, though?
Are you really interested in reading a 50 year old newspaper article about a collision that happened midday on Saturday afternoon in your community newspaper?
Of course not. BUT on the other hand that particular collision may become highly relevant in those 50 years. Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.
The issue is we don’t know what may be important after many years, decades or centuries have passed. Given how easily text compresses, it would be a shame to not have at least text of real news sources archived perpetually. I know there is also an endless stream of listicles which are just generated to get clicks and ad views, but newspapers are worth archiving.
> Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.
I do see your point. I'm reminded of the photograph who snapped basically a digital throw away picture of Monica Lewinsky weeks/months/years before anyone really knew who she was. later on, he was happy to have that picture, since it was one (or the only one) of her at some event hugging Clinton.
Text is easy enough to store, but making it useful to search and access seems like another problem to solve.
Yeah, the industry focused on 4k (and soon to be 8k) for some reason. I guess the same reason there's a decrease in good acting and an increase in special effects.
> When I think about it, there's no reason every single streaming movie even needs to be in 4K.
I agree. I'd rather have better audio and actors not whisper their lines, forcing you to either turn on CC or turn up the volume. I wouldn't want to purposefully stream in 4k anyway - I don't really have a reason.
The content I watch on YT is, IMO, much more interesting than the netflix shows anyway, and recorded with much less expensive gear.
> I’m down to prevent the poor and elderly from dying of heatstroke
And i also assume from freezing to death?
First hand experience tells me that living outside in a large metro city during the summer was easier than trying to stay warm in the same city during the really cold nights.
I'm not saying it was _enjoyable_ during the summer, but I didn't have the concern of hypothermia during those really cold early mornings.
