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darmon333on Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own

You should check out this calculator here:

https://www.calculator.net/time-calculator.html

darmon333on Next-gen Ethernet standards set to move forward in 2025

It's all about costs vs tradeoffs. Ethernet was the lower cost alternative to fibre for most of the internets history.

darmon333on Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

"How is that even beneficial"

Linking works by linkbacks and other factors, there are specific organizations that reverse engineer googles alogorithms and there's an entire industry dedicated to hacking who gets listed on the first 1-3 pages of googles search results. AKA you can pay an SEO company to tell you what you need to link to get your webpage/company to float up the list of google results when people google for certain keywords. You have to understand there is big money in exposure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-...

Just see what google pays to be on apples iphone, thats a tonne of money, and we can be certain the bean counters have run the numbers.

darmon333on Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

Using porn sites to enhance your search ranking. SEO = Search engine optimization.